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The Chinese migrant workers powering the deadly EV nickel boom

2025-10-08 18:00:00

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center and The Uproot Project Environmental Justice Fellowship. It was produced by Grist and republished by Rest of World. As W.H. Wong hugged his family goodbye...

Courts don’t know what to do about AI crimes

2025-10-07 18:00:13

Shortly after Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot at a political rally in June, hundreds of videos of the attack flooded social media. Some of these turned out...

Young people in China are embracing AI therapy

2025-10-06 18:00:00

Jiying Zhang, a nutritionist and health coach, saw a therapist for four years before she decided to try DeepSeek. She was immediately impressed. The artificial intelligence model provided support instantly,...

China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks

2025-10-03 18:00:00

A Chinese city that failed to attract people has become a sandbox for machines. Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city that never took off after prices crashed in 2012, has...

Livestream shopping stars face off against trolls, hagglers, and AI rivals

2025-10-02 18:00:00

Zuhrotul Aprilia enjoys rambling on for hours about kitchenware from a studio in the Indonesian port city of Surabaya. Most days, she turns on her iPad and peddles pots and...

AI is reshaping childhood in China

2025-10-01 18:00:00

The runaway success of Chinese artificial intelligence models such as DeepSeek and Qwen has spurred every industry, from health care to agriculture to education, to integrate AI.  Adoption of AI...