The day the cloud went out

5 January 2026 at 06:00

November 18 was supposed to be a routine workday for Rwanda-based entrepreneur Derrick Ikenga. But it turned out to be a nightmare he wasn’t prepared for. Cloudflare, a U.S.-based cloud...

India gives Musk 72 hours as X floods with obscene images generated using Grok

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

5 January 2026 at 05:29

Elon Musk’s Grok is under fire in India after its viral “bikini” trend. On January 2, India’s IT ministry issued a 72-hour ultimatum to X over its artificial intelligence chatbot...

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 13: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY - MANDATORY CREDIT - 'INDIAN PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Head of the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) and CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and X Elon Musk meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) at Blair House in Washington DC, USA on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Press Information Bureau / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The year in charts

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30 December 2025 at 06:00

We at Rest of World love a good chart. So much so that this year we launched Charts, a page dedicated to preserving all the original charts we put into...

Innovative ways the world used AI in 2025

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29 December 2025 at 06:00

2025 was yet another transformative year in the artificial intelligence boom. ChatGPT was the fifth most-visited website in the world, tech companies poured hundreds of millions into refining their models,...

EVs hit a fork in the road in 2025

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23 December 2025 at 06:00

If a big story of the past few years has been the electric vehicle revolution, 2025 was something of a bifurcation. In China, EVs are now fully entrenched in power:...

The LinkedIn job scam is global. The hook is local

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By: Damilare Dosunmu

22 December 2025 at 06:00

LinkedIn job scams have become a borderless epidemic, preying on the hopes of desperate job seekers and costing victims across the globe anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000....

Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout

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By: Rest of World

19 December 2025 at 06:00

Countries around the world are investing millions of dollars in building data centers to meet the growing demand for generative artificial intelligence, while also storing data within their own borders....

Law student and activist Rodrigo Vallejos stands in front of Google's data center water storage tanks in the Quilicura district. The data center extracts water from the district's underground wells. Vallejos has been monitoring data centers in Santiago's metropolitan area for the past two years.

Indian WhatsApp tutors are teaching ordinary people how to use AI

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By: Tauseef Ahmad and Sajid Raina

18 December 2025 at 06:00

Every evening, Keshev Dutt spends a couple of hours in his home in northern India, teaching small business owners in Bangladesh and Nepal how to use artificial intelligence. Not for...

The “anti-Shein” bandwagon gains momentum

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By: David Feliba

17 December 2025 at 06:00

One morning in October, Luciano Galfione walked through his family’s textile factory in Buenos Aires, a cavernous warehouse where some of the more than 100 employees spin, knit, and dye...

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning

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By: Issie Lapowsky

16 December 2025 at 06:00

The Covid-19-era bubble had not yet burst when the CEO sat down to write an email, hoping to woo Tiger Global. It was early on in the pandemic, and he...

We mapped the world’s hottest data centers

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By: Hazel Gandhi and Rina Chandran

15 December 2025 at 06:00

On paper, Singapore is a terrible location for a data center. With average temperatures hitting 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) and relative humidity levels of above 80%, the country...

Quiz: What’s driving EV owners mad?

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By: Kinling Lo

11 December 2025 at 06:00

One in five new cars sold globally is now electric. So what’s it actually like to own one? Are EV drivers constantly hunting for chargers and sweating over battery percentages,...

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

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By: Damilare Dosunmu

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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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...

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