MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks
A new benchmark from Salesforce research evaluates model and agentic performance on real-life enterprise tasks.Read More
The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA data to the police
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.
In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini...
The case against humans in space
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an existential imperative. Space is the place. The final frontier. It is our human destiny to transcend our home world and expand our civilization to...
Don’t sleep on Cohere: Command A Reasoning, its first reasoning model, is built for enterprise customer service and more
It looks to be a strong release. Benchmarks, technical specs, and early tests suggest the model delivers on flexibility, efficiency, and rawRead More
Inside Walmart’s AI security stack: How a startup mentality is hardening enterprise-scale defense
Walmart CISO Jerry Geisler on securing agentic AI, modernizing identity, and Zero Trust for enterprise-scale cybersecurity resilience.Read More
MIT report misunderstood: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure
A new MIT report reveals that while 95% of corporate AI pilots fail, 90% of workers are quietly succeeding with personal AI tools, driving a hidden productivity boom.Read More
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s rBio uses virtual cells to train AI, bypassing lab work
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative unveils rBio, a groundbreaking AI model that simulates cell biology without lab experiments to accelerate drug discovery and disease research.Read More
How AI ‘digital minds’ startup Delphi stopped drowning in user data and scaled up with Pinecone
Delphi envisions millions of Digital Minds active across domains and audiences. Pinecone sees its database as the retrieval layer.Read More