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Summary
The Download by MIT Technology Review provides a summary of technological developments brought to the public’s attention daily.
Today’s Download offers the following stories:
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is pushing Western allies to adopt Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite communications system instead of using Chinese-owned systems.
Following a visit to Nvidia’s $6.9bn chipmaking factory in Arizona, ESG analyst Louie Santaro said concerns over US dependency on chip imports from China had eased.
Mark Zuckerberg is defending Meta’s decision to purchase Instagram and WhatsApp in front of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which claims the purchases limited competition.
OpenAI has announced the release of three AI bots, each capable of following complex instructions to write code.
Apple increased its iPhone production ten percent ahead of possible tariffs against Chinese goods.
The link between long covid and cognitive impairment may lie in patients’ ages when they were infected by the covid virus.
An AI tool has been developed to phone elderly relatives if users cannot contact them.