Can open-source beat OpenAI?

15 June 2026 at 05:00

As the U.S. and China battle for artificial intelligence supremacy, a fundamental divide in engineering philosophy could determine the winner. While American pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic favor a closed-source...

What the SpaceX IPO reveals about Gulf money in AI

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By: Indranil Ghosh

12 June 2026 at 08:00

Poring over the SpaceX IPO prospectus, a recurring theme surfaces: the massive, quiet influence of Middle Eastern finance in the most ambitious IPO in history. Sovereign wealth funds of Saudi...

China builds a rival satellite constellation as SpaceX goes public

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By: Indranil Ghosh

11 June 2026 at 05:00

Chinese upstart Spacesail is trying to steal SpaceX’s thunder. State-backed Spacesail launched two satellites on a reusable rocket on June 1, just days before SpaceX’s $1.8 trillion listing on June...

Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy

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By: Soumya Gupta

10 June 2026 at 05:00

Take a moment to think about your day: How many things did you do online? Perhaps you made a call or two via WhatsApp. You sent at least one WhatsApp...

The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance

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By: Rina Chandran

9 June 2026 at 05:00

Since the launch of ChatGPT at the end of 2022, AI has quickly changed how we work, how we learn, how we love, how we heal. It has also made...

As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes

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By: Indranil Ghosh

8 June 2026 at 05:00

Electric cars swept the world last year, everywhere except the U.S. Global EV sales grew 20% in 2025 to exceed 20 million, with one in four new cars sold worldwide...

Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

5 June 2026 at 08:00

Every month, at least two to three Indian-origin AI researchers in Silicon Valley between the ages of 25 and 35 reach out to Aakrit Vaish, founder of AI venture fund...

What to read: A summer book list

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5 June 2026 at 05:00

Nick Srnicek details the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, and how a handful of big tech companies, and the U.S. and China, are jostling to control its development. Their actions...

Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley

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By: Ilman Shazhaev

4 June 2026 at 05:00

For years, the assumption around artificial intelligence infrastructure was that serious compute would be built in places where hyperscale cloud, developer density, and capital were already concentrated: Silicon Valley, Seattle,...

China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time

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By: Viola Zhou

3 June 2026 at 05:00

Daniel Wang came home to his apartment in Beijing and saw a humanoid robot waiting for him. He opened the door, and the robot got to work. The robot, developed...

A robot performs house chores at the Hisense booth at the SNEIC expo center in Shanghai, China, on March 12, 2026.

EVs are getting more affordable worldwide — except in the U.S.

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

2 June 2026 at 05:00

Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S. One in four cars sold globally is now electric. Penetration in the U.S., however,...

India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance

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By: Indranil Ghosh

1 June 2026 at 05:00

India is partnering with the United Arab Emirates to ease the grip of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google on artificial intelligence computing. G42, backed by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala,...

Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI

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By: Rina Chandran

29 May 2026 at 08:00

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas, or magnificent humanity. The 83-page letter is about “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,”...

Pope Leo XIV during his weekly general audience in the Vatican on May 27, 2026.

China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism

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By: Kinling Lo

28 May 2026 at 05:00

For decades, the pilgrimage route for ambitious tech founders, investors, and engineers led to Silicon Valley. Now, a growing number of them are flying to Shanghai, Hangzhou, or Shenzhen instead....

U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution

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By: Itika Sharma Punit

27 May 2026 at 05:00

America’s AI gold rush is staring at a haunting challenge as most U.S. companies struggle to see real-world benefits. India’s $300 billion IT industry is moving to capture the “deployment...

U.S. versus China: Can open-source beat OpenAI?

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By: Rest of World Staff

26 May 2026 at 00:24

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The agentic divide: Why “good enough” AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy

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By: Rina Chandran

26 May 2026 at 05:00

Since OpenClaw burst onto the scene as Clawdbot last November, individuals and businesses have embraced artificial intelligence agents to write code, send emails, run a shop, and more. AI agents...

AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share

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By: Rina Chandran and John Popko

22 May 2026 at 09:48

Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a walkout by nearly 48,000 workers this week, after executives agreed to a tentative deal over bonus payments. But the labor union’s demand for a bigger...

What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected

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By: Viola Zhou

22 May 2026 at 08:00

The tech race between the U.S. and China seems to heat up daily. Headlines center on how America seeks to lead global AI with its capital and chips, while China...

Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

21 May 2026 at 05:00

Africa’s four biggest tech economies have each drafted artificial intelligence strategies admitting they depend too heavily on Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta for infrastructure and want more control over the...

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