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Ars Technica : AI
12 october
20h59
Epic Games reportedly pivoting to AI first game development model
Kyle Orland
No more hand-written code or AI-free art for delayed Marvel Star Wars shooter.
18h21
Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police
Jon Brodkin
I may have information regarding this case, Claude AI told Philly police.
17h52
Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine
Jeremy Hsu
Russian bloggers warn Russia’s hyper-centralized digital economy is vulnerable.
12h43
Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?
Jeremy Hsu
The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.
09 october
22h04
Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to Russia’s Google
Jeremy Hsu
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
19h43
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Kyle Orland
Study finds coding efficiency gains get absorbed by human review bottleneck.
18h44
AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
Jennifer Ouellette
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
08 october
11h15
Nvidia’s big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
Jeremy Hsu
Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
00h00
Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
Nick Indge
Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
07 october
21h56
Software is over : Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Kyle Orland
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
17h57
Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
Ashley Belanger
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing 8M in music streaming royalties.
14h12
Mistral says Le Chonk can challenge the best AI models
Joel Khalili, wired.com
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
14h00
Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
Ryan Whitwam
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
06 october
20h50
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default but only in the EU
Samuel Axon
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it’s easy to circumvent.
12h21
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
Dan Goodin
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
05 october
22h26
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
Dan Goodin
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
19h14
Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
Scharon Harding
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
13h39
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Richard Milne, Financial Times
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
02 october
23h03
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Dan Goodin
Meta says FDA isn’t sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
20h30
Amazon’s 1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Ashley Belanger
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
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