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Rest of World
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Last fall, Rest of World senior reporter @violazhouyi
moved into Mark Zuckerberg’s old house.
Meta and OpenAI want to take AI agents global, but fragile networks and language barriers pose steep hurdles across developing nations restofworld.org/2026/meta-mu…
AI models can take up to 17 times more tokens to process non-Latin scripts than English, saddling users with a steep "tokenizer tax" restofworld.org/2026/ai-toke…
While Western cities like New York ban generative AI in primary schools, the UAE has become the first country to mandate AI literacy for K-12 students as young as seven. restofworld.org/2026/uae-man…
China is rapidly gaining control of emerging technologies such as clean energy manufacturing, signaling its intent beyond AI, writes Steve Feldstein in his new book, “Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare.”
restofworld.org/2026/china-a…
American and European developers have access to advanced chips, yet Chinese open-weight models are still outperforming them while running tasks up to 90% cheaper
restofworld.org/2026/china-o…
Tech giants are draining drinking water to cool AI servers, sparking backlash in drought-hit regions of Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil restofworld.org/2026/ai-data…
New on Rest of World: AI models cost more when you don’t use English bit.ly/4zeKViw
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.” restofworld.org/2026/south-a…
Chinese tech firms are building local alternatives to Hugging Face, but staying competitive still requires global open-source networks for its developers restofworld.org/2026/china-o…
While Western cities like New York ban generative AI in primary schools, the UAE has become the first country to mandate AI literacy for K-12 students as young as seven. restofworld.org/2026/uae-man…
Raffi Krikorian explains that while consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they can customize and control restofworld.org/2026/open-so…
Meta and OpenAI want to take AI agents global, but fragile networks and language barriers pose steep hurdles across developing nations restofworld.org/2026/meta-mu…
Retraining alone won’t protect workers from AI-driven job losses, argues Alessandro Crimi. He calls for policies like basic income and taxes on automation to curb inequality restofworld.org/2026/robot-t…
As AI data centers absorb global memory chip supplies, smartphone prices have jumped up to 25% while the world's cheapest budget devices disappear from the market
restofworld.org/2026/ai-data…
Chinese tech firms are building local alternatives to Hugging Face, but staying competitive still requires global open-source networks for its developers restofworld.org/2026/china-o…
Tech giants are draining drinking water to cool AI servers, sparking backlash in drought-hit regions of Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil restofworld.org/2026/ai-data…
Author Payal Arora explores how necessity-driven AI adoption across the Global South is unlocking creative tools and addressing public resource deficits, countering Western anxiety restofworld.org/2026/west-ai…
China is rapidly gaining control of emerging technologies such as clean energy manufacturing, signaling its intent beyond AI, writes Steve Feldstein in his new book, “Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare.”
restofworld.org/2026/china-a…
Meta and OpenAI want to take AI agents global, but fragile networks and language barriers pose steep hurdles across developing nations restofworld.org/2026/meta-mu…
U.S. and European labs are rolling out new open AI models, but they still lag behind China’s cheaper and more efficient systems
restofworld.org/2026/china-o…
