This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air
Omar Yaghi was a quiet child, diligent, unlikely to roughhouse with his nine siblings. So when he was old enough, his parents tasked him with one of the family’s most...
AI agents fail 63% of the time on complex tasks. Patronus AI says its new ‘living’ training worlds can fix that.
Patronus AI, the artificial intelligence evaluation startup backed by $20 million from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Datadog, unveiled a new...
Mistral launches OCR 3 to digitize enterprise documents, touts 74% win rate and $2-per-1,000-page pricing
Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion, unveiled its third-generation optical character recognition model on Tuesday, positioning...
Gemini 3 Flash arrives with reduced costs and latency — a powerful combo for enterprises
Enterprises can now harness the power of a large language model that’s near that of the state-of-the-art Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, but at a fraction of the cost and...
The 8 worst technology flops of 2025
Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year.
This year, politics was a recurring theme. Donald Trump swept...
The Download: the worst technology of 2025, and Sam Altman’s AI hype
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 8 worst technology flops of...