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Last fall, Rest of World senior reporter @violazhouyi moved into Mark Zuckerberg’s old house.
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Electric cars are cheaper to own than gas vehicles in most countries, but U.S. tariffs block the Chinese models delivering those savings restofworld.org/2026/us-ev-s…

As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.

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Refugees in the U.S. and West Africa are turning to localized AI assistants to navigate complex legal documentation and find essential scholarships restofworld.org/2026/irc-sig…
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Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity restofworld.org/2026/techno-…

Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul

Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.

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“Those who figure this out early are going to build disproportionately large companies.” restofworld.org/2026/ai-agen…

The agentic divide: Why “good enough” AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy

A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.

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From nonexistent studies in White House reports to hallucinated sources in EU cybersecurity briefs, AI tools are increasingly slipping "fake facts" into official government records restofworld.org/2026/governm…

Five times AI hallucinations embarrassed governments

From the Trump administration’s “formatting errors” to South Africa’s historic policy withdrawal, AI confabulation is infiltrating official documents.

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Canada and the European Union are opening their markets to budget-friendly Chinese electric cars, leaving the U.S. increasingly isolated behind a strict tariff wall restofworld.org/2026/us-ev-s…

As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.

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Jun 9
Enticing summer reading list recommendations from @restofworld. Mid-way through Elements of Power and it's quite good. Wallet Dancers & Silicon Elsewhere might be next up.
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🚨 BHARAT BLUFF is in the news again! @restofworld just published an excerpt of Bharat Bluff. Many thanks to @rinachandran This excerpt is from the chapter 'Big Tech, Big Cons' and narrates how I lost money to an online scam. It also explains the role Big Tech platforms play in our trust in the internet, and how scammers exploit
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SpaceX just made Musk the world's first trillionaire. So who else gets a piece of the AI wealth explosion? Samsung workers in South Korea had something to say about it restofworld.org/2026/samsung…

AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share

The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.

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The U.S. and China control 90% of global compute, forcing other nations to trade data and energy for AI access restofworld.org/2026/ai-divi…

The Great AI Divide: Navigating U.S. and Chinese dominance

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.

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At our recent New York Tech Week panel, experts broke down how the extreme concentration of AI power in the U.S. and China threatens human rights and economic sovereignty around the world restofworld.org/2026/ai-divi…
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Faced with state pressure to keep unemployment below 5.5%, Chinese tech companies are engineering quiet layoffs instead of open cuts as they aggressively pivot toward AI development restofworld.org/2026/china-t…

The quiet layoffs sweeping China’s tech giants

Alibaba reduced its head count by a third in 2025, while Baidu’s workforce declined nearly 7%. “There’s constant churn,” a Chinese tech worker said.

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New on Rest of World: What the SpaceX IPO reveals about Gulf money in AI bit.ly/3S6mkM7

What the SpaceX IPO reveals about Gulf money in AI

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are funding America's AI boom — and getting data centers in return.

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Some light summer reading for you: eight books that explore how tech is fundamentally reshaping society worldwide restofworld.org/2026/what-to…

What to read: A summer book list

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.

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"The aura hasn’t disappeared, but the calculus has fundamentally shifted," says recruiter Anuj Agrawal on why elite Indian engineers starting to choose roles back home over U.S. Big Tech stability restofworld.org/2026/silicon…

Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent

India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.

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While global electric vehicle sales surged past 20 million last year, sales in the U.S. actually dropped as heavy tariffs cut consumers off from affordable Chinese models restofworld.org/2026/us-ev-s…

As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.

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South Africa became the first country to withdraw a national policy document after officials discovered the text was littered with fake research citations generated by AI restofworld.org/2026/governm…

Five times AI hallucinations embarrassed governments

From the Trump administration’s “formatting errors” to South Africa’s historic policy withdrawal, AI confabulation is infiltrating official documents.

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Our summer book list dives into historical tech resistance, AI intimacy, and the high-stakes supply chains stretching from Congo to Taiwan restofworld.org/2026/what-to…

What to read: A summer book list

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.

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Gig workers in Africa helped train AI systems for a company that performed work for a secretive U.S. military unit. Many were never told their work could be used for military purposes restofworld.org/2026/gig-wor…

Gig workers in Africa have been helping the US military. They had no idea

Data labelers for the company Appen say they have little insight about how their work is used.

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While LinkedIn algorithms prioritize authentic networking, a growing offshore industry in the Philippines relies on generative AI to simulate professional expertise and thought leadership restofworld.org/2026/virtual…
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