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. How churches use data and AI as engines of surveillance On a ...

It’s now possible to run useful models from the safety and comfort of your own computer. Here’s how. MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done. Simon Willison has a plan for the ...

All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because ...

Clawdbot. Moltbot. OpenClaw. The rapid rebranding might confuse you, but behind that name is a genuinely useful tool. OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that you can run on your own Mac or PC. More ...