The must-reads

I’ve combed the web to seek out you at the moment’s most enjoyable/necessary/scary/fascinating tales about expertise.

1 Deepfakes are getting used to resurrect useless politicians 
For instance in Indonesia, the place over 200 million voters will go to the polls tomorrow. (CNN)
+ And in addition in India, which has a common election across the nook. (Al Jazeera)

2 How BYD beat Tesla to turn out to be the world’s prime electrical automobile maker
Its development has been actually stratospheric. Now right here comes the scrutiny. (NYT $)
+ BYD is stepping into transport in a giant approach—that is why. (MIT Expertise Assessment)

3 Sports activities leagues are rolling out apps for Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional headset
Now we simply have to attend to see if folks get pleasure from utilizing them. (NBC)
+ That is what it’s prefer to put on the headset every single day for 2 weeks. (WP $)
+ The Imaginative and prescient Professional may assist scientists conduct analysis. (Nature)

4 Vietnam is changing into instrumental within the US-China chip battle
And it’s doubling down on its function by dangling tax breaks and different perks to corporations. (Nikkei Asia)
+ Elevating trillions of {dollars} might be the best little bit of Sam Altman’s chip plan. (WSJ $)

5 Property brokers are utilizing AI to furnish folks’s properties with pretend furnishings 
Which should scale back their workload. However… does it cross the road into outright deception? (Vice)
+ AI is getting used for an excellent grimmer goal: to generate obituaries. (The Verge)

6 We’re getting nearer to blood checks to foretell dementia
A large examine of over 50,000 volunteers has yielded some wonderful insights. (The Guardian)

7 How Slack modified us
It made work really feel extra informal—but additionally arguably extra all-consuming, too. (The Verge)

8 Followers are fuming after Spotify layoffs broke a musical encyclopedia 
This can be a actual reminder of simply how fragile the digital world may be. (TechCrunch)

9 Temu is decided you will hear about it
The Chinese language e-commerce firm is spending a ton of cash to get title recognition amongst People. (The Atlantic $)
+ Why the stress round Chinese language apps within the US is overblown. (MIT Expertise Assessment)

10 Musk allegedly purchased Twitter as a result of the non-public jet account irritated him
I suppose that is what pettiness seems like whenever you’re one of many richest males on the planet. (Gizmodo)

Quote of the day

“It codifies your tradition, your society’s intelligence, your widespread sense, your historical past – you personal your personal knowledge.”

—Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, explains why he thinks each nation ought to construct its personal ‘sovereign’ AI throughout the World Governments Summit in Dubai.