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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Ford picks up the pace on hands-off driving with BlueCruise 1.3 release

July 13, 2023

Ford is on a quest to ensure that its drivers keep their hands off the wheel for as long as possible. Drivers that own BlueCruise-equipped cars, anyway. Today, the company is announcing BlueCruise 1.3, dropping just a few months after the 1.2 release, which added niceties like automatic lane changes. For 1.3, BlueCruise will stay […]

Ford picks up the pace on hands-off driving with BlueCruise 1.3 release by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch

How common chemicals could help clean up global shipping

July 13, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. I’ve been thinking a lot about boats lately, and not just because it’s been hot in New York for days and hopping into any body of water sounds incredibly refreshing right now. …

Cruise, Waymo say humans are bad drivers amid robotaxi permit delays

July 13, 2023

Autonomous vehicle companies Cruise and Waymo have separately pushed a narrative this week that humans are bad drivers, and that their technologies are crucial to making roads safer. The moves – full-page ads in major newspapers from Cruise and a blog post from Waymo – come as California regulators delay for a second time granting […]

Cruise, Waymo say humans are bad drivers amid robotaxi permit delays by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Ask Sophie: Any guidance for changing jobs while on an H-1B?

July 13, 2023

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Ask Sophie: What […]

Ask Sophie: Any guidance for changing jobs while on an H-1B? by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

Kia to invest $200M in Georgia plant to build EV9 SUV

July 13, 2023

South Korean automaker Kia said Wednesday it plans to invest over $200 million in its assembly plant in Georgia, where it will begin production of the electric EV9 SUV next year. The news comes as foreign automakers double down on North American production in order to qualify for federal EV tax credits. Assembly on the continent […]

Kia to invest $200M in Georgia plant to build EV9 SUV by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM

July 12, 2023

Google is making its “AI notebook for everyone” available to a select few, and renaming it from Project Tailwind to NotebookLM. If you struggle to make sense of the pile of information in your Google Drive, a light coating of AI could be just the thing. The project was announced at I/O in May as […]

Google’s AI-assisted note-taking app gets limited launch as NotebookLM by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk wants to build AI to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’

July 12, 2023

Elon Musk, Twitter’s not-so-benevolent CEO, today announced the launch of a new organization, xAI, to “understand the true nature of the universe.” Ambitious? A little. So how does xAI plan to achieve it? More details will be announced during a Twitter Spaces on Friday, apparently. But xAI’s splash page reveals that the team — 12 […]

Elon Musk wants to build AI to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’ by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Istio graduates

July 12, 2023

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that Istio, the open-source service mesh originally developed by Google and IBM and built on top of Lyft’s Envoy proxy, has graduated from its status as an incubating project and moved to join the likes of Kubernetes, Prometheus and fellow service mesh Linkerd as a CNCF Graduated […]

Istio graduates by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says

July 12, 2023

If we’ve learned anything from this past year of Twitter clones, CEO fights, shitposting and bad, money-grabbing policies, it’s this: making a social media company profitable is hard! After rolling out some unpopular features, Tumblr is now trying to “build in public” and be more transparent about the business behind the fandom-driven platform. In a […]

Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch