At around 9 p.m. one Friday evening in December, 50-year-old Uber driver Nolwazi Mtshekexe got a ride request from a passenger in Soweto, a particularly dangerous corner of Johannesburg. She knew it ...

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

The U.S. Trade Representative has launched a formal investigation into Pix, Brazil’s state-run digital payment platform. Pix’s rapid growth and free, public model have made it a powerful competitor to ...

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 ...

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

Internet shutdowns have become a common tool that governments can use to repress free speech, curtail access to information, and punish protest. In 2020 alone, 29 countries restricted access to the ...

Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned following two days of protests against rampant corruption and inequality, exacerbated by the government’s recent decision to ban some social media ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tesla has cut prices on its bestselling models to compete with Chinese rivals that have been giving it a run for its money. On October 7, the company reduced the sticker prices of Model Y and Model 3 ...