The Download: how to survive a conspiracy theory, and moldy cities
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.
What it’s like to be in the...
How Deductive AI saved DoorDash 1,000 engineering hours by automating software debugging
As software systems grow more complex and AI tools generate code faster than ever, a fundamental problem is getting worse: Engineers are drowning in debugging work,...
Weibo’s new open source AI model VibeThinker-1.5B outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on $7,800 post-training budget
Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.
Chinese social networking company Weibo’s AI...
Alembic melted GPUs chasing causal A.I. — now it’s running one of the fastest supercomputers in the world
Alembic Technologies has raised $145 million in Series B and growth funding at a valuation 13 times higher than its previous round, betting that the next competitive...
The Download: AI to measure pain, and how to deal with conspiracy theorists
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.
AI is changing how we quantify...