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. Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end of May,...

A DeepMind study finds LLMs are both stubborn and easily swayed. This confidence paradox has key implications for building AI applications.Read More

Mistral’s open-source speech model Voxtral can recognize multiple languages, understand spoken instructions and also offer enterprise security.Read More

Scientists from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta unite in rare collaboration to warn that a critical window for monitoring AI reasoning may close forever as models learn to hide their thoughts.Read More

Backed by $2B and with OpenAI’s open-weight model now in limbo, Thinking Machines could capture developer attention and interest.Read More

In June 2023, technology leaders and IT services executives had a lightning bolt headed their way when McKinsey published the “The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier” report. It echoed a moment from the 2010s when Amazon Web Services launched an...

LEAP addresses those needs head-on with a local-first approach that allows small models to run directly on-device, no cloud infrastructure.Read More

Adaptive production is more than a technological upgrade: it is a paradigm shift. This new frontier enables the integration of cutting-edge technologies to create an increasingly autonomous environment, where interconnected manufacturing plants go beyond the limits of traditional...