Solar geoengineering aims to manipulate the climate by bouncing sunlight back into space. In theory, it could ease global warming. But as interest in the idea grows, so do concerns about potential consequences. A startup called Stardust Solutions recently raised a $60 million funding round, the ...

Mistral AI has introduced Devstral 2, a next generation coding model family for software engineering agents, together with Mistral Vibe CLI, an open source command line coding assistant that runs inside the terminal or IDEs that support the Agent Communication Protocol. Devstral 2 and Devstral ...

Stardust Solutions believes that it can solve climate change—for a price. The Israel-based geoengineering startup has said it expects  nations will soon pay it more than a billion dollars a year to launch specially equipped aircraft into the stratosphere. Once they’ve reached the necessary ...

At a regional hospital, a cardiac patient’s lab results sit behind layers of encryption, accessible to his surgeon but shielded from those without strictly need-to-know status. Across the street at a credit union, a small business owner anxiously awaits the all-clear for a wire transfer, unaware ...

The race for the “best AI model” goes on, as Z.ai is the latest one to mark its entry with a new and evolved model. Calling it the GLM-4.6V, Z.ai has focused on visual cues and representation with this one. And hence the “V” at the end of its name that resembles the existing flagship The post Z.ai ...

The new LiteRT NeuroPilot Accelerator from Google and MediaTek is a concrete step toward running real generative models on phones, laptops, and IoT hardware without shipping every request to a data center. It takes the existing LiteRT runtime and wires it directly into MediaTek’s NeuroPilot NPU ...

In this tutorial, we explore how an intelligent agent can gradually form procedural memory by learning reusable skills directly from its interactions with an environment. We design a minimal yet powerful framework in which skills behave like neural modules: they store action sequences, carry ...

You spend hours storyboarding, filming, and editing your latest TikTok. You hit “post” and linger in the app, waiting for the likes to roll in. But…

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 State of AI: A vision of the world in 2030   There are huge gulfs of opinion when it comes to predicting the near-future impacts of generative AI. In one ...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are the heart of Agentic systems and RAG systems. And building with LLMs is exciting until the scale makes them expensive. There is always a tradeoff for cost vs quality, but in this article we will explore the 10 best ways according to me that can slash costs for the ...