July 4, 2025

The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics

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. Inside India’s scramble for AI independence Despite its status as a global tech hub, India lags far behind the likes of the US and China when it comes to homegrown AI. That gap…

Yandex and 4 other Russian tech firms to be delisted from Nasdaq and NYSE

March 16, 2023

Five Russia-affiliated internet companies are to be formally delisted from U.S. stock exchanges, a year after trading was halted in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The most prominent of the quintet is Yandex, a 25-year-old tech company often called “The Google of Russia,” owing to its products spanning search, e-commerce, advertising, maps, transportation, […]

Yandex and 4 other Russian tech firms to be delisted from Nasdaq and NYSE by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI

March 16, 2023

If not for last week’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse almost every conversation in tech seems to be centered around AI and chatbots. In the last few days, Microsoft-backed OpenAI released a new language model called GPT-4. Its competitor Anthropic released the Claude chatbot. Google said that it is integrating AI into its Workspace tools […]

Apple is reportedly experimenting with language-generating AI by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Nimble makes the leap to fully automated third-party logistics warehouses

March 16, 2023

There’s a long-standing debate in the world of logistics robotics. On one side stand the greenfield folk, who insist that the best possible experience is one built from the ground up, with these automated systems at its core. Brownfield proponents, on the other hand, point to the time and money required for a full rebuild. […]

Nimble makes the leap to fully automated third-party logistics warehouses by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Fairmatic raises $46M to bring AI to commercial auto insurance

March 16, 2023

With inflation sparking an increase in the cost of repairs, labor and claims, fees for insurance are similarly spiking across the board. Car insurance premiums rose 13.7% nationally over the past year, according to a study from Bankrate.com. Home insurance, meanwhile, climbed 12.1% year-on-year, Policygenius found. But Jonathan Matus argues that it doesn’t have to […]

Fairmatic raises $46M to bring AI to commercial auto insurance by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Backed with $3M, Soul Wallet aims to bring self-hosted crypto wallets to the next billion

March 16, 2023

If you own a non-custodial crypto wallet like MetaMask, you know the headache of keeping your 16-word seed phrase safe. That’s the responsibility that comes with having full control over one’s digital assets. A third-party wallet, like one hosted by an exchange, on the other hand, stores private keys on users’ behalf and provides a […]

Backed with $3M, Soul Wallet aims to bring self-hosted crypto wallets to the next billion by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

2 Big Problems the Feds Have to Overcome…

March 16, 2023
Lots has happened in the past two weeks and it has certainly been a bumpy ride for the S&P 500 (SPY). Just when it looked like hotter-than-expected data points were…

These aircraft could change how we fly

March 16, 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. This week I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole and developed a mild obsession with flying cars—or the version of them that’s hot right now in Silicon Valley, at least.  Some…

The Climate Choice wants to make supply chain emissions more visible and more green

March 16, 2023

The World Economic Forum says that so-called ‘Scope 3 emissions,’ – or CO2 in supply chains  – can make up as much as 90% of a company’s carbon footprint and worldwide more than half of all emissions can be traced back to only a handful of supply chains. Tracking and reducing these emissions are easier […]

The Climate Choice wants to make supply chain emissions more visible and more green by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch