The Chinese EV standard winning globally is banned in the U.S.
… Price of switching BYD is now the world’s top-selling EV maker, and is quickly finding local partners and growing its ecosystem in several countries. …
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Black-box AI and cheap drones are outpacing global rules of war
… While the U.S. has declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk, the Chinese army “is fostering an ecosystem for rapid AI development that connects novel research with frontline operations,” they said. …
AI sovereignty won’t come from renting Big Tech’s models
… If we want resilient, open, trustworthy AI ecosystems, we must finance them as such — not as an act of idealism, but as a hard-headed investment in sovereignty, resilience, and democratic legitimacy. …
China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
… As China-U.S. tech competition intensifies, these trips are also becoming a means to explore the next investment opportunity and tech breakthrough. “There’s a fear-of-missing-out dynamic at play: the sense that China’s tech ecosystem has reached a level of sophistication where not seeing it firstha… …
The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
… Mark Graham, professor of internet geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, told Rest of World Filipino virtual assistants are definitely at the center of the industry, branching out from the country’s call center ecosystem into a broader range of remote work. …
Can India be a “third way” AI alternative to the U.S. and China?
… India’s use case capital positioning fits well with this posture, allowing the country to focus on a burgeoning downstream AI startup ecosystem while sidestepping a key question of value distribution and Big Tech power: Will these startups be more than barnacles on the hull of Big Tech companies th… …