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Rest of Worldby Indranil Ghosh8 Sept 2026
China’s used car dealers have set an expiry date for electric cars. About four out of five used car dealers in China refuse to accept a fully electric vehicle older than five years, over worries...
Rest of Worldby Kinling Lo4 Sept 2026
Artificial intelligence tokens — once a term familiar only to techies — are rapidly entering everyday life in China.
Rest of Worldby James Maisiri3 Sept 2026
After completing a Ph.D. earlier this year on technologies such as artificial intelligence reshaping agricultural work in South Africa, I was ready to start an academic career.
Rest of Worldby Kinling Lo2 Sept 2026
In the spring of 2020, a Taiwanese engineer felt “extremely lucky” to be offered a job as a chip designer at Blue Ocean Smart System, an American company based in his hometown Hsinchu, the heart of...
Rest of Worldby Rina Chandran1 Sept 2026
Last month, OpenAI became the first major artificial intelligence company to voluntarily pause training on a model because of safety concerns.
Rest of Worldby Ananya Bhattacharya31 Aug 2026
In June, Indian actor Hiten Tejwani told his 732,000 followers that “Instagram is okay” in a reel promoting Meta’s Teen Accounts.
Rest of Worldby Gordon Saft28 Aug 2026
Gordon Saft is the Publisher of Rest of World. Last week, he returned to New York from a trip to China with a delegation of leaders from across media, technology, public policy, and finance to gain...
Rest of Worldby Ananya Bhattacharya27 Aug 2026
When Osama Manzar started the nonprofit Digital Empowerment Foundation in 2002, just 1.2% of India’s population was online. Now, more than 70% is.
Rest of Worldby Cecilia Rikap26 Aug 2026
In mid-2024, a cybersecurity partner’s mistake led to a global Microsoft Windows outage. It affected 8.5 million Windows devices.
Rest of Worldby Divsha Bhat24 Aug 2026
Missiles crossed the Gulf in February, and hackers armed with artificial intelligence followed. The United Arab Emirates has detected and contained coordinated cyberattacks on the aviation, energy...
Rest of Worldby Viola Zhou21 Aug 2026
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.
Rest of Worldby Ananya Bhattacharya20 Aug 2026
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...
Rest of Worldby Indranil Ghosh18 Aug 2026
Chinese electric-vehicle makers have lost buyers at home and found new ones in Brazil, Thailand, and the Gulf.
Rest of Worldby Viola Zhou17 Aug 2026
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...
Rest of Worldby Itika Sharma Punit14 Aug 2026
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.
Rest of Worldby Itika Sharma Punit13 Aug 2026
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...
Rest of Worldby Lisa Poggiali and Samson Itodo12 Aug 2026
Last month, all 193 United Nations member states gathered in Geneva for the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
Rest of Worldby Ananya Bhattacharya11 Aug 2026
Artificial intelligence is forcing venture capitalists to rethink how they invest. For decades, investors backed startups by judging founding teams, products, and markets.
Rest of Worldby Kinling Lo10 Aug 2026
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.
Rest of Worldby Kinling Lo7 Aug 2026
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.
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