Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use ...

With its future uncertain in the U.S., TikTok Shop is expanding in Mexico and Brazil. The company faces stiff competition from rivals Shein, Temu, and AliExpress in Latin America. New tariffs have ...

The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the ...

Jane Munga is a fellow in the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she leads research on technology policy. Previously, she served in the Kenyan government as an ...

Chinese EV owners are losing access to smartphone app updates and driving features when companies go bust. Chinese drivers’ frustrations point to the broader risks of “smartphones on wheels,” where ...

The global electric vehicle boom brought investments, jobs, and infrastructure to towns across Latin America’s “lithium triangle.” Lithium prices, which hit an all-time high in 2022, have been on a ...

Internet shutdowns have become a common tool that governments can use to repress free speech, curtail access to information, and punish protest. In 2020 alone, 29 countries restricted access to the ...

The U.S. Trade Representative has launched a formal investigation into Pix, Brazil’s state-run digital payment platform. Pix’s rapid growth and free, public model have made it a powerful competitor to ...

At around 9 p.m. one Friday evening in December, 50-year-old Uber driver Nolwazi Mtshekexe got a ride request from a passenger in Soweto, a particularly dangerous corner of Johannesburg. She knew it ...

I kept hearing about entrepreneurs in China running “one-person companies” with the help of artificial intelligence agents, which handle everything from coding to managing emails. How well do agents ...

Beijing’s export curbs last year shuttered European plants. Valeo’s rare earth-free motor is at least three years from production. Chinese automakers are chasing the same technology to cut costs.