In this tutorial, we explore ModelScope through a practical, end-to-end workflow that runs smoothly on Colab. We begin by setting up the environment, verifying dependencies, and confirming GPU availability so we can work with the framework reliably from the start. From there, we interact with the ...

Training AI agents that can actually use a computer — opening apps, clicking buttons, browsing the web, writing code — is one of the hardest infrastructure problems in modern AI. It’s not a data problem. It’s not a model problem. It’s a plumbing problem. You need to spin up hundreds, potentially ...

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. Desalination plants in the Middle East are increasingly vulnerable  As the conflict in Iran has escalated, a crucial resource is under fire: the desalinization ...

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart. From the time I ...

Z.AI, the AI platform developed by the team behind the GLM model family, has released GLM-5.1 — its next-generation flagship model developed specifically for agentic engineering. Unlike models optimized for clean, single-turn benchmarks, GLM-5.1 is built for agentic tasks, with significantly ...

In this tutorial, we explore the latest Gemini API tooling updates Google announced in March 2026, specifically the ability to combine built-in tools like Google Search and Google Maps with custom function calls in a single API request. We walk through five hands-on demos that progressively build ...

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. As the conflict in Iran has escalated, a crucial resource is under fire: the desalination technology that supplies water ...

Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real time, AI agents can execute entire workflows autonomously. But unlocking their potential requires redesigning processes around ...

Think about revisiting items you’ve saved to Pocket, Notion or your bookmarks. Most people don’t have the time to re-read all of these things after they’ve saved them to these various apps, unless they have a need. We are excellent at collecting tons of information. However, we are just not very ...

According to Stack Overflow and Atlassian, developers lose between 6 and 10 hours every week searching for information or clarifying unclear documentation. For a 50-developer team, that adds up to $675,000–$1.1 million in wasted productivity every year. This is not just a tooling issue. It is a ...

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 one piece of data that could actually shed light on your job and AI  Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given. ...

Running powerful AI on your smartphone isn’t just a hardware problem — it’s a model architecture problem. Most state-of-the-art vision encoders are enormous, and when you trim them down to fit on an edge device, they lose the capabilities that made them useful in the first place. Worse, specialized ...