Microsoft Research has released OptiMind, an AI based system that converts natural language descriptions of complex decision problems into mathematical formulations that optimization solvers can execute. It targets a long standing bottleneck in operations research, where translating business intent ...

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. What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate   Just before Christmas the Trump administration dramatically escalated its war on digital ...

Gemini 3 and NotebookLM are two of my favorite tools from the Google suite. I use them often for learning, work, and even for breaking down complex ideas in a simple way. But this time, I wanted to do something purely fun. Lately, I’ve been seeing AI-generated comics all over social media. From ...

We interact with LLMs every day. We write prompts, paste documents, continue long conversations, and expect the model to remember what we said earlier. When it does, we move on. When it doesn’t, we repeat ourselves or assume something went wrong. What most people rarely think about is that every ...

Today marks an inflection point for enterprise AI adoption. Despite billions invested in generative AI, only 5% of integrated pilots deliver measurable business value and nearly one in two companies abandons AI initiatives before reaching production. The bottleneck is not the models themselves. ...

Nous Research has introduced NousCoder-14B, a competitive olympiad programming model that is post trained on Qwen3-14B using reinforcement learning (RL) with verifiable rewards. On the LiveCodeBench v6 benchmark, which covers problems from 08/01/2024 to 05/01/2025, the model reaches a Pass@1 ...

It was early evening in Berlin, just a day before Christmas Eve, when Josephine Ballon got an unexpected email from US Customs and Border Protection. The status of her ability to travel to the United States had changed—she’d no longer be able to enter the country.  At first, she couldn’t find any ...

Just as you wouldn’t teach a child to ride a bike on a busy highway, AI agents need controlled environments to learn and improve. The environment shapes how an agent perceives the world, learns from experience, and makes decisions, whether it’s a self-driving car or a chatbot. Understanding these ...

Imagine stepping into your first data science interview—your palms are sweaty, your mind racing, and then… you get a question you actually know the answer to. That’s the power of preparation. With data science reshaping how businesses make decisions, the race to hire skilled data scientists is more ...

Vercel has released agent-skills, a collection of skills that turns best practice playbooks into reusable skills for AI coding agents. The project follows the Agent Skills specification and focuses first on React and Next.js performance, web design review, and claimable deployments on Vercel. ...