Starpath bets on mass-produced, space-rated solar
Starpath is changing the space-rated solar panel industry in its quest to build off-world colonies.
Why Clear Leadership Beats Cutting-Edge Tools Every Single Time
Strong leadership, not technology, is the real driver of team performance and organizational success.
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The Download: growing threats to vulnerable languages, and fact-checking Trump’s medical claims
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 AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible: There are editions in over 340 languages, and a further 400…
TuneIn partners with FEMA to give drivers real-time emergency alerts
Drivers who listen to TuneIn will now receive real-time alerts, including extreme weather warnings and other emergencies.
Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change
Spotify is launching a music spam filter, labeling AI tracks, and clarifying its rules around AI voice clones.
Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway
This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One small detail? That reactor doesn’t exist yet. Neither does the smaller reactor Commonwealth is building…
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving. Wehr, who’s 26, isn’t from Greenland—he grew up in Germany—but he had become obsessed with the island, an autonomous Danish territory,…
Smartphone maker Nothing to spin off its affordable CMF brand
Nothing is making its affordable devices brand CMF into a separate entity with headquarters in India.
It isn’t your imagination; Google Cloud is flooding the zone
While the industry’s biggest players cement ever-tighter partnerships, Google is hellbent on capturing the next generation of AI companies before they become too big to court.
Y Combinator launches “Early Decision” for students who want to graduate first, build later
The accelerator has introduced a new application track called Early Decision, designed for students who want to start companies but don’t want to drop out.
India court rejects X’s “free speech” argument, backs government takedown powers
X sued the Indian government in March over content takedown orders issued through its centralized portal.