The AI black box grows darker
…Increasingly, leaders in the field are suggesting that public scrutiny around AI safety should take a backseat. Anthropic recently dropped its core safety pledge to not train an AI system unless it…
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When Americans choose Chinese AI
…Chinese AI companies face major hurdles in converting this popularity into revenue due to political scrutiny and data security concerns in the U.S. market. Stu Clott, an operations manager and part…
Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley
…Models are used continuously, by customers, devices, agents, and enterprise systems. McKinsey expects inference to overtake training in AI data centers by 2030, accounting for more than half of AI compute, and…
A visit to an AI classroom
Rest of World By Rina Chandran 30 January 2026 Global Dispatch A visit to an AI classroom By Rina Chandran > Global Dispatch This essay was first published in our Global Dispatch newsletter…
Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
…But these provisions do not fully extend to the use of voice data in training AI systems, she told Rest of World. “A voice can be cloned and reused indefinitely without further…
I went to the Maldives. Everyone wanted to talk about Temu
…What I heard in the Maldives made me wonder whether we are misunderstanding China’s growing influence in technology. In the West, discussions about Chinese technology are dominated by AI and semiconductors…
In China, AI is forcing a rethink on jobs, education, and creativity
…Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small…
China is mobilizing thousands of one-person AI startups
…It has been inviting AI founders to build applications for major trading and manufacturing companies to accelerate overall AI adoption in the district. In some cases, the OPC push is a way…
Iranian strikes test the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream
…locking Beijing out of the region’s AI expansion. Whether Sunday’s incident represents a system-wide failure or a contained disruption depends in part on how the companies built their architecture…
GoPro and Roomba were U.S. pioneers. Chinese rivals now dominate
…AI future More than half of Spotify listening is now in non-English languages as the company expands across Africa, Asia, and Latin America with local artists, pricing, and payment systems. By…