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Investors are loving Lovable

August 28, 2025
Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion.

The Download: Google’s AI energy use, and the AI Hype Index

August 28, 2025
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. Google’s still not giving us the full picture on AI energy use  —Casey Crownhart Google just announced that a typical query to its Gemini app uses about 0.24 watt-hours of electricity. That’s about…

Get ready, EV owners: Here come the dongles

August 28, 2025
The transition from CCS to NACS will unlock thousands more fast chargers for many EV drivers, but they’ll need to know their adapters to get the most out of it.

From pilot to scale: Making agentic AI work in health care

August 28, 2025
Over the past 20 years building advanced AI systems—from academic labs to enterprise deployments—I’ve witnessed AI’s waves of success rise and fall. My journey began during the “AI Winter,” when billions were invested in expert systems that ultimately underdelivered. Flash forward to today: large language models (LLMs) represent a quantum leap forward, but their prompt-based…