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Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?
Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.
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With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.
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Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors
Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system.
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Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency
Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range.
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In China, people are renting out their faces to AI
New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.
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Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality
Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.
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The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines
As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar's borderlands.
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Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control
Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies.
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The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it
As Apple, Thinking Machines, and developers worldwide embrace Chinese AI models such as Kimi K3, U.S. policymakers are struggling to protect the AI lead.
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China’s AI talent race is starting in high school
As demand for elite AI engineers outpaces supply, companies are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines.
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AI is shrinking video game development teams to one
AI is helping solo developers thrive in Turkey’s gaming industry, but writers, artists, and junior programmers are being left behind.
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Can AI beat a goldfish at calling the World Cup?
As chatbots compete to forecast the tournament, an unlikely rival from a Toronto fish tank continues to outperform them.
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