The world of artificial intelligence — across the U.S., China, and the regions outside these major model-developer centers, infrastructure hubs, deployment ecosystems, and differing governance approaches — has undergone seismic change since DeepSeek surfaced forcefully on January 20, 2025. We may be in for another major change when DeepSeek releases its new reasoning model. Why […]
In early April, U.S. President Donald Trump launched a salvo of international tariffs that rocked the global economy. Targeting countries from Mexico to Fiji, the announced tariffs led to a market crash while governments around the world jumped into action in attempts to forestall them. Bangladesh, which sells vast amounts of garments and textiles to […]
It’s 3 a.m. in Nairobi, and Ken’s laptop and phone glow in the dark. On one screen, waves crash against a beach in a video, and on the other, a woman stretches into a yoga pose. He has watched each clip several times, trying to decide whether or not it’s in slow motion. His phone […]
Months ahead of polls in the Indian state of Bihar last month, Manish Kumar Prasad, who runs a digital marketing firm, made the rounds of offices of political parties, pitching a new kind of election machinery: artificial intelligence-powered campaigns. They would be faster, cheaper, and more targeted than traditional campaigns, he promised. Using AI tools […]
In 2022, Rishabh Mishra joined a high-ranking engineering college in India’s Jabalpur with the most predictable dream in global tech: study computer science, write code, and one day make it to Silicon Valley. Three years later, Mishra faces a sobering reality. Artificial intelligence has gutted entry-level roles in the tech industry that Mishra and his […]
Starlink, the satellite internet service run by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, launched in 2019. Since then, it has become available in more than 150 markets, with 8 million users. Starlink’s expansion has at times struggled against regulatory red tape. But during the period of time Elon Musk served in U.S. President Donald Trump’s government, Musk’s Starlink […]
Artificial intelligence is not just changing how we work — it’s transforming how we move. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, two industry leaders at the forefront of AI-driven mobility will take the AI Stage to explore the future of intelligent transportation systems: Uber’s Sachin Kansal and Nuro’s Dave […]
Everyone who enters the fabs has to wear a bunny suit, and get dressed—or be dressed—in a clean room. Makeup, hair products, perfumes, colognes, and any aerosol products are prohibited. Workers are separated by a metallurgical hierarchy: There are those who work with copper, and those who do not. The copper people wear orange suits, […]
Another year, another fantastic concept product from Qualcomm that will never actually appear on shop shelves. The wheel turns, nothing is ever different… Seriously, though, this might be the most upset I’ve ever been about getting hands-on time with a device that won’t ever see the light of day in the consumer market. At the […]
When Burl Ives sang “Silver and gold decorations, on every Christmas tree” in “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer,” he surely didn’t know that Christmas trees actually have gold inside their needles — but that’s exactly what new research has found. A study published Aug. 28 in the journal Environmental Microbiome reports that Norway spruce trees (Picea […]