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One drizzly night in March 2023, Darlington Vivito said bye to his parents and snuck into Zimbabwe's largest lithium mine. He never made it back home. Read our new feature by @tawakarombo and @KimberlyMutandi: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain restofworld.org/2025/zimbabwe-…
Nigeria wants to become the next global outsourcing hub, but as AI takes over basic tech tasks, it won’t be easy to replicate the success of countries like India and the Philippines restofworld.org/2025/nigeria-o…
The mind behind India’s digital revolution talks about his vision for the future of AI: restofworld.org/2025/nandan-ni…
NEW: Indonesia dominates the EV nickel supply chain. But prices are falling due to oversupply and companies like BYD and Tesla switching to lithium ion batteries, threatening workers in high risk, high reward smelting jobs restofworld.org/2025/nickel-ev…
New on Rest of World: Nickel workers powered the EV battery boom. Now, layoffs have hit. bit.ly/455z6gJ
Backlash abroad exposes the risks for struggling Chinese EV brands selling overseas restofworld.org/2025/chinese-e…
Top ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft are struggling to make good on their promises to go electric restofworld.org/2025/ride-hail…
“We want the digital economy in Brazil to be simultaneously digital and green,” said Brazil’s Finance Minister. Environmentalists are skeptical restofworld.org/2025/brazil-da…
It’s not just BYD. Six of the world’s top 10 EV brands are now Chinese restofworld.org/2025/chinese-e…
While all eyes were watching BYD overtake Tesla, a set of smaller Chinese EV brands quietly slipped into the global top 10. Chinese automakers now control 70% of global EV production NEW from @_ananyaaa restofworld.org/2025/chinese-e…
New on Rest of World: BYD distracted the world while Chinese EV peers staged a coup bit.ly/4o1SX9g
“We have to bring the conversation back to making AI useful to people. All technology is ultimately only meaningful if it is accessible to people at scale.” Why the world should stop obsessing over LLMs restofworld.org/2025/nandan-ni…
“We have to bring the conversation back to making AI useful to people. All technology is ultimately only meaningful if it is accessible to people at scale.” —@NandanNilekani Read the full interview: restofworld.org/2025/nandan-ni…
Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-l…
How high costs, weak infrastructure, and financing barriers are slowing the shift to EVs restofworld.org/2025/ride-hail…
AI and immigration uncertainty threaten Nigeria’s dreams of becoming an outsourcing hotspot restofworld.org/2025/nigeria-o…
As the debate over the U.S.-China battle for AI supremacy intensifies, billionaire Indian tech pioneer Nandan Nilekani says the world needs to shift its focus away from who’s building the largest LLMs, and toward how they’ll be used restofworld.org/2025/nandan-ni…
“Tesla’s technological superiority when it comes to autonomous or self-driving cars won’t be a differentiator, because they are still not widely adopted in India. That leaves Tesla with only one strong selling point in India: its brand.” restofworld.org/2025/tesla-ev-…
Sharing my interview with @restofworld in which I argue that the future of AI will not be shaped by who builds the bigger model but by small systems designed to resolve real-world problems. restofworld.org/2025/nandan-ni…
NEW: @NandanNilekani, the mind behind India’s digital revolution, says the future of AI will not be shaped by who builds the bigger model but by small systems designed to resolve real-world problems restofworld.org/2025/nandan-ni…
New on Rest of World: Why the world should stop obsessing over LLMs bit.ly/3Gyrz1W