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To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model.  Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous construction equipment collect thousands, if not millions, of hours of video data for evaluation and training.  Organizing and cataloging that video is now a job for humans, who have to watch all of it. Even fast-forwarding, that doesn’t scale. NomadicML, a startup founded by CEO Mustafa Bal and CTO Varun Krishnan, wants to solve problems for customers who have 95% of their fleet data sitting in archives. The challenge becomes harder when looking for edge…

AI-generated content is everywhere these days, making it increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction, particularly when it comes to breaking news.Look no further than the Iran war. Since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, researchers have identified an unprecedented number of false and misleading images that were generated using artificial intelligence and have reached countless people around the world. Among them, fake footage of bombings that never happened, images of soldiers who were supposedly captured and propaganda videos created by Iran that depict President Donald Trump and others as a blocky, Lego-like miniatures. Today, the 10th…

Hello, this is Priyanka Salve, writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to the latest edition of “Inside India” — your one-stop destination for stories and developments from the world’s fastest growing large economy. Indian markets have been rattled by the Iran war, with foreign investors fleeing and valuations slipping to rare lows. But fund managers tell me that low prices by themselves won’t lure investors back.Enjoy!Any thoughts on today’s newsletter? Share them with the team.The big storyFor months, trade tensions with the U.S. were dubbed the biggest overhang on Indian equities. When the two countries agreed on a trade pact in February,…

Automation is coming to warehouses — fast. While some companies like Amazon are developing their own robotic fleets in-house, others have turned to outside players for their automation tech. FedEx has dabbled with both strategies. And the $84 billion company has landed on partnerships with robotics companies as the best approach to keep up with its peers in the race toward automation. FedEx’s recent multi-year partnership with SoftBank-owned robotics company Berkshire Grey illustrates its strategy: turn to the experts to develop robots that can take on repetitive, dangerous jobs for humans. Under the non-exclusive partnership, the companies developed Scoop, a…

The Liberia-flagged crude oil tanker Shenlong Suezmax successfully docked at Mumbai Port after navigating the high-risk Strait of Hormuz amid the intensifying West Asia conflict on March 11, 2026 in Mumbai, India. Hindustan Times | Getty ImagesOil jumped in volatile trading as U.S. President Donald Trump warned of further military aggression against Iran in the next two or three weeks, dampening hopes for an imminent de-escalation in the conflict.U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures for May gained 4.1% to $104.21 a barrel as of 9:45 p.m. ET. International benchmark Brent crude futures for June rose 5% to $106.42 per barrel.…

A suspected North Korean hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open source software development tool to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised. On Monday, a hacker pushed malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript library called Axios, which developers rely on to allow their software to connect to the internet. The affected library was hosted on npm, a software repository that stores code for open source projects. Axios is downloaded tens of millions of times every week.  The hijack was spotted and stopped in around three hours overnight on Monday into Tuesday,…

ZHANGJIAGANG, China (AP) — In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China’s east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them.The novelty? It uses artificial intelligence to sort them by composition at high speed, offering a glimpse into how AI could play a role in reducing the impact of synthetic textile waste.The Fastsort-Textile machine, named one of Time magazine’s Best Inventions of 2025, was created by DataBeyond, a Chinese AI recycling company founded in 2018.“We can make full use of textile waste and reduce the amount that is incinerated…

While choking off most traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has quietly established a de facto safe-shipping corridor north of Larak Island, as Tehran seeks to monetize its grip on the world’s most important oil shipping artery. Traffic through the strait has fallen by 90% since the war began on Feb 28, with Iran targeting vessels attempting to transit the waterway, causing one of the world’s most devastating energy supply shocks in decades. Select vessels are being routed through Iranian territorial waters near Larak Island — off the coast of its Bandar Abbas port city — where the Islamic…

Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East. Riders can now book the vehicles through Uber’s app, with operations in commercial and industrial districts like Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai Investment Park Second, and Jabal Ali Industrial First, as well as suburban areas and the maritime trading hub Al Hamriya Port. The service is operated locally by Tawasul, a mobility and fleet operator in the United Arab Emirates. The companies first introduced robotaxis to Dubai in December under a pilot program but…

Globalstar Chairman and CEO Jay Monroe rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, April 21, 2014.Brendan McDermid | ReutersShares of Globalstar jumped more than 15% in extended trading on Wednesday after the Financial Times reported Amazon is in talks to acquire the satellite communications company, citing people familiar with the matter. The companies were still negotiating over some of the complexities of a deal following lengthy talks, the Times reported. One of the complicating factors is that Apple took a 20% stake in Globalstar in 2024, according to the FT, as part of a $1.5 billion investment…