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Peer launches Global Simulation as real-time digital Earth with AI agents
Peer, the AI-native platform reinventing the internet as a persistent, explorable universe, today launched its Global Simulation—a real-time digital Earth where users show up as avatars, connect by location, and build relationships in a living, spatial network. Peer is designed as a native environment for agentic AI—an operating system where AI can move, perceive, and
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The Download: the next anti-drone weapon, and powering AI’s growth
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. This giant microwave may change the future of war Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed with explosive warheads or
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What will power AI’s growth?
It’s been a little over a week since we published Power Hungry, a package that takes a hard look at the expected energy demands of AI. Last week in this newsletter, I broke down the centerpiece of that package, an analysis I did with my colleague James O’Donnell. (In case you’re still looking for an
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This giant microwave may change the future of war
Imagine: China deploys hundreds of thousands of autonomous drones in the air, on the sea, and under the water—all armed with explosive warheads or small missiles. These machines descend in a swarm toward military installations on Taiwan and nearby US bases, and over the course of a few hours, a single robotic blitzkrieg overwhelms the US
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DanaBot takedown shows how agentic AI cut months of SOC analysis to weeks
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The recent takedown of DanaBot, a Russian malware platform responsible for infecting over 300,000 systems and causing more than $50 million in damage, highlights how agentic AI is redefining cybersecurity operations. According to a recent Lumen
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Mistral launches new code embedding model that outperforms OpenAI and Cohere in real-world retrieval tasks
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More With demand for enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) on the rise, the opportunity is ripe for model providers to offer their take on embedding models. French AI company Mistral threw its hat into the ring with
Nvidia beats estimates for Q1 results as revenues rise 69% from a year ago
Nvidia, the AI and graphics chip company driving societal changes with AI, reported revenue for the first quarter ended April 27, 2025, was $44.1 billion, up 12% from the previous quarter and up 69% from a year ago. On April 9, 2025, the U.S. government told Nvidia that a license is required for exports of
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Less is more: Meta research indicates that shorter reasoning increases AI accuracy by 34 %.
Subscribe to our daily and weekly newsletters for the most recent news and unique articles about cutting-edge AI coverage. Discover More Experts from Meta’s FAIR staff and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered that making huge language models” believe” less actually helps them perform more effectively on challenging logic tasks. According to the study