Tuesday, November 17, 2026 In an effort to reach an elusive continuity of the self, some far-thinking technologists are working on ways to keep your brain going—even beyond death. Join science editor Mary Beth Griggs and senior editor for biomedicine Antonio Regalado for a conversation exploring possible paths to keep your mind going, including gradual…
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up?  On this episode of […]
Texas is the fastest-growing data center market in the US and ground zero for Big Tech’s largest AI buildouts. But the blue wave that swept the Lone Star State may jeopardize that position. Democrat James Talarico won the US Senate seat against Ken Paxton. Gina Hinojosa won the race for governor against the Republican incumbent,…
“Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors,” Clément Delangue said of the need for open source AI.
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up?  On this episode of […]
Google is tying up AI Overviews with traditional search, angering parents and educators who worry that easy, machine-generated answers are leaving kids less capable.
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
The 2026-11-05 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol tied for first at 81.66 points. The Smoke test is a daily 10-question quick test suited to short-term signals and is not equivalent to Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did miserably on the ballot in the 2026 midterms.
I’ve been locked in to my various screens since results from midterm elections started to roll in last night. And it didn’t take long to see the beginning of the blue wave: Democrats took control of both the US House of Representatives and the Senate, a dramatic swing from Donald Trump’s victory two years ago.  …
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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. These startups hope “blended” food will cut our appetite for red meat  In the fall of 2025, Jeff Dodge served hungry students steaming marinara sauce and meatballs. The students loved them:…
The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoption
Democratic candidate Gina Hinojosa defeated incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott in Texas after promising to pause all new data center permits until protective legislation is enacted. AI infrastructure stocks fell, with SpaceX and CoreWeave down 7% and Oracle down 4.3%.
A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second agent uses the data to draft the proposal for the sales rep. No human checks either handoff. When it’s…
Meta has returned to the bond market for a second large offering this year, raising $20–25 billion at 3.9x oversubscription even as S&P cut its outlook to negative on its first-ever negative free cash flow quarter. With Alphabet, Amazon and Meta all in negative free cash flow territory at once — something without historical precedent — the AI spending race has shifted from an investment narrative into a credit-rating event.
At a media dinner in New York, OpenAI's Adam Fry said ChatGPT handles about 20% of Google's weekly search volume, a striking competitive benchmark. Yet turning that search volume into a real advertising threat to Google still requires breakthroughs in business model and ad infrastructure.
OpenAI has partnered with Cathedral, the company founded by four former DOGE members that previously breached Anthropic's systems, to strengthen model and infrastructure security. Reuters also reported the same day that OpenAI employees had repeatedly warned about operational security vulnerabilities since 2022, but the warnings were not acted upon.
