2026-07-07 18:00:00
Involution — neijuan (内卷) in Mandarin, literally “inward curling” — entered everyday Chinese speech around 2020. The concept was borrowed from the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz, who described a pattern...
2026-07-06 18:00:00
Gordon Sheng, a 32-year-old civil engineer in China, spent two decades reading web novels before using AI to write his own. He used DeepSeek to outline a dramatic divorce plot,...
2026-07-02 18:00:00
As frontier artificial intelligence becomes increasingly centralized in the hands of a few Western companies, India is betting that innovation doesn’t have to come only from the biggest labs. The...
2026-07-01 18:00:00
China’s EV makers, squeezed at home, are moving into Europe’s idle car factories. Chery will start building EVs later this year at a former Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain. It...
2026-06-30 18:00:00
Highly skilled immigrant tech workers in the U.S. are eyeing relocation to Canada, the U.K., or the Gulf as H-1B visa uncertainty continues to haunt them. On June 8, a...
2026-06-29 18:00:58
One evening in the Maldives, I spent a few hours talking with local entrepreneurs. I expected to hear about tourism, politics, or the economy. Instead, they kept talking about Temu....
