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Billions of $$$ of investment and thousands of satellites: what does the emerging internet satellite industry look like on the Earth and in space Very cool story by khadija alam restofworld.org/2025/satellite… Rest of World

For Rest of World , I reported on the most sci-fi-like AI vs. AI arms race unfolding during China’s graduation season. restofworld.org/2025/ai-detect…

Trapped between strict school policies and glitchy detection software, some students resort to dumbing down their writing into awkward, childlike language, while others turn to a new wave of AI-powered rewriting tools designed to beat the detectors.

In what might be the world’s most contested sea, Taiwan is harnessing offshore wind energy to secure its spot at the top of the semiconductor chain restofworld.org/2025/taiwan-of…

Students in China are turning to AI tools to outsmart the tests meant to detect AI-generated content restofworld.org/2025/ai-detect…

4. Now look at this map of climate vulnerability. It is almost an exact inversion. The countries that are least responsible bear the heaviest burden, and vice versa. It would be difficult to overstate the injustice of this.

In China, students say they are using AI to make their writing worse — just to pass university AI detection tools. “It feels like you get punished for writing too well.” restofworld.org/2025/ai-detect… Very interesting reporting from Wu Peiyue in Rest of World

Chips and China jitters have prompted Taiwan to build an offshore wind industry in what is arguably the world’s most contested sea restofworld.org/2025/taiwan-of…

Some professors worry the AI crackdown teaches students that AI is something to be ashamed of. “It’s like how we’ve always avoided sex education. When something can’t be discussed honestly, it can’t be handled properly.” restofworld.org/2025/ai-detect…

🚗 2/ It’s not the first time China’s EV market has spiralled into a race to the bottom — hundreds of brands have folded since 2018. In these posts, I broke down how the top 7 players are responding: with mergers, AI hype, global expansion — even flying cars. Rest of World

“These numbers show a behavioural shift in how members are spending their money this year." globalnews.ca/news/11278215/…

One drizzly night in March 2023, Darlington Vivito said bye to his parents and snuck into Zimbabwe's largest lithium mine. He never made it back home. Read our new feature by Tawakarombo&Assciates and Kimberly Mutandiro: A death at the bottom of the EV supply chain restofworld.org/2025/zimbabwe-…

A powerful story of Zimbabwe’s lithium boom and its human cost: Darlington Vivito was shot dead while illegally mining at the Chinese-owned Bikita mine. The rush for EV minerals leaves locals poor and desperate. — By Tawanda Karombo and Kimberly Mutandiro restofworld.org/2025/zimbabwe-…

New research also highlights a sobering truth: if we don’t build in the right guardrails, the tools we create to help us could just as easily work against us. Here’s why and how: link.jotform.com/ZYZMYFhuMa

Tencent has launched legal action to take down our FreeWeChat.com project, using trademark infringement claims to mask what is clearly a politically motivated act of censorship. en.greatfire.org/blog/2025/jul/…

Two Chinese government ships have entered Japan's territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture in the East China Sea. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…