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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Airalo locks in $60M to expand its eSIM-based global roaming ‘marketplace’

July 31, 2023
Travel is back on the agenda after a Covid-19 hiatus, and today a mobile startup is announcing a healthy round of funding to capitalize on that. Airalo — which uses software-based eSIM connectivity to provide a wide range of lower-cost mobile data packages, nearly 700 in all, for international travellers — has raised $60 million […]

The Download: labeling AI, and Twitter’s transformation

July 31, 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. Cryptography may offer a solution to the massive AI-labeling problem  The White House wants big AI companies to disclose when content has been created using artificial intelligence, and very soon the EU will…

The race to find a better way to label AI

July 31, 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. I recently wrote a short story about a project backed by some major tech and media companies trying to help identify content made or altered by AI. …

X reinstates Kanye West’s account after Musk banned him last year

July 31, 2023
Social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) has reinstated the account of Kanye West (who legally goes by Ye) after he was banned last year for posting a picture of Swastika merged with the Star of David. Last December, months after Elon Musk took over the platform, Ye created a tweetstorm by posting a […]