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2026-02-19
After years of low growth, international creators are cashing in on a “Facebook renaissance” https://restofworld.org/... [image]
2026-02-19 View on X
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Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English

And Indonesian creators are leading the charge.  —  Facebook's new content monetization program is booming …

2025-12-18
For our new feature, Rest of World spoke with a wide cross-section of founders, executives, investors, and Tiger insiders about the global rise of the growth-at-all-costs model and its consequences. Read the full story now: https://restofworld.org/...
2025-12-18 View on X
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Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16%

many of them ultimately collapsing under the weight of their outsized valuations. As investors rush into AI, will history repeat itself? https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : ...

One Indian founder joked he could sum up every Indian startup's one-year strategy in eight words: “Whatever I need to get funded by Tiger.” [image]
2025-12-18 View on X
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Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16%

many of them ultimately collapsing under the weight of their outsized valuations. As investors rush into AI, will history repeat itself? https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : ...

During the fast-money pandemic era, Tiger Global earned a global reputation for its “spray-and-pray” style of investing, writing giant checks far and wide in hopes that a small number of them would yield outstanding returns. [image]
2025-12-18 View on X
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Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16%

many of them ultimately collapsing under the weight of their outsized valuations. As investors rush into AI, will history repeat itself? https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : ...

Tiger Global helped usher in an era of fast money, building unicorn companies from India to Nigeria — many of them ultimately collapsing under the weight of their outsized valuations. As investors rush into AI, will history repeat itself? https://restofworld.org/...
2025-12-18 View on X
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Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16%

many of them ultimately collapsing under the weight of their outsized valuations. As investors rush into AI, will history repeat itself? https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : ...

When billion-dollar startups collapse, how much are investors to blame? Read @issielapowsky's new feature about Tiger Global's risky business of chasing unicorns: https://restofworld.org/...
2025-12-18 View on X
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Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16%

many of them ultimately collapsing under the weight of their outsized valuations. As investors rush into AI, will history repeat itself? https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : ...

2025-11-29
Between 2020 and 2024, China's direct investment in Mexico jumped from $85 million to $710 million. Offices of Huawei, TikTok, BYD, and Shein have all opened in the ritzy Nuevo Polanco area. So have a host of Chinese restaurants and shops to serve them https://restofworld.org/... [image]
2025-11-29 View on X
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A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community

A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.

2025-11-22
India has more than 1,600 languages and dialects. ChatGPT supports around a dozen. That's where these small startups see an opportunity to compete https://restofworld.org/...
2025-11-22 View on X
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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement

Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms. X: @restofworld...

“Our language is vulnerable and at risk of disappearing. So I took matters into my own hands.” The mission to build better AI tools for India's less common languages https://restofworld.org/...
2025-11-22 View on X
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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement

Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms. X: @restofworld...

“We don't compete with GPT on scale. We compete on relevance.” The mission to build better AI tools for India's less common languages https://restofworld.org/...
2025-11-22 View on X
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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement

Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms. X: @restofworld...

“Most AI systems are built in the U.S. They don't understand Indian languages or contexts. We need our own models that represent us,” said the founder of TuluAI, one of several AI startups hoping to compete with ChatGPT by focusing on local languages https://restofworld.org/...
2025-11-22 View on X
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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement

Indian founders are building digital data sets for low-resource languages by involving the community, and count on local relevance to go against big tech platforms. X: @restofworld...

2025-07-30
“They raised over $445 million. ... Where did all the money go?” Former employees reflect on the ups and downs of BuilderAI, the white-hot startup that filed for bankruptcy this May https://restofworld.org/...
2025-07-30 View on X
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An inside look at ex-unicorn Builder.ai's demise, which oversold its AI platform's abilities and frustrated customers with delivery delays and buggy products

In our new feature, we set out to find the truth. X: Varsha Bansal / @varshaabansal : Inside the collapse of London's hottest AI startup https://builder.ai/. This is a story about ...

2025-07-16
TikTok's struggles in Indonesia could be a preview of what's to come if the company localizes in the U.S. https://restofworld.org/...
2025-07-16 View on X
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Tokopedia sellers say Tokopedia's strengths have eroded since its TikTok Shop merger in Indonesia, driving thousands of sellers to join rivals, including Toco

restofworld.org/2025/tiktok- ...  [image] @restofworld.org : As TikTok looks to change course to comply with U.S. laws, a similar experiment in its second-largest market is unravel...

Big-name LLMs like ChatGPT and Meta's Llama struggle with non-English languages, leading to errors and hallucinations. Fed up, dozens of organizations across Latin America worked together to create LatamGPT https://restofworld.org/...
2025-07-16 View on X
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A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project, which involves 30+ Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September

Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America's cultural and linguistic nuances.

2025-06-18
Once a global leader, Samsung is losing in the fierce semiconductor race to dominate AI supplies. It's also losing engineers, with those who remain working long, intense shifts to compensate for vacancies — and chip quality is slipping https://restofworld.org/...
2025-06-18 View on X
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Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses

Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.

Leaving Samsung to work for a rival chipmaker was once taboo. Now things are so bad that managers encourage jumping ship: “'Why aren't you applying to SK Hynix?'” one junior engineer recalled his manager saying. “'Get out of here fast!'” https://restofworld.org/...
2025-06-18 View on X
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Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses

Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.

Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a “militaristic” culture, Samsung's chip engineers are leaving for South Korean, Chinese, and U.S. semiconductor rivals https://restofworld.org/...
2025-06-18 View on X
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Ten current and former Samsung semiconductor engineers say many are leaving for SK Hynix and other rivals due to long hours, heavy workloads, and lower bonuses

Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.

2025-06-07
New apps are providing immigrants in the U.S. with “know your rights” guides, legal information, and emergency resources to help prepare for potential encounters with immigration authorities https://restofworld.org/...
2025-06-07 View on X
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New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights

With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.

With tightening U.S. immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected https://restofworld.org/...
2025-06-07 View on X
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New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights

With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.

2025-06-01
Companies are already tracking your data. What if you could make money from it? https://restofworld.org/...
2025-06-01 View on X
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Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that lets users manage, own, and profit from their data, the first such nationwide initiative in the world

Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project that lets citizens earn money from their data.  It is ahead of similar U.S-based initiatives. Bluesky: @ericgoldman . Mastodon: @Khrys@mamot.f...