Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use ...

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 ...

Beijing’s export curbs last year shuttered European plants. Valeo’s rare earth-free motor is at least three years from production. Chinese automakers are chasing the same technology to cut costs.

While China is engaged in a fierce struggle with the U.S. for AI supremacy, it is accelerating its development of other future technologies. In 2024, Chinese investors put nearly $1 trillion in ...

Indian tech workers who were laid off from companies like Twitter, Amazon, and Microsoft in the U.S. last year are struggling to find jobs back home. They have been forced to take huge salary cuts and ...

The global electric vehicle boom brought investments, jobs, and infrastructure to towns across Latin America’s “lithium triangle.” Lithium prices, which hit an all-time high in 2022, have been on a ...

More than 20 influencers were elected into the Indonesian parliament this year. Influencers have the resources to contest polls, and are familiar to voters. Celebrities learn little about political ...

Kenyan content moderators have been in a court battle against Meta and outsourcing company Sama since April, following the dismissal of over 200 moderators. Nathan Nkunzimana, founder of the Kenyan ...

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 ...

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.