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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. 5 key points in Trump’s new AI order Less than two weeks after scrapping an executive order on AI, President Donald Trump signed a new one on Tuesday. Promising to promote innovation and security, the policy represents a turning point in the White House’s AI governance—but is likely to attract criticism from both opponents and supporters of stricter regulation. Here are five key points from the order:1. It’s created a voluntary review system: tech companies will…

In this article, you will learn how to benchmark three text classification approaches — from a classical TF-IDF pipeline to a zero-shot large language model — to understand when each is most appropriate. Topics we will cover include: How to implement and evaluate a classical TF-IDF and logistic regression text classification pipeline. How to apply zero-shot classification using a transformer-based model (BART) and compare it against the classical baseline. How to use scikit-LLM with a Groq-hosted large language model for production-ready zero-shot classification with minimal code changes. Scikit-LLM vs. Traditional Text Classifiers: When Should You Use an LLM? Introduction In…

As we explored in our first blog, Databricks Genie is redefining industry-specific outcomes by democratizing access to data through natural language. However, the transformative power of Genie extends far beyond industry use cases. At its core, Genie is a robust technology layer that addresses universal functional challenges – such as financial planning, legal compliance, and IT operations – that every enterprise faces regardless of their sector. By acting as a ‘Research Agent’, Genie can automatically generate multi-step research plans to explain business anomalies and back every answer with verifiable proof from the lakehouse.To help organizations operationalize AI at scale, our…

!!Google has broken ground on a new data centre in Horndal, Sweden.The facility will support Google services including Search, Cloud, Workspace, and YouTube. The company said the site will help meet demand for cloud services in Sweden and other markets.The International Energy Agency said electricity demand from data centres rose 17% in 2025 and is projected to roughly double by 2030. It expects power use from AI-focused data centres to triple by the end of the decade.Google also announced a €5 million fund for local initiatives in education, sustainability, economic development, and workforce training, and support projects focused on digital…

Here’s what I keep hearing from enterprise customers. They have the GPUs, they have executive sponsorship, and they have a compelling use case. But they’re still twelve, fourteen, sometimes sixteen weeks into their AI project, stitching together infrastructure and software stacks by hand. Their best people are debugging vendor compatibility instead of building the thing that’s supposed to transform their business. That’s not an infrastructure problem. That’s an operations problem, and it’s now the single biggest drag on deploying AI at scale. That’s why this week at Cisco Live 2026 in Las Vegas, we’re introducing two major steps toward operationalizing…

My passion for cross platform software development started around the year 2000 when I saw how a contractor at Austria’s Connect Austria – which eventually became the cellular network provider DREI – would create C++ utilities on PC with Visual Studio that then could be compiled and run in production on Compaq Tru64 Unix. I have fond memories of writing a lot of small CLI utilities the same way to solve data issues we encountered processing call record data for billing. I always hated the approach of emulating a virtual machine to get code running of different platforms. This feels…

NVIDIA has announced Factory Operations Blueprint, a reference design that provides a foundation for building autonomous factory systems.Manufacturing facilities operate on a collection of systems. Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) handle low-level machine automation. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems provide process monitoring. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) manage production workflows. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms handle business logistics. These technology stacks rarely integrate effectively; restricting plant-wide intelligence and preventing the deployment of advanced AI for predictive or prescriptive maintenance.Without a unified view, root cause analysis for production slowdowns is manual and time-consuming. Quality control often relies on lagging indicators or…

Posted by Alice Yuan, Developer Relations Engineer, Ajesh Pai, Developer Relations Engineer, and Fung Lam, Developer Relations Engineer While app performance is often equated with a smooth UI and fast start times, memory serves as the silent foundation upon which these visible metrics are built. It’s no secret that we’re seeing a shift where device memory is more important than ever. Not only have we made strides in Android memory optimizations with Android 17, we’re providing the tooling and API support to help you stay ahead of stricter memory requirements later this year. To ensure device stability, starting in Android…

dtSearch has announced a version 2026.01 beta that simplifies how users see highlighted search results in PDF files. The new release eliminates the need for a separate PDF highlighter plug-in, a change that applies to dtSearch enterprise and developer products, including SDKs for Windows, Linux, and macOS. These products search terabytes of mixed online and offline data instantly, running on premises or in the cloud, such as on Azure or AWS. The main feature of the new version is improved PDF hit highlighting. The new process highlights search hits by adding annotations directly to the PDF file. This means PDF…

User experience (UX) strategy is frequently misunderstood as a tactical exercise, a deliverable achieved through better wireframes or cleaner interfaces. In reality, it operates at a higher level of intent, setting the foundation for effective design. My perspective on UX strategy is shaped by more than 15 years leading design initiatives at global organizations, including five years at Booking.com, and partnering with major companies like Unilever, Amazon, and Deloitte. I specialize in UX strategy and product design, and my focus is helping cross-functional teams define what problems truly matter and what success looks like before we build a solution. How…