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. This quantum radar could image buried objects Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a...

Physicists have created a new type of radar that could help improve underground imaging, using a cloud of atoms in a glass cell to detect reflected radio waves. The radar is a type of quantum sensor, an emerging technology that uses the quantum-mechanical properties of objects as...

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 critical incidents occur, on-call engineers face...

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

It also failed on a simple algebra arithmetic problem that elementary schoolers could probably nail, 5.9 = x + 5.11.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. GPT-5 is here. Now what? At long last, OpenAI has released GPT-5. The new system abandons the distinction between OpenAI’s flagship models and its...

OpenAI has announced GPT-5 will replace all models on ChatGPT. Many users are mourning the workhorse model.Read More

Black Hat 2025 delivered performance metrics from beta programs and agentic AI deployments, proving results are being delivered over hype.Read More