The US is set to cancel funding for two major direct-air capture plants
The Department of Energy appears poised to terminate funding for a pair of large carbon sucking factories that were originally set to receive more than $1 billion in...
Has this stealth startup finally cracked the code on enterprise AI agent reliability? Meet AUI’s Apollo-1
For more than a decade, conversational AI has promised human-like assistants that can do more than chat. Yet even as large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Gemini,...
Google’s AI can now surf the web for you, click on buttons, and fill out forms with Gemini 2.5 Computer Use
Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into “agents” that...
OpenAI Dev Day 2025: ChatGPT becomes the new app store — and hardware is coming
In a packed hall at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, against a backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a bold vision to remake the digital...
AI21’s Jamba Reasoning 3B Redefines What “Small” Means in LLMs — 250K Context on a Laptop
The latest addition to the small model wave for enterprises comes from AI21 Labs, which is betting that bringing models to devices will free up traffic in data centers....
The Download: carbon removal factories’ funding cuts, and AI toys
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 Trump administration may...
Samsung AI researcher’s new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems
The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another...