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The 3 most popular stories right now:
🇮🇳 Indian WhatsApp tutors are teaching ordinary people how to use AI - Informal classes over WhatsApp and Facebook groups are helping freelancers and business owners learn basic AI skills.

🇦🇷 The “anti-Shein” bandwagon gains momentum - Lawmakers from across Latin America are hardening import regulations for China-based ultrafast fashion, to shield the local textile industry.

🇨🇳 Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning - The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?
The 3 most popular stories right now:
🇨🇳 EVs hit a fork in the road in 2025 - As Chinese EV companies like BYD continued to grow at home and abroad, U.S. leader Tesla struggled with sales slumps and political turmoil.

🇮🇳 The LinkedIn job scam is global. The hook is local - Scammers masterfully tailor tactics to specific cultural expectations and economic pressures.

🇧🇷 Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout - The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.
A collection of our trending and most read stories:
🇮🇳 Indian WhatsApp tutors are teaching ordinary people how to use AI - Informal classes over WhatsApp and Facebook groups are helping freelancers and business owners learn basic AI skills.

🇦🇷 The “anti-Shein” bandwagon gains momentum - Lawmakers from across Latin America are hardening import regulations for China-based ultrafast fashion, to shield the local textile industry.

🇨🇳 Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning - The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?
China features in many of today's popular stories:
🇨🇳 The year in charts - Visualizing the ups, downs, and standout stats from 2025’s biggest tech stories.

🇧🇷 Innovative ways the world used AI in 2025 - Judges, farmers, and medical patients are pushing the limits of AI.

🇨🇳 EVs hit a fork in the road in 2025 - As Chinese EV companies like BYD continued to grow at home and abroad, U.S. leader Tesla struggled with sales slumps and political turmoil.
India in trending in 2 out of 3 of today's most popular stories:
🇮🇳 The LinkedIn job scam is global. The hook is local - Scammers masterfully tailor tactics to specific cultural expectations and economic pressures.

🇧🇷 Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout - The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.

🇮🇳 Indian WhatsApp tutors are teaching ordinary people how to use AI - Informal classes over WhatsApp and Facebook groups are helping freelancers and business owners learn basic AI skills.
A number of our more popular stories focus on China:
🇨🇳 The year in charts - Visualizing the ups, downs, and standout stats from 2025’s biggest tech stories.

🇧🇷 Innovative ways the world used AI in 2025 - Judges, farmers, and medical patients are pushing the limits of AI.

🇨🇳 EVs hit a fork in the road in 2025 - As Chinese EV companies like BYD continued to grow at home and abroad, U.S. leader Tesla struggled with sales slumps and political turmoil.
India features in many of today's popular stories:
🇮🇳 The LinkedIn job scam is global. The hook is local - Scammers masterfully tailor tactics to specific cultural expectations and economic pressures.

🇧🇷 Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout - The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.

🇮🇳 Indian WhatsApp tutors are teaching ordinary people how to use AI - Informal classes over WhatsApp and Facebook groups are helping freelancers and business owners learn basic AI skills.
A number of our more popular stories focus on China:
🇨🇳 The year in charts - Visualizing the ups, downs, and standout stats from 2025’s biggest tech stories.

🇧🇷 Innovative ways the world used AI in 2025 - Judges, farmers, and medical patients are pushing the limits of AI.

🇨🇳 EVs hit a fork in the road in 2025 - As Chinese EV companies like BYD continued to grow at home and abroad, U.S. leader Tesla struggled with sales slumps and political turmoil.
3 of our most popular stories right now:
🇮🇳 The LinkedIn job scam is global. The hook is local - Scammers masterfully tailor tactics to specific cultural expectations and economic pressures.

🇧🇷 Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout - The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.

🇨🇳 Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning - The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?
India in trending in 2 out of 3 of today's most popular stories:
🇮🇳 The day the cloud went out - Entrepreneurs and tech workers from around the world describe how they navigated the many cloud outages in 2025.

🇮🇳 India gives Musk 72 hours as X floods with obscene images generated using Grok - France and Malaysia have also launched probes into the viral Grok bikini trend.

🇨🇳 The year in charts - Visualizing the ups, downs, and standout stats from 2025’s biggest tech stories.
A collection of our trending and most read stories:
🇨🇳 Chinese AI unicorns beat Silicon Valley giants in race to go public - Zhipu AI and MiniMax are set to raise a combined $1.1 billion before OpenAI and Anthropic file for IPOs.

🇮🇳 Countries are outlawing online gambling ads. Meta is selling them anyway - A Rest of World analysis found Meta is disregarding local laws and the company’s own guidelines in at least 13 countries.

