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The investors might want a refund after seeing what the money were used for....

When Chinese engineer Li Hai left the wintry cold of northern China and flew into the humid heat of Tamil Nadu in southern India, he had little idea what to expect....

Entrepreneurs say local talent is too expensive and are outsourcing to countries like Peru....

Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.

Jitu Jisan is a Pathao bike-taxi driver in Dhaka. But, he said, taking bookings through the ride-hailing app is always the last resort for him. Typically, he uses the Pathao app only to find a customer, and once he meets them, he turns off the app, strikes a direct deal, and goes khep....

On October 31, Weibo, as well as several other major Chinese social media platforms including WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, and Kuaishou, announced that they now required popular users’ legal names to be made visible to the public. Weibo stated in a public post that the new rule would first apply to all users with over 1...

Online feminism has a short but turbulent history in China, its intensity ebbing and flowing alongside the country’s ever-shifting red lines of permissible speech. Young women are largely unaware of earlier waves of activism — long since erased by government censorship — but not unaffected....

Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.

The Chinese government, always preoccupied with maintaining social stability, has over the past five years persecuted feminist activists and commanded social media sites to ramp up restrictions on feminist content. Similar methods have successfully diminished campaigns for social causes such as labor rights and LGBTQIA rights,...

Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.

China’s AI industry exploits student interns from vocational schools, making them do tedious and labor-intensive data labeling work for tech companies and carmakers to fulfill their graduation requirements. Sometimes the schools are even taking a cut from students’ earnings.

Brazilian delivery workers take their fight to get app users to pick up their orders to local legislatures.

Chinese sextortion scammer accounts have flooded X (previously Twitter) since April after the platform introduced a new blue-check policy allowing users to buy verified badges. They target the Chinese community’s most prominent voices, alienating many users who had turned to the platform as a crucial news source outside the...

Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can’t do basic information retrieval.

Nonprofit organizations in Borneo are training Indigenous communities to formally establish their native land rights in order to protect their local areas from such encroachment. But first, they need to demarcate which land is theirs. To do so, they are turning to mapping technologies such as GPS and geographic information...