A dumpling shop becomes a poster child of AI adoption in China
Rest of Worldby Viola Zhou3d ago
If you have an AI agent, you can tell it to build a website, make a slideshow, or get you a table at a popular dumpling shop in Beijing.
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top 88%“It’s laughable”: Global AI experts challenge Zuckerberg’s “AI for everyone”
Rest of Worldby Ananya Bhattacharya4d ago
On August 10, Mark Zuckerberg published a letter titled “The Future for Everyone,” a manifesto laying out his vision for how superintelligence could improve people’s lives, expand human capability...
Chinese carmakers now sell one EV abroad for every two at home
Rest of Worldby Indranil Ghosh6d ago
Chinese electric-vehicle makers have lost buyers at home and found new ones in Brazil, Thailand, and the Gulf.
Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded
Rest of Worldby Viola Zhou7d ago
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 startups...
The online shopping trend where you buy nothing
Rest of Worldby Itika Sharma Punit10d ago
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.
Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet
Rest of Worldby Itika Sharma Punit11d ago
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...
Why we should all be worried about AI in elections
Rest of Worldby Lisa Poggiali and Samson Itodo12d ago
Last month, all 193 United Nations member states gathered in Geneva for the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
How one VC burns through hundreds of millions of tokens a day to find the next unicorn
Rest of Worldby Ananya Bhattacharya13d ago
Artificial intelligence is forcing venture capitalists to rethink how they invest. For decades, investors backed startups by judging founding teams, products, and markets.
Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers
Rest of Worldby Kinling Lo14d ago
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.
Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips
Rest of Worldby Kinling Lo17d ago
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 7,000 miles away.
The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns
Rest of Worldby Ananya Bhattacharya18d ago
Governments that deploy internet shutdowns to thwart protesters have struggled to clamp down on offline messaging apps.
Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution
Rest of Worldby Jibu Elias19d ago
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 beam voice files...
The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom
Rest of Worldby Rina Chandran20d ago
On a recent weekend afternoon in San Francisco, about 20 people sat in a loose circle in an empty office.