I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.
1 Taiwan has rejected America’s chip demand
It’s pushed back on a US request to move 50% of chip production to the States. (Bloomberg $)
+ Taiwan said it never agreed to the commitment. (CNN)
+ Taiwan’s “silicon shield” could be weakening. (MIT Technology Review)
2 Chatbots may not be eliminating jobs after all
A new labor market study has found little evidence they’re putting humans out of work. (FT $)
+ People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before. (MIT Technology Review)
3 OpenAI has released a new Sora video app
It’s the latest in a long line of attempts to make AI a social experience. (Axios)
+ Copyright holders will have to request the removal of their property. (WSJ $)
4 Scientists have made embryos from human skin cells for the first time
It could allow people experiencing infertility and same-sex couples to have children. (BBC)
+ How robots are changing the face of fertility science. (WP $)
5 Elon Musk claims to be building a Wikipedia rival
Which I’m sure will be entirely accurate and impartial. (Gizmodo)
+ How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral. (MIT Technology Review)
6 America’s chips resurgence has been thrown into chaos
After funding was yanked from the multi-billion dollar initiative designed to revive the industry. (Politico)
7 ICE wants to buy a phone location-tracking tool
Even though it doesn’t have a warrant to do so. (404 Media)
8 The trouble with scaling up EV manufacturing
Solid-state batteries are the holy grail—but is full commercialization feasible? (Knowable Magazine)
+ Why bigger EVs aren’t always better. (MIT Technology Review)