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As chatbots compete to forecast the tournament, an unlikely rival from a Toronto fish tank continues to outperform them.

Meta and other big tech companies are increasingly using AI for content moderation, but as the backlash to Muse Image shows, it cannot protect users because it does not account for consent.

After the earthquakes, developers and citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are trying to diversify their AI supply chains, but geopolitical constraints and Nvidia's technological lead leave them with few viable alternatives.

If Meta complies or modifies its app for India, it risks creating a “slippery slope” that emboldens governments worldwide to demand changes to encrypted messaging apps.

AI-generated singers, children, and even virtual lovers are providing seniors with comfort and companionship.

U.S. hospitals are increasingly hiring Filipino nurses for remote roles to fill staffing gaps and for cost savings, but the practice may be aggravating shortages in the Philippines.

Cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America must ensure AI infrastructure development benefits local communities and leads to sustainable economic growth.

Backed by the state, Chinese workers are using AI to deal with limited resources and drive innovation to compete with Silicon Valley.

Sites from Tencent, ByteDance, and Baidu set curbs like daily word limits for authors and stricter standards to combat poor-quality automated fiction.

A new hackathon invites developers to build offline, multilingual AI tools, challenging the idea that cutting-edge innovation belongs only to a handful of Western companies.

What seems like a rescue could prove to be a retreat, as Chery leads its rivals into the heart of Europe’s car industry.

A court struck down Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee. But many foreign workers say years of shifting immigration rules have already pushed them to consider Canada, the U.K., and the Gulf.

The Chinese shopping app has become so popular that even a government surcharge couldn't slow demand.

Three charts show China’s promised overseas production hasn’t materialized — yet.

China has 85% of the world’s recycling capacity and a mandate to shred old packs. The U.S. has another plan: Use them to save the power grid first.

Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.

Universities are dropping programs in translation and foreign languages while adding degrees in embodied intelligence, AI, and robotics.

China's consumer-tech brands keep gaining ground.

A proposed undersea cable from Chile to Hong Kong promised to connect South America directly to Asia. Instead, it became a test of how far the U.S. will go to curb Chinese telecom ambitions.

Developers say DeepSeek is good enough for a fraction of the cost. “You don’t need God to write your email.”

More than half of Spotify listening is now in non-English languages as the company expands across Africa, Asia, and Latin America with local artists, pricing, and payment systems.

Former Hugging Face executive Tiezhen Wang explains how China's open-source strategy is reshaping the AI race.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are funding America's AI boom — and getting data centers in return.

A Chinese state-backed satellite company is signing the partners and governments Starlink has pushed aside, days before SpaceX’s record listing.

In her new book “Bharat Bluff: Inside the Cons of India’s Internet Revolution,” writer Soumya Gupta explores how fraudsters are exploiting the trust people place in big tech platforms like Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp.

At a Rest of World event during New York Tech Week, we explored the challenges and possible solutions to the dominance of American and Chinese AI companies.

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.

India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.

Rest of World recommends eight books that cover the history of resistance to tech, our relationship with AI companions, the danger of our dependence on Taiwan chips, and more.

New AI infrastructure is emerging in India, Brazil, the UAE, and Africa, where local stacks are designed to get around compute scarcity.

Localized, low-cost data harvested in homes and factories gives China a scaling edge over the research-heavy and outsourced U.S. approach.

The U.S. is impaired by a lack of supportive policy and subsidies, the unavailability of affordable Chinese models, and a preference for big cars.

G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.

The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.

Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.