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. Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use —Casey Crownhart Google just announced that a typical query to its Gemini app uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity. That’s about…
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Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions
Nous Research launches Hermes 4 open-source AI models that outperform ChatGPT on math benchmarks with uncensored responses and hybrid reasoning capabilities.
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In crowded voice AI market, OpenAI bets on instruction-following and expressive speech to win enterprise adoption
OpenAI’s new speech model, gpt-realtime, hopes that its more naturalistic voices would make enterprises use more AI generated voices in applications.
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3 problems with Google’s AI energy use data
Google just announced that a typical query to its Gemini app uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity. That’s about the same as running a microwave for one second—something that, to me, feels virtually insignificant. I run the microwave for so many more seconds than that on most days. I was excited to see this report…
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From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care
Over the past 20 years building advanced AI systems—from academic labs to enterprise deployments—I’ve witnessed AI’s waves of success rise and fall. My journey began during the “AI Winter,” when billions were invested in expert systems that ultimately underdelivered. Flash forward to today: large language models (LLMs) represent a quantum leap forward, but their prompt-based…
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Salesforce builds ‘flight simulator’ for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production
Salesforce launches CRMArena-Pro, a simulated enterprise AI testing platform, to address the 95% failure rate of AI pilots and improve agent reliability, performance, and security in real-world business deployments.
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How procedural memory can cut the cost and complexity of AI agents
Memp takes inspiration from human cognition to give LLM agents “procedural memory” that can adapt to new tasks and environments.
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Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome in limited beta, but prompt injection attacks remain a major concern
Anthropic launches a limited pilot of Claude for Chrome, allowing its AI to control web browsers while raising critical concerns about security and prompt injection attacks.
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Enterprise leaders say recipe for AI agents is matching them to existing processes — not the other way around
Global enterprises Block and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are exploring AI agent proof of concepts in financial services and drug discovery.
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This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o—and the results may surprise you
Take this blind test to discover whether you truly prefer OpenAI’s GPT-5 or the older GPT-4o—without knowing which model you’re using.