February 17, 2026

The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance

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 curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…

Context.ai wants to merge product analytics sensibilities with LLMs

August 30, 2023
Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of last year, we’ve seen companies developing generative AI tooling to help customers interact with their products and services in a more natural way. Yet in many cases, these vendors have no idea how well the underlying large language models are performing, or how good the answers […]

X to allow paid political ads, lifting Twitter’s earlier ban

August 30, 2023
X this week confirmed it’s lifting its ban on paid political ads — a move it committed to earlier this year, shortly after Elon Musk took over the social network previously known as Twitter. The company had originally banned such ads back in 2019 under then-CEO Jack Dorsey’s management, claiming at the time that “political […]

Samsung launches a meal planning and recipe discovery platform called Samsung Food

August 30, 2023
Samsung has launched a meal planning and suggestion platform called Samsung Food in over 104 countries. The platform is based on Whisk, which the Samsung Next division acquired in 2019. The company said that the platform has more than 160,000 recipes in eight languages including English, Spanish, Korean, German, French, and Italian. Samsung noted that […]

3 Top Rated China Stocks Investors Are After This Week

August 30, 2023
Despite several obstacles, the Chinese economy has demonstrated remarkable resilience over the past several years. Given the consistent measures undertaken by the nation to keep its economy afloat this year,…

Accel-backed Agave lets construction software talk to one another

August 30, 2023
A lot of the most popular construction software was developed 20 to 40 years ago and many systems don’t talk to each other. As a result, the information stored in them is fragmented, adding extra work for building teams. Agave, a member of Y Combinator’s latest batch, is helping with a unified API that connects […]

QuantHealth brings its AI-informed clinical drug trials to the US with $15M round

August 30, 2023
Biotech, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies all hope AI will streamline drug development and make it more efficient, and 38% have already adopted the technology, according to Deloitte. QuantHealth aims to take part with a model that predicts risks and outcomes for clinical trials. The company’s AI-powered platform for drug discovery claims to reduce potential […]

The Download: how to test AI, and the hidden victims of pig-butchering scams

August 30, 2023
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. Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they are. In the past few years, multiple researchers claim to have shown that large language models can pass cognitive tests designed…