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

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Thursday, January 22, 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. 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

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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

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Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 7:00 PM
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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

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Tuesday, January 20, 2026 - 5:28 PM
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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
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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. The man who made India digital isn’t done yet Nandan Nilekani can’t stop trying to push India into the future

The Download: the US digital rights crackdown, and AI companionship

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Monday, January 19, 2026 - 5:39 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. What it’s like to be banned from the US for fighting online hate   Just before Christmas the Trump

The Download: cut through AI coding hype, and biotech trends to watch

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Friday, January 16, 2026 - 4:59 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. AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.   Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either