In a packed theater at Fort Mason, after a whirlwind keynote of product announcements, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sat down with Sir Jony Ive, the legendary designer behind Apple’s most iconic products. The conversation, held exclusively for the 1,500 developers in attendance and not...

The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another staggering advancement. Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, Senior AI Researcher at Samsung’s Advanced​ Institute of...

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 cut funding for two major direct-air capture plants The US Department of Energy appears poised to terminate funding...

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.  AI21’s Jamba Reasoning 3B, a “tiny” open-source model that can run extended reasoning, code generation and respond...

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 world. The company that brought generative AI to the mainstream with a simple chatbot is now building the...

Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into “agents” that can actually take more actions on behalf of the user across websites. Recall OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent (formerly...

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, and Claude learn to reason, explain, and code, one critical category of interaction remains largely unsolved —...