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

Chinese open-weight AI models offer high capability at significantly lower costs than U.S. frontier systems, but face ...

After ChatGPT was released in November 2022, the tech industry was quick to herald the chatbot as the marker of a new wave of technological progress. As companies pushed to create more powerful AI ...

Tesla has cut prices on its bestselling models to compete with Chinese rivals that have been giving it a run for its money. On October 7, the company reduced the sticker prices of Model Y and Model 3 ...

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 ...

The world’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing because AI infrastructure is absorbing the components. Prices of existing smartphone models have risen by about 15% globally this year, while newly ...

Kenyan content moderators have been in a court battle against Meta and outsourcing company Sama since April, following the dismissal of over 200 moderators. Nathan Nkunzimana, founder of the Kenyan ...

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 ...

In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers.

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 ...