China features in many of today's popular stories:
➡ Can we really keep kids safe online? - Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky says protecting minors online requires more than just restrictions and parental controls.
🇨🇳 The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley - Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they're superstars.
🇨🇳 Some Taiwanese drone math ahead of the Xi-Trump visit - Recalling my visit to Thunder Tiger, a Taiwanese company building “non-China” drones for the U.S. military.
➡ Can we really keep kids safe online? - Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky says protecting minors online requires more than just restrictions and parental controls.
🇨🇳 The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley - Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they're superstars.
🇨🇳 Some Taiwanese drone math ahead of the Xi-Trump visit - Recalling my visit to Thunder Tiger, a Taiwanese company building “non-China” drones for the U.S. military.
Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...:
🇮🇳 India’s VCs are beating Silicon Valley at home - A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals.
🇨🇳 What's at stake for tech at the Trump-Xi meeting - U.S.-China summit to likely cover AI rivalry, chip exports, supply chain security, and the EV trade as leaders navigate intensifying geopolitical tensions.
🍎 Taiwan’s chips power the global economy. China holds the leverage - Big Tech’s reliance on TSMC makes the China-Taiwan dispute the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint, says writer Eyck Freymann ahead of this week’s Xi-Trump meeting in Beijing.
🇮🇳 India’s VCs are beating Silicon Valley at home - A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals.
🇨🇳 What's at stake for tech at the Trump-Xi meeting - U.S.-China summit to likely cover AI rivalry, chip exports, supply chain security, and the EV trade as leaders navigate intensifying geopolitical tensions.
🍎 Taiwan’s chips power the global economy. China holds the leverage - Big Tech’s reliance on TSMC makes the China-Taiwan dispute the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint, says writer Eyck Freymann ahead of this week’s Xi-Trump meeting in Beijing.
Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...:
🍎 Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech - The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
➡ Can we really keep kids safe online? - Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky says protecting minors online requires more than just restrictions and parental controls.
🍎 Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech - The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
➡ Can we really keep kids safe online? - Future of Privacy Forum CEO Jules Polonetsky says protecting minors online requires more than just restrictions and parental controls.
The 3 most popular stories right now:
🇦🇪 The UAE’s OPEC exit frees up oil wealth as it bets big on AI - More oil revenue means deeper pockets for the UAE’s AI investment funds, and more gas means more electricity for its data centers.
🇮🇳 India’s VCs are beating American investors at home - A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals.
🇨🇳 What's at stake for tech at the Trump-Xi meeting - U.S.-China summit to likely cover AI rivalry, chip exports, supply chain security, and the EV trade as leaders navigate intensifying geopolitical tensions.
🇦🇪 The UAE’s OPEC exit frees up oil wealth as it bets big on AI - More oil revenue means deeper pockets for the UAE’s AI investment funds, and more gas means more electricity for its data centers.
🇮🇳 India’s VCs are beating American investors at home - A decade after U.S. venture capital firms fueled India’s startup boom, local investors are now dominating deals.
🇨🇳 What's at stake for tech at the Trump-Xi meeting - U.S.-China summit to likely cover AI rivalry, chip exports, supply chain security, and the EV trade as leaders navigate intensifying geopolitical tensions.
China features in many of today's popular stories:
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
🍎 Taiwan’s chips power the global economy. China holds the leverage - Big Tech’s reliance on TSMC makes the China-Taiwan dispute the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint, says writer Eyck Freymann ahead of this week’s Xi-Trump meeting in Beijing.
🇨🇳 The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley - Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they're superstars.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
🍎 Taiwan’s chips power the global economy. China holds the leverage - Big Tech’s reliance on TSMC makes the China-Taiwan dispute the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint, says writer Eyck Freymann ahead of this week’s Xi-Trump meeting in Beijing.
🇨🇳 The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley - Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they're superstars.
Our 3 top read stories from accross the day:
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
🇦🇪 The UAE’s OPEC exit frees up oil wealth as it bets big on AI - More oil revenue means deeper pockets for the UAE’s AI investment funds, and more gas means more electricity for its data centers.
🍎 Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech - The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders.
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
🇦🇪 The UAE’s OPEC exit frees up oil wealth as it bets big on AI - More oil revenue means deeper pockets for the UAE’s AI investment funds, and more gas means more electricity for its data centers.
🍎 Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech - The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders.
3 of our most popular stories right now:
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇨🇳 What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected - Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇨🇳 What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected - Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...:
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
🇦🇪 The UAE’s OPEC exit frees up oil wealth as it bets big on AI - More oil revenue means deeper pockets for the UAE’s AI investment funds, and more gas means more electricity for its data centers.
🍎 Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech - The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders.
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
🇦🇪 The UAE’s OPEC exit frees up oil wealth as it bets big on AI - More oil revenue means deeper pockets for the UAE’s AI investment funds, and more gas means more electricity for its data centers.
🍎 Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech - The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders.
Our 3 top read stories from accross the day:
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇨🇳 What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected - Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇨🇳 What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected - Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
Our 3 top read stories from accross the day:
🇨🇳 The agentic divide: Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy - A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.
