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Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality

2026-07-24 21:00:00

Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the government buy equity in AI companies, in response to concerns that the industry’s boom is leaving most Americans behind. His political opposite,...

The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines

2026-07-23 23:00:00

This story was originally published by Grist, produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network, and republished by Rest of World. When Min left the hot, dusty plains...

Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control

2026-07-23 18:00:00

A growing pushback against big tech companies, and greater awareness of the value of data, is spurring interest in data collectives and cooperatives, which give communities control over the collection,...

The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it

2026-07-22 18:00:00

When Anthropic’s chief national security officer and former Biden administration export control architect Tarun Chhabra recently highlighted model distillation as an emerging national security concern, one detail stood out. Chhabra...

China’s AI talent race is starting in high school

2026-07-21 18:00:00

Yang is immensely proud of his 13-year-old son. The middle-school student from Hangzhou has won artificial intelligence model-building competitions across China, and has 136,000 followers on Chinese social media platform...

AI is shrinking video game development teams to one

2026-07-20 18:00:00

As a teen, Emirhan Gül was a keen gamer, so he was thrilled to join a gaming startup in Istanbul as a developer after university. Over five months, as Turkey...