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. Chinese universities want students to use more AI,
Just two years ago, Lorraine He, now a 24-year-old law student, was told to avoid using AI for her assignments. At the time, to get around a national block on
What happens if the AI migration accelerates and sizable portions of the workforce are slow to move out of fear, resistance or inability?Read More
The question isn’t, “will you use AI?” The question is, “what kind of AI user do you want to be: driver or passenger?”Read More
The move underscores Meta’s strategy of spending aggressively now to secure a dominant position in what it views as the next foundational technology platform.Read More
Hierarchical Reasoning Models (HRM) tackle complex reasoning tasks while being smaller, faster, and more data-efficient than large AI models.Read More
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual understanding
The new Qwen3-Thinking-2507, as we’ll call it for short, now leads or closely trails top-performing models across several major benchmarks.Read More
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. How nonprofits and academia are stepping up to
It has been a grim few months for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) community. There had been some excitement when, a couple of years ago, a gene therapy for the