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Text • Ananya Bhattacharya

The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners

The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners

The country’s approach offers a glimpse of what education could look like if AI literacy becomes as fundamental as reading and writing.

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Text • Viola Zhou

As U.S. blocks DJI, Insta360 races to win American creators

As U.S. blocks DJI, Insta360 races to win American creators

Regulatory clarity and market timing are a boon for smaller Chinese smart-camera maker Insta360 and its independent Antigravity drone brand.

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Text • Indranil Ghosh

Conflict in the Red Sea is forcing cloud giants to find a new route for the internet

Conflict in the Red Sea is forcing cloud giants to find a new route for the internet

Google, Meta, and Microsoft are said to be securing expensive land routes as fighting around Yemen threatens the submarine cables connecting Europe and Asia.

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Text • Steve Feldstein

Not just AI. China is building technologies that challenge U.S. dominance

Not just AI. China is building technologies that challenge U.S. dominance

From batteries and solar panels to drones and satellites, China is building tech capabilities that extend well beyond AI, writes Steve Feldstein in his new book, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare."

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Text • Kinling Lo

The AI boom is making the world’s cheapest smartphones disappear

The AI boom is making the world’s cheapest smartphones disappear

AI data centers are driving demand for memory chips, pushing phone makers to raise prices and abandon some of their most affordable models.

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Text • Danai Nesta Kupemba

Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say

Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say

African companies race to adopt American and Chinese AI, with little attention paid to safety.

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Text • Indranil Ghosh

Awkward: Saudi Arabia’s new EV brand takes on the U.S. rival it already controls

Awkward: Saudi Arabia’s new EV brand takes on the U.S. rival it already controls

The Saudi wealth fund’s new EV will compete with Chinese rivals and with Lucid, the U.S. carmaker the fund controls.

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Text • Rina Chandran

AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own

AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own

At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.

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Text • Viola Zhou

The open-source AI platforms vying to become China’s Hugging Face

The open-source AI platforms vying to become China’s Hugging Face

AI model platforms ModelScope and MoArk are competing to serve Chinese-speaking developers behind the Great Firewall.

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Text • Ananya Bhattacharya

South Korea’s AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America’s AI boom

South Korea’s AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America’s AI boom

Samsung and SK Hynix dominate the high-bandwidth memory market. Now they are competing to become indispensable to Nvidia, OpenAI, and other U.S. AI companies.

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Text • Viola Zhou

China is excelling in health tech. That’s good news for the world

China is excelling in health tech. That’s good news for the world

Ruby Wang, a physician and biotech consultant in the U.K., on her upcoming book on the emergence of China as a global health superpower.

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Text • Kinling Lo

Dario Amodei wants to slow AI. China isn’t taking orders

Dario Amodei wants to slow AI. China isn’t taking orders

Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?”

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Text • Rumman Chowdhury and Konstantinos Komaitis

America is in the wrong AI race with China

America is in the wrong AI race with China

The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.

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Text • Indranil Ghosh

Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.

Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.

The Emirates owns the machines but rents the intelligence. Nvidia’s next free AI model could change that.

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Text • Alessandro Crimi

The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth

The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth

In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.

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Text • Danai Nesta Kupemba

South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers

South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers

“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”

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Text • Kinling Lo

Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”

Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”

From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other.

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Text • Ananya Bhattacharya

Where in the world is the iPhone cheapest?

Where in the world is the iPhone cheapest?

Apple’s high-end models cost more in markets like India and Turkey owing to high taxes and import duties.

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Text • Rest of World Staff

The real AI economy is being built by ordinary people

The real AI economy is being built by ordinary people

Far from Silicon Valley pitch decks, workers across Asia and Africa are bypassing tech industry hype to quietly rewire their daily jobs — one prompt, workflow, and local problem at a time.

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Text • Ananya Bhattacharya

The AI talent war is coming for Big Tech’s Asia executives

The AI talent war is coming for Big Tech’s Asia executives

OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring leaders from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants to win new markets across India and Southeast Asia.

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Text • Mahsa Alimardani

Google Earth’s AI experiment lasted 24 hours. The damage to trust will linger

Google Earth’s AI experiment lasted 24 hours. The damage to trust will linger

A short-lived generative AI feature in Google Earth that allowed users to create fake satellite imagery shows the lasting effects of unvetted AI tools during a conflict.

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Text • Viola Zhou

Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI data

Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI data

Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortgage.

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Text • Indranil Ghosh

Think your EV holds its value? China has some bad news for you

Think your EV holds its value? China has some bad news for you

Used car dealers in the world’s biggest EV market are turning away 5-year-old cars, exposing a battery anxiety problem heading for Western buyers next.

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Text • Kinling Lo

Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings

Chinese businesses are giving away AI tokens with coffee, credit cards, and dumplings

Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country.

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Text • James Maisiri

I refused to train the AI that could replace me

I refused to train the AI that could replace me

AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.

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Text • Kinling Lo

Taiwan’s six-year hunt for China’s undercover chip labs

Taiwan’s six-year hunt for China’s undercover chip labs

Previously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan’s crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties while recruiting chip talent and pursuing sensitive technology.

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Text • Rina Chandran

AI safety is designed in the West, and failing users everywhere

AI safety is designed in the West, and failing users everywhere

OpenAI’s pause shows the risks of rapid AI development, as safety frameworks fail to account for non-Western languages and contexts where harms are felt most.

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Text • Ananya Bhattacharya

Meta accepts U.S. safety rules while pitching softer tools abroad

Meta accepts U.S. safety rules while pitching softer tools abroad

As governments consider banning social media for under-16s, Meta is turning to influencers to argue that parental controls are a better solution.

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Text • Gordon Saft

I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar

I went to China to see a different AI future. It looked familiar

My trip to China revealed an AI race that looks less like a clash of competing visions, and more like two countries racing toward a similar future.

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Text • Ananya Bhattacharya

India’s data center boom is leaving the people it displaces with nothing

India’s data center boom is leaving the people it displaces with nothing

Communities are being left behind as AI companies secure tax breaks, cheap land from willing governments.