What the SpaceX IPO reveals about Gulf money in AI
Published: June 12, 2026 13:00
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are funding America's AI boom — and getting data centers in return.
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China builds a rival satellite constellation as SpaceX goes public
Published: June 11, 2026 10:00
A Chinese state-backed satellite company is signing the partners and governments Starlink has pushed aside, days before SpaceX’s record listing.
Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy
Published: June 10, 2026 10:00
In her new book “Bharat Bluff: Inside the Cons of India’s Internet Revolution,” writer Soumya Gupta explores how fraudsters are exploiting the trust people place in big tech platforms like Google, Facebook and WhatsApp.
The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance
Published: June 9, 2026 10:00
At a Rest of World event during New York Tech Week, we explored the challenges and possible solutions to the dominance of American and Chinese AI companies.
As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes
Published: June 8, 2026 10:00
Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.
Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent
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Published: June 5, 2026 13:00
India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.
What to read: A summer book list
Published: June 5, 2026 10:00
Rest of World recommends eight books that cover the history of resistance to tech, our relationship with AI companions, the danger of our dependence on Taiwan chips, and more.
Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley
Published: June 4, 2026 10:00
New AI infrastructure is emerging in India, Brazil, the UAE, and Africa, where local stacks are designed to get around compute scarcity.
China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time
Published: June 3, 2026 10:00
Localized, low-cost data harvested in homes and factories gives China a scaling edge over the research-heavy and outsourced U.S. approach.
EVs are getting more affordable worldwide — except in the U.S.
Published: June 2, 2026 10:00
The U.S. is impaired by a lack of supportive policy and subsidies, the unavailability of affordable Chinese models, and a preference for big cars.
India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance
Published: June 1, 2026 10:00
G42 will deploy U.S.-designed supercomputers in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI
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Published: May 29, 2026 13:00
The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.
China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
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Published: May 28, 2026 10:00
Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.