The Download: toxic chemicals, and Russia’s cyberwar tactics

March 31, 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. We’re consuming toxic chemicals. Now we need to figure out how they’re affecting us. What are chemical pollutants doing to our bodies? It’s a timely question given that last week, people in Philadelphia…

Multi-die systems define the future of semiconductors

March 31, 2023
To say that semiconductor technology is part of the fabric of modern society is not an overstatement—it underpins everything from our cars to our phones to our home appliances.  In 2021, the semiconductor industry shipped a record 1.15 trillion chips, and sales topped half a trillion dollars worldwide, while thousands of new chip designs entered…

Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns

March 31, 2023

Two days after an open letter called for a moratorium on more powerful generative AI models being developed so regulators can catch up with the likes of ChatGPT, Italy’s data protection authority has just put out a timely reminder that some countries do have laws that already apply to cutting edge AI — by ordering […]

Italy orders ChatGPT blocked citing data protection concerns by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Read’s AI-powered summary feature squeezes a meeting into a two-minute clip

March 31, 2023

Summarization is one of the common use cases of different AI models. Multiple tools have come up with a summarization of articles, PDFs, videos, and transcripts. Meeting intelligence tool Read has introduced a new feature that trims an hour-long meeting into a two-minute clip with important pointers. The company said that it is using large […]

Read’s AI-powered summary feature squeezes a meeting into a two-minute clip by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Ambani bats for cricket glory as Disney scales back in India

March 31, 2023

Mukesh Ambani’s Jio, the South Asian telecom powerhouse, has long sought to entice its customer base with a plethora of services aimed at boosting subscriber retention. Despite amassing over 425 million customers and claiming the mantle of India’s top network provider—due in large part to its aggressively competitive data pricing—Jio’s array of additional services has […]

Ambani bats for cricket glory as Disney scales back in India by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch