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Articles from restofworld.org

The US launches the Tech Corps, a program under the Peace Corps to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI, as the US competes with China for AI dominance (restofworld.org)
23 days ago China U.S. AI

Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English (restofworld.org)
25 days ago Facebook

Google unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (restofworld.org)
2026-2-12 Google Africa

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (restofworld.org)
2026-2-1 China AI Robot

Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem (restofworld.org)
2026-1-31 AI chatbot Insurance Alipay

Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (restofworld.org)
2026-1-28 India AI Layoffs

Local governments across China are funding dozens of “robot training centers”, where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (restofworld.org)
2026-1-8 China Robot

Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% (restofworld.org)
2025-12-18 AI

Analysis: of the 8,808 global data centers in October 2025, ~7,000 are in areas outside the optimal 18C to 27C temperature range; 600 are in areas above 27C (restofworld.org)
2025-12-16

An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (restofworld.org)
2025-12-8 China Interview AI WhatsApp

A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community (restofworld.org)
2025-11-30 China Mexico

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (restofworld.org)
2025-11-24 India Startup

Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models (restofworld.org)
2025-10-21 Japan Startup AI Robot

South Korea's AI textbook program, meant to personalize learning, was rolled back after just four months after complaints about inaccuracies and extra workload (restofworld.org)
2025-10-16 Korea AI

GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google's AI-based Flood Hub, which provides forecast warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh (restofworld.org)
2025-10-16 Google AI Bangladesh

Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and Doubao for therapy to save time and money, while avoiding stigma around mental health (restofworld.org)
2025-10-13 China AI chatbot

Judges in Latin America are struggling to rule on cases of AI-generated images even as courts increasingly adopt AI tools to clear case backlogs (restofworld.org)
2025-10-13 U.S. AI Latin America

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (restofworld.org)
2025-10-12 AI Indonesia Budget

How Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city, has become a testing ground for self-driving trucks after turning into a ghost town due to 2012's coal price crash (restofworld.org)
2025-10-5 China

A look at China's push to integrate AI tools into children's lives, even as educators and researchers remain skeptical, warning the benefits are overstated (restofworld.org)
2025-10-2 China AI

Since 2019, Brazil's courts have developed or implemented over 140 AI projects that have helped make the country's overburdened judicial system more efficient (restofworld.org)
2025-9-29 AI Brazil

A look at UAE-based Khazna, a real estate company that builds and rents out data centers and controls 70% of the country's operational data center capacity (restofworld.org)
2025-9-22

An inside look at Léon Thévenin, the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa, operated by the French telecom company Orange (restofworld.org)
2025-9-21 France Africa

Some companies are turning to fossil fuels to power their data centers as countries around the world scramble to meet rising energy demands amid the AI boom (restofworld.org)
2025-9-21 Energy AI

How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music (restofworld.org)
2025-9-10 U.S. AI YouTube Latin America Spotify

Taiwan's Hsinchu chip hub, where childcare perks and high salaries make raising children more viable, is the only place where its fertility rate is not falling (restofworld.org)
2025-9-4 Taiwan

A reporter details how her mother, a kidney transplant patient who lives in China, bonded with DeepSeek's chatbot as her AI doctor, calling it “more humane” (restofworld.org)
2025-9-3 China AI chatbot

How ChatGPT-powered companionship dolls from Hyodol are helping ease loneliness among older adults in South Korea, as the company aims for a US debut in 2026 (restofworld.org)
2025-8-28 Korea

Q&A with Francis Dufay, CEO of Jumia, Africa's largest e-commerce platform, on Temu and other rivals, adding Chinese sellers to stay competitive, AI, and more (restofworld.org)
2025-8-27 China AI Africa

Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry, about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay (restofworld.org)
2025-8-27 India

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