Her 2 Franchises Will Make $12 Million This Year — Here’s How
After watching her mother run businesses in Indonesia, Josephine Suryono knew she’d one day do the same — just on a different continent.
The State of AI: welcome to the economic singularity
Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday for the next two weeks, writers from both publications will debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. This week, Richard Waters, FT columnist and former West Coast editor, talks with MIT…
Databricks will bake OpenAI models into its products in $100M bet to spur enterprise adoption
Databricks is on the hook to pay at least $100 million to OpenAI in this deal, even if customer usage falls short. It’s a bet, but one that Databricks has already hedged.
Apple blames EU’s Digital Markets Act for feature delays
Apple is blaming the EU’s enforcement of the DMA for delaying the launch of some features in the EU, saying the rules are “leading to a worse experience” for Apple customers in the bloc by exposing them to new risks and reducing choices.
Starpath bets on mass-produced, space-rated solar
Starpath is changing the space-rated solar panel industry in its quest to build off-world colonies.
The Download: growing threats to vulnerable languages, and fact-checking Trump’s medical claims
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. How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible: There are editions in over 340 languages, and a further 400…
TuneIn partners with FEMA to give drivers real-time emergency alerts
Drivers who listen to TuneIn will now receive real-time alerts, including extreme weather warnings and other emergencies.
Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change
Spotify is launching a music spam filter, labeling AI tracks, and clarifying its rules around AI voice clones.
Fusion power plants don’t exist yet, but they’re making money anyway
This week, Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced it has another customer for its first commercial fusion power plant, in Virginia. Eni, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies, signed a billion-dollar deal to buy electricity from the facility. One small detail? That reactor doesn’t exist yet. Neither does the smaller reactor Commonwealth is building…
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
When Kenneth Wehr started managing the Greenlandic-language version of Wikipedia four years ago, his first act was to delete almost everything. It had to go, he thought, if it had any chance of surviving. Wehr, who’s 26, isn’t from Greenland—he grew up in Germany—but he had become obsessed with the island, an autonomous Danish territory,…
Smartphone maker Nothing to spin off its affordable CMF brand
Nothing is making its affordable devices brand CMF into a separate entity with headquarters in India.