TikTok is investing in a $10 billion data center in Brazil’s northeast. Indigenous people who claim the allocated land say they were not consulted on the project. Brazil aims to attract big tech ...

As the debate over the U.S.-China battle for AI supremacy intensifies, Nandan Nilekani, the Indian tech billionaire and co-founder of Infosys, says the world needs to shift its focus away from who’s ...

Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.

As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar's ...

The UAE and Saudi Arabia are rapidly expanding their AI infrastructure, attracting tech giants like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft. Data centers powering AI in the Gulf are projected to consume over ...

If Meta complies or modifies its app for India, it risks creating a “slippery slope” that emboldens governments worldwide to ...

After the earthquakes, developers and citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and ...

Meta and other big tech companies are increasingly using AI for content moderation, but as the backlash to Muse Image shows, ...

Marginalized communities and creators are forming data cooperatives to claw back control from Big Tech’s scraping practices. These grassroots collectives ensure that local communities — not Silicon ...

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are trying to diversify their AI supply chains, but geopolitical constraints and Nvidia's ...

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Singaporean writers are resisting their government’s request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM. Writers say there is little clarity on compensation and how the material will be used. It ...