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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. We’ve entered the era of AI malaise AI is spreading everywhere

Michael Kan / PCMag: The FCC says foreign-made routers and drones can now receive software updates at least until 2029, extending its earlier 2027 cutoff — The FCC's bans on foreign-made Wi-Fi routers

The future of Math is mathematicians and AI agents working together. Very pleased to introduce @GoogleDeepMind's AI co-mathematician: a multi-agent system designed to actively collaborate with human e

The gap between 'this looks cool' and 'I'm actually running it' used to be a day or two of setup. Not anymore. Deploy any Hugging Face model on the AI Native Cloud in a single session 👇🏼 https://www.t

The human brain🧠 is incredibly efficient because it only activates the specific neurons needed for a thought. Modern LLMs naturally try to do this too (> 95% of neurons in feedforward layers stay sile

The Iliad and Odyssey are the only nearly complete survivors of the Epic Cycle, an 8 part collection of ancient Greek epics that once told the full mythological story of the Trojan War. Homer’s poems

Yohei Nakajima shared positive feedback about the redesigned di.gg website on X (formerly Twitter), indicating that the platform's new interface or features received an enthusiastic response. The post

Nintendo will increase the Nintendo Switch 2's price in the U.S. from 449.99 to 499.99 beginning September 1, 2026 , with similar increases across Japan, Canada, and Europe, though Japan's increase ta

The only thing you need is a good story and @runwayml The quality of animation you can create on your own is truly amazing. We really are just limited by our imaginations at this point. Go tell your s

The quality of animation you can create on your own is truly amazing. We really are just limited by our imaginations at this point. Go tell your story! Made in @runwayml in a few hours and a handful o

The Replit 10 Buildathon was a development competition hosted by Replit where participants created projects within a specified timeframe. Winners were announced and showcased, likely demonstrating inn

🚨The slow decline of OpenAI has begun. 🚨 These two hesitations from SoftBank and Broadcom, back to back in my feed from @HedgieMarkets and @anissagardizy8, are major signs. The money question of 2026:

The thing that struck us across all 10: most winners aren't traditional engineers. A teacher, a designer, a parent, a 3D-printing hobbyist. People who saw a problem in their own life and built a solut

MTSlive has uploaded a UFO dataset to Hugging Face, making it available for machine learning projects. The post is calling for developers and researchers to create the first computer vision model trai

The Pentagon released declassified UFO/UAP files following President Trump's directive, with the initial batch containing 162 documents outlining decades-old investigations of reported unidentified ae

this is the part people underestimate about agents the “prompt + tools” part is honestly the easy bit production agents need: - durable execution - memory - human-in-the-loop - retries - concurrency h

Tickets are now available for the 4th annual AI Film Festival: June 11 at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC, and June 18 at The Broad Stage in LA. It’s the biggest and most important celebrati

Time to accelerate. The inflection point is here. Runway added more than $40M in net new ARR so far this quarter, and we're less than halfway through. The biggest growth period in the history of the c

'Tis the year of open source LLMs in agents! .@BraceSproul changed our org's internal model in Fleet from Sonnet 4.6 to Kimi K2.6 and I didn't even notice. Open models are already good enough for most

Training models involves many technical and social processes, so prevention of CoT grading has to be built into the process. We’re improving real-time CoT-grading detection, safeguards against acciden

Todd Spangler / Variety: Trump Media and Technology Group reports Q1 net sales up 6% YoY to 871,200 and a 405.9M net loss; DJT is down 35% so far in 2026 for a market cap of ~$2.47B — Trump Media and

President Trump plans to fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary following months of chaos at the agency . Makary has faced criticism over his handling of flavored vapes and for slow-walking a safety study

ComfyUI announced the availability of a new template on Comfy Cloud that integrates OpenAI's chat API, allowing users to try it immediately through their cloud platform. The template likely provides a

Pinecone has launched two new regional endpoints for its vector database service: AWS eu-central-1 in Germany and AWS ap-southeast-1 in Singapore. These new regions enable users in Europe and Southeas

Unions often push back against automation, often successfully (see self-driving car fights). But just wait until you see what happens when highly connected, wealthy, and organized white collar workers

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to req

MemAlign is a technique used within Databricks' Genie code environment to enhance the evaluation and benchmarking of traditional machine learning models by optimizing memory alignment. This approach l

v0.30.0-rc7 is a release candidate version of Ollama, a platform for running large language models. This pre-release build was recently pushed to Docker repositories and represents testing iterations

This release candidate merges updates from the upstream main branch into the llama-runner-phase-0 development branch, likely incorporating bug fixes, improvements, and new features from the main Ollam

We introduce a framework for learning latent representations of 4D objects which are descriptive, faithfully capturing object geometry and appearance; compressive, aiding in downstream efficiency; and

Very good hire by DeepMind. Some news: This week I am starting at @GoogleDeepMind as Director of AGI Economics on @shanelegg’s team. I will be joining the other amazing cross-disciplinary scientists r

Replit announced 10 winners of a competition or award program, with the full announcement available in an embedded YouTube video. The post was shared on X (formerly Twitter) as part of Replit's offici

We also had three third-party AI safety organizations provide feedback on our analysis: @redwood_ai, @apolloaievals, @METR_Evals. You can find @redwood_ai's report here: https://blog.redwoodresearch.o

We are less safe as a society by keeping Mythos (or any other smart model) tightly gated so only a few companies get it. Protecting 100 companies is not enough. There are 96 million open source projec

Boris Cherny shared a link to free Code with Claude stickers available through Sticker Mule, offering them to followers on a first-come, first-served basis. The stickers appear to be promotional merch

We started by investigating why Claude chose to blackmail. We believe the original source of the behavior was internet text that portrays AI as evil and interested in self-preservation. Our post-train

we'd like to help companies secure themselves and we think it's important to start work on this quickly Today, we're rolling out GPT‑5.5‑Cyber in limited preview to defenders responsible for securing

Anthropic is hosting hackathons in San Francisco where developers can build projects using Claude, Anthropic's AI model. The announcement invites the developer community to participate in these upcomi

We've published our internal manual for building agent skills. Skills require a new way of thinking for developers. https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/designing-refining-and-maintaining-agent-ski

We’ve spent a lot of time on the framework underneath Codex, so it can move quickly on routine work while stopping for review when the risk changes. Here’s how we use sandboxing, approvals, network po

Financial services are becoming more personal, more automated and increasingly AI-driven. However, a big hurdle remains: AI trust. In an industry that handles sensitive financial data, there is little

This appears to be a humorous or satirical post from X (formerly Twitter) combining absurdist references to white cats, Bob's Big Boy restaurant, and sharks with lasers—likely a joke or meme rather th

When I started to work on the alignment problem more than 10 years ago, we had no idea how AGI was going to be built or how to make it safe. The field had maybe a dozen people who were working on it a

It’s 2:17 a.m., and your application monitor flags elevated database latency. Before your on-call engineer finishes reading the alert, three agents have already responded. The performance agent double

Vibecon is a two-day conference hosted by Replit taking place in New York City on June 17-18, focused on the intersection of technology and culture within the creative AI community. The event brings t

Apple CEO Tim Cook acknowledged in Q2 2026 earnings that high-demand Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations are severely constrained and may take several months to reach supply-demand balance. Apple h