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. How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass...

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Researchers from Inclusion AI and Ant Group proposed a new LLM leaderboard that takes its data from real, in-production apps.Read More

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China’s DeepSeek has released a 685-billion parameter open-source AI model, DeepSeek V3.1, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic with breakthrough performance, hybrid reasoning, and zero-cost access on Hugging Face.Read More

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Keychain states it’s currently being used by top CPG brands and food retailers including 7-Eleven, Whole Foods, and General Mills.Read More

SAP’S Yaad Oren and Agilent’s Raj Jampa discuss how to deploy agentic AI while staying inside cost, latency, and compliance guardrails.Read More

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When the US Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter hearing-aid software for Apple’s AirPods Pro in September 2024, with a device price point right around $200, I was excited. I have mild to medium hearing loss and tinnitus, and my everyday programmed hearing aids cost...