AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share
Getty Images/Rest of World By Rina Chandran and John Popko 22 May 2026 Samsung’s labor deal highlights a global movement of workers demanding a fair share of record AI-driven profits. …
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The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
… Alex, based in Quezon City, used to work at a call center but had a hard time dealing with the graveyard shift. …
From Chile to the Philippines, meet the people pushing back on AI
… In eight years of working data annotation jobs at different companies, Kinyua experienced low pay, exploitative conditions, a lack of labor protections, and gender and class biases, she said. …
Netflix’s AI deal puts the global VFX workforce at risk
… The InterPositive deal gives the streaming giant proprietary tools to push that approach further and faster. …
AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse
… Most of these countries lack the public awareness and robust regulations to protect themselves from the ill effects on the environment, labor, and health. …
The Chinese EV standard winning globally is banned in the U.S.
… By Rina Chandran Labor AI is minting new billionaires, and workers want their share The Samsung labor showdown in South Korea reflects global concerns about who benefits from the AI industry, and how the wealth being created should be shared. …
Workers around the world are not getting what they want from AI
… When I attended the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi earlier this year, the first major gathering of its kind held in a developing country , fewer than one in 10 sessions addressed labor markets or economic preparedness. …
The global tech boom is over. American AI companies won
… But the sheer number of deals in the U.S. versus in the rest of the world tells a similar story. …
Around the world in 24 books
… Innovation India’s AI deal with the UAE challenges U.S. cloud dominance G42 will deploy U.S.-designed a supercomputer in India, offering a new model for governments that want to own their AI hardware. …