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. Hustlers are cashing in on China’s OpenClaw AI craze  In January, Beijing-based software engineer Feng Qingyang started tinkering with OpenClaw, a new AI tool ...

The US military might use generative AI systems to rank lists of targets and make recommendations—which would be vetted by humans—about which to strike first, according to a Defense Department official with knowledge of the matter. The disclosure about how the military may use AI chatbots comes as ...

Just a few years ago, the battery industry was hot, hot, hot. There was a seemingly infinite number of companies popping up, with shiny new chemistries and massive fundraising rounds. My biggest problem was sifting through the pile to pick the most exciting news to cover. That tide has turned, and ...

MongoDB is a widely used NoSQL database that stores data in flexible documents similar to JSON objects rather than traditional tables and rows. This document-based structure makes it easier to handle complex or frequently changing data, which is why MongoDB is commonly used in modern web ...

Do you also think ChatGPT is useless? If not, you must’ve come across someone who does. People who say “I didn’t find it useful”, or “it couldn’t do what I told it to”, or the classic “AI is senseless“. While such people think the tool is weak, the fact is that they fail because their The post How ...

Generative AI

In this tutorial, we build a Streaming Decision Agent that thinks and acts in an online, changing environment while continuously streaming safe, partial reasoning updates. We implement a dynamic grid world with moving obstacles and a shifting goal, then use an online A* planner in a ...

The gap between proprietary frontier models and highly transparent open-source models is closing faster than ever. NVIDIA has officially pulled the curtain back on Nemotron 3 Super, a staggering 120 billion parameter reasoning model engineered specifically for complex multi-agent applications. ...

The internet is alive with hot takes about what AI will do to humanity. One minute, it’s robots stepping on our skulls like The Terminator, and…

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 Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world  Pokémon Go was the world’s first augmented-reality megahit. Released in 2016 by ...

Feng Qingyang had always hoped to launch his own company, but he never thought this would be how—or that the day would come this fast.  Feng, a 27-year-old software engineer based in Beijing, started tinkering with OpenClaw, a popular new open-source AI tool that can take over a device and ...

Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.