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6/12/2025, 1:41:45 PM

What's really at stake in the U.S.–China AI rivalry? We asked the experts https://restofworld.org/2025/us-china-ai-race-global-stakes/?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social

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6/13/2025, 2:28:40 PM

The Amazonian municipality of Caracaraí has 22,000 inhabitants and an overworked pharmacist named Samuel Andrade. Andrade arrives at work at 8 a.m. to handle hundreds of prescriptions from free government clinics. Most days, he can’t get through all of them. He sometimes gets stuck for hours cross-checking drug databases to ensure nothing has been prescribed incorrectly by rural doctors. It is stressful work. He has to help the dozens of patients who line up at his dispensary every day, some of whom have traveled for days to get there. Sometimes he has to rush through prescriptions, and worries he will miss something dangerous. In April, Andrade welcomed a new assistant: AI software that flags potentially problematic prescriptions and digs up the data to help him decide if they are safe. Get the full story: https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescriptions/

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6/11/2025, 2:12:17 PM

The sole pharmacist at a free government clinic serving 22,000 people in the remote Amazon says that AI software has quadrupled his capacity to process prescriptions and has caught more than 50 potentially dangerous errors https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescriptions/

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6/10/2025, 9:10:37 PM

Beep Beep! Get in, we're reading about Waymo and driverless Chinese robotaxis https://restofworld.org/2025/robotaxi-waymo-apollo-go/

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5/20/2025, 2:13:31 PM

Young Indonesians are increasingly falling for fraudulent job ads on Telegram and Facebook, and getting trafficked to scam farms in Southeast Asia. Once there, they are forced to use AI to con people into parting with their life savings. Our new report: https://restofworld.org/2025/fake-job-ads-facebook-telegram-indonesia-tech-workers/

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5/19/2025, 3:39:17 PM

With movement shackled by a complex web of Israeli checkpoints and barriers, homegrown mapping solutions have become lifelines for Palestinians in the West Bank, helping them reach work, schools, and hospitals. Read our new report: https://restofworld.org/2025/palestinians-digital-maps-west-bank-israel/

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5/16/2025, 2:35:13 PM

President Trump wrapped up the first major overseas trip of his second term with a four-day blitz through Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE that delivered massive investment commitments, reshaped AI chip exports, and positioned the Gulf as the US’s key tech ally. Get the full scoop: https://restofworld.org/2025/trump-middle-east-trip-ai-chip-tech-deals/

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5/21/2025, 2:53:14 PM

Robot .com, a Medellín-based robot company, is expanding in the U.S. and Middle East as Latin American robotics firms face limited funding and government support. Get the full scoop: https://restofworld.org/2025/colombia-robotcom-global-robotics-expansion/

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5/15/2025, 5:45:20 PM

For years, as governments’ scrutiny of Chinese apps increased, many companies practiced “China shedding” — downplaying their origin in international markets. But following Deepseek’s rise, Chinese startups are now leaning into their identity overseas. Read our new report: https://restofworld.org/2025/deepseek-chinese-startups-overseas/

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5/13/2025, 2:18:13 PM

“If next year you buy an iPhone and it says ‘Made in India’ on the box, that phone will not be any less dependent on the China-centric supply chain than any other iPhone you have ever purchased.” Read our new interview about why Apple is stuck with China: https://restofworld.org/2025/apple-china-dependence-tariffs-india-shift/