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How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines

The scene is from Carrying the Dragon King’s Baby, one of the many hundreds of short dramas that appear on apps like DramaWave and ReelShort. There’s just something about this one that... Read more »

The world is on track to miss its health targets

22.1 million pandemic-related deaths And of course the pandemic affected progress toward health goals in more direct ways: 7 million people died of covid-19. The WHO report estimates that, for each of... Read more »

Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems

“Data is really a new currency; it’s the IP for many companies,” says Kevin Dallas, CEO of EDB, echoing a recurrent anxiety from customers. “The big concern is, if you’re deploying an... Read more »

Data readiness for agentic AI in financial services

For a financial services firm, managing this can be very challenging. A Forrester study found that 57% of financial organizations are still developing the necessary internal capabilities to fully leverage agentic AI.... Read more »

The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers

1 The US has approved Nvidia chip sales to 10 Chinese firmsAlibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance are among those cleared to buy H200 chips. (Reuters $)+ The US will receive 25% of the... Read more »

The Tesla Semi could be a big deal for electric trucking

Delivering this much range for this big truck means a whopping battery. The base model Tesla Semi battery pack has a usable capacity of 548 kilowatt-hours, according to a document filed with... Read more »

The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn 

It’s not certain whether this activity falls within the US legal definition of “fair use”—an issue that’s currently being litigated in several lawsuits from other types of content creators—but Casper argues that... Read more »

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

“It was severely downgraded,” Gilbert confirms. “I never would have found it if I was just looking through Google results.” (I tried the same prompt in Gemini earlier this month, and after... Read more »

The Download: making drugs in orbit and NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft

1 Sam Altman claims Elon Musk tried to seize control of OpenAIAltman said Musk initially wanted 90% of the equity. (AFP)+ And that control should go to his children when he dies.... Read more »

A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial

Weight is the big obstacle to such dreams. It still costs around $7,000 to launch a single kilogram of payload into orbit, which makes it impractical to, say, send cotton into space... Read more »