Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: “How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?” The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a Snowflake schema, asks “What is our revenue?”, and watches as...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is leaning into the growing trend toward custom models with a new service that it says will let enterprises bring more personalization and internal knowledge.  The move comes alongside the release of AWS’s new models as part of its Nova family, which...

For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou. Chinese research labs including Alibaba’s Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Baidu have rapidly set the pace in developing large-scale,...

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released two powerful new AI models on Sunday that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini-3.0-Pro — a development that could reshape the competitive landscape between...

Happy Monday guys!  Below you’ll find a quick overview of what’s been happening in the AI industry since our last newsletter: 🧑‍💻 Codex Max Drops: OpenAI’s Most Engineer-Ready Model Yet NEWS OVERVIEW: OpenAI just introduced GPT-5.1 Codex Max, a coding-focused model built for long,...

When Liquid AI, a startup founded by MIT computer scientists back in 2023, introduced its Liquid Foundation Models series 2 (LFM2) in July 2025, the pitch was straightforward: deliver the fastest on-device foundation models on the market using the new “liquid”...

Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday for the next two weeks, writers from both publications will debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. This week, Richard Waters, FT...

A stealth artificial intelligence startup founded by an MIT researcher emerged this morning with an ambitious claim: its new AI model can control computers better than systems built by OpenAI and Anthropic — at a fraction of the cost. OpenAGI, led by chief executive Zengyi Qin,...

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. An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of...