February 17, 2026

The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…

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The Download: explaining the recent AI panic, and digital inequality in the US

June 20, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How existential risk became the biggest meme in AI Who’s afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems. Hundreds of scientists, business leaders, and policymakers have recently made public…

Spotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription

June 20, 2023

A couple of years after its original announcement, Spotify will finally launch its HiFi tier with lossless music streaming through a “Supremium” plan later this year, which might cost more than the current premium plan of $9.99 per month. A report by Bloomberg noted that the company is launching this new plan to bolster its […]

Spotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Peak XV Partners backs India’s Digantara to propel space situational awareness

June 20, 2023

Digantara, an Indian space tech startup that is working on space situational awareness, has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia) as it plans to kick off commercial space operations and satellite traffic management. This is notably the first space-tech investment by the […]

Peak XV Partners backs India’s Digantara to propel space situational awareness by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

How climate vulnerability and the digital divide are linked

June 20, 2023
The Wi-Fi signal is weak outside the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Anacostia, a historic African-American section of Washington, DC. The abolitionist leader’s former home sits serenely atop a grassy hill in the otherwise bustling neighborhood. It is one of Monica Sanders’s final stops on an overcast December afternoon. Facing the property, she holds…

Meta’s AI leaders want you to know fears over AI existential risk are “ridiculous”

June 20, 2023
It’s a really weird time in AI. In just six months, the public discourse around the technology has gone from “Chatbots generate funny sea shanties” to “AI systems could cause human extinction.” Who else is feeling whiplash?  My colleague Will Douglas Heaven asked AI experts why exactly people are talking about existential risk, and why…