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want to stick AI into some oddly shaped box or another. Sometimes it's a note transcriber or a wearable pin that doesn’t quite work, or an always-listening Friend necklace that ultimately ends up being a vessel for shitposting.Now there is a button.
When I started digging into desalination technology for a new story, I couldn’t help but obsess over the numbers. I’d known on some level that desalination—pulling salt out of seawater to produce fresh water—was an increasingly important technology, especially in water-stressed regions including the
A rare warm spell in January melted enough snow to uncover Cornell University’s newest athletic field, built for field hockey.
Anthropic’s most capable AI model has already found thousands of AI cybersecurity vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser.
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. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over. In 2001, Americans installed just over 7 million square meters of synthetic turf.
President Donald Trump announced that he would not wipe out “a whole civilization” on Tuesday evening, a team of self-described young Iranian activists jumped into action.Members of the group known as Explosive Media were putting the finishing touches on their latest AI-generated, Lego-inspired Trum
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a Kendrick Lamar diss track, if the rapper was a corporate-speak-talking CEO and not a poetic Pulitzer-prize winning musician. Meaning, you have to know the history to understand all of the competitors Jassy takes aim at, alongsi
AI agents hold the promise of automatically moving data between systems and triggering decisions, but in some cases, they can act without a clear record of what, when, and why they undertook their tasks.
An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images of at least 10 victims without their consent. According to a Justice Department press release, 37-year-old James Strahler II used AI tools
Bret Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Sierra, a startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, is convinced that the way humans interact with software will change in the near future. Last month, Sierra launched Ghostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents.
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that Uber was expanding its contract for AWS cloud services to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips.
Arcee, a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a massive, 400B-parameter open source LLM on a $20 million shoestring budget, has released its new reasoning model.
Update (April 7, 10:30 p.m. PT): The company has updated the app store listing and removed references to the Android app.
A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft focuses on runtime security to force strict governance onto enterprise AI agents.
A survey carried out by OutSystems, The State of AI Development 2026 [email wall], argues that AI has moved into early production phase for many enterprises, primarily inside the IT function.
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. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable As the conflict in Iran has escalated, a crucial resource is under fire: the desalinization te
Software giant Atlassian announced new AI tools and agents on Wednesday, with a focus on turning data into visual assets and applications. This includes the rollout of the visual tool Remix in open beta.
Anthropic has launched a new cybersecurity AI model to a select group of customers, including Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, days after details about the project were leaked online. Its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, would be available only to vetted organizations, including Broadcom, Cisco, and C
We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart.
