Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network in Age of Empires II using goats
The study is focused on stripping the perceived human-like nature off LLMs
Large language model articles
AMD Zen 6 desktop CPUs may ditch integrated graphics for a built-in NPU
Nvidia's RTX Spark CPUs may be part of why AMD is making this call now
Microsoft president says AI backlash at graduation events should be wake-up call for the tech industry
Young people aren't anti-AI, Brad Smith argues – they're anti-replacement
Microsoft Surface RTX Spark Dev Box packs 128GB unified memory and Nvidia's new Arm chip for local AI
Microsoft's new dev box runs 120-billion-parameter AI models locally
Zig project leader says AI-generated code contributions are "invariably garbage" and will be rejected
Contributor poker has a negative value and makes real developers waste their time
DuckDuckGo's app is growing in popularity after Google turned search into AI
"People just want a choice."
People without lawyers are using AI to flood courts with lawsuits
Judges say chatbot-generated filings are adding new strain to an already overloaded system
Microsoft is finally letting you remap the Copilot key nobody asked for
Two years after replacing Ctrl and Menu keys on millions of keyboards
ArXiv will ban researchers for a year if they submit papers with AI slop
LLM or not, paper authors will be responsible for whatever they post to the archive
Google Chrome has been silently pushing a 4GB AI model to your device without asking
The browser automatically redownloads Gemini Nano files if users delete them
A government used AI to write its AI regulations. It did not go well
South Africa officials withdrew the draft after discovering it cited at least six academic papers that don't exist
Ubuntu is adding AI features, and it's on a collision course with its own user base
Users are asking for a kill switch already
AI has mastered chess, so humans are changing the rules of the game
Engines dominate preparation and openings, pushing grandmasters to offbeat lines and psychological pressure
Google's TurboQuant compression tech cuts LLM memory use by 6x with no accuracy loss
Breakthrough AI technique could end the global memory shortage
This startup will pay you $800 to yell at AI all day
A real AI memory problem – or just a clever marketing stunt?
Patreon rejects "fair use" claims for AI training, calls for creator compensation
CEO Jack Conte says AI firms already pay major publishers but not other independent creators
Arduino Ventuno Q marks Qualcomm's entry into offline AI and robotics
Has the premature death of Arduino's open source ecosystem been greatly exaggerated?
The humble PDF is becoming a problem for AI
PDFs are structurally hostile to large language models
Looking ahead: Three decades after Adobe introduced the Portable Document Format – a design intended to preserve the appearance of printed pages across devices – PDFs are facing pressure from a completely different kind of reader: artificial intelligence. The same fixed layouts that made PDFs indispensable to human users now make them difficult for large language models to interpret. Unlike web pages or plain-text files, columns, embedded graphics, and hidden metadata in PDFs often confuse machine parsing systems trained to process linear text.
AMD is selling $60 billion worth of GPUs – and a piece of itself – to Meta
Any lingering hope for affordable gaming GPUs just took another hit
Editor's take: AMD and Meta have joined the growing circus of reciprocal deals Big Tech is using to bootstrap what it hopes will become a self-sustaining "AI economy." Under a new multi-year agreement, the two companies will closely align their technology roadmaps – though AMD's role comes with strings attached, including hitting specific performance targets in the stock market.
Your AI assistant isn't confused, it just wants to agree with you
Why people-pleasing AI keeps changing its answer when you push back
OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) can manage your entire digital life, but it might leak your credentials
The assistant can browse the web, handle files, and even use your credit card
In brief: A new local AI assistant first popularized under the name "Clawdbot" is experiencing a surge in popularity because it fulfills many of the promises made by prior smart assistants and AI agents. However, its impressive range of capabilities requires full access to the user's device, files, and login credentials – and security researchers have found gaping vulnerabilities.
Microsoft built a 750W AI chip to challenge Nvidia's dominance, claims 3x performance gains over Amazon
The Maia 200 AI accelerator packs 140 billion transistors on a 3nm process
Satya Nadella warns AI must go mainstream to avoid becoming a bubble
For the first time, Nadella acknowledges LLMs and chatbots could indeed be a bubble
Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 adds 40 TOPS accelerator to the single-board computer
Add-on brings chatbots and LLMs to the edge
AI researchers are now studying LLMs as if they were living organisms
Scientists apply biology-inspired methods to study LLMs so complex that even their creators struggle to explain them