This is at this time’s version of The Download, our weekday e-newsletter that gives a each day dose of what’s happening on the planet of know-how.
How a Chinese battery firm powers Turkey’s home-grown EVs
2023 is an enormous 12 months for Turkey, with each the republic’s 100-year-anniversary and a high-stakes election developing. It’s additionally the 12 months when the nation is ready to start out delivery its first home electrical automobile, a logo of future financial progress.
There are a variety of similarities between the trail China took and the trail Turkey is now on. Both nations are automotive powerhouses that aren’t happy with staying on the decrease finish of the auto provide chain. EVs provide the possibility to enter a brand new and fast-growing market.
The key distinction is that China is already forward within the EV race, whereas Turkey has simply entered it. That’s why Turkey isn’t going it alone. It’s partnering with Farasis, one among China’s high battery firms, heralding the subsequent step within the two nations’ already shut financial relationship. Read the total story.
—Zeyi Yang
Zeyi’s story is from China Report, his weekly e-newsletter providing you with the within monitor on all issues China. Sign up to obtain it in your inbox each Tuesday.
Read extra about China’s electrical automobile ambitions:
+ How did China come to dominate the world of electrical automobiles? Hint: beneficiant authorities subsidies have helped. Read the total story.
+ EV batteries are the subsequent level of pressure between China and the US. The US desires to maneuver away from gas-powered automobiles, however it gained’t be capable to with out Chinese-made batteries. Read the total story.
Podcast: Generating creativity
In the most recent episode of In Machines We Trust, the workforce meets folks constructing subsequent era instruments for creativity, and exploring how these AI fashions must be skilled and deployed with a view to be each helpful and truthful to artists. Listen to it on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The must-reads
I’ve combed the web to search out you at this time’s most enjoyable/vital/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.
1 We already know the best way to make AI safer
Making analysis extra clear and strong tips are the primary steps. (Wired $)
+ Progress in robotics is massively lagging behind AI today. (The Atlantic $)
+ Do AI techniques want to return with security warnings? (MIT Technology Review)
2 China is stalling mergers involving American firms
It’s an influence transfer to counter the US’ latest export guidelines. (WSJ $)
+ China is reviewing a high US chipmaker’s safety. (NYT $)+ How a safety weblog uncovered surveillance in China. (Wired $)
3 Amazon helped to kill an emissions discount local weather invoice
If handed, the invoice would have regulated its information facilities. (WP $)
+ Amazon is labeling large firms as ‘small businesses.’ (The Information $)
4 Google is extraordinarily pleased with its supercomputer
It says the machine is quicker and greener than Nvidia’s comparable techniques. (Reuters)
5 Chatbots’ grasp of non-English languages is shaky
A gaggle of AI startups wish to enhance its responses for customers in different nations. (FT $)
6 The weight reduction drug market is exploding
But the side-effects will be brutal. (The Atlantic $)
+ Weight-loss injections have taken over the web. But what does this imply for folks IRL? (MIT Technology Review)
7 How Europe grew to become a inexperienced aviation hotbed
The bloc’s bold carbon-neutral targets are incentivizing startups. (Bloomberg $)
+ Falling lithium costs is nice information for EV makers. (WSJ $)+ How new applied sciences may clear up air journey. (MIT Technology Review)
8 Inside the bitter battle over chip design
Researchers are arguing over whether or not people or AI design higher chips. (IEEE Spectrum)
+ These easy design guidelines may flip the chip business on its head. (MIT Technology Review)
9 Marketing college students are being taught the best way to go viral on-line
Staying one step forward of the algorithm takes some severe work. (NYT $)
10 Why pop-ups conserving popping up
Cookie notices, and subscription request containers are relentless proper now. (The Verge)
Quote of the day
“It’s like the MAGA hat for Twitter.”
—Podcast host Rick Smith says Twitter’s blue verify mark has change into extra of an indicator of somebody’s views than a signifier of their credibility, studies Bloomberg.
The large story
The metaverse is the subsequent venue for physique dysmorphia on-line
In Facebook’s imaginative and prescient of the metaverse, we’ll all work together in a mashup of the digital and bodily worlds. Digital representations of ourselves will eat, discuss, date, store, and extra.
But if these avatars actually are on their means, we’ll must face some robust questions on how we current ourselves to others. And how would possibly these digital variations of ourselves change the way in which we really feel about our our bodies, for higher or worse? Read the total story.
—Tanya Basu
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+ Daisy Jones and the Six might function some dodgy lyrics, however makes for fairly enjoyable TV.
+ Plenty of sports activities groups use owls as their mascots, however how do they stack up?
+ #SpiritualBath is one TikTok pattern I’m absolutely onboard with.
+ These images are a joyous celebration of New York’s vibrant curler disco scene.
+ Now that we all know the third season of The White Lotus might be set in Thailand, right here’s some high predictions for the inns that would function.