China's first dedicated regulation of AI companionship, the Interim Measures for the Administration of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services, took effect on 15 July 2026, leading ByteDance's Doubao …
On August 10, Mark Zuckerberg published a letter titled "The Future for Everyone," advocating for wider distribution of AI access, but six global AI observers interviewed by Rest of World challenged h…
Reddit is cracking down on brands that try to steer community conversations, as marketers increasingly use the platform to influence consumer sentiment and AI results, The Wall Street Journal reports.…
A report from Rest of World details how AI is displacing workers in cognitive professions, citing that bioengineers face an 84% automation risk, mathematicians 80%, and editors 72%, with the potential…
Moonshot AI released downloadable weights for its Kimi K3 model on July 27, following the unveiling of the 2.8 trillion-parameter system earlier in July, which Reuters reported as the world's largest …
Chinese AI platforms are paying people $15 to $700 to license their likenesses for AI-generated microdramas, with more than 95% of the 128,000 microdramas released in Q1 2026 using AI in production, a…
Chinese companies are expanding their AI talent pipeline to high school students, driven by a severe shortage of elite engineers and growing competition. Tencent launched camps for students aged 13 to…
This summer's extreme heat has exposed critical vulnerabilities in global data centers, with PJM Interconnection receiving emergency authorization to curtail power in Virginia, French nuclear plants s…
A wave of suicides, layoffs, and automation-driven despair is sweeping through India's IT sector as AI systems absorb routine code-writing and maintenance work, dismantling the social contract that fo…
Chinese AI leaders are prioritizing lower-cost, 'good enough' models over frontier capabilities to capture global market share, according to The Washington Post. The strategy leverages efficiency tech…
U.S.-based developers and small startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open AI models like DeepSeek to cut costs, with some reporting coding costs dropping from $10 on Claude to under 50 cents. Fi…
Spotify's international markets now drive most of its growth, with non-English content accounting for over half of consumption and songs in 16 languages reaching its global top 50 last year. The platf…
Chinese tech companies are deploying human workers in homes and factories to generate training data for humanoid robots, leveraging the country's low labor costs and public enthusiasm to overcome a gl…
Chinese tech companies are deploying humanoid robots into real homes and factories to collect training data, with residents in Suqian paid to film household chores and factory workers in Guangdong wea…
Despite political tensions and a widely reported tech race, the U.S. and Chinese AI ecosystems remain deeply interconnected through talent, research, and culture. American AI companies have recruited …