This essay was first published in our Global Dispatch newsletter. Sign up here to get it straight to your inbox. Gordon Saft is the Publisher of Rest of World. Last week, he returned to New York from ...

Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud,” writer Cecilia Rikap examines how Europe, India, Brazil and China are taking ...

Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud,” writer Cecilia Rikap examines how Europe, India, Brazil and China are taking ...

Attacks on the country’s banks, aviation, and energy systems have climbed since the war with Iran began. Its answer is a ...

Observers scrutinize Meta founder’s argument about AI’s potential as an equalizer and enabler.

For a week in July, 21-year-old college student Bagel Su cried every day as she counted down to the loss of her boyfriend. The breakup was not caused by betrayal or distance, but was a consequence of ...

Yang is immensely proud of his 13-year-old son. The middle-school student from Hangzhou has won artificial intelligence model-building competitions across China, and has 136,000 followers on Chinese ...

U.S. hospitals are increasingly hiring Filipino workers for remote roles to address significant staffing shortages and for cost savings. The virtual assistants monitor patients, and do a range of ...

Arguments, opinions and essays from a global perspective. Involution — neijuan (内卷) in Mandarin, literally “inward curling” — entered everyday Chinese speech around 2020. The concept was borrowed from ...

Despite all the global worry about China building car factories around the world and stifling local competitors, it turns out that Chinese EV companies have actually been homebodies. China’s completed ...

Samsung Electronics narrowly averted a walkout by nearly 48,000 workers this week, after executives agreed to a tentative deal over bonus payments. But the labor union’s demand for a bigger share of ...