A San Francisco-based startup has demonstrated what it calls a breakthrough in hardware development: an artificial intelligence system that designed a fully functional Linux computer in one week — a process that would typically consume nearly three months of skilled engineering...

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. How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change—for a price.  The Israel-based...

At a regional hospital, a cardiac patient’s lab results sit behind layers of encryption, accessible to his surgeon but shielded from those without strictly need-to-know status. Across the street at a credit union, a small business owner anxiously awaits the all-clear for a wire...

Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change—for a price. The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects  nations will soon pay it more than a billion dollars a year to launch specially equipped aircraft into the stratosphere. Once they’ve reached the...

For more than a decade, Nvidia’s GPUs have underpinned nearly every major advance in modern AI. That position is now being challenged.  Frontier models such as Google’s Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Claude 4.5 Opus were trained not on Nvidia hardware, but on Google’s latest Tensor...

French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developers. Just days after releasing its powerful open source, general purpose Mistral 3 LLM...

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. The State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030   There are huge gulfs of opinion when it comes to predicting the near-future impacts of generative...

Presented by BlueOcean AI has become a central part of how marketing teams work, but the results often fall short. Models can generate content at scale and summarize information in seconds, yet the outputs are not always aligned with the brand, the audience, or the company’s...

Presented by Celonis The State of Oklahoma discovered its blind spots the hard way. In April 2023, a legislative report revealed its agencies had spent $3 billion without proper oversight. Janet Morrow, Director of Oklahoma’s Risk, Assessment and Compliance Division, set out...

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-efficiency deployment. The release includes two models in “large” and...