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. Meet the early-adopter judges using AI The propensity
TD Securities rolled out an AI assistant for its equity sales and research teams. The goal is to bring assistants and agents throughout the bank.Read More
New research reveals how OS agents — AI systems that control computers like humans — are rapidly advancing while raising serious security and privacy concerns.Read More
My colleague Grace Huckins has a great story on OpenAI’s release of GPT-5, its long-awaited new flagship model. One of the takeaways, however, is that while GPT-5 may make for
OpenAI must stabilize infrastructure, tune personalization, and decide how to moderate immersive interactions.Read More
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies
The challenge is not just to build better AI tools, but to ask harder questions about where they are taking us.Read More
GUEST: Consider maintaining and developing an e-commerce platform that processes millions of transactions every minute, generating large amounts of telemetry data, including metrics, logs and traces across multiple microservices. When
Anthropic faces risks as $5B run rate leans on Cursor and GitHub Copilot as OpenAI’s cheaper GPT‑5 undercuts Claude, spotlighting customer concentration risks and enterprise AI cost pressure.Read More
The pressure is on for OpenAI to prove that GPT-5 isn’t just an incremental update, but a true step forward.Read More