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Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...: 🇧🇷 Why we should all be worried about AI in elections - Deepfakes dominate headlines, but the real danger lies in opaque AI systems that make up election infrastructure. 🇨🇳 Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers - Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots. 🇹🇼 Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips - As Arizona’s economic fortunes have become increasingly tied to TSMC and its chip supply chain, it’s been keen to diversify the roster of investors beyond tech companies.

Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...: 🇰🇷 The online shopping trend where you buy nothing - On South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” the pleasure comes from aspirational shopping rituals like browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a delivery. 🇨🇳 Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet - Raffi Krikorian explains that while consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they can customize and control. 🇮🇳 How one VC burns through hundreds of millions of tokens a day to find the next unicorn - The investor behind a $75-million AI-focused fund explains why reading research papers and testing frontier models has become part of his job.

Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...: 🇧🇷 Why we should all be worried about AI in elections - Deepfakes dominate headlines, but the real danger lies in opaque AI systems that make up election infrastructure. 🇨🇳 Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers - Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots. 🇮🇳 The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom - Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach.

Today's popular stories focus on India: 🇮🇳 How one VC burns through hundreds of millions of tokens a day to find the next unicorn - The investor behind a $75-million AI-focused fund explains why reading research papers and testing frontier models has become part of his job. 🇮🇳 The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns - Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground. 🇮🇳 Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution - In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.

China features in many of today's popular stories: 🇨🇳 Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers - Beijing is pioneering regulations that could shape how governments around the world govern emotionally intelligent chatbots. 🇮🇳 The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom - Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach. 🇨🇳 Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI models - Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness.

India is in the spotlight with 2 of our most popular stories: 🇹🇼 Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips - As Arizona’s economic fortunes have become increasingly tied to TSMC and its chip supply chain, it’s been keen to diversify the roster of investors beyond tech companies. 🇮🇳 The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns - Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground. 🇮🇳 Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution - In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.

The 3 most popular stories right now: 🇮🇳 The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom - Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach. 🇨🇳 Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI models - Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness. 🇨🇳 With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook - Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.

India in trending in 2 out of 3 of today's most popular stories: 🇹🇼 Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips - As Arizona’s economic fortunes have become increasingly tied to TSMC and its chip supply chain, it’s been keen to diversify the roster of investors beyond tech companies. 🇮🇳 The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns - Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground. 🇮🇳 Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution - In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.

China is in the spotlight with 2 of our most popular stories: 🇨🇳 Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI models - Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness. 🇮🇳 Can we train AI to choose safety over speed? - Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives. 🇨🇳 With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook - Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.

Today's popular stories center around India: 🇮🇳 The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns - Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground. 🇮🇳 Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution - In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs. 🇮🇳 The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom - Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach.

Our 3 top read stories from accross the day: 🇮🇳 Can we train AI to choose safety over speed? - Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives. 🇨🇳 Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors - Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system. 🇮🇳 Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency - Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range.

China is in the spotlight with 2 of our most popular stories: 🇮🇳 The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom - Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach. 🇨🇳 Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI models - Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness. 🇨🇳 With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook - Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals.

A number of our more popular stories focus on China: 🇮🇳 Can we train AI to choose safety over speed? - Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives. 🇨🇳 In China, people are renting out their faces to AI - New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity. 🇨🇳 The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines - As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar's borderlands.

China in trending in 2 out of 3 of today's most popular stories: 🇨🇳 With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook - Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals. 🇨🇳 Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors - Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system. 🇮🇳 Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency - Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range.

China features in many of today's popular stories: 🇮🇳 Can we train AI to choose safety over speed? - Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives. 🇨🇳 In China, people are renting out their faces to AI - New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity. 🇨🇳 Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality - Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.

Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...: 🇨🇳 With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook - Governments can now deploy top-tier AI locally, bypassing costly U.S. cloud rentals. 🇨🇳 Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors - Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system. 🇮🇳 Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency - Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range.

Today's popular stories center around China: 🇨🇳 In China, people are renting out their faces to AI - New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity. 🇨🇳 Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality - Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability. 🍎 The U.S. wants to contain China's AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it - As Apple, Thinking Machines, and developers worldwide embrace Chinese AI models such as Kimi K3, U.S. policymakers are struggling to protect the AI lead.

Our most popular stories across the last 24 hours...: 🇨🇳 Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors - Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system. 🇨🇳 The hidden cost of Myanmar’s rare earth mines - As the U.S. races to bypass China, the global hunger for critical minerals is financing warlords and poisoning Myanmar's borderlands. 🇧🇩 Fed up with Big Tech, communities turn to data collectives for control - Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies.

A number of our more popular stories are focused on China: 🇮🇳 Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency - Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range. 🇨🇳 In China, people are renting out their faces to AI - New platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity. 🇨🇳 Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality - Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.

Our 3 top read stories from accross the day: 🍎 The U.S. wants to contain China's AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it - As Apple, Thinking Machines, and developers worldwide embrace Chinese AI models such as Kimi K3, U.S. policymakers are struggling to protect the AI lead. 🇨🇳 China’s AI talent race is starting in high school - As demand for elite AI engineers outpaces supply, companies are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines. 🇹🇷 AI is shrinking video game development teams to one - AI is helping solo developers thrive in Turkey’s gaming industry, but writers, artists, and junior programmers are being left behind.