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Consolidating systems for AI with iPaaS

That reality has led to bottlenecks and maintenance burdens, and the impact is showing up in performance. Today, fewer than half of CIOs (48%) say their current digital initiatives are meeting or... Read more »

The Download: attempting to track AI, and the next generation of nuclear power

Every time OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic drops a new frontier large language model, the AI community holds its breath. It doesn’t exhale until METR, an AI research nonprofit whose name stands for... Read more »

Three questions about next-generation nuclear power, answered

A recent NPR investigation found that the Trump administration had secretly rewritten nuclear rules, stripping environmental protections and loosening safety and security measures. The government shared the new rules with companies that... Read more »

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

To understand exactly what model time horizons are, it helps to know all the work that METR put into calculating them. First, the METR team assembled a collection of tasks ranging from... Read more »

From guardrails to governance: A CEO’s guide for securing agentic systems

3. Permissions by design: Bind tools to tasks, not to models A common anti-pattern is to give the model a long-lived credential and hope prompts keep it polite. SAIF and NIST argue... Read more »

The Download: squeezing more metal out of aging mines, and AI’s truth crisis

In a pine forest on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the only active nickel mine in the US is nearing the end of its life. At a time when carmakers want the metal for... Read more »

Microbes could extract the metal needed for cleantech

“They are acutely aware of what it takes to scale these technologies because they know the industry,” she says. “They’ll be your biggest supporters, but they’re going to be your biggest critics.”... Read more »

What we’ve been getting wrong about AI’s truth crisis

On Thursday, I reported the first confirmation that the US Department of Homeland Security, which houses immigration agencies, is using AI video generators from Google and Adobe to make content that it... Read more »

The crucial first step for designing a successful enterprise AI system

Many organizations rushed into generative AI, only to see pilots fail to deliver value. Now, companies want measurable outcomes—but how do you design for success? At Mistral AI, we partner with global... Read more »

The Download: inside a deepfake marketplace, and EV batteries’ future

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 A social network for AI agents is vulnerable to abuseA misconfiguration meant anyone could take control... Read more »