The Download: Google's new AI agent, and our tech pessimism bias
What’s happening: Google is set to launch a new system called Astra later this year. It promises that it will ...
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Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military
No one can make that choice for you. But I can say with confidence born of experience that such choices ...
Hong Kong is targeting Western Big Tech companies in its new ban of a popular protest song
The key difference between this action and previous attempts to remove content is that this is a civil injunction, not ...
The Download: Inside the US defense tech aid package, and how AI is improving vegan cheese
After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United States should spend on conflicts abroad, President Joe Biden ...
Here’s the defense tech at the center of US aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
One of those systems is Israel’s Iron Dome, in which radar systems detect projectiles and then signal units to launch ...
Three takeaways about the state of Chinese tech in the US
Catch up with China 1. A batch of documents mistakenly unsealed by a Pennsylvania court reveals the origin story of ...
What tech learned from Daedalus
Of course, Langford’s team modified some of the mythical parameters. The aircraft replaced feathers and wax with carbon-fiber wings, and ...
The Download: Generating AI memories, and China's softening tech regulation
As a six-year-old growing up in Barcelona, Spain, during the 1940s, Maria would visit a neighbor’s apartment in her building ...
Why China’s regulators are softening on its tech sector
So I was inspired after talking to Angela Huyue Zhang, a law professor in Hong Kong who’s coming to teach ...