Author: Hunter

Peter Rawlinson will stay on as a “strategic technical advisor.” Lucid Motors founder and CEO Peter Rawlinson will step down, as the luxury EV company sets its sights on doubling production over the next year. Rawlinson won’t be leaving the company. Instead, he’ll be assuming the role of “Strategic Technical Advisor to the Chairman of… Read more

IBM is bringing the power of conditional reasoning to its open source Granite 3.2 LLM, in an effort to solve real enterprise AI challenges.Read More Read more

Qualcomm and Nokia Bell Labs showed how multiple-vendor AI models can work together in an interoperable way in wireless networks.Read More Read more

The Framework Desktop. Framework’s mission is to “fix consumer electronics, one category at a time” by making them modular, repairable, and upgradable. It’s the only laptop maker to ever truly succeed at that “upgradable” part. But desktop PCs are already modular, so why is Framework making one? At first, I thought it saw a unique… Read more

You can now request removals directly on the offending Search results. Google is making it easier to remove and update Search results that contain your personal information. The company’s “Results about you” tool for detecting personal information like addresses and phone numbers that appear in Search has been updated to make it “easier than ever”… Read more

YouTube isn’t a podcast app, but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming the number one place people who want to consume online radio shows now turn to. According to the company, a staggering 1 billion people are tuning into podcasts every month on YouTube. That’s not just more than either Apple or Spotify can claim… Read more

Akool, a startup doing AI-driven avatars, announced enhancements to Akool Streaming Avatars that connect avatars with AI models.Read More Read more

Want the image quality of a DSLR without the bulk? These WIRED picks do more with less. Read more

The Verge is live blogging Amazon’s big Alexa event in New York City. It kicks off at 10AM ET on February 26th, and we’re expecting the company to announce a new subscription-based version of Alexa that’s beefed up with a bunch of AI features. It seems like a good time for the company to announce… Read more

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. Introducing: the Relationships issue Relationships are the stories of people and systems working together. Sometimes by choice. Sometimes for practicality. Sometimes by force. Too often, for purely transactional reasons. That’s why we’re exploring… Read more