India’s VCs are beating American investors at home
… The investments announced last week included sectors like technology, AI infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, and advanced manufacturing. …
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The global tech boom is over. American AI companies won
… It’s equally important, he said, to look at the way established players in different regions actually use AI tools that already exist. “There’s a graveyard of technologies that never get diffused into the economy, and never make anyone money,” Nyatta said of the startup landscape. “The real value f… …
Chinese entrepreneurs should go global before they go viral
… Meta has said the deal was fully compliant. Chinese AI founders face a difficult choice between staying home and going abroad. Sure, China offers a vast pool of engineering talent and government support for AI, but companies there are cut off from top-tier American chips and AI models. …
The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere
Munira Mutaher/Rest of World/iStock By Ananya Bhattacharya 23 April 2026 • Mumbai, India The pandemic’s biggest bet on online learning has gone bust. Global edtech investment peaked at $16.7 billion in 2021, fueled by lockdowns that kept millions of children out of classrooms. …
AI sovereignty won’t come from renting Big Tech’s models
… A state concerned with AI sovereignty in 2026 cannot credibly justify financing a foreign, vertically integrated AI stack while neglecting investment in domestic and open-source alternatives. …
The UAE’s OPEC exit frees up oil wealth as it bets big on AI
… The extra revenue would give the government more capital to deploy through its AI and energy investment funds, Babak Hafezi, CEO of HafeziCapital, a firm that advises Gulf governments on investment strategy, told Rest of World . “Gulf capital is structurally becoming infrastructure capital for the … …
What the SpaceX IPO reveals about Gulf money in AI
… When Musk folded X into xAI and merged xAI with SpaceX, that stake became shares in the rocket company. Kingdom Holding, Alwaleed’s investment firm, now values the position at $10.6 billion at the expected IPO price. …
AI optimism surges in Asia, unlike in the U.S.
… These have to be “matched by investment in talent, compute, infrastructure, and credible governance if it is to produce a thriving and resilient AI ecosystem,” he said. There are very real concerns about the impact of AI on jobs, the environment, and our lives. …
China’s tech rise is creating a new kind of tourism
… The trips helped him sharpen his investment judgment in ways that reading research reports could not, he said. “I started comparing similar businesses in the Western world and in China and in India. … For example, in the chemical industry,” Shah said. “When I have been there in China, I realized th… …
The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
… Greater American investment “will likely translate into greater investment in data analytics,” Scott Powers, assistant professor of sport analytics at Rice University, told Rest of World . “After all, the Moneyball revolution came from the U.S.,” he said, referring to the book and movie that detail… …