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Plus: Amazon has listed retailers' goods without their permission This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Europe’s drone-filled vision for the future of war Last spring, 3,000 British soldiers deployed an invisible automated intelligence network, known as a “digital

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030   There are huge gulfs of opinion when it comes to predicting the near-future impacts of generative AI. In one camp there

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses into the lining of the uterus then grips

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their batteries. In the past decade, China has seen an EV boom, thanks in part to government support. Buying an

Plus: the Trump administration wants to hire back all those tech experts that DOGE fired This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The great AI hype correction of 2025 Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web

Plus: Roomba maker iRobot has filed for bankruptcy This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the AI Hype Correction package AI is going to reproduce human intelligence. AI will eliminate disease. AI is the single biggest, most important

Plus: OpenAI and Disney have agreed a major AI deal This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Expanded carrier screening: Is it worth it? Carrier screening  tests would-be parents for hidden genetic mutations that might affect their children. It

Plus: ICE is tracking pregnant immigrants through smartwatches This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Solar geoengineering startups are getting serious Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease