The Iranian drone strikes that hit Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East have thrust a new question to the forefront of the tech industry: Should data centers be defended like military assets? The attacks — the first known military strikes at an American hyperscaler’s infrastructure — damaged two AWS sites in the United […]

Billions of dollars in U.S. technology infrastructure, and trillions more in planned investment, now depend on fiber-optic cables running through war zones. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google spent years building data centers across the Gulf, betting the region would become the world’s next great hub for artificial intelligence. The undersea cables connecting those facilities to Africa, […]

Among the thousands of candidates seeking election in Colombia’s parliamentary polls this month is an artificial intelligence avatar. Its creator hopes it will change the way Indigenous people in the country are represented, despite concerns of bias and access. Gaitana — created by Carlos Redondo, and other members of the Zenú community —is the digital […]

On February 20, attendees at the India AI Impact Summit watched an unusual demonstration unfold. An artificial intelligence-powered device scanned a table and identified the candy bars laid out on it — Twix, Milky Way, and KitKat. Then the device did something more human: It picked a favorite. Twix. The small, black, open-source device was […]

India’s computing history is punctuated by moments of possibility, each representing a road not taken. What began as a genuine struggle for technological sovereignty has mutated into its inverse: a technological nationalism that celebrates the very forms of dependence it once sought to overcome. Silicon Valley’s relationship with India epitomizes this transformation. It draws talent […]

For years, Gulf leaders made a simple promise to Silicon Valley: Bring your data, your models, and your chips, and we will give you stability. On Sunday, that promise ended in flames, after Iran’s retaliatory strikes in response to U.S.-Israeli assault set an Amazon data center in the United Arab Emirates on fire. In a […]

The U.S. is helping Vietnam build a chip industry designed to replace that of China. On February 20, President Donald Trump said he would remove Vietnam from a strategic export control list that blocks the country from buying advanced technology from U.S. companies. Trump also reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to a “strong, independent, self-reliant, and prosperous” […]

Everyone thinks they know why Chinese electric vehicles are so cheap, and almost everyone is wrong. Western carmakers’ share of China’s EV market fell to just over a third last year from two-thirds in 2020, according to a study by New York-based independent research firm Rhodium Group. During this period, Chinese original equipment manufacturers were […]

In recent weeks, former safety workers and researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic have gone public with their grievances, sparking a debate about the safety of artificial intelligence.  Mrinank Sharma quit as a safety researcher at Anthropic, and wrote on X, “The world is in peril,” describing the constant pressure at work “to set aside what […]

new video loaded: The A.I. Videos on Kids’ Youtube Feeds The YouTube algorithm is pushing bizarre, often nonsensical A.I.-generated videos targeting children. Our video journalist Arijeta Lajka explains why experts say that these videos could affect their cognitive development, and how parents can identify this type of content. By Arijeta Lajka, Christina Shaman, Melanie Bencosme […]