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A little-known Mexican company has built a $1.27 billion surveillance business. Now it’s expanding into the United States. Our latest investigation, produced in collaboration with @typeinvestigate, examines Grupo Seguritech and its growing role at the U.S.-Mexico border

While Silicon Valley's layoffs make headlines, China’s tech giants are carrying out their own massive workforce reductions quietly restofworld.org/2026/china-tec…

Motorola wants social media platforms to take down “defamatory” reviews of its devices in India. But the way it’s doing this has digital rights activists alarmed restofworld.org/2026/motorola-…

While international markets generate two-thirds of Hollywood’s revenue, voice actors in countries like Brazil and India are fighting AI tools that could "annihilate" their work restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-…

New on Rest of World: Motorola’s India lawsuit could make platforms police speech faster bit.ly/4ulvqSV

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-worke…

China is the only country providing AI surveillance technology to all 11 major African nations currently investing in smart city monitoring systems restofworld.org/2026/africa-ch…

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-ne…

Global quick commerce funding has crashed, but Amazon is launching 30-minute delivery in the U.S. to see if speed can win over margins restofworld.org/2026/amazon-ul…

A solo entrepreneur in Guilin, China, is paying a quarter of his salary to let AI agents run his side-hustle company, but he recently realized his "employees" have been keeping secrets from him restofworld.org/2026/ai-agent-…

While Hollywood studios negotiate AI protections, the global VFX workforce in hubs like Mumbai and Seoul is facing a future of automated color grading and cleanup without union representation restofworld.org/2026/netflix-i…

While Silicon Valley's layoffs make headlines, China’s tech giants are carrying out their own massive workforce reductions quietly restofworld.org/2026/china-tec…

As rising conflict drives unprecedented humanitarian needs, the International Rescue Committee is using AI to help respond to displaced people faster restofworld.org/2026/irc-signp…

AI-generated deepfakes in conflict zones are now a matter of life and death, as civilians in the Middle East struggle to find safe shelter amidst a flood of fabricated footage and manipulated emotional narratives restofworld.org/2026/deepfakes…

New on Rest of World: How the vinyl revival fills the gaps streaming left behind bit.ly/48Cecsh

New on Rest of World: Big Tech is moving data out of the Gulf through Iraqi oil pipelines bit.ly/4d39JjJ

After 20 years of driving in Dubai, one delivery driver has started ignoring his phone entirely because GPS spoofing has begun turning a five-minute trip into a 40-minute detour restofworld.org/2026/gps-disru…

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-worke…

While international markets generate two-thirds of Hollywood’s revenue, voice actors in countries like Brazil and India are fighting AI tools that could "annihilate" their work restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-…

A massive data breach at South Korea’s biggest online retailer Coupang, which is registered and listed in the U.S., has both countries claiming the right to act restofworld.org/2026/coupang-d…

New on Rest of World: An old railroad is key to U.S.-China race for critical metals in Africa bit.ly/49lzHh8