Tokyo-based Boldly plans to have self-driving buses operating in eight new areas in Japan this fiscal year to cater to rapidly aging communities. Read more on

Cars will pull up beside an “Instant Pickup portal.” | Image: The Wendy’s Company After announcing plans to use an AI chatbot at its drive-thrus, now Read more on

Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Union.AI raised a $19.1 million Series A round to boost development of Union Cloud, a managed platform powered by an open-source workflow orchestration product called Flyte. It Read more on

John David Washington as Joshua in The Creator. | Image: 20th Century Studios As concerned as people are about the ways artificial intelligence stands to upend Read more on

Illustration: The Verge A former Apple engineer and the executive at an electric vehicle startup owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu has been charged with Read more on

Amazon’s new Echo Pop smart speaker. (Amazon Photo) Amazon unveiled a new Echo smart speaker, a $39.99 semi-sphere called the Echo Pop, meant for bedrooms and other Read more on

Glowforge raised $20 million in an extension to its Series E funding round. (Glowforge Photo) The news: 3D laser printer startup Glowforge raised $20 million as part Read more on

In its eternal struggle to replicate features that Microsoft 365 and even Office has had for aeons, Google Docs is getting – make sure you’re sitting down – collapsible headings.This Read more on

Despite the war in Ukraine, high inflation and changing interest rates, the business world has been focused from the start of 2023 on something else… ChatGPT. A chatbot using artificial Read more on

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside Tencent’s weirdly secretive customer Read more on

The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. Read more on

China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. It’s been a while. I just got Read more on