➡ U.S. versus China: Can open-source beat OpenAI? - Join Jules Polonetsky, Chief Executive Officer, Future of Privacy Forum, in conversation with Itika Sharma Punit, Deputy Editor, Rest of World on April 17, 2026
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
🇨🇳 The agentic divide: Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy - A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.
➡ U.S. versus China: Can open-source beat OpenAI? - Join Jules Polonetsky, Chief Executive Officer, Future of Privacy Forum, in conversation with Itika Sharma Punit, Deputy Editor, Rest of World on April 17, 2026
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
A collection of our trending and most read stories:
➡ U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution - As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇨🇳 What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected - Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity.
➡ U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution - As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇨🇳 What AI race? China and U.S. AI worlds are tightly connected - Despite geopolitical tensions, Chinese and American AI industries remain intertwined through research networks, collaboration, and a shared cultural identity.
Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...:
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
🍎 Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech - The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
🍎 Silicon Valley keeps misreading China’s role in tech - The heads of Tesla, Apple, and Nvidia regard Chinese companies as peers, not enemies, unlike most other Silicon Valley founders.
🇵🇭 The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's "thought leadership" content mill - For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
China in trending in 2 out of 3 of today's most popular stories:
🇨🇳 Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI - The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.
🇨🇳 China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism - Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
➡ U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution - As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
🇨🇳 Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI - The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.
🇨🇳 China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism - Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
➡ U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution - As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
The 3 most popular stories right now:
🇨🇳 The agentic divide: Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy - A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.
➡ U.S. versus China: Can open-source beat OpenAI? - Join Jules Polonetsky, Chief Executive Officer, Future of Privacy Forum, in conversation with Itika Sharma Punit, Deputy Editor, Rest of World on April 17, 2026
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇨🇳 The agentic divide: Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy - A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.
➡ U.S. versus China: Can open-source beat OpenAI? - Join Jules Polonetsky, Chief Executive Officer, Future of Privacy Forum, in conversation with Itika Sharma Punit, Deputy Editor, Rest of World on April 17, 2026
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
China is in the spotlight with 2 of our most popular stories:
🇨🇳 Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI - The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.
🇨🇳 China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism - Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
➡ U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution - As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
🇨🇳 Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI - The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.
🇨🇳 China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism - Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
➡ U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution - As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
The 3 most popular stories right now:
🇨🇳 The agentic divide: Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy - A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
🇨🇳 The agentic divide: Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy - A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.
🇰🇪 AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share - The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared.
🇪🇬 Pushing back from Big Tech: Africa’s hard road to AI sovereignty - The continent's biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
China in trending in 2 out of 3 of today's most popular stories:
🇮🇳 India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance - G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
🇨🇳 Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI - The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.
🇨🇳 China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism - Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
🇮🇳 India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance - G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
🇨🇳 Pope’s encyclical raises questions on who gets to shape AI - The encyclical provides an ethical and moral framework for AI, but one that is steeped in Catholicism and ignores the faiths and practices of a majority of the world’s population.
🇨🇳 China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism - Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
Our 3 top read stories from accross the day:
🇨🇳 China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time - Localized, low-cost data harvested in homes and factories gives China a scaling edge over the research-heavy and outsourced U.S. approach.
🇺🇸 EVs are getting more affordable worldwide — except in the U.S. - The U.S. is impaired by a lack of supportive policy and subsidies, the unavailability of affordable Chinese models, and a preference for big cars.
➡ U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution - As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
🇨🇳 China is training a robot future — one folded shirt at a time - Localized, low-cost data harvested in homes and factories gives China a scaling edge over the research-heavy and outsourced U.S. approach.
🇺🇸 EVs are getting more affordable worldwide — except in the U.S. - The U.S. is impaired by a lack of supportive policy and subsidies, the unavailability of affordable Chinese models, and a preference for big cars.
➡ U.S. companies have an AI problem. Indian IT wants to be the solution - As firms find ROI elusive, India’s tech giants are betting they can fill the AI “deployment gap” for U.S. clients, before automation eats their own back-office business.
Our 3 top read stories from accross the day:
🇮🇳 India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance - G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
🇨🇳 China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism - Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
🇨🇳 The agentic divide: Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy - A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.
🇮🇳 India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance - G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware.
🇨🇳 China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism - Foreign visitors are flocking to China’s factories and AI startups in search of the next technological breakthrough.
🇨🇳 The agentic divide: Why "good enough" AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy - A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.
Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...:
🇮🇳 Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent - India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.
🇨🇳 What to read: A summer book list - Rest of World recommends eight books that cover the history of resistance to tech, our relationship with AI companions, the danger of our dependence on Taiwan chips, and more.
🇧🇷 Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley - New AI infrastructure is emerging in India, Brazil, the UAE, and Africa, where local stacks are designed to get around compute scarcity.
🇮🇳 Silicon Valley’s lure is fading for India’s tech talent - India’s elite tech talent is starting to see big tech jobs in a new light.
🇨🇳 What to read: A summer book list - Rest of World recommends eight books that cover the history of resistance to tech, our relationship with AI companions, the danger of our dependence on Taiwan chips, and more.
🇧🇷 Scarcity is driving AI innovation outside Silicon Valley - New AI infrastructure is emerging in India, Brazil, the UAE, and Africa, where local stacks are designed to get around compute scarcity.