Job descriptions of Data Engineering roles have changed drastically over the years. In 2026, these read less like data plumbing and more like production engineering. You are expected to ship pipelines that don’t break at 2 AM, scale cleanly, and stay compliant while they do it. So, no – “I know ...

Algorithms & Theory

GitHub has opened up the internal agent runtime that powers GitHub Copilot CLI and exposed it as a programmable SDK. The GitHub Copilot-SDK, now in technical preview, lets you embed the same agentic execution loop into any application so the agent can plan, invoke tools, edit files, and run ...

In this tutorial, we build a cost-aware planning agent that deliberately balances output quality against real-world constraints such as token usage, latency, and tool-call budgets. We design the agent to generate multiple candidate actions, estimate their expected costs and benefits, and then ...

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. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?   For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new ...

The future of artificial intelligence is here and to the developers, it is in the form of new tools that transform the way we code, create and solve problems. GLM-4.7 Flash, an open-source large language model by Zhipu AI, is the latest big entrant but not simply another version. This model brings ...

Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS, a family of multilingual text-to-speech models that target three core tasks in one stack, voice clone, voice design, and high quality speech generation. Model family and capabilities Qwen3-TTS uses a 12Hz speech tokenizer and 2 language model ...

This week marked a rather unpleasant anniversary: It’s a year since Texas reported a case of measles—the start of a significant outbreak that ended up spreading across multiple states. Since the start of January 2025, there have been over 2,500 confirmed cases of measles in the US. Three people ...

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. In the final weeks of 2025, the battle over regulating artificial intelligence in the US reached a boiling point. On December 11, ...

Generative AI is in the vogue. It is powering all the latest technologies and is one of the most sought out skills in the job market, becoming a must-have skill in present date. But for those who aren’t familiar with GenAI, it might seem like a distant dream considering how hard it is to get The ...

Generative AI

Microsoft has released VibeVoice-ASR as part of the VibeVoice family of open source frontier voice AI models. VibeVoice-ASR is described as a unified speech-to-text model that can handle 60-minute long-form audio in a single pass and output structured transcriptions that encode Who, When, and What, ...