The Download: Yann LeCun’s new venture, and lithium’s on the rise
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language…
You were working on AI long before LLMs became a mainstream approach. But since ChatGPT broke out, LLMs have…
Why 2026 is a hot year for lithium
But lithium is worthy of a close look right now. The metal is crucial for lithium-ion batteries used in phones…
The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship
EU officials, freedom of speech experts, and the five people targeted all flatly reject these accusations.…
The Download: digitizing India, and scoring embryos
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of…
The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments
“There are better uses for a PhD student than waiting around in a lab until 3 a.m. to make sure an experiment…
The era of agentic chaos and how data will save us
Models: The underlying AI systems that interpret prompts, generate responses, and make predictions Tools:…
Reimagining ERP for the agentic AI era
Early indicators suggest that AI-enabled ERP will yield meaningful performance gains: One 2024 study found…
All anyone wants to talk about at Davos is AI and Donald Trump
(A quick aside on what I was doing there: I sat on a panel called “Creativity and Identity in the Age of Memes…
The Download: Trump at Davos, and AI scientists
Everyone wants AI sovereignty. No one can truly have it. —Cathy Li is head of the Centre for AI Excellence at…