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The power of sound in a virtual world

Date
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 6:00 PM
Description
In an era where business, education, and even casual conversations occur via screens, sound has become a differentiating factor. We obsess over lighting, camera angles, and virtual backgrounds, but how we sound can be just as critical to credibility

The Download: why LLMs are like aliens, and the future of head transplants

Date
Monday, January 26, 2026 - 5:10 PM
Description
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. Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens   How large is a large language model? We now coexist with

The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation

Date
Friday, January 23, 2026 - 5:07 PM
Description
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. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?   For the past two decades, there’s been a clear

The Download: Yann LeCun’s new venture, and lithium’s on the rise

Date
Thursday, January 22, 2026 - 5:10 PM
Description
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. Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models     Yann LeCun is a Turing Award

The Download: Trump at Davos, and AI scientists

Date
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 5:10 PM
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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. All anyone wants to talk about at Davos is AI and Donald Trump —Mat Honan, MIT Technology Review’s editor in

The era of agentic chaos and how data will save us

Date
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 7:00 PM
Description
AI agents are moving beyond coding assistants and customer service chatbots into the operational core of the enterprise. The ROI is promising, but autonomy without alignment is a recipe for chaos. Business leaders need to lay the essential

The UK government is backing AI that can run its own lab experiments

Date
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 5:28 PM
Description
A number of startups and university teams that are building “AI scientists” to design and run experiments in the lab, including robot biologists and chemists, have just won extra funding from the UK government agency that supports moonshot R&D. The

The Download: digitizing India, and scoring embryos

Date
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 5:13 PM
Description
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. The man who made India digital isn’t done yet Nandan Nilekani can’t stop trying to push India into the future