As a first-time vibe coder, I wish AI knew when to say no

10 December 2025 at 06:00

For the past several months, my social media feed has been flooded with people bragging about spinning up apps and websites over a weekend without any engineering help or coding...

How Starlink became the world’s internet alternative

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By: Rest of World

9 December 2025 at 12:04

Starlink, the satellite internet service run by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, launched in 2019. Since then, it has become available in more than 150 markets, with 8 million users. Starlink’s expansion...

“Everyone is so panicked”: Entry-level tech workers describe the AI-fueled jobpocalypse

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By: Yashraj Sharma

9 December 2025 at 06:00

In 2022, Rishabh Mishra joined a high-ranking engineering college in India’s Jabalpur with the most predictable dream in global tech: study computer science, write code, and one day make it...

Cheap and powerful AI campaigns target voters in India

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By: Saurabh Sharma and Raihana Maqbool

8 December 2025 at 06:00

Months ahead of polls in the Indian state of Bihar last month, Manish Kumar Prasad, who runs a digital marketing firm, made the rounds of offices of political parties, pitching...

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models

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By: Damilare Dosunmu and Tessie Waithira

4 December 2025 at 06:00

It’s 3 a.m. in Nairobi, and Ken’s laptop and phone glow in the dark. On one screen, waves crash against a beach in a video, and on the other, a...

When Musk joined Trump, countries rolled out the red carpet for Starlink

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By: Georgia Gee · Mehedi Marof and Tanbirul Miraj Ripon

3 December 2025 at 06:00

In early April, U.S. President Donald Trump launched a salvo of international tariffs that rocked the global economy. Targeting countries from Mexico to Fiji, the announced tariffs led to a...

Will DeepSeek’s new model spark another global AI shake-up in 2026?

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By: Paul Triolo

2 December 2025 at 06:00

The world of artificial intelligence — across the U.S., China, and the regions outside these major model-developer centers, infrastructure hubs, deployment ecosystems, and differing governance approaches — has undergone seismic...

H-1B to Plan B: India’s top tech talent looks beyond the U.S.

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By: Mehran Gul

1 December 2025 at 06:00

In recent months, there has been frenzied debate about whether the U.S. government’s unfavorable outlook toward immigration would curtail foreign student enrollments in U.S. universities and scale back overseas talent...

A welcome signage at the Google Ananta campus in Bengaluru, India, 2025.

ChatGPT turns 3

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By: Rest of World

26 November 2025 at 06:00

Three years ago, on November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Hot on the heels of its viral image generator DALL-E, the Sam Altman-helmed company’s chatbot quickly attracted millions of visitors...

Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood

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By: Daniela Dib

25 November 2025 at 06:00

For Angel Xiao, a Chinese operations strategist who lives in Mexico City’s Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, it’s easy to satisfy her cravings for food that reminds her of home. That’s because...

The UAE’s AI strategy winds through Silicon Valley

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By: Viola Zhou

24 November 2025 at 06:00

The United Arab Emirates aims to become a global artificial intelligence powerhouse, and its latest investment is a new research lab in Silicon Valley. The state-run Mohamed bin Zayed University...

Rupesh Srivastava, Hector Liu, and John Maggs at the Sunnyvale, California, lab.

U.S. gains in AI race as Gulf nations ditch China for chips

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By: Indranil Ghosh

21 November 2025 at 09:34

The Middle East just became the newest battlefield in the U.S.-China artificial intelligence war. The Commerce Department’s approval of 70,000 advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi...

President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House on November 18, 2025.

Meet the tech leaders bringing Syria into the digital age

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By: Rest of World

20 November 2025 at 06:00

This story is built on previous Rest of World reporting from Emily Wither, Kaya Genç, and Danny Makki. A dictator falls unexpectedly. Then what? Fourteen years of a brutal civil...

China is setting the pace in the EV race, and the West can’t keep up

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By: Kinling Lo

19 November 2025 at 06:00

While the West deliberates, China accelerates. In the year leading up to October 2025, three bestselling Chinese electric-vehicle brands — BYD, Wuling, and Geely — received approvals for 83 new...

China starts a food fight over Western EV tariffs

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

18 November 2025 at 06:00

China is fighting import tariffs on its electric vehicles by making Western farmers pay the price. Beijing has levied billions of dollars of agricultural sanctions against the U.S., the European...

XINGHUA, CHINA - FEBRUARY 23: Aerial view of farmers harvesting scallions in a field on February 23, 2022 in Xinghua, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Tang Dehong/VCG via Getty Images)

ChatGPT is huge in India. These locally focused startups found a way to compete

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By: Tauseef Ahmad and Sajid Raina

17 November 2025 at 06:00

When Amrith Shenava began experimenting with large language models shortly after the launch of ChatGPT, he quickly realized that Tulu — the language he and some 2 million people spoke...

Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar paycheck depends on the markets he’s losing

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

13 November 2025 at 06:00

Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar paycheck hinges on Tesla conquering markets where Chinese rivals are pulling ahead. On November 7, Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion pay package for the founder-CEO, provided...

China wants electric cars to feed power back to the grid

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By: Kinling Lo

12 November 2025 at 06:00

The world’s largest electric-vehicle maker is betting on a technology that has failed to take off in tens of other countries over the past decade. The Chinese government is rolling...

Gaza’s tech community reflects on two years of war

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By: Rest of World

11 November 2025 at 06:03

This story is adapted from Mohammed R. Mhawish and Aseel Mousa’s recent Rest of World feature, They were building a tech scene in Gaza. Then came the war. Gaza Sky...

Why BYD can’t do for China what Ford did for America

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By: Bobby Ghosh

11 November 2025 at 06:00

In the first few decades of automotive history, the motor car was arguably the most visible, most visceral expression of national character a country could export. A car conferred more...

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