Tesla has cut prices on its bestselling models to compete with Chinese rivals that have been giving it a run for its money.
On October 7, the company reduced the sticker prices of Model Y and Model 3 by $5,000 each, aiming to offset the $7,500 federal tax credit for new electric-vehicle purchases that expired on September 30. The cheaper models first unveiled in the U.S. won’t include some premium features, including autosteer, touchscreens, and heated rear seats.
The price reduction…
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center and The Uproot Project Environmental Justice Fellowship. It was produced by Grist and republished by Rest of World.
As W.H. Wong hugged his family goodbye before leaving for work on a quiet morning this spring, he felt a lump in his throat. He was headed more than 2,500 miles away, to an Indonesian island so remote that locals say it’s one of the places where spirits go to abandon their children.
After two weeks at home in Wenxi, a…
Shortly after Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay was shot at a political rally in June, hundreds of videos of the attack flooded social media. Some of these turned out to be deepfakes made with artificial intelligence, forcing police and prosecutors to spend hours checking and debunking them during the investigation. A teenager was eventually charged.
Increasing adoption of AI is transforming Latin America’s justice system by helping tackle case backlogs and improve…
Jiying Zhang, a nutritionist and health coach, saw a therapist for four years before she decided to try DeepSeek. She was immediately impressed. The artificial intelligence model provided support instantly, offered a wide range of insights, and could be customized to sound like her favorite inspirational speakers, psychologist Carl Rogers and author Cheryl Strayed.
Zhang shared her experience on Xiaohongshu, the Chinese social media app, and urged others to try DeepSeek: “Imagine having…
A Chinese city that failed to attract people has become a sandbox for machines.
Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city that never took off after prices crashed in 2012, has attracted more than a dozen autonomous vehicle companies seeking risk-free testing environments. Its wide, well-paved roads and minimal traffic provide a real-world laboratory where self-driving vehicles can operate without endangering pedestrians or navigating complex traffic.
Ordos’ transformation from property…
Zuhrotul Aprilia enjoys rambling on for hours about kitchenware from a studio in the Indonesian port city of Surabaya.
Most days, she turns on her iPad and peddles pots and pans to an enthusiastic online audience. As she talks, live messages — some questions, some compliments, and some criticism — crowd her chat.
On a good day, a couple hundred people watch. Aprilia puts on a show and makes more money than ever helping them shop.
“I have female fans who watch me regularly,”…
The runaway success of Chinese artificial intelligence models such as DeepSeek and Qwen has spurred every industry, from health care to agriculture to education, to integrate AI.
Adoption of AI models in education and tutoring has been especially fast, as the Chinese government pushes to accelerate the country’s technological progress against the U.S., and with anxious parents willing to try anything to help their children succeed.
Like university teacher Wu Ling, who while looking…
This story is adapted from writer Emily Wither’s recent Rest of World feature, Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley.
For the first time in a long time, Syrian entrepreneurs are hopeful.
The country’s nascent tech scene was put on hold in 2011, when protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad during the Arab Spring were met with extreme force. Over the next decade, a brutal civil war quickly drew in government forces, rebel groups, Islamist extremists, and foreign…
China’s battery giants have pulled the plug on South Korea’s dominance in powering electric vehicles.
South Korea’s three top EV battery makers — LG Energy Solution, SK On, and Samsung SDI — are operating their factories at half capacity, while Chinese rivals CATL and BYDBYDBYD Auto is a Chinese carmaker that became the world’s leading EV manufacturer in 2023, competing with Tesla for market share and global attention.READ MORE run theirs near full throttle. The global battery…
In the fierce global war over workers skilled in artificial intelligence, the United Arab Emirates is luring researchers with a custom-built AI university that offers what many scientists dream of: abundant funding, vast computing power, and the full backing of the state.
In the six years since its founding, Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence has hired more than 100 faculty from China, the U.S., Germany, and other countries. MBZUAI currently has over…
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