🇧🇷 Innovative ways the world used AI in 2025 - Judges, farmers, and medical patients are pushing the limits of AI.
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In today's more popular stories, 2 center on India:
🇮🇳 The day the cloud went out - Entrepreneurs and tech workers from around the world describe how they navigated the many cloud outages in 2025.

🇮🇳 India gives Musk 72 hours as X floods with obscene images generated using Grok - France and Malaysia have also launched probes into the viral Grok bikini trend.

🇨🇳 The year in charts - Visualizing the ups, downs, and standout stats from 2025’s biggest tech stories.
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The 3 most popular stories right now:
🇮🇳 A global crackdown on online gambling - Some countries are welcoming the booming industry; others want to ban it outright.

🇧🇷 The AI race is creating a new world order - In his new book “Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI,” writer Nick Srnicek details how a few tech companies, and the U.S. and China, are jostling to control the development of AI.

🇺🇸 OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health. Should we trust it? - The new feature helps users understand test results, get advice on diets and workouts, and prepare for doctors’ appointments.
The 3 most popular stories right now:
🇨🇳 In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks - Local governments are building training centers to address a shortage of robotic data, as China makes embodied intelligence a national priority.

🇻🇪 Why Venezuela’s political shock had MercadoLibre's stock rallying - Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro has fueled speculation that the Latin American e-commerce company will gain from a political change in Venezuela.

🇨🇳 Chinese AI unicorns beat Silicon Valley giants in race to go public - Zhipu AI and MiniMax are set to raise a combined $1.1 billion before OpenAI and Anthropic file for IPOs.
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The 3 most popular stories right now:
🇨🇳 Will the Meta-Manus deal push more Chinese AI startups to Singapore — or shut the door? - Beijing’s scrutiny of the acquisition highlights how far Chinese founders can go in shedding their national roots to attract U.S. capital.

🇮🇳 A global crackdown on online gambling - Some countries are welcoming the booming industry; others want to ban it outright.

🇧🇷 The AI race is creating a new world order - In his new book “Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI,” writer Nick Srnicek details how a few tech companies, and the U.S. and China, are jostling to control the development of AI.
3 of our most popular stories right now:
🇺🇸 OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health. Should we trust it? - The new feature helps users understand test results, get advice on diets and workouts, and prepare for doctors’ appointments.

🇨🇳 In Chinese data factories, workers teach humanoid robots boring tasks - Local governments are building training centers to address a shortage of robotic data, as China makes embodied intelligence a national priority.

🇻🇪 Why Venezuela’s political shock had MercadoLibre's stock rallying - Donald Trump’s capture of Nicolás Maduro has fueled speculation that the Latin American e-commerce company will gain from a political change in Venezuela.
Our 3 top read stories from accross the day:
🇹🇼 AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages - Aggressive expansion of wind energy to power the semiconductor industry is upending the livelihoods of farmers and fishers.

➡ Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI - Qatar and the UAE are set to sign the Pax Silica initiative that would add Gulf wealth to Washington’s AI supply chain push.

🇨🇳 Will the Meta-Manus deal push more Chinese AI startups to Singapore — or shut the door? - Beijing’s scrutiny of the acquisition highlights how far Chinese founders can go in shedding their national roots to attract U.S. capital.
A collection of our trending and most read stories:
🇮🇷 Iran crippled Starlink and why the rest of the world should worry - The service became synonymous with censorship-proof connectivity. Iran has just proved that assumption wrong.

🇧🇷 Why India's plan to make AI companies pay for training data should go global - A license fee for the use of copyrighted data can compensate creators and help AI companies avoid lengthy legal fights.

🇨🇳 BYD burns profit chasing global dominance over Tesla - The Chinese EV giant reported a 33% drop in third-quarter profit while ramping up overseas expansion and R&D spending.
Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...:
🇹🇼 AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages - Aggressive expansion of wind energy to power the semiconductor industry is upending the livelihoods of farmers and fishers.

➡ Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI - Qatar and the UAE are set to sign the Pax Silica initiative that would add Gulf wealth to Washington’s AI supply chain push.

🇧🇷 The AI race is creating a new world order - In his new book “Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI,” writer Nick Srnicek details how a few tech companies, and the U.S. and China, are jostling to control the development of AI.
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Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...:
🇸🇬 64% of UAE residents now use generative AI - A new Microsoft study shows where AI usage is taking off.

🇺🇸 Tesla is losing the EV race. Its stock keeps winning - The U.S. carmaker’s valuation is soaring on robotaxi dreams. Its shipments tell a different story.

🇮🇷 Iran crippled Starlink and why the rest of the world should worry - The service became synonymous with censorship-proof connectivity. Iran has just proved that assumption wrong.