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Last fall, Rest of World senior reporter @violazhouyi
moved into Mark Zuckerberg’s old house.
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…
Google, Meta and Microsoft are seeking backup internet routes around the Red Sea as ongoing conflict near Yemen threatens the submarine cables linking Europe and Asia.
restofworld.org/2026/google-…
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…
Taiwan's semiconductor workforce has long avoided collective action, but record AI profits have driven over 13,000 Micron employees to organize for formal profit-sharing restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-…
Low-cost Chinese AI models are winning over Western businesses, but fears over censorship and state bias have sparked a niche industry of startups surgically editing the software to strip Beijing's propaganda restofworld.org/2026/western…
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…
New on Rest of World: A rare strike in Taiwan exposes labor unrest beneath the global AI rush bit.ly/4zcDDLy
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…
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…
African fintech platforms process roughly two-thirds of the world's mobile money transactions, making them vulnerable targets if local institutions lack the tools to shut down compromised AI agents restofworld.org/2026/africa-…
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…
Google, Meta and Microsoft are seeking backup internet routes around the Red Sea as ongoing conflict near Yemen threatens the submarine cables linking Europe and Asia.
restofworld.org/2026/google-…
Low-cost Chinese AI models are winning over Western businesses, but fears over censorship and state bias have sparked a niche industry of startups surgically editing the software to strip Beijing's propaganda restofworld.org/2026/western…
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…
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…
New on Rest of World: Startups recalibrate Chinese AI for the West bit.ly/3Ut7alM
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…
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…
African fintech platforms process roughly two-thirds of the world’s mobile money transactions, making them vulnerable targets if local institutions lack the tools to shut down compromised AI agents restofworld.org/2026/africa-…
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…
