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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. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work? In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI have all launched medical chatbots

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those jumps have flattened into incremental gains. The exception is domain-specialized intelligence, where true step-function improveme

The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.

SHAP needs 30 ms to explain a fraud prediction. That explanation is stochastic, runs after the decision, and requires a background dataset you have to maintain at inference time. This article benchmarks a neuro-symbolic model that produces a deterministic, human-readable explanation in 0.9 ms — as a

Sara A. Metwalli on the rise of a promising new technology, the effects of LLM on her work, and more. The post Why Data Scientists Should Care About Quantum Computing appeared first on Towards Data Science.

What is p hacking, is it bad, and can you get ai to do it for you? The post How to Lie with Statistics with your Robot Best Friend appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Banking house JPMorgan Chase is asking its roughly 65,000 engineers and technologists to use AI tools as part of their regular workflow. Business Insider reported that managers are tracking how often staff use these tools. That use may also influence performance reviews. The report states employees

A developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, Kong, has announced that Bruce Felt has joined it as CFO. Felt is a seasoned finance leader who brings experience guiding enterprise software companies through their growth phases, including several IPOs, acquisitions, and global expansions. Mr. F

As artificial intelligence becomes a driving force in financial prediction, the reliability of its forecasting tools faces increasing scrutiny. Many traders question whether claims of high accuracy translate into consistent results under live market conditions. Understanding how these AI systems are

When Pew Research Centre analysed 68,879 Google searches in March 2025, one finding stood out: users who encountered an AI-generated summary clicked on a traditional result just 8% of the time. Those who didn’t see a summary clicked nearly twice as often, at 15%. A quarter of users who saw an AI sum

OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public, raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?

Glia, a customer service platform providing AI-powered interactions for the banking sector, has been named a winner in the Banking and Financial Services Category at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards. The awards recognises achievements in a range of industries and use cases, spotlig

Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.

Financial institutions are learning to deploy compliant AI solutions for greater revenue growth and market advantage. For the better part of ten years, financial institutions viewed AI primarily as a mechanism for pure efficiency gains. During that era, quantitative teams programmed systems designed

As AI floods software development with code, Qodo is betting the real challenge is making sure it actually works.

Mistral aims to start operating the data center by the second quarter of 2026.

The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's dominance.

ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.