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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Mapping the micro and macro of biology with spatial omics and AI

December 12, 2023
37 trillion. That is the number or cells that form a human being. How they all work together to sustain life is possibly the biggest unsolved puzzle in biology. A group of up-and-coming technologies for spatially resolved multi omics, here collectively called “spatial omics,” may provide researchers with the solution. Over the last 20 years,…

The Download: Yahoo’s misdeeds in China, and AI Act takeaways

December 12, 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. Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo’s misdeeds in China When you think of Big Tech these days, Yahoo is probably not top of mind. But for Chinese dissident Xu Wanping, the company still…

Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo’s misdeeds in China

December 12, 2023
When you think of Big Tech these days, Yahoo is probably not top of mind. But for a 62-year-old Chinese dissident named Xu Wanping, the company still looms large—and has for nearly two decades.    In 2005, Xu was arrested for signing online petitions relating to anti-Japanese protests. He didn’t use his real name, but he…

Helicity Space raises $5M to unlock fusion propulsion – and fast travel in deep space

December 11, 2023

Helicity Space has closed a $5 million seed funding to accelerate development of a technology that could finally unlock fast, efficient travel in deep space. That technology is fusion propulsion, which has long been the domain of science fiction. The startup says that they have discovered a way to use plasma jets for fusion reaction. […]

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Five things you need to know about the EU’s new AI Act

December 11, 2023
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It’s done. It’s over. Two and a half years after it was first introduced—after months of lobbying and political arm-wrestling, plus grueling final negotiations that took nearly 40 hours—EU lawmakers have reached a…

With regulation looming, Citrusx helps ensure AI models are in compliance

December 11, 2023

Every day we seem to hear another news story about some government entity exploring how to regulate AI. Just last week, the EU finalized a new set of rules, but they are far from alone as other countries look to control the growth of the technology. With a broad set of rules looming, it represents […]

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The Download: the EU AI Act is here, and preventing deadly cancer

December 11, 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. Why the EU AI Act was so hard to agree on On Saturday, European Union lawmakers announced they’d finally agreed the terms of the final version of the EU AI Act, a major…

Why the EU AI Act was so hard to agree on

December 11, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Update: On December 8, 2023, the EU AI Act was agreed on, after this story was written and sent as MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech…