The U.S. government is forcing a rapid onshoring of robotics through a sweeping ban on foreign-made robots, even before an American supply chain exists, putting at risk the very robotics...
This week, I placed orders for a $44,860 Patek Philippe hand-engraved watch, a $12,500 Hermès handbag, a $9,800 Tiffany diamond ring, and a $7,350 Cartier Love bracelet in yellow gold....
For decades, Mozilla has been one of the strongest advocates for an open internet. Today, as artificial intelligence becomes increasingly central to how businesses and governments operate, the organization is...
Last month, all 193 United Nations member states gathered in Geneva for the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance. For two days they debated how the world should govern AI,...
Artificial intelligence is forcing venture capitalists to rethink how they invest. For decades, investors backed startups by judging founding teams, products, and markets. But as AI advances at breakneck speed,...
For a week in July, 21-year-old college student Bagel Su cried every day as she counted down to the loss of her boyfriend. The breakup was not caused by betrayal...
In July, I sat among roughly 100 people in a packed conference room in Taipei as a speaker highlighted the industrial parks and tax rates of an American city nearly...
Governments that deploy internet shutdowns to thwart protesters have struggled to clamp down on offline messaging apps. India’s recent response to Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat suggests that battle is entering a...
Demonstrators take part in a protest rally organised by the Cockroach Janta Party and various Left student organisations against the NEET paper leak, demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in Kolkata, India. (Photo by Avijit Ghosh/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
At the turn of the millennium, India became the global hub for medical transcription. With fiber optic cables laid in the 1990s, American hospitals found it cheap and efficient to...
On a recent weekend afternoon in San Francisco, about 20 people sat in a loose circle in an empty office. There was a high school student, a few undergraduates and...
The surge of powerful Chinese open-weight AI models has sparked a feud in Silicon Valley and Washington over whether they are threats to U.S. national security or essential parts of...
As July monsoon rains flood the Mumbai streets around my home, quick-commerce platforms are using advanced weather algorithms to capture surging customer demand. While tech companies capitalize on the storms,...
The best artificial intelligence technology any country can own is now available for free. On July 27, China’s Moonshot AI put its most powerful chatbot on the internet for anyone...
After taking part in China’s grueling national college entrance exam, Guo Xinyan has three weeks to make what could be the most important decision of her life: which universities and...
Indian manufacturers are beating Tesla and BYD at building energy-efficient electric cars. Tata Motors topped a global ranking of the most efficient battery EVs for 2025, released by the International...
The artificial intelligence boom has created a new marketplace in China where people can rent out their faces. A growing number of online platforms are paying people anywhere between $15...
Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the government buy equity in AI companies, in response to concerns that the industry’s boom is leaving most Americans behind. His political opposite,...
This story was originally published by Grist, produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network, and republished by Rest of World. When Min left the hot, dusty plains...
A growing pushback against big tech companies, and greater awareness of the value of data, is spurring interest in data collectives and cooperatives, which give communities control over the collection,...
When Anthropic’s chief national security officer and former Biden administration export control architect Tarun Chhabra recently highlighted model distillation as an emerging national security concern, one detail stood out. Chhabra...
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