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Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm
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Illustration: SAM CHIVERS
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Good morning. Don't let the "pastoral myth" fool you. Farming throughout the ages has proven to be the ultimate greenfield for testing and applying disruptive innovative practices and technologies, ranging from bioengineering (ancient Mesoamerica) to mechanization (John Deere)
Given that record, it's worth checking out what's going on down on the farm, the original data-driven operation. Here's the WSJ's William Boston on farming's next leap.
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Imagine a farm where fleets of autonomous tractors, drones and harvesters are guided by AI that tweaks operations minute by minute based on soil and weather data. Sensors would track plant health across thousands of acres, triggering precise sprays or irrigation exactly where needed. Farmers could swap long hours in the cab for monitoring dashboards and making high-level decisions. Every seed, drop of water and ounce of fertilizer would be optimized to boost yields and protect the land—driven by a connected system that gets smarter with each season.
Much of the technology to power an autonomous revolution in agriculture already exists or is nearly ready for market launch.
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Analysis by the WSJ's William Boston
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Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, in June at the VivaTech conference in Paris. Photo: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg News
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A day after the Trump administration allowed Nvidia to resume selling one of its advanced AI chips to Chinese customers, Chief Executive Jensen Huang delivered what the WSJ called, “a love letter to China” while visiting Beijing, extolling the country’s technological advances and praising its “best-in-the-world” electric vehicles.
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“When you see me in the United States, you must think you went back in time. You wouldn’t even understand my life—it’s too strange …You are so advanced in technology adoption.”
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— Jensen Huang responding to a Chinese reporter’s question, citing ubiquitous smartphone payments in China in comparison with Americans’ continued use of cash.
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Some Trump administration officials are holding up efforts to finalize a landmark agreement that would open the door to the United Arab Emirates buying Nvidia’s AI chips, citing concerns that China could get access to the cutting-edge U.S. technology, WSJ reports.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. boosted its outlook for the year after delivering a record profit despite currency headwinds and the drag from U.S. tariff uncertainty. TSMC now expects revenue growth of around 30% compared with a mid-20% rise projected previously. It remains unclear what impact U.S. tariffs will have on TSMC’s business.
Meanwhile chip-equipment supplier ASML, which supplies lithography machines to clients including TSMC, on Wednesday said it couldn’t guarantee growth in 2026 amid increasing uncertainty from Trump’s tariffs.
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Pat Gelsinger, general partner at Playground Global and former a CEO of Intel, in an WSJ Opinion piece argues that the creation of a sovereign-wealth fund is critical for helping the U.S. win the global race for technological supremacy.
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Weeks after Meta Platforms invested $14.3 billion in ScaleAI, taking with it former CEO Alexandr Wang, the startup is laying off 200 full-time employees, about 14% of its global workforce, Bloomberg reports. A spokesperson cited “shifts in market demand” as part of the reason for the cuts.
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Delta Air Lines plans to boost the use of AI in pricing domestic flights, AdWeek reports.
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Everything Else You Need to Know
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Reports that President Trump was again pondering firing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell drove longer-term Treasury yields higher and the dollar lower. The markets see the prospect of higher inflation if a new Fed regime were to cut rates in line with Trump’s wishes. (WSJ)
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The Senate passed a White House-endorsed plan to cancel $9 billion in federal funding for foreign-aid programs and public media after the Republican-led chamber blocked attempts to slim down the package in a marathon overnight voting session. (WSJ)
New details in the probe of last month’s Air India crash are shifting the focus to the senior pilot in the cockpit. A black-box recording of dialogue between the flight’s two pilots indicates it was the captain who turned off switches that controlled fuel flowing to the plane’s two engines. (WSJ)
A former New York City Police commissioner has filed a federal lawsuit alleging Mayor Eric Adams and other top officials ran the police department as a criminal enterprise, engaging in racketeering, wire fraud and obstruction of justice. (WSJ)
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