The human harbor: Navigating identity and meaning in the AI age
The future is marked by deepening uncertainty about our place in it, and by growing ambiguity about the nature of human purpose itself.Read More
Stop vetting engineers like it’s 2021 — the AI-native workforce has arrived
Jobs will fade and rise due to AI. But those who learn to screen, train and build dev teams around AI-enabled talent will write the future.Read More
Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action
Enterprises adopting voice AI must consider not just usability, but inclusion. Supporting users with disabilities is a market opportunity.Read More
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free
Chinese AI startup Moonshot releases open-source Kimi K2 model that outperforms OpenAI and Anthropic on coding tasks with breakthrough agentic capabilities and competitive pricing.Read More
A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models
A new AI model learns to “think” longer on hard problems, achieving more robust reasoning and better generalization to novel, unseen tasks.Read More
Solo.io wins ‘most likely to succeed’ award at VB Transform 2025 innovation showcase
Solo.io’s Kagent Studio framework allows enterprises to build, secure, run and manage their AI agents in Kubernetes. Read More
The great AI agent acceleration: Why enterprise adoption is happening faster than anyone predicted
Enterprise AI agent adoption is accelerating faster than predicted. Get the 4 key takeaways from VB Transform 2025 on how leaders from Intuit, Capital One, and more are deploying agents in production and reshaping their teams for a new era of AI.Read More
The Download: cybersecurity’s shaky alert system, and mobile IVF
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.
Cybersecurity’s global alarm system is breaking down
Every day, billions of people trust digital systems to run everything from communication to...
The first babies have been born following “simplified” IVF in a mobile lab
This week I’m sending congratulations to two sets of parents in South Africa. Babies Milayah and Rossouw arrived a few weeks ago. All babies are special, but these two set a new precedent. They’re the first to be born following “simplified” IVF performed in a mobile lab.
This new...