Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
Cursor Research has open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK), the MoE training megakernel behind its Composer models. MoK fuses all mixture-of-experts communication and computation into a single deterministic kernel, and runs up to 2.37x faster than the strongest public baseline on GB300 NVL72 racks. I
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring
Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose regulations and seemingly abundant power supply. But even Texas can be pushed to the brink.
An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just how little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.
Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
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. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics —James O’Donnell Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe: They stumble, kick children, and despite a
Endeavor Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.
Reflex has released XY, an Apache-2.0 Python charting library that moves rendering work into a native Rust core and a WebGL2 client. It holds roughly 0.08 seconds render time from 10,000 to 100 million points, exports a 10-million-point interactive scatter at 258 KiB, and keeps exact f64 columns in
Learn how to build an end-to-end security assessment pipeline for AI agent skills using NVIDIA SkillSpector and LangGraph. In this tutorial, we construct a synthetic skill marketplace, scan for malicious prompt injection, credential access, and risky dependencies, and implement custom YARA rules, ba
Y Combinator has open-sourced QM, the multiplayer agent harness it uses internally across accounting, legal, events, and engineering. Released July 31, 2026 under an MIT license, QM gives each employee an isolated workspace and each Slack room its own scoped memory, files, keychain view, permissions
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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. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last month, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sa
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabotage
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. Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward As of this week in Montana, biotech companies whose drugs have been through preliminary
Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When Brody was around two and a half years old
As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it to consumers. Companies whose drugs have been through preliminary testing—sometimes in as few as 10 healthy people—can pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established review board for approval. Once