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. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using their products. But they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say, and there’s no independent source to corroborate it. A new research project called the AI Observatory aims to fill in the gap. Its analysis shows many more sensitive behaviors than are captured in reports from major...
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Apple co-founder says AI may make scams harder to spot
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could make scams and misinformation harder to spot.
Disney+ and Hulu to combine content in single app
Disney has announced plans to combine content from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services in the US.
AI vs MD: ChatGTP Outperforms Physicians in Providing High-Quality, Empathetic Healthcare Advice
While AI won’t replace your doctor, a new JAMA Internal Medicine paper suggests physicians working together with technologies like ChatGPT may revolutionize medicine.
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XAI Grok 4.6 is Third Place But Close to OpenAI and Anthropic
Theo is a developer and founder heavily involved with agentic coding tools, T3 Code, Cursor integrations, and AI model testing. He reviews xAI’s newly released Grok 4.6. He notes xAI has accelerated dramatically since acquiring Cursor, moving from long dry spells to rapid back-to-back releases. Grok 4.6 It is not a new pre-train but a substantial post-training / RL upgrade on Grok 4.5, leveraging Cursor’s post-training and RL expertise. Strong focus on long-running agents, multi-step reliability, sub-agents, self-verification, and staying on complex tasks like research, codebases, turning ideas into working apps. Benchmarks are essentially neck-and-neck with GPT-5.6 Sol and just...