“Dad, were you suffering before you left?” Yancy Zhu texted.

“I was not in pain,” said the AI bot.

Read Viola Zhou’s latest story in Rest of World on how AI “deathbots” are helping people grieve in China

restofworld.org/2024/china-ai-…

In 2021, I profiled Praveen Khandelwal Praveen Khandelwal (Modi Ka Parivar), a politically-connected showman leading 80M offline traders against Amazon

Now, he's a BJP candidate for 2024 Lok Sabha Elections from Delhi's Chandni Chowk

Read about his colorful history👇

restofworld.org/2021/amazon-in…

NEW: Swiggy has gamified health insurance for its food delivery workers. Divided into gold, silver & bronze, their insurance changes weekly as per the category they fall under that week based on the points earned.

My latest for Rest of World: restofworld.org/2024/swiggy-he…

💫 NEW! AI detection tools provide results that require informed interpretation – and this can easily mislead users.

This Reuters Institute story offers preliminary insights on how to evaluate & understand the outcomes provided by these #AI detectors. gijn.org/stories/spotti…

This Rest of World project is really cool: A global tracker showing incidents related to AI-generated election content restofworld.org/2024/elections…

I've been wanting to do this story for years and am thrilled it's finally out: inside the surprisingly small, highly specialized industry that repairs the internet cables on the bottom of the ocean theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

As more than 2 billion people in 50 countries head to the polls this year, AI-generated content is widely dominating election campaigns across the world.

@RestofWorld is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content.

restofworld.org/2024/elections…

As former President, one of our goals was making SAJA more representative of all South Asians in the US/Canada, not just Indians. So I'd love to see lower income, mixed, and/or Pakistani, Nepali, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi students apply from schools all over North America!

The Israel-Gaza war is the most dangerous conflict for journalists ever documented by CPJ.

As the global journalistic community and its allies gather in Perugia for journalism festival #ijf24 , it is an opportunity to show up for our colleagues.

Join us in a moment of silence and…

🇮🇹 journalism festival #ijf24 will take place in Perugia this week. Several of our Reuters Institute colleagues will be there.
We've prepared a piece with around 30 talks you should take advantage of.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/internati…

Debating.

Who's going to #IJF24 ? I'm excited to be taking part in a session at 3pm on Thurs, discussing a project investigating WhatsApp use around the Indian elections with Srishti and Surya Mattu. Come join us! journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

I dove into Airchat, Silicon Valley’s latest hype app, and it went as you might expect… wired.com/story/airchat-…

We’ve seen a consistent pattern of journalist killings in a few notable countries over decades.

CPJ’s 2023 data shows that targeting of journalists remains constant in nations including Iraq, Philippines, Mexico, Pakistan, India, and Somalia.

Read more: cpj.org/reports/2024/0…

An Argentine startup offers pitstops for gig workers with clean toilets and free snacks — and makes money by selling their data
restofworld.org/2024/gig-worke…

.Jina Moore's first interview on the Guernica saga semafor.com/article/04/14/…

😂😂😂

Surely *the* story of this football season!