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. People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as “trip sitters”—a phrase...

Planning a trip may soon be more agentic as companies like Kayak and Expedia reimagine the travel agent as an AI agent.Read More

Anthropic’s Scott White explains how AI agents evolved from chatbots to autonomous workers at VentureBeat Transform 2025, cutting enterprise tasks from weeks to minutes.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. Meet Jim O’Neill, the longevity enthusiast who is now RFK Jr.’s right-hand man When Jim O’Neill was nominated to be the second in command at the...

AI is disrupting the world, but it also presents an opportunity to ask what we are here for, and our role as stewards of meaning.Read More