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

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Western pharma giants are relying on China's rapid rise in health tech to bring new treatments to market, with the country now hosting more clinical trials than the U.S.

It's driving massive investment & suspicion https://t.co/EBjM892jes

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Recent breaches of government systems by AI agents have exposed the risks for countries relying on U.S. tech giants for safety checks, a dynamic experts warn threatens the sovereignty of smaller nations
https://t.co/FRCgjQBMZa

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“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.” https://t.co/h0f2RZgfei

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New on Rest of World: Awkward: Saudi Arabia’s new EV brand takes on the U.S. rival it already controls https://t.co/abqVjJtM88

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Recent breaches of government systems by AI agents have exposed the risks for countries relying on U.S. tech giants for safety checks, a dynamic experts warn threatens the sovereignty of smaller nations
https://t.co/sAQrOpPJpS

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The U.S. maintains a tight grip on advanced semiconductors and networking, but China is gaining significant ground through low-cost, open-source AI models and flexible capacity-building offers https://t.co/wqq6KHnDjO

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Chinese tech firms are building Hugging Face alternatives that run on local hardware. But while Beijing pushes for a self-reliant AI ecosystem, developers still rely on global open-source networks to stay at the cutting edge

https://t.co/JAxIvX1n2F

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Retraining workers isn't enough to survive the AI boom. Alessandro Crimi explains why a "robot tax" might be our best shot at fair wealth distribution in an automated world.
https://t.co/krAz7P6CJh

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New on Rest of World: AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own https://t.co/QWSQr6AdFM

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China faces a tricky balancing act with AI: blocking foreign platforms like Hugging Face behind the Great Firewall while relying on global open-source networks to keep its tech sector competitive
https://t.co/JAxIvX1n2F

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What does AI look like when it becomes part of someone's actual job?

Rest of World followed six people across Asia and Africa using AI to build tools, run businesses, conduct research, and make creative work https://t.co/TahrDjKOHp

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India is racing to build data centers for the AI boom. Osama Manzar argues that the communities giving up their land, water, and space should have a say in who benefits https://t.co/gTVt3MrpTb

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After doubling its market share in high-bandwidth memory, Samsung is closing the gap with rival SK Hynix as both South Korean chipmakers compete to become indispensable to Nvidia and OpenAI https://t.co/wh3ReKnJ2I

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New on Rest of World: The open-source AI platforms vying to become China’s Hugging Face https://t.co/MnCRlxgSrz

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Samsung and SK Hynix dominate the high-bandwidth memory market. Now they're competing to become indispensable to Nvidia, OpenAI, and other U.S. AI companies https://t.co/yL24g5nLlP

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The AI infrastructure boom hits the same wall in Africa that it’s hitting in Northern Virginia: local resource limits
https://t.co/J8OcgLUH96

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Western pharma giants are relying on China's rapid rise in health tech to bring new treatments to market, with the country now hosting more clinical trials than the U.S.

It's driving massive investment & suspicion https://t.co/9PgY633lMv

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Used car dealers in China, the world’s biggest EV market, are turning away 5-year-old cars, exposing a battery anxiety problem heading for Western buyers next https://t.co/tJGnkosBoV

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New on Rest of World: South Korea’s AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America’s AI boom https://t.co/d2qas91Pbi

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Taiwanese authorities have launched hundreds of raids to stop Chinese firms from using disguised front companies to poach local semiconductor engineers and access advanced tech https://t.co/BZCut1JRRg