July 17, 2025

Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media

Jack Dorsey backs nonprofit ‘and Other Stuff’ with $10M to build open social technology.

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Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF

July 16, 2025
Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a technology that uses DNA from three people: the two biological parents plus a third person who supplies healthy mitochondrial DNA. The babies were born to mothers who carry genes for mitochondrial diseases and risked passing on severe disorders. The eight babies are healthy, say…

These four charts show where AI companies could go next in the US

July 16, 2025
No one knows exactly how AI will transform our communities, workplaces, and society as a whole. Because it’s hard to predict the impact AI will have on jobs, many workers and local governments are left trying to read the tea leaves to understand how to prepare and adapt. A new interactive report released today by…

The Download: Veo 3’s subtitles problem, and the future of our planet’s resources

July 16, 2025
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. Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end of May, creatives rushed to put it through its paces.…

Finding value with AI automation

July 15, 2025
In June 2023, technology leaders and IT services executives had a lightning bolt headed their way when McKinsey published the “The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier” report. It echoed a moment from the 2010s when Amazon Web Services launched an advertising campaign aimed at Main Street’s C-suite: Why would any fiscally…

Shaping the future with adaptive production

July 15, 2025
Adaptive production is more than a technological upgrade: it is a paradigm shift. This new frontier enables the integration of cutting-edge technologies to create an increasingly autonomous environment, where interconnected manufacturing plants go beyond the limits of traditional automation. Artificial intelligence, digital twins, and robotics are among the powerful tools manufacturers are using to create…

Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem

July 15, 2025
As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end of May, creatives rushed to put it through its paces. Released just months after its predecessor, Veo 3 allows users to generate sounds and dialogue for the first time, sparking a flurry of hyperrealistic eight-second clips stitched together into ads, ASMR videos,…