The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the ...

In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers.

Big Tech’s newest personal agents — Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots — promise to book tables at restaurants, buy groceries, and carry out other types of digital grunt work for users. Consumers are ...

Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems, but face ...

Owning its fleet could cut BYD’s cost to ship each car abroad by as much as 40% compared with renting carriers, according to ...

Chinese camera maker Insta360 is hoping to gain U.S. market share while market leader DJI remains hampered by national security restrictions. Insta360 is benefiting from the clarity of 2024 regulatory ...

The world’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing because AI infrastructure is absorbing the components. Prices of existing smartphone models have risen by about 15% globally this year, while newly ...

The buzz around Apple’s new phone launches is global, but the best deals haven’t made their way outside the U.S. The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max will cost more than they do in the U.S. in all other ...

Rest of World visited workers across Asia and Africa who are using AI to solve daily problems, make a living, and create new possibilities in their everyday lives. These profiles reveal how people ...

Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence talent wars are now playing out in Asia. OpenAI and Anthropic are poaching top talent from U.S. tech giants including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to build ...

In the spring of 2020, a Taiwanese engineer felt “extremely lucky” to be offered a job as a chip designer at Blue Ocean Smart System, an American company based in his hometown Hsinchu, the heart of ...