How fish-safe hydropower technology could keep more renewables on the grid

February 9, 2026

Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Lots of influential people in tech last week were describing Moltbook, an online hangout populated by AI agents interacting with one another, as a glimpse into the future. It appeared to show…

July 1, 2024

Hydropower is the world’s leading source of renewable electricity, generating more power in 2022 than all other renewables combined. But while hydropower is helping clean up our electrical grid, it’s not always a positive force for fish. Dams that create reservoirs on rivers can change habitats. And for some species, especially those that migrate long…

MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries

June 30, 2024

RoboGrocery combines computer vision with a soft robotic gripper to bag a wide range of different items.

AI-powered scams and what you can do about them

June 30, 2024

This is by no means a complete list, just a few of the most obvious tricks that AI can supercharge.

Identity.vc is bringing capital and community to Europe’s LGBTQ+ venture ecosystem

June 30, 2024

Identity.vc writes checks that range from €250,000 to €1.5 million into companies from the pre-seed to Series A stages.

Robot cats, dogs and birds are being deployed amid an ‘epidemic of loneliness’

June 30, 2024

In the early 1990s, a researcher at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology began work on what would become Paro. More than 30 years after its development, the doe-eyed seal pup remains the best-known example of a therapeutic robot for older adults. In 2011, the robot reached the zenith of pop cultural […]

Apple reportedly working to bring AI to the Vision Pro

June 30, 2024

Apple’s AI plans go beyond the previously announced Apple Intelligence launches on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is also working to bring these features to its Vision Pro headsets. It’s not the most surprising move — if Apple Intelligence (a whole suite of features including an improved Siri, […]

ServiceNow’s generative AI solutions are taking advantage of the data on its own platform

June 30, 2024

One of the earlier SaaS adherents to generative AI has been ServiceNow, which has been able to take advantage of the data in its own platform to help build more business-centric models.

Here are India’s biggest AI startups based on how much money they’ve raised

June 30, 2024

India’s top AI startups include those building LLMs and setting up the stage for AGI as well as bringing AI to cooking and serving farmers.

Defense tech and ‘resilience’ get global funding sources: Here are some top funders

June 30, 2024

We live in a very different world since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. With global military expenditure reaching $2.4 trillion last year, startups are hoping to get a share of the pie, and formerly reluctant investors are keen to help them do so. The U.S. budget […]

Gemini’s data-analyzing abilities aren’t as good as Google claims

June 29, 2024

Two separate studies investigated how well Google’s Gemini models and others make sense out of an enormous amount of data.

Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon