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Dec 13 • 5 months ago

Reminder: Donate to win swag in our annual Charity Drive sweepstakes

Help raise a charity haul that's already past $11,000 in just a couple of days. ...

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Dec 13 • 5 months ago

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent. ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

Man shocks doctors with extreme blood pressure, stroke from energy drinks

His blood pressure was 254/150. Readings of 180/120 are considered an emergency. ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

Trump tries to block state AI laws himself after Congress decided not to

Trump claims state laws force AI makers to embed "ideological bias" in models. ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

A study in contrasts: The cinematography of Wake Up Dead Man

Ars chats with cinematographer Steve Yedlin about bringing Rian Johnson's Gothic vision to life. ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands

Managing each finger separately can, with the right sensors, ease control issues. ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

Ukrainians sue US chip firms for powering Russian drones, missiles

Lawsuits may force Intel, AMD, and Texas Instruments to do more to control chip supply chains. ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

Elon Musk teams with El Salvador to bring Grok chatbot to public schools

President Nayib Bukele entrusting chatbot known for calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ to create ‘AI-powered’ curriculaElon Musk is p...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks. ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

Instead of fixing WoW’s new floating house exploit, Blizzard makes it official

"We all kinda immediately agreed this was way too cool to change." ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

Runway claims its GWM-1 “world models” can stay coherent for minutes at a time

Runway joins a competitive field alongside Google, Nvidia, and others. ...

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Dec 12 • 5 months ago

Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you

Preview: Order of the Sinking Star started small but became a "combinatoric explosion." ...

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