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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. Defense official reveals how AI chatbots could be used for targeting decisions  The US military might use generative AI systems to rank targets and recommend ...

Human-made glass is thousands of years old. But it’s now poised to find its way into the AI chips used in the world’s newest and largest data centers. This year, a South Korean company called Absolics is planning to start commercial production of special glass panels designed to make ...

Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude pushed AI into everyday conversations. Suddenly everyone was talking about AI and a newer term that appeared alongside it: Generative AI. The two are often used interchangeably, but they aren’t the same thing. Generative AI isn’t a replacement for AI. It’s a ...

This is not another of those ‘AI is killing jobs’ reports. Anthropic, in a new research, seems to have asked the deeper questions this time. Its latest labour-market study asks what happens when we stop guessing which jobs AI could affect. What if we, instead, start measuring where it is actually ...

Climate & Sustainability

Climate & Sustainability

In this tutorial, we implement a Colab-ready version of the AutoResearch framework originally proposed by Andrej Karpathy. We build an automated experimentation pipeline that clones the AutoResearch repository, prepares a lightweight training environment, and runs a baseline experiment to establish ...

Stanford researchers have introduced OpenJarvis, an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run entirely on-device. The project comes from Stanford’s Scaling Intelligence Lab and is presented as both a research platform and deployment-ready infrastructure for local-first AI ...

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 ...

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 ...