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.

To some, METR’s “time horizon plot” indicates that AI utopia—or apocalypse—is close at hand. The truth is more complicated.

HBM demand surges, shortages may last to 2027–2028, and Micron’s upside persists. Click here to read my most recent analysis.

The artificial intelligence revolution is upon us, and plenty is bound to change in how to conduct ourselves in society. From work to play, the potential applications of AI are seemingly endless, and ...

True AGI expected in 2026 (possibly 2027), with superintelligence by ~2030 surpassing all human intelligence combined. 100X Intelligence density increase will reduce the HBM memory bottleneck. 10X AI ...

Before installation, it’s crucial to understand that Microsoft Graph is a RESTful web API that integrates various Microsoft services. You only need to authenticate once to access data across these ...

Q. I use Excel to do traditional linear forecasting, but I would like to upgrade to exponential smoothing for more accurate forecasts. Is there a way to do this in Excel? A. Accurate forecasting is ...

Understanding the historical evolution and divergence of languages requires a quantitative framework for measuring their relationships. Traditional linguistic classifications provide hierarchical ...

The cybersecurity industry loves a good quote. At every conference, buried among the slide decks littered with questionable quotes from Sun Tzu's Art of War, you will occasionally strike gold and see ...

Microsoft Corp. today is expanding its Fabric data platform with the addition of native graph database and geospatial mapping capabilities, saying the enhancements enhance Fabric’s capacity to power ...

A new MCP Server for Fabric has also been added to enable developers to connect agents to Fabric’s ecosystem to accelerate tasks, such as creating a data pipeline or notebook. Microsoft is adding two ...

Microsoft Corp will discontinue its Graph command-line interface tool next year, citing declining usage and overlap with existing developer tools as the company consolidates its software development ...