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. AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think Ten years ago AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s AI program, stunned the world by defeating the South Korean Go ...

Perplexity has released pplx-embed, a collection of multilingual embedding models optimized for large-scale retrieval tasks. These models are designed to handle the noise and complexity of web-scale data, providing a production-ready alternative to proprietary embedding APIs. Architectural ...

Burrowed in the alleys of Hongik-dong, a hushed residential neighborhood in eastern Seoul, is a faded stone-tiled building stamped “Korea Baduk Association,” the governing body for professional Go. The game is an ancient one, with sacred stature in South Korea.  But inside the building, rooms once ...

Nano Banana! The image model that took the world by storm just got eclipsed by…itself. Yes! Google did it again. After establishing standards by their release of Nano banana, they are back with its high anticipated follow-up: Nano Banana 2 (officially designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). This new ...

Try the following – ask any Excel user for his/ her favourite Excel formula. More often than not, you will hear just this one name -VLOOKUP. And this fame is for all the right reasons. From finance teams reconciling numbers to analysts cleaning messy datasets, this function quietly powers the most ...

In the escalating ‘race of “smaller, faster, cheaper’ AI, Google just dropped a heavy-hitting payload. The tech giant officially unveiled Nano-Banana 2 (technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image). Google is making a definitive pivot toward the edge: high-fidelity, sub-second image synthesis ...

Microsoft researchers have introduced CORPGEN, an architecture-agnostic framework designed to manage the complexities of realistic organizational work through autonomous digital employees. While existing benchmarks evaluate AI agents on isolated, single tasks, real-world corporate environments ...

If Reels are the Instagram content equivalent of a wacky inflatable man, Stories are that same crazy dude when he’s off the clock. Let me explain,…

For years, Industry 4.0 transformation has centered on the convergence of intelligent technologies like AI, cloud, the internet of things, robotics, and digital twins. Industry 5.0 marks a pivotal shift from integrating emerging technologies to orchestrating them at scale. With Industry 5.0, the ...

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. America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars ...

Prompt engineering has become the most practical AI skill you can learn today. Whether you’re using ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, the quality of your prompts directly determines the results. The barrier to entry is low. You don’t need programming experience to start. But knowing how to ask AI ...

In the current AI landscape, we’ve become accustomed to the ‘ephemeral agent’—a brilliant but forgetful assistant that restarts its cognitive clock with every new chat session. While LLMs have become master coders, they lack the persistent state required to function as true teammates. Nous Research ...