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Mexico’s new tariffs hit Shein — and millions of local resellers
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Melissa Amezcua
Melissa Amezcua is a reporter based in Mexico City. She has covered gender, politics and migration issues for more than a decade. Her work has been published in Revista Proceso, El Universal, NMas ...
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Africa’s startup funding crisis deepens as Mastercard Foundation exits top VC firm
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Gulf of Mexico vs. Gulf of America: How digital maps display disputed names
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China wants tech companies to monetize data, but few are buying in
A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles are keeping many companies ...
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Nigerians are building affordable alternatives to AWS and Google Cloud
Local cloud startups offer data sovereignty at a time when the debate about who has access to a country’s data is heating up.
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Turkey’s translators are training the AI tools that will replace them
Human fallout may include being replaced by LLMs, diminished skills, and fewer career options for all but the elite scholars.
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Why one of the world’s major AI pioneers is betting big on Saudi Arabia
With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber is a unique figure in the artificial intelligence world — equal parts scientist and ...