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Mastercard Foundation’s big withdrawal from Africa’s top VC firm leaves a gap in support for early-stage startups, as Africa’s tech funding has been declining since 2022. Read the latest from @tarykuh.bsky.social: restofworld.org/2025/masterc...

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Chinese firms generate staggering amounts of data everyday, ranging from ride-hailing trips to online shopping transactions. Now all that data can be listed as an asset on their balance sheets, potentially boosting their valuations, reports Lizzi Lee @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/chinese...

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Chinese companies generate staggering amounts of data every day, ranging from ride-hailing trips to online shopping transactions. Now all that data can be counted as an asset on their balance sheets — but companies have been slow to buy in.

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Cloud computing costs in Nigeria skyrocketed as the naira depreciated around 70% against the dollar between 2020 and 2024, while companies charged users in dollars. In response, Nigerians are building their own affordable cloud platforms restofworld.org/2025/aws-goo...

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Asked about AI worries, AI trailblazer Jürgen Schmidhuber says that people once feared the effects of Gutenberg’s printing press. “Today, most people would agree that printing and reading are essential to modern society. It will be the same for AI.” restofworld.org/2025/juergen...

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“Nobody criticizes doctors who use Google Translate when talking to their patients. Nobody complains while using self-checkout,” says Osman Akınhay, who used Google Translate to translate a Milan Kundera biography from French to Turkish without knowing French restofworld.org/2025/turkeys...

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Turkey’s sophisticated translators are moonlighting as trainers of artificial intelligence models, even as their profession shrinks with the rise of machine translations. As the models improve, these training jobs, too, may disappear. My latest for @restofworld.org: restofworld.org/2025/turkeys...

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Syria just hosted its first international tech conference in 50 years. Here's what we saw: restofworld.org/2025/syria-i...

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As AI improves, translation jobs in Turkey have become scarce. Many young translators are finding work editing AI-generated content or training AI to master Turkish — putting their own jobs at further risk restofworld.org/2025/turkeys...

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AI is making call center work more efficient, for better and worse restofworld.org/2024/ai-resh...

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"If I can turn 70% of my costs down to 10% by cheating … it’s a pretty good deal." restofworld.org/2025/temu-se...

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Teens are moving to Taiwan to break into the semiconductor industry and finding low-paid factory jobs instead restofworld.org/2025/taiwan-...

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DeepSeek’s rise shows why China’s top AI talent is skipping Silicon Valley restofworld.org/2025/china-a...

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Weekend #longreads: Big AI companies have come out hard against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West — but are receiving a warm welcome from leaders in many other countries. restofworld.org/2025/global-...

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Is Google Maps fatally misleading drivers in India restofworld.org/2025/google-...

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They wanted careers in tech. They're stuck as TikTok moderators restofworld.org/2024/content...

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E-rickshaws are leading “the common man’s” EV revolution restofworld.org/2025/sazgar-...

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Bolivia banned Starlink, but that hasn’t stopped people fed up with spotty internet from smuggling the satellite internet devices into the country, reports William Wroblewski for @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/bolivia...

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Bolivia banned Starlink, but that hasn’t stopped people from smuggling the satellite internet devices into the country restofworld.org/2025/bolivia...

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They’re supposed to be students, but they’re working long hours for low wages in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories: “The time spent in school is very, very little — in some cases, just one day or less. What’s the reality? Most of their time is spent working.” restofworld.org/2025/taiwan-...

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For the first time in 50 years, a free Syria hosted an independent tech conference, marking a hopeful step toward rebuilding its economy and infrastructure after 13 years of civil war restofworld.org/2025/syria-i...

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If you’re one of the many people who recently downloaded Xiaohongshu (RedNote), here’s another thing you can use it for: buying counterfeit USPS shipping labels restofworld.org/2025/temu-se...

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Scammers are openly advertising counterfeit USPS postage on Chinese social media, charging Temu sellers as little as 60 cents to deliver packages to any address in America. USPS says it loses millions of dollars a year to counterfeit postage. New from @violazhou.bsky.social:

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Why U.S. tariffs on China can’t slow the impact of Chinese imports worldwide restofworld.org/2025/us-tari...

