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What was Builder.ai and why did it shut down?

2025-08-01 20:00:00

This article is adapted from Rest of World’s recent feature: Inside the collapse of Builder.ai What did Builder.ai actually do? Builder.ai was founded in 2016 by Sachin Dev Duggal, a...

As China goes all in on AI, tech workers scramble to learn new skills

2025-08-01 18:00:00

On a recent Monday evening, several Chinese participants joined a livestream on Zhihu, a Q&A platform similar to Quora, and were greeted by an instructor who said her name was...

U.S. targets Brazil’s payments platform Pix in trade spat

2025-07-31 18:00:00

Earlier this month, the Office of the United States Trade Representative launched a formal investigation into Brazil’s trade practices, targeting a particularly beloved and widely used electronic payments platform: Pix....

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams

2025-07-30 18:00:00

Chemistry teacher María Intencipa misses the good old days — last year — when her small school in rural Colombia was sheltered from the artificial intelligence revolution by its remoteness. ...

Inside the collapse of Builder.ai: Was it even an AI company?

2025-07-29 18:00:00

Karthik started working as a “productologist” for Builder.ai in 2022. In another company, the role — assisting customers in building software — might have been called a product manager. But...

The surprise winner in the U.S.-China tech war? Vietnam’s chip industry

2025-07-28 18:00:00

U.S. President Donald Trump’s onslaught of tariffs has given Vietnam an opportunity to stake its claim in the global semiconductor chip race. Vietnamese companies that manufacture chip components — such...