The Download: the solar geoengineering race, and future gazing with the The Simpsons
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s
From vibe coding to context engineering: 2025 in software development
This year, we’ve seen a real-time experiment playing out across the technology industry, one in
AI’s capacity crunch: Latency risk, escalating costs, and the coming surge-pricing breakpoint
The latest big headline in AI isn’t model size or multimodality — it’s the capacity
Databricks research reveals that building better AI judges isn’t just a technical concern, it’s a people problem
The intelligence of AI models isn’t what’s blocking enterprise deployments. It’s the inability to define
Attention ISN’T all you need?! New Qwen3 variant Brumby-14B-Base leverages Power Retention technique
When the transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 in the now seminal Google paper “Attention
Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust
Last week, an American-Israeli company that claims it’s developed proprietary technology to cool the planet
The Download: the AGI myth, and US/China AI competition
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98% of market researchers use AI daily, but 4 in 10 say it makes errors — revealing a major trust problem
Market researchers have embraced artificial intelligence at a staggering pace, with 98% of professionals now
The State of AI: Is China about to win the race?
The State of AI is a collaboration between the Financial Times & MIT Technology Review
Strengthening Our Core: Welcoming Karyne Levy as VentureBeat’s New Managing Editor
I’m thrilled to announce a fantastic new addition to our leadership team: Karyne Levy is
The beginning of the end of the transformer era? Neuro-symbolic AI startup AUI announces new funding at $750M valuation
The buzzed-about but still stealthy New York City startup Augmented Intelligence Inc (AUI), which seeks
The Download: gene-edited babies, and cleaning up copper
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This startup wants to clean up the copper industry
Demand for copper is surging, as is pollution from its dirty production processes. The founders
Moving past speculation: How deterministic CPUs deliver predictable AI performance
For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines
Large reasoning models almost certainly can think
Recently, there has been a lot of hullabaloo about the idea that large reasoning models