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The Download: AI agents’ autonomy, and sodium-based batteries

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. Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? In recent months, a new class of agents has arrived on the scene: ones built using large language models. Any action that can be […]

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These new batteries are finding a niche

Lithium-ion batteries have some emerging competition: Sodium-based alternatives are starting to make inroads. Sodium is more abundant on Earth than lithium, and batteries that use the material could be cheaper in the future. Building a new battery chemistry is difficult, mostly because lithium is so entrenched. But, as I’ve noted before, this new technology has

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Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?

On May 6, 2010, at 2:32 p.m. Eastern time, nearly a trillion dollars evaporated from the US stock market within 20 minutes—at the time, the fastest decline in history. Then, almost as suddenly, the market rebounded. After months of investigation, regulators attributed much of the responsibility for this “flash crash” to high-frequency trading algorithms, which

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Mistral, backed by Microsoft, launches a German AI cloud to contend with AWS and Azure.

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence startup, announced Wednesday a sweeping expansion into AI infrastructure that positions the company as Europe’s answer to American cloud computing giants, while simultaneously unveiling new reasoning

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90 % faster pipeline builds thanks to the open-source, descriptive ETL construction Databricks.

90 % faster pipeline builds thanks to the open-source, descriptive ETL construction Databricks. Read More »

Generative AI aids in the stretch of time: CrowdStrike, Nvidia embed real-time LLM protection, changing how businesses manage AI security.

Generative AI aids in the stretch of time: CrowdStrike, Nvidia embed real-time LLM protection, changing how businesses manage AI security. Read More »

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