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Nureeyah Ogunmuyiwa told Rest of World that ChatGPT wrote her first job description and now does her restock pricing. She has never paid for it, and she puts AI at roughly 5% of her business growth.
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The generative feature inside Google Earth lasted about a day before the outcry pulled it, but the verification checklists that name Google Earth as ground truth were written for a product nobody could prompt.
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Health is among the most common things people ask chatbots. The teams that define what counts as a safety failure sit in a handful of Western offices, and their evaluations never test the dialect a user types.
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On August 26 Meta settled a US trial by agreeing to switch several teen safety limits on by default. Rest of World reports it is simultaneously paying parent influencers to praise those same controls where legislators are drafting bans.
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Gordon Saft went to Beijing and Shanghai to test whether the US and China are building different AI futures, and came back with a deployment story that any strategy slide built on divergence now has to answer.
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In a Rest of World interview, Osama Manzar argues that India's buildout takes land and water from districts that are not stakeholders in it, and that the jobs on offer sit inside automated buildings.
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The UK's 2024 Microsoft agreement runs five years, and Germany buys AWS through Bechtle. Europe's AI plan arrived in April 2025, roughly a year into terms it would have to unwind.
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Jinguyuan's owner made his menu and wait times readable by other people's AI agents. He says it draws more press than customers, which is the interesting part.
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Rest of World asked six AI observers about Meta's "AI for everyone" manifesto. The most concrete rebuttal was a paused data center in Kenya, not a philosophical objection.
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Rest of World spent a week placing $74,510 of imaginary luxury orders on sites that stop at delivery tracking. Operators should read it as a note on what their funnel metrics actually measure.
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An FCC rule demands 65% domestic content, rising to 75% in 2029. The startups it is meant to protect are the ones that cannot assemble a compliant parts list.
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