Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131661/yann-…
"Urban Farm Shops Combine Dutch Greenhouse Technology and Food-Retail into One"
#Netherlands #Technology #Environment
NFL's custom scouting systems tell the story of the sport's changing technology https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7213543/2026/04/21/nfl-draft-2026-boards-scouting-evaluation-systems-technology/
OpenAI plans "an autonomous AI research intern" by September and says its "North Star" is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028 (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview…
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (Chang Che/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/19/inside-chinas-ro…
Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/technology/amazon-antitrust…
How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/ai-trainers-identity…
A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technol
NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html
India joins Pax Silica, a US-led initiative that aims to build secure supply chains for semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and critical technologies (Rajesh Roy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pax-silica-india-us-trump-modi-994d1ce…