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Brutal times for the US battery industry

The company itself has been silent, but this is the latest in a string of bad signs, and it’s a big one—at one point 24M was worth over $1 billion, and the... Read more »

Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze

Lobsters are indeed popping up everywhere in China right now—on and offline. In February, for instance, the entrepreneur and tech influencer Fu Sheng hosted a livestream showing off OpenClaw’s capabilities that got... Read more »

The Download: Pokémon Go to train world models, and the US-China race to find aliens

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.  1 Viral AI fakes of the Iran war are flooding X And Grok is failing to flag them. (Wired $) + The conflict could wreak havoc on... Read more »

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

“Visual positioning is not a very new technology,” says Konrad Wenzel at ESRI, a company that develops digital mapping and geospatial analysis software. “But it’s obvious that the more cameras we have... Read more »

How Pokémon Go is helping robots deliver pizza on time

“Visual positioning is not a very new technology,” says Konrad Wenzel at ESRI, a company that develops digital mapping and geospatial analysis software. “But it’s obvious that the more cameras we have... Read more »

The Download: AI’s role in the Iran war, and an escalating legal fight

4 Nvidia plans to launch an open-source platform for AI agents  It’s already pitching the “NemoClaw” product to enterprise software firms. (Wired $) + But don’t let the AI agents hype get ahead of reality (MIT Technology Review)  5... Read more »

Prioritizing energy intelligence for sustainable growth

Data center campuses like Loudoun’s are cropping up across the country to accommodate an insatiable appetite for AI. But this buildout comes at an enormous cost. In the US alone, data centers... Read more »

How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater

The author of that post on X was referring to an online intelligence dashboard following the US-Israel strikes against Iran in real time. Built by two people from the venture capital firm... Read more »

The usability imperative for securing digital asset devices

“As you develop these things, you’re a victim of your own development speed,” says Fadell, who developed Ledger Stax, a signing device for securing digital assets, and is now a board member... Read more »

The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs

Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk metadata from the phones of Americans, the US is still navigating a gap... Read more »