Tesla looks to India at a moment of crisis

18 March 2025 at 05:00

As Tesla’s existing markets give it the cold shoulder, it is turning to India after a decade of false starts. Days after Elon Musk met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Dubai’s drone performances open new doors for creative workers

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By: Amar Diwakar

17 March 2025 at 05:00

On a chilly night in January, Ajay Sreekumar stood outside Dubai’s Museum of the Future and craned his head up to the sky. He watched a swarm of 600 drones...

China’s AI frenzy: DeepSeek is already everywhere — cars, phones, even hospitals

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By: Kinling Lo

13 March 2025 at 12:33

Since DeepSeek’s launch, a swathe of Chinese companies — from automakers to appliance firms — have joined the frenzy to incorporate the homegrown artificial intelligence model into their products and...

The offices of DeepSeek in Beijing, 2025.

The decline of India’s largest EV company — in charts

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

13 March 2025 at 05:00

India’s largest electric vehicle company is in trouble. Shares of Ola Electric Mobility hit an all-time low on March 3 — down more than 60% from its peak in August...

When foreign factories clash with locals

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By: Rest of World Staff

13 March 2025 at 05:00

When the Chinese battery company Gotion announced its plans to open a factory in the small college town of Big Rapids, Michigan, in 2022, it seemed like the kind of...

Feb 19th, 2025 - Big Rapids, MI - Lori Brock’s horse farm with anti Gotion poster.

How BYD undercuts Tesla around the world, by the numbers

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By: Khadija Alam

12 March 2025 at 05:00

2024 was a big year for Chinese automaker BYD. The company secured its position as the biggest electrified-car maker in the world. It made waves for earning more revenue than...

Starlink is coming to India. Here’s what to know

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By: Mehboob Jeelani and Nikita Saxena

11 March 2025 at 12:20

Starlink has finally made its way into India. In an announcement on Tuesday, India’s second-largest telecom firm, Bharti Airtel, said it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to bring Starlink...

CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and X Elon Musk meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington DC, on February 13, 2025.

How a Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a small Michigan town

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By: Viola Zhou

11 March 2025 at 05:00

In the spring of 2024, Chuck Thelen came to an unpleasant conclusion: He would have to eat part of a battery. It was, he figured, maybe the only way to...

How a Chinese giant is disrupting Saudi Arabia’s food delivery

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By: Kinling Lo

10 March 2025 at 05:00

Keeta, the international arm of China’s biggest food delivery app, Meituan, has become the third-largest food delivery platform in Saudi Arabia just four months after its overseas debut. Its aggressive,...

Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G

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By: Lam Le

7 March 2025 at 06:00

Last November, Nguyen Thi Que’s mobile phone suddenly stopped working as telecom companies in Vietnam permanently shut down the 2G network. “I thought of buying a new phone, but I...

As Bangladesh’s factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure

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By: Jesmin Papri

6 March 2025 at 06:00

The young woman quickly sewed a piece of gray fabric and handed it down the manufacturing line at one of Dhaka’s largest garment factories. She looked impatiently at the woman...

Colombia’s EV sales soar, but battery recycling startups struggle to keep pace

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By: Juliana Bedoya

5 March 2025 at 06:00

For three years, Juan Vega sped across Cartagena, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, on his electric motorcycle — one of thousands of recent converts to the environment-friendly option. When he needed...

Batteries ready to be repaired and brought back to life at the company Batx in Medellín, Colombia.

In India, buying a gun is a WhatsApp message away

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By: Yashraj Sharma

4 March 2025 at 06:00

When Rahul, a gun seller from the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, first used WhatsApp to expand his customer base over a year ago, he was unsure of his...

Mexico’s new tariffs hit Shein — and millions of local resellers

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By: Melissa Amezcua

3 March 2025 at 06:00

For years, Lucía’s biggest worry as a reseller of items sold on e-commerce platform Shein was keeping a stock of unsold clothes at her home in Mexico City. Now, her...

A Shein re-seller in her living room, which she uses as a working place for unpacking products.

Gulf of Mexico vs. Gulf of America: How digital maps display disputed names

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By: Viola Zhou and Khadija Alam

28 February 2025 at 06:00

After U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in January, some digital maps quickly made the change, at least for...

Africa’s startup funding crisis deepens as Mastercard Foundation exits top VC firm

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By: Damilare Dosunmu

27 February 2025 at 06:00

Mastercard Foundation has pulled out of a commitment to invest $100 million in a leading African venture capital firm at a time when tech startups on the continent are struggling...

China wants tech companies to monetize data, but few are buying in

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By: Lizzi C. Lee

26 February 2025 at 06:00

Chinese firms generate staggering amounts of data daily, from ride-hailing trips to online shopping transactions. A recent policy allowed Chinese companies to record data as assets on their balance sheets,...

China has recently allowed companies to count their data as a financial asset.

Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud

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By: Damilare Dosunmu

25 February 2025 at 06:00

Nigerian entrepreneur Fara Ashiru built her fintech platform, Okra, on Amazon Web Services in 2020. She would pay AWS in dollars even as Okra earned in naira because American cloud...

Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia

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By: Anup Kaphle

24 February 2025 at 06:00

With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber is a unique figure in the artificial intelligence world — equal parts scientist and provocateur....

Desperate for work, translators train the AI that’s putting them out of work

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By: Kaya Genç

20 February 2025 at 06:00

Turkey’s sophisticated translators are moonlighting as trainers of artificial intelligence models, even as their profession shrinks with the rise of machine translations. As the models improve, these training jobs, too,...

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