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MIT Technology Review - AI
- The Download: India’s AI independence, and predicting future epidemics
2025-07-04
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… - Inside India’s scramble for AI independence
2025-07-04
In Bengaluru, India, Adithya Kolavi felt a mix of excitement and validation as he watched DeepSeek unleash its disruptive language model on the world earlier this year. The Chinese technology rivaled the best of the West in terms of benchmarks, but it had been built with far less capital in far less time. “I thought:… - The Download: AI agents hype, and Google’s electricity plans
2025-07-03
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. Don’t let hype about AI agents get ahead of reality —Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in May, the company…
TechCrunch - Artificial Intelligence
- Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers
2025-06-04
American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon. - Breakneck data center growth challenges Microsoft’s sustainability goals
2025-06-02
Microsoft's sustainability goals are imperiled by its push into AI and cloud services. - Gridcare thinks more than 100 GW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid
2025-05-27
Gridcare raised $13.3 million for its data platform that finds underutilized capacity on the electrical grid.