The Download: how to melt rocks, and what you need to know about AI
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.
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Alibaba’s new open source Qwen3-235B-A22B-2507 beats Kimi-2 and offers low compute version
Teams can scale Qwen3’s capabilities to single-node GPU instances or local development machines, avoiding the need for massive GPU clusters.Read More
Open-source MCPEval makes protocol-level agent testing plug-and-play
Researchers from Salesforce unveiled MCPEval, a new method to evaluate AI agent performance and tool use within MCP servers.Read More
Intuit brings agentic AI to the mid-market saving organizations 17 to 20 hours a month
Intuit explains how it is solving the needs of the mid-market with a new series of agentic AI experiences.Read More
Anthropic researchers discover the weird AI problem: Why thinking longer makes models dumber
Anthropic research reveals AI models perform worse with extended reasoning time, challenging industry assumptions about test-time compute scaling in enterprise...
Mixture-of-recursions delivers 2x faster inference—Here’s how to implement it
Mixture-of-Recursions (MoR) is a new AI architecture that promises to cut LLM inference costs and memory use without sacrificing performance.Read More