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In this exclusive subscirber-only ebook you’ll learn how the emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. by James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart May 20, 2025 Table of contents Related stories:

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Amazon’s palm-scanning payment technology is coming to all 500+ Whole Foods

July 20, 2023
Amazon’s palm-scanning payment technology known as Amazon One is prepared to make a significant expansion across the U.S. The retailer announced this morning the payment tech will come to all 500+ Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market stores nationwide by year-end. The biometric payment system works by having the customer hover their palm above a reader device. […]

First sneak peek at the judges for Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

July 20, 2023
The Startup Battlefield pitch competition is the crown jewel of Disrupt, and we can’t wait to see which of the Startup Battlefield 200 companies will be selected to pitch to panels of top-tier VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 on September 19–21 in San Francisco. It’s always epic, and every contender is on the road to […]

The Download: US facial recognition, and battery ingredients

July 20, 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. Face recognition in the US is about to meet one of its biggest tests Just four years ago, the movement to ban police departments from using face recognition in the US was riding…

Want to know where batteries are going? Look at their ingredients. 

July 20, 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 was chatting with a group recently about which technology is the most crucial one to address climate change. With the caveat that we’ll definitely need a whole host of solutions to…

Michael Moritz moves on, bookmarking a long chapter at Sequoia Capital

July 20, 2023
Michael Moritz, the journalist-turned-VC who has long been one of the most prominent and respected investors at Sequoia Capital, has left firm to “deepen his advisory relationship” with Sequoia Heritage, the wealth management unit he spun up in 2010 with longtime Sequoia colleague Doug Leone and on whose board he has sat for years. The […]

China’s OpenAI challenger Zhipu AI gets Meituan funding

July 20, 2023
Zhipu AI, one of China’s most promising challengers to OpenAI, has received funding from the country’s food delivery giant Meituan, which has a market cap of around $100 billion at the time of writing. An affiliate of Zhipu AI recently added a Meituan subsidiary as its shareholder, which now owns a 10% stake in the […]

Farizon, Geely’s truck unit, raised $600M to expand outside China

July 20, 2023
Farizon, a maker of hybrid and electric trucks owned by China’s Geely, has closed a $600 million Series A raise, the company said in a statement. The Hangzhou-based company plans to use the funds to expand its operations outside of China. A key focus for Farizon’s expansion will be Europe, where the automaker plans to […]

With $37M seed round, Maka Motors begins EV pilot on Indonesia’s streets

July 20, 2023
A recent report said that Indonesia’s electric vehicle (EV) market is projected to reach $20 billion by 2029, up from $533 million in 2022. Moreover, as much as half of the overall motorbike market in Southeast Asia could be replaced by electric two-wheelers by 2030, McKinsey associate partner Rahul Gupta said at the G20 summit last […]