California's statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence to manage outages, MIT Technology Review has learned. We wanted to modernize our grid operations. This fits in perfectly with that," says Gopakumar Gopinathan, a senior advisor on power system technologies at the California Independent System Operator-known...

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. California is set to become the first US state to manage power outages with AI California's statewide power grid operator is poised to become the first in North America to deploy artificial intelligence...