Nine months into its big push for cryptocurrency payments, Bhutan isn’t finding many takers for its plans. Last May, Bhutan became the first country to launch a nationwide crypto payment network for tourists. Visitors to the Himalayan kingdom could pay for their visas, flights, hotels, and meals in more than 100 cryptocurrencies via Binance. Within […]
Cryptocurrency prediction site Polymarket is trying to tap into the Chinese market by hiring Mandarin-speaking staff and listing bets related to the Lunar New Year, even though it has little chance of being officially allowed into China. Justin Yang, who works on Polymarket’s go-to-market strategy in Asia, said he dropped out of Stanford University to […]
Like most people, I first heard the term “AI agent” early last year, when a Chinese startup called Manus announced it had built the world’s first general-purpose one. Unlike chatbots that simply answer questions, agents promise something bigger: the ability to reason, plan, remember — and take action on your behalf. Since then, nearly every […]
OpenAI has accused DeepSeek of malpractice in developing the next version of its artificial intelligence model — even before any official launch. “DeepSeek’s next model (whatever its form) should be understood in the context of its ongoing efforts to free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other US frontier labs,” OpenAI said in a […]
The Super Bowl wasn’t the only sporting event that drew excited fans to the Bay Area last weekend. An event at a much smaller venue in San Francisco was hailed as the future of combat sports: virtual reality-controlled humanoid robots boxing in a cage. The match was organized by Rek, a San Francisco-based company, and […]
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Venezuela has an estimated $20 billion to $30 billion in outstanding award liabilities. LATINVEX SPECIALFreshfields After close to two decades as a pariah State, Venezuela now stands at a crossroads. Under close oversight from the United States government, the country is moving toward a structured recovery. Notably, a US Executive Order in January 2026 placed […]
When I first embarked on the project to write about the encounters between Chinese digital capital and Nairobi’s booming innovation scene, I imagined myself rubbing shoulders with software developers, venture capitalists, coworking hosts, and business analysts. That happened, eventually. But my first encounter with digital Global China in Kenya was of a completely different kind. […]
India is the first among developing countries to host the AI Impact Summit. Official messaging emphasizes the summit as an opportunity to “give voice to the Global South” and democratize artificial-intelligence resources for all. The “Global South” represents a diverse group of countries — and India isn’t the only one vying for leadership, investments, and […]
If you speak to an artificial-intelligence bot in an African language, it will most likely not understand you. If it does manage to muster a response, it will be rife with errors. This is an existential problem with AI that everybody in Africa is trying to solve. Now, Google has joined the cause. On February […]