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Chinese universities are cutting language majors to make way for AI

2026-06-22 18:00:52

As artificial intelligence reshapes the global economy, Chinese universities are rapidly redrawing the landscape of what is worth studying. In recent months, Chinese universities have actively cut foreign language and...

GoPro and Roomba were U.S. pioneers. Chinese rivals now dominate

2026-06-19 21:00:00

After moving to Taiwan and taking up scuba diving, I recently started shopping for an underwater camera. What began as a simple search quickly turned into an exploration of the...

Chile turned to China for an undersea cable. The U.S. said no

2026-06-18 18:00:00

On the morning of February 20, 2026, Juan Carlos Muñoz, then Chile’s minister of transportation and telecommunications, woke up to an email from the U.S. State Department. It informed him...

When Americans choose Chinese AI

2026-06-17 18:00:00

Stu Clott, an operations manager and part-time developer in San Diego, used to code with Claude. But he recently found a cheaper alternative: DeepSeek.  While an hourlong coding session would...

Spotify’s post-English AI future

2026-06-16 18:00:00

At the end of every year, Spotify Wrapped takes over social media feeds, with users showing off the annual recap of their top music choices. Lately, these reviews have taken...

Can open-source beat OpenAI?

2026-06-15 18:00:00

As the U.S. and China battle for artificial intelligence supremacy, a fundamental divide in engineering philosophy could determine the winner. While American pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic favor a closed-source...