After twin earthquakes killed more than 3,800 people in northern Venezuela last month, volunteer developers in the diaspora used AI to build websites for disaster relief, including missing-person repo…
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, despite committing tens of billions of dollars to become artificial intelligence powers, remain dependent on Nvidia because alternatives are either far weake…
Older adults in China are embracing AI-generated videos that provide emotional comfort and companionship, aware the content is artificial but valuing the joy it brings. Researchers found these AI fami…
China's slowing economy and the rise of AI tools are spawning a new generation of micro-entrepreneurs who use generative AI to run small businesses, replacing the earlier wave of platform-driven start…
South Africa's Tshwane and other African cities seek a voice in data center development as AI infrastructure booms, warning that local communities must benefit and not bear costs like strained power g…
China's AI boom is fostering a new wave of micro-entrepreneurs who use generative AI tools to run businesses, driven by economic slowdown and the phenomenon of 'involution' (neijuan). Unlike the optim…
Chinese web novel platforms that initially embraced AI writing tools are now cracking down on AI-generated content as readers complain about quality and creativity. Authors like Gordon Sheng use tools…
India, through a hackathon backed by Bhashini, Current AI, and Kalpa Impact, is challenging Silicon Valley's centralized AI model by inviting startups to build affordable, offline, multilingual AI dev…
U.S. developers and startups are increasingly adopting low-cost Chinese AI models like DeepSeek, which offer comparable performance at a fraction of the price of American rivals. Despite political scr…
The 2026 FIFA World Cup relies on thousands of data workers in India, Cambodia, the Philippines, and other countries to power AI tools like sensor-fitted balls, real-time tracking, and AI-assisted off…
Chinese universities are cutting foreign language and translation programs while launching new majors in AI-related fields such as embodied intelligence and low-altitude economy, according to a survey…
U.S. developers and startups are increasingly turning to Chinese AI models like DeepSeek for cost savings, with some reporting costs as low as 50 cents compared to $10 for similar tasks on U.S. models…
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…
India and the UAE partnered to deploy an AI supercomputer in India using Cerebras chips, bypassing Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The deal, signed by G42 and India's Centre for Development of Advanced…
Chinese AI labs are aggressively releasing open-source models, contrasting with the closed-source approach of U.S. pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic, according to Tiezhen Wang, former head of the Asi…
SpaceX's IPO prospectus reveals that Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and UAE-based MGX, hold significant stakes in Elon Musk's rocket company and…
Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, the United States and China have pulled far ahead of every other country in the global AI race, controlling 90% of computing power and attracting up to 80% of…
A growing number of Indian AI researchers in Silicon Valley are seeking to return to India, driven by U.S. layoffs and tightening immigration policies under the Trump administration. Indian startups a…
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…