OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models
OpenAI has finally released its first open-weight large language models since 2019’s GPT-2. These new “gpt-oss” models are available in two different sizes and score similarly to the company’s o3-mini
The Download: AI agent infrastructure, and OpenAI’s ambitions
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. These protocols will help AI agents navigate our
A glimpse into OpenAI’s largest ambitions
OpenAI has given itself a dual mandate. On the one hand, it’s a tech giant rooted in products, including of course ChatGPT, which people around the world reportedly send 2.5
ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers
ChatGPT reaches 700 million weekly users as OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 with integrated reasoning capabilities in August 2025.Read More
The Download: fixing ‘evil’ AI, and the White House’s war on science
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. Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can
Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI
AI coding requires a serious structural change. Where does that leave entry-level developers and the software industry as a whole?Read More
These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives
A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on your behalf—actions like sending an email, making a document, or editing a database. Initial reviews for
Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese
My initial tests revealed the text and prompt adherence was not noticeably better than Midjourney, the popular proprietary AI image generatorRead More
Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.
Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone
GUEST: The past few decades have seen almost unimaginable advances in compute performance and efficiency, enabled by Moore’s Law and underpinned by scale-out commodity hardware and loosely coupled software. This