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The UAE is giving away its advanced AI

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from Rest of World - Global in startups

The Gulf nation offers advanced software without fees or restrictions, positioning itself as a neutral tech power between the U.S. and China.

2

Did RFK just take away your cancer treatment?

14 hours ago

from Noahpinion in startups

mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

2

The Enshittification of Generative AI

6 hours ago

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

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Google vs. Perplexity fight plays out in India as AI battle intensifies

yesterday

from Rest of World - Global in startups

Google and Perplexity are offering free access to their AI-powered search in India, a key testing ground and source of training data for AI models.

9

AI Is A Money Trap

2 days ago

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and...

5

China’s AI drug discovery companies land huge deals with Big Pharma

2 days ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

Multibillion-dollar partnerships show China’s rising influence in AI-driven pharmaceuticals.

6

Immigrant memoir comics!

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from Noahpinion in startups

Learning about the immigrant experience by reading graphic novels

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They left Syria as refugees. They’re returning to build its tech industry

3 days ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

After the fall of the Assad regime, tech workers are coming back to help rebuild their nation.

7

What can India do to industrialize?

4 days ago

from Noahpinion in startups

A guest post by Prakash Loungani and Karan Bhasin.

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VinFast speeds into India after U.S. U-turn

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from Rest of World - Global in startups

After U.S. failure, Vietnam’s EV leader turns to markets dominated by Tesla and BYD.

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Will data centers crash the economy?

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from Noahpinion in startups

This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.

12

How Much Money Do OpenAI And Anthropic Actually Make?

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from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

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13

Becoming a Republic

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from Inverted Passion in startups

The following is the essay I had submitted as part of the one week summer course I took at the Oxford University, where we read Plato’s Republic. The...

11

Why does everyone still hate the Democrats?

a week ago

from Noahpinion in startups

It should be easier to capitalize on the anti-Trump backlash.

9

U.S. targets Brazil’s payments platform Pix in trade spat

a week ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

Big Tech has struggled to compete against Brazil’s beloved digital payments system, with the U.S. government now investigating the country’s “unfair...

14

Playing to Win Friends & Influence People

a week ago

from Working Theorys in startups

The Craft 003: A conversation with founder Avi Schiffman on conviction, AI companionship, and launching the first version of Friend.

10

Meta brought AI to rural Colombia. Now students are failing exams

a week ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s...

11

The only thing worse than sweatshops is no sweatshops

a week ago

from Noahpinion in startups

Poor countries have to get rich somehow. This is the tried-and-true method.

11

Inside the collapse of Builder.ai: Was it even an AI company?

a week ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

The implosion of a white-hot startup has employees asking how it all went wrong.

12

Xi Jinping is the main thing holding China back

a week ago

from Noahpinion in startups

If the Chinese Century underwhelms, it'll be partly due to a single man.

13

Saudi Aramco wants a Google spinoff to turn its waste into wealth

2 weeks ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

The world’s biggest crude producer is partnering with SandboxAQ to turn captured carbon into profitable products.

14

Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI?

2 weeks ago

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

Earlier in the week, the Wall Street Journal reported that SoftBank and OpenAI's "$500 billion" "AI Project" was now setting a "more modest goal of...

14

Should Democrats go back to neoliberalism?

2 weeks ago

from Noahpinion in startups

To some degree, yes. But what they really need is a development state.

11

Unleashing the AI jobs revolution in Africa

2 weeks ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

While there are concerns that AI will eliminate jobs, in many developing countries, it can help create jobs that never existed before.

14

The anti-immigration backlash comes to Japan

2 weeks ago

from Noahpinion in startups

It was always bound to happen.

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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble

2 weeks ago

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

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16

Why the world should stop obsessing over LLMs

2 weeks ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

Nandan Nilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be shaped by who builds the bigger model but by small...

26

Stop pretending you know what AI does to the economy

2 weeks ago

from Noahpinion in startups

Alarmism is everywhere, but a lot of it is just brainworms.

28

The Remarkable Incompetence At The Heart Of Tech

3 weeks ago

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

Hello premium subscribers! Today I have the first guest post I've ever commissioned (read: paid) on Where's Your Ed At - Nik Suresh, one of the...

16

AI and immigration uncertainty threaten Nigeria’s dreams of becoming an outsourcing hot spot

3 weeks ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

The West African nation wants to become the next global outsourcing hub, but as AI takes over basic tech tasks and U.S. visa hurdles rise, replicating...

15

At least five interesting things: Bad Policy edition (#67)

3 weeks ago

from Noahpinion in startups

ICE backlash; progressive bumbling; antisocial Americans; bad inflation data; the Roaring 20s; AI politics; China vs. America

15

Ride-hailing giants’ electric promises are stalling worldwide

3 weeks ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

EV adoption by major platforms is at low single digits as infrastructure gaps and costs derail climate goals.

14

Trump is enabling Chinese power

3 weeks ago

from Noahpinion in startups

An incompetent, selfish, inwardly focused administration is making America less of an obstacle to China's rise.

16

Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own

3 weeks ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic...

20

Developing countries: A follow-up

3 weeks ago

from Noahpinion in startups

Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.

28

Encore Anxiety

3 weeks ago

from Working Theorys in startups

Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.

20

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook's strategy tax

3 weeks ago

from Internal Tech Emails in startups

Zuckerberg on rebranding Facebook, spinning off Instagram, antitrust regulation, and more.

21

Why tariffs haven't raised inflation much (yet)

4 weeks ago

from Noahpinion in startups

Three possible explanations.

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Anthropic Is Bleeding Out

4 weeks ago

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

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15

Struggling Chinese EV brands go global to flee brutal price war at home

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from Rest of World - Global in startups

Backlash against Neta Auto in Thailand underscores risks of companies expanding abroad too soon.

22

Free-market economics is working surprisingly well

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from Noahpinion in startups

Which economic approach works depends a lot on where you start from.

20

Politics and USAID cuts put a telehealth program on life support

4 weeks ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

Despite poor internet and power cuts, Bangladesh’s telehealth service connected rural residents to city doctors until this year.

31

Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

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from Steve Blank in startups

How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the...

18

Dangerous mines: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain

a month ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

In Zimbabwe, the EV rush has brought a surge of Chinese investment into lithium mines. But many locals feel left out — and some have turned to...

21

At least five interesting things: It Isn't That Bad edition (#66)

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from Noahpinion in startups

U.S. wage growth; fertility and sexism; construction costs and house prices; the next financial crisis; macroeconomics vs. microeconomics;

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Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis

a month ago

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At in startups

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17

Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled

a month ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

Despite having 500 million users in India, WhatsApp couldn’t crack the country’s $3 trillion fintech market.

21

How to take our country back

a month ago

from Noahpinion in startups

The America you grew up in is under attack from technologies that we ourselves invented.

20

To all Language Models Reading This

a month ago

from Nothing Human in startups

Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.

17

What we’re reading: Rest of World’s summer book list

a month ago

from Rest of World - Global in startups

Spanning subjects from Apple to Nvidia to OpenAI, here are six compelling books on technology, tech leaders, and the promise and perils of artificial...