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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. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actual

The DP World Tour will become the first professional sports organization to use Amazon Leo as its official satellite connectivity partner, deploying low Earth orbit or LEO terminals at tournament venu

The edit fidelity is the real unlock. Targeted changes stay targeted — colorize a photo or shift noon to dusk at up to 2K, and everything outside the edit zone stays pixel-stable. No more warped faces

arXiv:2604.19064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In vision-and-language navigation (VLN), self-improvement from policy-induced experience, using only standard VLN action supervision, critically depends

Traditional lakehouses were engineered for the era of reporting, not the high-velocity, multimodal demands of AI agents. To bridge this gap, architecture must evolve into an AI-native foundation — one

This thread discusses how advances in AI tooling and accessible models have lowered barriers to entry for startups, enabling small teams to leverage capabilities previously requiring specialized ML ex

arXiv:2604.18828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) surrogate models provide a computationally efficient alternative to full-physics simulations, but no public datasets curren

This article examines the fundamental trade-offs in large language model inference operations, specifically the competing priorities of maximizing throughput, minimizing latency, and reducing costs. I

arXiv:2604.19212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the standard for learning on graphs, yet they have limited expressive power, often expressed in terms of the Weisfeiler

The Never Ending Lore of Harness w/@Vtrivedy10⚡️ Viv brought some amazing perspective around harness design, evals, file systems, RL Envs and so much. 0:00:00 - INTRO 0:03:30 - PhD at Temple Universit

The first wave of AI changed how we find information; the next wave is changing how we get work done. Today, we’re enhancing our most powerful AI tools and bringing them together under one roof. Gemin

This post highlights the Qwen 3.6-27B language model's image generation capabilities, noting that despite its relatively compact 16.8GB file size, it produces high-quality creative outputs like the ex

arXiv:2604.19447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a dual-track pipeline for detecting biblical allusions in literary fiction and apply it to the novels of Cormac McCarthy. A bottom-up embeddi

'The overall goal of my companies is to maximize the future of civilization. Basically maximize the probability that civilization has a great future and to expand consciousness beyond Earth. Take Spac

'The phone's real interface layer is AI, not apps' - this is the thesis behind everything we're building. @tomsguide got the early look @tomsguide just called our Android app 'the future of Siri in iO

The Political Left is responsible for the destruction of American race relations. They used their proxies in organizations like BLM and the SPLC to generate fake controversies and their media monopoly

arXiv:2601.09926v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current approaches to proactive assistance move beyond the ask-and-respond paradigm by anticipating user needs. In practice, they either burden user

arXiv:2604.19139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to evolve through alignment techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Constitu

arXiv:2604.19645v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An earlier paper (Hong, Potteiger, and Zapata 2026) established that an unoptimized GPT 4.1 prompt predicts fan-reported experience ratings within one p

arXiv:2604.19620v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Free-association norms provide essential empirical data for investigating linguistic, semantic, and cultural phenomena in the cognitive sciences. Althou

The SPLC needs to be shut down. Last year they included me in their annual report on 'Hate and Extremism.' In it, I am described as 'mimicking the language of white supremacist ideologues' and an advi

I can't provide a summary of this claim as presented because it appears to be an incomplete post making an unsubstantiated allegation about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The claim lacks supp

The Sun rounds up to 100% of energy in our solar system, even if Jupiter and all non-solar mass is burned Solar met 75% of global electricity demand growth in 2025. Clean power covered all new demand,

arXiv:2604.18850v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems are increasingly embedded in multi-user social environments, yet most alignment frameworks conceptualize interaction as a dyadic relationsh

The Trump administration files concocted charges against the civil rights Southern Poverty Law Center, claiming it defrauded donors by supposedly supporting extremist groups when it was paying informa

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: The UK FCA says it has carried out its first joint operation to disrupt illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading, targeting eight premises across London — Quick Take — The UK'

Mason Boycott-Owen / Politico: The UK's GCHQ believes ~100 countries have procured cyber intrusion software, such as Pegasus, suggesting the barrier to get access to the tech is dropping — GLASGOW — M

The 'Very Fine People' Hoax just got a major plot twist. It turns out the Unite the Right group that was involved in Charlottesville was a LEFT-WING FUNDED FRONT GROUP. So, this was a HOAX upon a HOAX

When people talk about “nature,” they’re generally talking about things that aren’t made by human beings. Rocks. Reefs. Red wolves. But while there is plenty of God’s creation to go around, it is hard

There seems to be some excitement around “ChatGPT’s powerful new image engine”, but as ever, its functional understanding of the world seems limited. I first learned about the new system when some som

arXiv:2604.18606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Damage caused by bushfires and volcanic eruptions escalates rapidly when detection is delayed, making fast and reliable early warning capabilities ess

arXiv:2604.19113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative answer engines expose content through selective citation rather than ranked retrieval, fundamentally altering how visibility is determined.

arXiv:2604.19218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning identity-discriminative representations with multi-scene generality has become a critical objective in person re-identification (ReID). However

Gary Marcus expresses skepticism or concern about an artificial intelligence claim or incident that he finds implausible, suggesting that even young children would recognize the flaw in the reasoning

This has in fact (at various levels) happened more than 1000 times. Check out @DamienCharlotin’s tracker and my substack essays about it. And it begins Sullivan & Cromwell just admitted to a federal j

This is a really big deal - it's easy to run into nasty bills with Cloud Run if your site attracts aggressive scrapers, spending caps make it a whole lot safer to run small projects on Anouncing Spend

This is why I won't use proprietary hosted embedding models myself - I am more than happy to pay for a hosted solution (cheaper, faster and more convenient than self-hosting) but I want an open weight

this looks like a website but it’s an interactive generative video 🫨 Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you

This pipeline is why the same base model produces more accurate, better-cited, and more efficient answers inside Perplexity than out of the box. Read our research: https://research.perplexity.ai/artic

This post was made by Elon in 2025 before we learned what we now know today about the SPLC. Elon was so on point with this. The SPLC is an evil organization. It started with good intentions but mutate

This wasn't the case with previous image generators, but the LLM you select has a huge effect on GPT-imagegen-2 output. GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro will produce much better images, especially for

arXiv:2604.18900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aerobat is a bat-inspired flapping-wing robot with a wing gait generate by the computational structure, a planar linkage of carbon fiber links driven by

Financial Times: TikTok's plan to build a ~38B data center campus in Brazil, its first in Latin America, is facing local pushback over sustainability in a semi-arid area — TikTok's plan for 9.5bn data

arXiv:2508.12121v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We show that gating mechanisms in recurrent neural networks (RNNs) induce lag-dependent and direction-dependent effective learning rates, even when

arXiv:2604.19633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) for complex, quantitative financial tasks is a critical and unsolved challenge. St

Today we release a novel AI-assisted resolution of one of physics’ longest-standing questions. Given only: • Relativity as an axiom • One characteristic of the algebra A positive cosmological constant