A growing number of startups are editing powerful Chinese open-weight models for Western businesses that are concerned about ...

Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use ...

The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the ...

Imagine that it is 6 a.m. in the wholesale markets of Nairobi. Merchants are delivering vegetables from up-country farms to the retailers who sell to the city’s households. Everyone is using M-Pesa, ...

China’s BYDi BYD BYD Auto is a Chinese carmaker that became the world’s leading EV manufacturer in 2023, competing with Tesla for market share and global attention.READ MORE is building cars faster ...

Chinese open-weight AI models are outperforming Western rivals on capability and cost. Resource constraints forced Chinese developers to build leaner, more efficient systems that appeal to global ...

The world’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing because AI infrastructure is absorbing the components. Prices of existing smartphone models have risen by about 15% globally this year, while newly ...

In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers.

Jane Munga is a fellow in the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she leads research on technology policy. Previously, she served in the Kenyan government as an ...

Ananya Bhattacharya is a Rest of World reporter based in Mumbai, India. She has written for over nine years about India's tech sector and global economics, as well as the startup scene across South ...