The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming
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. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout
Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are announcing massive capacity without the customers to back it u…
Meta closes in on the top with Muse Spark 1.3, and undercuts rivals on price
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, its fourth model in the series in five months. According to Artificial Analysis, the model gains the most on agentic benchmarks but still trails …
Agriculture relies on fossil fuels. It’s costing us.
If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices. But farmers buying fertilizer for the…
Scaling agentic AI pilots across the enterprise
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and o…
Mamdani Announces NYC’s First AI Policy, Restricts Generative AI In Grades 2–8 - NDTV
Mamdani Announces NYC’s First AI Policy, Restricts Generative AI In Grades 2–8 NDTV
US strikes light-touch AI regulation accord with G20 members - The Star
US strikes light-touch AI regulation accord with G20 members The Star
UCT research warns SA cannot delay AI regulation - ITWeb
UCT research warns SA cannot delay AI regulation ITWeb
Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda …
Perplexity Open Sources Lily: A Rust + Metal Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple Silicon
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, the local inference engine behind Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer. Built in Rust with custom Metal kernels for one model on one chip family…
DOJ Says Training AI on IP 'Is Exceedingly Transformative' - Digital Music News
DOJ Says Training AI on IP 'Is Exceedingly Transformative' Digital Music News
Qwen Developers Open-Sources zg (zvec-grep): A Local-First Search Layer Unifying ripgrep, BM25, and Vector Search
We look at zg (zvec-grep), the local-first search layer that Qwen Developers just open-sourced under Apache 2.0. We explain how it puts ripgrep, BM25, and vector search behind a s…
US Asks G20 Members to Hold Off on Strict AI Rules Ahead of Miami Leaders Summit - Android Headlines
US Asks G20 Members to Hold Off on Strict AI Rules Ahead of Miami Leaders Summit Android Headlines
US Strikes Light-Touch AI Regulation Accord With G20 Members - Bloomberg.com
US Strikes Light-Touch AI Regulation Accord With G20 Members Bloomberg.com
Emil Michael Sold $50M in AI Rival Stocks While Setting Pentagon AI Policy - Tech Times
Emil Michael Sold $50M in AI Rival Stocks While Setting Pentagon AI Policy Tech Times
Anthropic Just Added a Powerful New Voice for AI Policy Around the World - Benzinga
Anthropic Just Added a Powerful New Voice for AI Policy Around the World Benzinga
US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on copyrighted text qualifies as fair use. The filing directl…
Meet Switchyard: A Rust Proxy and Library That Routes and Translates LLM Traffic Across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
NVIDIA has released Switchyard, an Apache-2.0 Rust proxy and library for LLM traffic. It decodes requests into provider-neutral types, routes them with passthrough, random, LLM-cl…
Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: One Core Model, Two Access Envelopes
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on September 2, 2026. Both variants run on the same foundational intelligence, split by safety mitigations rather than …
We’re ‘dangerously close’ to dead internet theory, says Pangram’s CEO
The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applicat…
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks at lower cost. But its "working harder" reasoning burns abou…
States Defy Washington, Tech Lobby as Voter Backlash Fuels AI Regulation - PYMNTS.com
States Defy Washington, Tech Lobby as Voter Backlash Fuels AI Regulation PYMNTS.com
Pentagon’s Top AI Official Sold Millions in Tech Stock While Setting Military AI Policy - Gadget Review
Pentagon’s Top AI Official Sold Millions in Tech Stock While Setting Military AI Policy Gadget Review
US and Big Tech Advocate Looser AI Rules at G20 Gathering - PYMNTS.com
US and Big Tech Advocate Looser AI Rules at G20 Gathering PYMNTS.com