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. A $5 million prize awaits proof that quantum computers can solve health care problems  In a laboratory on the outskirts of Oxford, a quantum computer built from ...

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Claude Skills (or Agent Skills) can turn a simple AI assistant into something far more powerful. But most people hit the same wall: they don’t know where to find them? Building skills from scratch is slow. The smarter move is to use production-ready Claude Code skills that developers are already ...

The scaling of inference-time compute has become a primary driver for Large Language Model (LLM) performance, shifting architectural focus toward inference efficiency alongside model quality. While Transformer-based architectures remain the standard, their quadratic computational complexity and ...

In this tutorial, we explore how to solve differential equations and build neural differential equation models using the Diffrax library. We begin by setting up a clean computational environment and installing the required scientific computing libraries such as JAX, Diffrax, Equinox, and Optax. We ...

Unlike fully structured tabular data, preparing text data for machine learning models typically entails tasks like tokenization, embeddings, or sentiment analysis.

If you are here, you have probably heard about recent work on recursive language models.

I’m standing in front of a quantum computer built out of atoms and light at the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre on the outskirts of Oxford. On a laboratory table, a complex matrix of mirrors and lenses surrounds a Rubik’s Cube–size cell where 100 cesium atoms are suspended in grid formation ...

The prospect of making trash useful is always fascinating to me. Whether it’s used batteries, solar panels, or spent nuclear fuel, getting use out of something destined for disposal sounds like a win all around. In nuclear energy, figuring out what to do with waste has always been a challenge, ...

Autonomous LLM agents like OpenClaw are shifting the paradigm from passive assistants to proactive entities capable of executing complex, long-horizon tasks through high-privilege system access. However, a security analysis research report from Tsinghua University and Ant Group reveals that ...

The Baidu Qianfan Team introduced Qianfan-OCR, a 4B-parameter end-to-end model designed to unify document parsing, layout analysis, and document understanding within a single vision-language architecture. Unlike traditional multi-stage OCR pipelines that chain separate modules for layout detection ...

“Half the stuff I know about life, I learned from records and the pub.” Katie Owen came by that honestly. “I basically came out of the…