A feud has erupted in Silicon Valley and Washington over China's powerful, cheap open-weight AI models, with entrepreneurs and politicians split between embracing them for economic benefits and cracki…
On July 27, China's Moonshot AI released its most powerful AI model, Kimi K3, as free open-source software, allowing any government, company, or individual to run and retrain it without paying licensi…
A Rest of World investigation finds that quick-commerce platforms in India, including Zomato's parent Eternal, use weather algorithms to capture surging demand during Mumbai's monsoon floods, while de…
China's Moonshot AI released its most powerful chatbot, Kimi K3, for free on July 27, allowing any government, company, or individual to run it on their own computers without paying the Beijing-based …
Chinese students like 18-year-old Guo Xinyan are increasingly using AI chatbots from Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and Baidu to help select colleges and majors after the gaokao exam, as families seek f…
A new marketplace in China allows people to rent out their faces for AI-generated content, with platforms paying $15 to $700 for likeness licenses. Over 95% of 128,000 microdramas released in China in…
A government stake in AI companies, as proposed by President Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders, would not solve inequality and could create conflicts of interest, according to critics. Former pr…
Communities are turning to data collectives and cooperatives to gain control over their data, pushing back against Big Tech's dominance in generative AI. Mozilla Foundation set up the Mozilla Data Col…
Anthropic chief national security officer Tarun Chhabra identified Chinese AI developer Zhipu among companies that have allegedly distilled capabilities from frontier American models, but hours later …
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…
Artificial intelligence tools are shrinking video game development teams, enabling solo developers like Emirhan Gül to build games with just two employees, a fraction of the nearly dozen workers in hi…
A goldfish named Swimbappé has outperformed five leading AI models — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity — in predicting 2026 World Cup match outcomes, achieving about 80% accuracy compar…
Meta's new Muse Image AI generator allows manipulation of any public Instagram user's photos, raising concerns about image-based abuse that policies fail to address. Research by Chayn in Pakistan and …
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…