July 4, 2025

The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics

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. Inside India’s scramble for AI independence Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap…

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The end of anonymity online in China

January 10, 2024
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Happy New Year! I hope you had a good rest over the holidays and feel ready to take on 2024. But for one more time, please allow me to indulge in a…

What’s next for offshore wind

January 10, 2024
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of our series here. It’s a turbulent time for offshore wind power. Large groups of turbines installed along coastlines can harness the powerful, consistent winds that blow offshore. Given…

NASA delays Artemis moon missions to give SpaceX, others more time to develop tech

January 9, 2024

NASA is pushing back the next two Artemis missions to the moon — including the first crewed lunar mission in over fifty years — by around twelve months in order to give commercial partners more time to develop their technology. Artemis II is now scheduled for no earlier than September 2025 and Artemis III, the […]

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Tack One launches an improved version of its location tracker for children and seniors

January 9, 2024

Tack One, a Singapore-based startup, wants to help make sure your kids, elderly parents and pets are safe with AI-powered location technology. Today, the company unveiled its new generation of GPS device, Tack GPS Plus, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024. The startup launched its GPS tracker in 2021 to address the pain point of […]

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Want to build a startup off OpenAI? Start here

January 9, 2024

OpenAI’s impressive technology stack led to a wave of startups building on top of its models and offerings. This is a popular topic on TechCrunch+, where columnists spend considerable time discussing how startups can take advantage of OpenAI. The following subscriber-only articles should serve as a foundation for founders building an AI startup on or […]

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Bringing breakthrough data intelligence to industries

January 9, 2024
As organizations recognize the transformational opportunity presented by generative AI, they must consider how to deploy that technology across the enterprise in the context of their unique industry challenges, priorities, data types, applications, ecosystem partners, and governance requirements. Financial institutions, for example, need to ensure that data and AI governance has the built-in intelligence to…

The Download: what to expect in AI in 2024

January 9, 2024
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. AI for everything: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2024 When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, nobody knew what was coming. But that low-key release changed everything, and by January, ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing…

What to expect from the coming year in AI

January 9, 2024
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Happy new year! I hope you had a relaxing break. I spent it up in the Arctic Circle skiing, going to the sauna, and playing card games with my family by…

BofA gives Ambani’s Jio Platforms a $100 billion-plus valuation

January 9, 2024

Bank of America has pinned a $107 billion valuation tag on Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, valuing the Indian telecoms and digital conglomerate 64.6% higher than the $65 billion at which it attracted the likes of Meta, Google and other technology giants in a mammoth fundraising in 2020. The valuation reassessment comes at a time when […]

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Sony’s new ‘digital birth certificate’ for imaging tech smells a lot like NFTs

January 9, 2024

Sony is breaking new ground in the ongoing NFTs and content authenticity saga. At CES 2024 in Las Vegas, the conglomerate known for its electronics, gaming, and entertainment products has announced the development of an in-camera digital signature technology, which effectively creates a “birth certificate” for images captured with their devices, thereby verifying the origin […]

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