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The Download: autonomous narco submarines, and virtue signaling chatbots

“Too often, those victims have been left to fight alone…That is not justice. It is failure.” —Keir Starmer, the UK’s prime minister, outlines plans to force technology firms to remove deepfake nudes... Read more »

The building legal case for global climate justice

Morally, there’s an ironclad case that the countries or companies responsible for this mess should provide compensation for the homes that will be destroyed, the shorelines that will disappear beneath rising seas,... Read more »

How uncrewed narco subs could transform the Colombian drug trade

Today, the Tayrona semisubmersible sits on a strip of grass at the ARC Bolívar naval base in Cartagena. It’s exposed to the elements; rain has streaked its paint. To one side lies... Read more »

From Integration Chaos to Digital Clarity: Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Post-Acquisition Reset

Thank you for joining us on the “Enterprise AI hub.” In this episode of the Infosys Knowledge Institute Podcast, Dylan Cosper speaks with Sriram Kalyan, Head of Applications and Data at Nutrien... Read more »

What It Takes to Make Agentic AI Work in Retail

Thank you for joining us on the “Enterprise AI hub.” In this episode of the Infosys Knowledge Institute Podcast, Dylan Cosper speaks with Prasad Banala, Director of Software Engineering at a large... Read more »

Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

With coding and math, you have clear-cut, correct answers that you can check, William Isaac, a research scientist at Google DeepMind, told me when I met him and Julia Haas, a fellow... Read more »

The Download: a blockchain enigma, and the algorithms governing our lives

Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen, an Australian man in his mid-30s, with a rural Catholic upbringing, is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can swap one cryptocurrency for another and earn fees... Read more »

Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream

By November 2024, Thorbjornsen, who describes himself as “a bit flamboyant,” was calling himself THORChain’s CEO (“chief energy officer”) and the “master of the memes” in a video from Binance Blockchain Week,... Read more »

The robots who predict the future

The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for UsBenjamin RechtPRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2026 If you ask Benjamin Recht, author of The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the... Read more »

The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance

Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks use email phishing, fraudulent paperwork, and... Read more »