Nick Srnicek’s “Silicon Empires” details how a handful of big tech companies and the U.S. and China are jostling to control artificial intelligence, a struggle that will fragment the global economy. J…
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…
AI infrastructure is expanding beyond traditional tech hubs as rising compute costs, power constraints, and geopolitical barriers force innovation in regions where scarcity is a design constraint. In …
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…
India is partnering with the United Arab Emirates to deploy an AI supercomputer on its own soil, challenging the dominance of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in cloud-based AI computing. The deal, signe…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical on Monday, warning against concentrating artificial intelligence power in the hands of a few private companies and calling for greater oversight and regulati…
Indian IT giants TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra are positioning themselves to solve the AI deployment crisis facing U.S. companies, where 95% of generative AI pilots fail due to poor integrati…
AI agents are forecast to become ubiquitous in the coming years, raising concerns about "agentic inequality" and its economic consequences for companies, countries, and people. Companies and entities …
Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a strike by nearly 48,000 workers after agreeing to a tentative deal on bonus payments, as the labor union demanded a larger share of profits from the company's AI…
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 …
Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, and South Africa have each drafted AI strategies since January 2025 that identify dependence on U.S. tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta as a security threat…