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Last fall, Rest of World senior reporter @violazhouyi moved into Mark Zuckerberg’s old house.

Data collectives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-c…

“As parents, we feel conflicted. We can see how passionate he is about building things with AI, but there are still so many things he needs to learn. After all, he’s still just a kid.” restofworld.org/2026/china-tec…

Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability restofworld.org/2026/ai-govern…

“More people are developing games on their own, but most are not making a living off of it. Quantity doesn’t always mean success.” restofworld.org/2026/ai-video-…

"The investment in high school students is really about building a long-term talent pool." restofworld.org/2026/china-tec…

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 restofworld.org/2026/china-sil…

As the world’s superpowers seek control over rare earth supply chains, their demand is indirectly funding conflict actors in Myanmar during a time of war, incentivizing rapid extraction with minimal safeguards restofworld.org/2026/myanmar-c…

U.S. hospitals are increasingly hiring Filipino nurses for remote roles to fill staffing gaps and for cost savings, but the practice may be aggravating shortages in the Philippines restofworld.org/2026/u-s-healt…

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New on Rest of World: Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality bit.ly/3Td6z6N

AI is helping solo developers thrive in Turkey’s gaming industry, but writers, artists, and junior programmers are being left behind restofworld.org/2026/ai-video-…

Tomorrow! Join Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian for a conversation on the state of open-source AI and what's really happening beneath the AI headlines. Register to join us: tally.so/r/A7GE4o

As demand for elite AI engineers outpaces supply, Chinese companies are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines restofworld.org/2026/china-tec…

Data collectives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-c…

As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar’s borderlands Read the feature, produced by @grist and republished by Rest of World restofworld.org/2026/myanmar-c…

After the earthquakes in Venezuela, citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response restofworld.org/2026/venezuela…

New on Rest of World: The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines bit.ly/4hu0r3T

While electric vehicles have historically driven China's clean-tech investment announcements abroad, rising tariffs and market uncertainty have caused that enthusiasm to plummet over the last two years restofworld.org/2026/china-ev-…

New on Rest of World: Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control bit.ly/44JnbWc

The AI-powered #FIFAWorldCup runs on thousands of data workers Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry. (via @restofworld) restofworld.org/2026/fifa-worl…