The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language
04-09-2026 14:10 via technologyreview.com

The Download: selling battlefield drone data and AI reshaping language

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.
Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace—Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democracy, who previously served in the Biden White House.Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for th
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