3 Minutes With 23 May 2023 AI models can be a force to reduce bias, not reinforce it, Sam Altman says Rest of World spoke to the founder and CEO of OpenAI during his trip to Nigeria. By David I. Adeleke
Innovation 18 May 2023 Mexico City has an earthquake alarm system. Millions trust an app more SkyAlert users turn their phones into personal quake monitors rather than rely on the government’s loudspeakers. By Daniela Dib
Ideas 15 May 2023 Japan’s sleepy tech scene is ready for a comeback After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some momentum. By Roland Kelts
Innovation 15 May 2023 The mission to preserve Sorani Kurdish by getting it onto Google Translate A community came together to ensure its language would be represented in the digital world. By Winthrop Rodgers
Bento 🍱 12 May 2023 Five of the coolest projects to come out of India’s first AI hackathon From a plug-in that lets you interrogate YouTube videos to creating comic strips with text prompts, India’s first generative AI hackathon was a peek into what’s to come. By Nilesh Christopher
The Rise of AI 9 May 2023 India’s religious AI chatbots are speaking in the voice of god — and condoning violence Claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script. By Nadia Nooreyezdan
South Asia Newsletter 3 May 2023 Can someone please make an iPhone-theft thriller already? Forget the Apple store heist in Seattle; South Asia has a pretty riveting script on cross-border smartphone theft waiting to be written. By Itika Sharma Punit
3 Minutes With 25 April 2023 This Chinese startup believes it can take augmented reality glasses mainstream Peng Jin, co-founder and head of commercialization at AR glasses startup Nreal, discusses how his product will revolutionize the display experience. By Yi-Ling Liu
Innovation 30 March 2023 GPS collars are helping save Sumatra’s last wild elephants An NGO in Indonesia uses monitoring technology to track the gentle giants and prevent human-animal conflict. By Aisyah Llewellyn
South Asia Newsletter 21 March 2023 Can ChatGPT write better social media posts than you? In a first for microblogging sites, Twitter’s Indian rival Koo is letting users rely on AI for creating posts. By Durga M Sengupta
3 Minutes With 14 March 2023 The data startup helping businesses navigate climate change Karen Wang, founder and CEO of Climind, on how climate data analysis can help businesses make better decisions. By Yi-Ling Liu
Innovation 9 March 2023 China embraces ChatGPT for love letters, Amazon listings Developers make ChatGPT accessible to users behind the Great Firewall By Viola Zhou