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The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor...
Epic Games reportedly delays Disney shooter title so it can pivot to AI coding
Developers working on an unnamed Disney shooter title for Epic Games were surprised when they were ordered to use as muc...
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CXMT president says company’s first 4F² DRAM will be a server DDR5 RDIMM due by year-end
CXMT president Cao Kanyu says the company’s first 4F² DRAM product will be a DDR5 RDIMM for servers, expected by the end...
Building a RAG Pipeline with LLM Embeddings and Scikit-learn
Building a RAG Pipeline with LLM Embeddings and Scikit-learn By Iván Palomares Carrascosa on October 13, 2026 in Languag...
Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you...
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users...
Public Resistance Puts US Prediction Markets Under Pressure
A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 60% of Americans oppose election betting, as regulators and lawmakers debate how prediction m...
“A major overhaul”: OpenCode 2.0 puts its terminal, desktop, and web apps on one shared service
OpenCode 2.0 is getting a formal unpacking today, some three months after its public beta launch. The sizable architectu...
GPUs on Kubernetes are bring-your-own-everything, starting with the bill
If you run a Kubernetes platform, you’ve probably got at least one Grafana dashboard for resource visibility on your wor...
Google paid $90,000 for this bug, then waited two months to fix it
Google took two months to patch an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability in its developer documentation infrastructure. The...
Coding agents made building easy. Platform teams that build from scratch are 3.5x more likely to lack a strategy.
Build-or-buy is usually framed as an engineering trade-off, where developer time is weighed against integration and migr...
Trusted Data Apps for the Agentic Data Cloud, powered by Looker
As a business intelligence user, this probably sounds familiar: Most dashboards only provide you with a standardized can...
Introducing TimesFM 3.0 with multivariate time-series forecasting in BigQuery
Overview Since introducing zero-shot time-series forecasting in BigQuery with AI.FORECAST — initially powered by TimesFM...
10 Years of the SRE book: Announcing the second edition of "Site Reliability Engineering”
A decade ago, Google released Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems with O'Reilly Media. What...
Agentic data science with the Data Agent Kit
Imagine your compliance team notices that payments are taking longer than expected to clear. They suspect fraud, and you...
Andrej Karpathy says only 5,000 people have seen what AI can really do
OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, who joined Anthropic in May, thinks most of the world has little idea of what Th...
Sportsbooks Face New York Scrutiny Over AI and At-Risk Bettors
New York sportsbook AI rules would limit personalized promotions and require outreach to at-risk bettors as proposals mo...
The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the wor...