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…
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…