Jane Seidel

U.S. politicians’ and their families are buying and selling stocks in foreign companies like TSMC, Alibaba, and Tencent — while serving on committees with the power to influence policies affecting the same companies.

Our report: restofworld.org/2026/us-poli...

One thing I see liberal outlets giving ground on that I feel the need to correct: it’s impossible to “dox” a paid public official
By simply reporting their name, institutional role, and political affiliations

My biggest barrier to spending more time here rather than Twitter is that my algorithm over there fed me a steady diet of women's basketball, animals, pop culture......... how do I get that here

IT workers in the World Trade Centre tower in Bengaluru. Dark windows of an office building.

Kailash Somwanshi, Nikhil’s uncle, at the family temple funded by his Krutrim salary.

Framed photo of Nikhil Somwanshi, an Indian tech worker, sitting on a shelf.

Agara Lake at night, in Bengaluru, where Somwanshi’s body was found.

Burnout, mass layoffs, and a series of suicides: India’s tech sector is breaking down restofworld.org/2026/india-t...

Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative The company's CEO says users are flooding the platform after the sale of TikTok in the U.S.

The CEO of a "no censorship" TikTok competitor called UpScrolled says users are flooding the platform after the sale of TikTok in the U.S. restofworld.org/2026/upscrol...

Data workers are being forced to work on-site during earthquakes and typhoons In the Philippines, BPO and AI workers say companies require them to report in person during disasters, citing client demands and safety compliance.

“Always remember, your bosses aren’t in the Philippines. Rain, earthquake, volcano erupting … you still gotta go to work.”

Outsourced workers in the Philippines are being forced to work through natural disasters. Our new story:
restofworld.org/2026/philipp...

Six years, two presidents, and one app: TikTok’s U.S. saga explained ByteDance says a group of investors led by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX will set up a U.S.-focused TikTok to avoid a federal ban.

restofworld.org/2026/tiktok-...

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Why India’s plan to make AI companies pay for training data should go global A license fee for the use of copyrighted data can compensate creators and help AI companies avoid lengthy legal fights.

I talked to one of my favorite publications, @restofworld.org, for this piece about AI licensing in India.

restofworld.org/2026/india-a...

There’s a lot of talk about physical AI at #CES and how transformational it will be. We’re beginning to see it at scale in defence, hospitality, healthcare because there is a growing business case, and the technology is now ready. But a vital gap remains: people’s attitudes towards physical AI.

The online gambling industry has exploded in popularity since the pandemic.

Some countries are welcoming the booming business. Other countries — responding to concerns about rising scams, crippling debt and media reports linking gambling losses to suicides — want to ban it.

Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout The boom in AI data centers is colliding with weak power grids, soaring energy demand, and growing local pushback.

Data centers were pitched as engines of growth. In many places, they’re now testing power grids, water supplies, and public tolerance
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-data-centers-fallout/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1766775544

How much did Starlink benefit from the close relationship between Elon Musk and Donald Trump?

Read Rest of World’s new investigative feature:
https://restofworld.org/2025/musk-starlink-trump-doge

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?

The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat? https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.

can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.

but @restofworld.org's latest feature does exactly that — and includes some very hard to reach voices from inside Gaza itself. Please give it a read: restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sk...

Gaza Sky Geeks drew a lot of breathless coverage in the 2010s from all the glossy pubs. Since the war, though, no one has reported on what's really happened to the org --

Japan's automated convenience stores are actually run by workers in the Philippines
restofworld.org/2025/philipp...

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

The journalist cracking the TikTok code Mia Sato was tired of watching news influencers steal her work.

This was good embedded.substack.com/p/mia-sato-t...

Every day AI is inserted in a new, dumb way into the things I regularly use. Why does Google Sheets want me to DESCRIBE MY NEW CELLS? Girl I am just trying to type in a number

We’re thrilled to welcome seasoned media & tech leader Gordon Saft as Rest of World’s next Publisher.

“Silicon Valley’s role in the world is changing,” said founder Sophie Schmidt, “so Rest of World is evolving too.”

I think vlookup could be a beautiful name for a baby girl

House Arab I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they said its name to friends and relatives it s...

I enjoyed this a lot bidoun.org/articles/hou...

going to London in a few days and I want to feel like im in a PinkPantheress video. any recs

"what do I know" - person who curated the homepage and app at WSJ for years

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

it might be worth reshuffling the homepage to slide Life & Style content down a bit further when there is a story as big and intense as the LA protests but what do I know

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

an important deep dive into the true environmental costs of running massive AI systems
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Homegrown digital road maps turn into lifelines for West Bank’s Palestinians Community-built tech solutions are helping Palestinians navigate blockades and risks in the Israel-occupied territory.

Palestinians in the West Bank built their own digital maps to help them navigate blockades and checkpoints
restofworld.org/2025/palesti...