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. “We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world “I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of…
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Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.
The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.
Andrew Haverdink, a tall grad student in a rain bib and rubber boots, wrenched a double-handed drill from the frozen soil that underlies much of Alaska’s Denali National Park and then unclipped the hollow barrel from the end of the bit.  He knelt in front of a blue tarp, lined the barrel up with a…
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. Otter.ai said that it will use these funds for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion, and product innovation. […]
In the fall of 2025, Jeff Dodge set up a six-foot folding table in the cafeteria of Cane Bay High School in Summerville, South Carolina, to conduct a taste test. When the first rush of about 150 hungry students hit, he was waiting with slow cookers filled with steaming marinara sauce and meatballs.  Kids love…
Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massive new semiconductor manufacturing complex in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. Three fabs already operate around the clock, and a fourth is coming online. Construction…
OpenAI's latest model update focuses on strengthening low-resource programming languages, and Winzheng's targeted 18-question test shows GPT-5.5 scoring 84.2 overall with 98.3 execution.
MiniMax officially launches M3.1 Flash, revealing that the model previously running anonymously as "Space Bunny" was its early version, having processed over 200 trillion tokens and ranking first among Chinese models on OSWorld V2.
OpenAI is reportedly raising about $30 billion at a valuation above $1.4 trillion, just seven months after its last round, as it seeks to set a private-market benchmark before rival Anthropic lists on Nasdaq.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has formally barred DeepSeek from federal procurement, requiring civilian agencies to immediately remove the model and related third-party products. The order cites supply chain and intelligence risks and builds on prior state and federal restrictions.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.
Inception Labs has released Mercury 3, claiming 1,068 tokens per second from its diffusion architecture while benchmark validity remains disputed. Its pricing and 1M-token context support could affect latency-sensitive real-time applications.
China’s Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Science and Technology have proposed adding 23 AI technologies to the export control catalogue, restricting outbound transfers of large-model weights above 2 trillion parameters while exempting API services, open-source models, and published research.
AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are complicated and still maturing, said Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face’s chief policy officer, during a discussion at TechCrunch […]
In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.
US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.
Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
