—Zeyi Yang
In a buzzy city space in Shenzhen, China, I watched as a drone descended onto a pickup kiosk to ship the iced tea I’d ordered half an hour earlier. The supply service is operated by Meituan, China’s hottest meals supply platform, which has been making common drone deliveries to town’s residents for the previous yr and a half.
What differentiates Meituan from its American friends is that it’s flying drones in doubtlessly essentially the most difficult surroundings: dense city neighborhoods. For some Shenzhen residents and distributors, supply by drone is not a novelty—it’s a part of their each day routine. And the corporate’s progress exhibits that common drone supply in cities is feasible. Learn the complete story.
Our fast information to the 6 methods we will regulate AI
AI regulation is sizzling. Ever because the success of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, the general public’s consideration has been grabbed by surprise and fear about what these highly effective AI instruments can do.
Tech CEOs, US senators and leaders on the G7 summit are all united of their want for worldwide requirements and stronger guardrails to manipulate AI. Melissa Heikkilä, our senior AI reporter, has analyzed six completely different worldwide makes an attempt to manage the expertise, and given every of them a rating for the way influential they’re. Check out what she got here up with.
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