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 “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions In September, Alfred Stephen, a freelance software developer in Singapore, purchased ...

Sixteen autonomous AI agents. Two weeks of continuous execution. Nearly 100,000 lines of Rust code. That’s what it took for Anthropic to build a working C compiler capable of compiling large real-world projects like the Linux kernel. There is, however, a kicker here. The project, internally ...

A-T-S!! A hurdle that most applicants just can’t cross. Spending hours on Overleaf and resume making websites to create their perfect resumes: just to find out that it has an ATS score of 40! For some it’s a dead end. Regardless of what they try, the score doesn’t seem to get anywhere near the ...

Serving Large Language Models (LLMs) at scale is a massive engineering challenge because of Key-Value (KV) cache management. As models grow in size and reasoning capability, the KV cache footprint increases and becomes a major bottleneck for throughput and latency. For modern Transformers, this ...

One of the most asked questions we got during our Instagram Summit was “How can I learn more about being a travel creator?” But there’s more to…

Electric vehicles could be economically competitive in Africa sooner than expected. Just 1% of new cars sold across the continent in 2025 were electric, but a new analysis finds that with solar off-grid charging, EVs could be cheaper to own than gas vehicles by 2040. There are major barriers to ...

Another month, another AI-powered trend taking over the internet, and this one is all about turning yourself into a caricature using ChatGPT Image. From LinkedIn feeds to group chats, people are sharing playful versions of themselves that capture not just their faces, but also their profession, ...

Alibaba’s Qwen has been on a roll lately, launching model after model for various use cases. For instance, it recently introduced the Qwen3-Coder-Next as an AI coding assistant for developers. This time, the AI giant is in the news yet again for its latest release – the Qwen-2.0-Image. As the name ...

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

Google Research is proposing a new way to build accessible software with Natively Adaptive Interfaces (NAI), an agentic framework where a multimodal AI agent becomes the primary user interface and adapts the application in real time to each user’s abilities and context. Instead of shipping a fixed ...