The Download: AI and coding, and Waymo’s aggressive driverless cars
The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Amazon’s new agents can…
The Download: Spotting crimes in prisoners’ phone calls, and nominate an Innovator Under 35
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 New York is cracking down on…
The State of AI: the economic singularity
The opportunities and the challenges are both enormous. An executive at one Fortune 500 company says his organization has carried…
The Download: AI’s impact on the economy, and DeepSeek strikes again
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 DeepSeek has unveiled two new experimental…
The State of AI: Chatbot companions and the future of our privacy
Eileen Guo writes: Even if you don’t have an AI friend yourself, you probably know someone who does. A recent…
Aligning VMware migration with business continuity
For decades, business continuity planning meant preparing for anomalous events like hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, or regional power outages. In anticipation…
The Download: the future of AlphaFold, and chatbot privacy concerns
In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind had moved on from…
What we still don’t know about weight-loss drugs
Unfortunately, the company found that the drug did not appear to delay the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in the volunteers…
The Download: the mysteries surrounding weight-loss drugs, and the economic effects of AI
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in…
Moving toward LessOps with VMware-to-cloud migrations
For many organizations, the path forward involves adopting a LessOps model, an operational strategy that makes hybrid environments manageable without…