3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1142+ words) Plus: The US has accused six Chinese AI firms of “industrial-scale” theft. 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. OpenAI says its agents…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (380+ words) Huge grid-scale batteries are thriving, but smaller residential systems have lagged. Battery installations hit a new record in the US in the second quarter of 2026. In total, 20.2 gigawatt-hours of new capacity came online, according to a new report. That’s enough…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (246+ words) AI companies are making impressive mathematical strides. Human mathematicians are losing out. AI models now seem essential for making progress on the most important mathematical problems of our time, and solving them may demand resources only available at a couple…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1263+ words) These innovators are finding high-impact ways to deploy AI and working to improve underlying models. He tests whether AI is living up to its promise. A few years back, several studies from political science researchers found that machine learning seemed…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1247+ words) She audits popular apps to stop financial abuse. In Chase’s banking app, for example, the team found a way to add a second biometric authentication method (like a fingerprint) to an account without alerting the account holder. After her team…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (206+ words) As agentic AI moves from pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, orchestration, data, governance, and clear business objectives are becoming critical for scaling, says chief operating officer at NiCE Arun Chandra. Looking ahead, that connected approach could enable agents to work proactively…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (750+ words) AI-assisted modernization can reduce the time and complexity of transforming legacy systems while creating a foundation for faster innovation, says Asifa Sherazi, CIO of health insurance at Bupa and Sanjeev Tripathi, senior VP, region head of BFSI, healthcare, and public…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (470+ words) Alarm bells within the company should have stopped model training from going forward. So why didn’t they? By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (817+ words) Plus: A judge has blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic. 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. I knew I’d officially become a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (522+ words) The underlying models had been rewarded for cheating and communicating with each other, a new OpenAI report finds. “It’s not something you can solve overnight,” says Kai Chen, who runs OpenAI’s alignment research team. “There are challenges we’ve been tracking…...