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

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Chinese models are gaining market share because they can handle most common tasks at a fraction of the price of U.S. alternatives https://t.co/MpS8hxA4Lt

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Microsoft is exploring using DeepSeek, or another open-source model, as a lower-cost alternative for Copilot Cowork, which is currently powered by Anthropic and OpenAI systems https://t.co/jD7jAxaBlH

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Canada and the European Union are opening their markets to budget-friendly Chinese electric cars, leaving the U.S. increasingly isolated behind a strict tariff wall https://t.co/TLVnaX2ZC6

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While Silicon Valley's layoffs make headlines, China’s tech giants are carrying out their own massive workforce reductions quietly https://t.co/TWv5SNuAqP

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While Washington pushes a narrative of tech decoupling, the CEOs of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia are proving that the biggest U.S. tech firms remain deeply entangled with China https://t.co/3oT0d1ZeqQ

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Some light summer reading for you: eight books that explore how tech is fundamentally reshaping society worldwide https://t.co/Yach5YMds7

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New on Rest of World: When Americans choose Chinese AI https://t.co/xrzOZnJEqV

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A Delhi couple trying to order wine ended up sending money to scammers who had replaced the shop’s phone number on Google Maps. It’s part of a growing fraud wave exploiting people’s trust in tech platforms https://t.co/lhJqxRKjOo

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While a startup founder in Bengaluru can scale operations cheaply using an AI agent, unequal access to top-tier models may harden into new systems of economic dominance https://t.co/EZu9KFKa1Y

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As Spotify expands across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the platform is betting on localized pricing and consent-based AI tools to shape its post-English future https://t.co/c3L0UgGxeO

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While LinkedIn algorithms prioritize authentic networking, a growing offshore industry in the Philippines relies on generative AI to simulate professional expertise and thought leadership https://t.co/fq5nnNYOGs

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Former Hugging Face executive Tiezhen Wang explains how open-source AI training algorithms from Chinese labs are quietly becoming the default infrastructure for U.S. researchers https://t.co/it7Is3JqSF

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From AI breakthroughs to startup innovation, our partner #VivaTech is bringing together some of the biggest names in technology this week in Paris.

Learn more and get tickets 🚀 https://t.co/AgIGcuF968

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While only 38% of Americans feel excited about AI products, optimism is surging across Asia, with more than 75% of respondents in China, Indonesia, and Malaysia welcoming the technology https://t.co/gHXZtQtoZe

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New on Rest of World: Spotify’s post-English AI future https://t.co/DnEAzcvPVE

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Many Indian AI researchers are now willing to take a "50% sacrifice today for the greater pot at the end" by leaving Silicon Valley for homegrown startups https://t.co/IMkYrRq4Ti

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China's open-source AI models are fueling rapid adoption, with some U.S. labs now relying on Chinese research code https://t.co/IPelJw3VDA

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While global electric vehicle sales surged past 20 million last year, sales in the U.S. actually dropped as heavy tariffs cut consumers off from affordable Chinese models https://t.co/TLVnaX2ZC6

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The Mexican surveillance giant is expanding into the U.S. after building a 20-floor intelligence tower and drone network along the border https://t.co/vN7MYdZCzg

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At our recent New York Tech Week panel, experts broke down how the extreme concentration of AI power in the U.S. and China threatens human rights and economic sovereignty around the world https://t.co/PSsg4TnAGm