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Data centers are amazing. Everyone hates them.

And as to the jobs they bring to communities. Well, I have some bad news there too. Once construction ends, they tend to employ very few people, especially for such resource-intensive facilities. ... Read more »

The Download: sodium-ion batteries and China’s bright tech future

1 Apple is teaming up with Google to give Siri an AI revamp That’s a giant win for Google, and a blow for OpenAI. (CNBC) 2 Trump wants Elon Musk to help break... Read more »

CES showed me why Chinese tech companies feel so optimistic

CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, is the world’s biggest tech show, where companies launch new gadgets and announce new developments, and it happens every January. This year, it attracted over 148,000 attendees... Read more »

Mitigating emissions from air freight: Unlocking the potential of SAF with book and claim

“SAF is central to the decarbonization of the aviation sector,” believes Raman Ojha, president of Shell Aviation. “Having said that, adoption and penetration of SAF hasn’t really picked up massively. It’s not... Read more »

Securing digital assets as crypto crime surges

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins have established themselves as benchmark monetary vehicles, and, despite volatility, their values continue to rise. In October 2025, the value of cryptocurrency and other digital assets topped $4... Read more »

The Download: introducing this year’s 10 Breakthrough Technologies

Although it’s less glamorous than envisioning which advances will change our future, analyzing failed technologies is equally important. Read about why that is. The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s... Read more »

Mechanistic interpretability: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

In 2025 Anthropic took this research to another level, using its microscope to reveal whole sequences of features and tracing the path a model takes from prompt to response. Teams at OpenAI... Read more »

Base-edited baby: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

The expense was similar to that of a liver transplant, which costs around $1 million, says Musunuru, but he thinks that will come down to a few hundred thousand dollars per treatment... Read more »

Sodium-ion batteries: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

The most significant impact of sodium-­ion technology may be not on our roads but on our power grids. Storing clean energy generated by solar and wind has long been a challenge. Sodium-ion... Read more »

Hyperscale AI data centers: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026

In sprawling stretches of farmland and industrial parks, supersized buildings packed with racks of computers are springing up to fuel the AI race. These engineering marvels are a new species of infrastructure:... Read more »