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.
Data from drones in Ukraine is fueling a new Wild West marketplace
—Cory Alpert, a researcher at the University of Melbourne studying AI’s impact on democra...
The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced inf...
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 new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth
—Jessica Hamzelou
This week, I officially signed up for an unusual compet...
Most AI tools allow you to opt-out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on it. For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, it is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95...