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. US deputy health secretary: Vaccine guidelines are still subject to change Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people in public ...

You type in a lengthy prompt, well over 500 words, or even 1000 words. It structures everything perfectly. Explains in detail what is to be done, right down to the finer details of each step. And you press enter. Your AI chatbot starts off strong, following every instruction from the top, then ...

The T20 World Cup 2026 brings exciting matches, and fans constantly wonder which team will win. An AI agent answers this by analyzing live data and patterns instead of relying on intuition. Users enter a match date, and the system gathers all scheduled games and relevant context for that day. Built ...

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end Direct Preference Optimization workflow to align a large language model with human preferences without using a reward model. We combine TRL’s DPOTrainer with QLoRA and PEFT to make preference-based alignment feasible on a single Colab GPU. We train ...

Google DeepMind team has introduced Aletheia, a specialized AI agent designed to bridge the gap between competition-level math and professional research. While models achieved gold-medal standards at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), research requires navigating vast literature ...

Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people in public health. As the US deputy health secretary, he holds two roles at the top of the country’s federal health and science agencies. He oversees a department with a budget of over a trillion dollars. And he signed the ...

Making a movie is a lot like pulling off a heist. That’s what Steven Soderbergh—director of the Ocean’s franchise, among other heist-y classics—said a few years ago. You come up with a creative angle, put together a team of specialists, figure out how to beat the technological challenges, rehearse, ...

Swarm architecture brings together specialized AI agents that collaborate to solve complex data problems. Inspired by natural swarms, it pairs a Data Analyst agent for processing with a Visualization agent for chart creation, coordinated to deliver clearer and more efficient insights. This ...

The AI researcher Andrej Karpathy has developed an educational tool microGPT which provides the easiest access to GPT technology according to his research findings. The project uses 243 lines of Python code which does not need any external dependency to show users the fundamental mathematical ...

OpenAI just launched a new research preview called GPT-5.3 Codex-Spark. This model is built for 1 thing: extreme speed. While the standard GPT-5.3 Codex focuses on deep reasoning, Spark is designed for near-instant response times. It is the result of a deep hardware-software integration between ...