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Call it the “Jennie effect”: After the Blackpink member posted pictures in a gray mini-skirt, mobs of fans tracked it down to a small Vietnamese fashion brand and nearly crashed its website with their orders restofworld.org/2024/vietnam...

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“We were in the middle of nowhere. The nearest bazaar was a 10-minute rickshaw ride away, and one of my colleagues thought the place was haunted.” Bangladesh’s “cyber capital” was built for 100,000 workers. It’s a ghost town restofworld.org/2024/banglad...

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Drivers for the delivery app Grab complained that Google Maps couldn’t navigate Southeast Asia’s complex and unpredictable streets. So Grab enlisted its 5 million drivers to chart the streets as they worked, creating its own, more-accurate map restofworld.org/2024/grab-go...

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“American social platforms were born as extensions of our TV or newspaper industries. Chinese tech platforms seem much more influenced by e-commerce. They’re playing different games.” — @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-...

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While earlier generations of elite Chinese tech workers tended to end up in Silicon Valley for higher salaries and a chance to work alongside the world’s top talents, a growing share of young AI engineers are choosing to stay home restofworld.org/2025/china-a...

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Trump's U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports, explained: restofworld.org/2025/us-tari...

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Earlier this week, an Indian politician urged the country’s Parliament to support homegrown alternatives to Google Maps — blaming the popular navigation app for fatal accidents restofworld.org/2025/google-...

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For Chinese tech workers, DeepSeek’s success highlights the growing appeal of working in China’s AI industry rather than moving abroad Read the latest from @violazhou.bsky.social restofworld.org/2025/china-a...

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DeepSeek’s breakthrough shows the strength of China’s AI talent pool. Researcher at a top Silicon Valley company told us they had hired brilliant Chinese interns to work on AI projects. But some turned down full-time offers to return to China. restofworld.org/2025/china-a... via @restofworld.org

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Errors on Google Maps have been blamed for a series of fatal accidents in India restofworld.org/2025/google-...

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Big Tech companies “are trying to kill every legislation or write it in their favor. It’s fierce.” restofworld.org/2025/global-...

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During a trip to India in 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sparked controversy when he said it was “hopeless” for a young team with a small budget to compete with his company… restofworld.org/2025/deepsee...

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Indonesia has the world’s largest nickel reserves, yet investors have pulled back, and its goal to become one of the world leaders in EV battery production by 2027 seems out of reach: @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/indones...

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Filipino tech workers launched a coalition to lobby for protections as AI is deployed. The AI tools raise new risks, and the firing of a worker who spoke to Rest of World signals a “code of silence” around the impact of AI on the workplace, the group said restofworld.org/2025/code-ai...

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The most unlikely innovator in Vietnam: the post office restofworld.org/2025/vietnam...

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Eva, an AI chatbot created by @elsurti.com, an independent multimedia news outlet in Paraguay, is designed to give people a glimpse into the lives of women in prison restofworld.org/2025/paragua...

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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, is struggling to achieve its EV dreams NEW: restofworld.org/2025/indones...

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Weekend #longreads: The global struggle over how to regulate AI restofworld.org/2025/global-...

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Brazil’s AI bill is one window into a global effort to define the role that artificial intelligence will play in democratic societies restofworld.org/2025/brazil-...

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Can an AI chatbot help people empathize with prisoners? restofworld.org/2025/paragua...

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Founders from Asia and Africa say DeepSeek’s success is proving that AI innovation isn’t just for big U.S. tech companies restofworld.org/2025/deepsee...

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“Eva” is an AI chatbot based on in-depth interviews with a woman in prison in Paraguay for drug trafficking and organized crime. Researchers hope chatbots like this can give people insight into the lives of prisoners and other groups marginalized by society restofworld.org/2025/paragua...

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How Chinese social media apps' addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-...

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“We aren't against AI. We want technology in the Philippines to evolve. But in doing so, workers need to be protected.” restofworld.org/2025/code-ai...

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The Modi government has dedicated $1.2 billion to building the country’s AI capabilities, and U.S. firms are receiving a warm welcome

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The Philippines has 1.84 million BPO workers, and the country leads in AI adoption. Now, following a Rest of World report about AI tools being implemented at call center jobs, tech workers are coming together to lobby for labor and free-speech protections restofworld.org/2025/code-ai...

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