Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, Commission finds

November 7, 2024

What’s next for reproductive rights in the US

This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Earlier this week, Americans cast their votes in a seminal presidential election. But it wasn’t just the future president of the US that was on the ballot. Ten…

July 1, 2024

Preliminary findings by the European Commission investigating a controversial binary choice Meta has forced on regional users of its social neworks, Facebook and Instagram, since last fall does not comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Failure to abide by the ex ante market contestability regulation, which has applied on Meta and other so […]

Japan’s SmartHR raises $140M Series E as strong demand for HR tech boosts its ARR to $100M

July 1, 2024

The round was led by KKR and Teachers’ Ventures Growth, an investment arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.

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

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.

What’s next for reproductive rights in the US