Why AI language models choke on too much text

Timothy B. Lee 2024-12-20 08:00:00 arstechnica.com This means that the total computing power required for attention grows quadratically with the ...

VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network

Matt Burgess, wired.com 2024-12-20 10:01:00 arstechnica.com For proxy networks, Hinderer says, one end of the spectrum is where networks could ...

Automakers excoriated by Senators for fighting right-to-repair

Jonathan M. Gitlin 2024-12-20 11:09:00 arstechnica.com Yesterday, US Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Joshua Hawley (R-MO) sent ...

Man who claims he invented bitcoin faces prison after filing $1.1 trillion suit

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-20 13:46:00 arstechnica.com Wright's lawsuit names a defendant he calls "BTC Core," which apparently doesn't exist. Wright alleges ...

OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models

Benj Edwards 2024-12-20 14:31:00 arstechnica.com On Friday, during Day 12 of its "12 days of OpenAI," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ...

12 days of OpenAI: The Ars Technica recap

Benj Edwards 2024-12-20 17:01:00 arstechnica.com Over the past 12 business days, OpenAI has announced a new product or demoed an ...

The next two FIFA Women’s World Cups will only air on Netflix

Scharon Harding 2024-12-20 12:50:00 arstechnica.com FIFA’s announcement suggested that it expects to reach a larger audience and increase US engagement ...

The AI war between Google and OpenAI has never been more heated

Benj Edwards 2024-12-20 10:44:00 arstechnica.com And here we are just focusing on Google and OpenAI. There have been other major ...

New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality

Benj Edwards 2024-12-19 15:10:00 arstechnica.com The AI-generated worlds reportedly include realistic physics, camera movements, and object behaviors, all from text ...

As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank

Scharon Harding 2024-12-19 15:41:00 arstechnica.com 2025 challenges Broadcom seemed okay with ending business with Ingram, which ties it to solution ...

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Google releases its own “reasoning” AI model

Benj Edwards 2024-12-19 16:49:00 arstechnica.com Google DeepMind's chief scientist, Jeff Dean, says that the model receives extra computing power, writing ...

We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time

Eric Berger 2024-12-19 18:02:00 arstechnica.com Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Solar cycle, Not a sunspot was ...

Home Assistant’s Voice Preview Edition is a little box with big privacy powers

Kevin Purdy 2024-12-19 16:00:00 arstechnica.com Home Assistant announced today the availability of the Voice Preview Edition, its own design of ...

Intel is testing BIOS updates to fix performance of its new Core Ultra 200S CPUs

Andrew Cunningham 2024-12-19 13:18:00 arstechnica.com Without tuned power profiles, a separate but related feature called the Intel Application Performance Optimizer ...

Solving renewable energy’s sticky storage problem

Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine 2024-12-19 09:15:00 arstechnica.com When the Sun is blazing and the wind is blowing, Germany’s solar and ...

Supreme Court to decide if TikTok should be banned or sold

Ashley Belanger 2024-12-18 13:59:00 arstechnica.com While the controversial US law doesn't necessarily ban TikTok, it does seem designed to make ...

Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs

Andrew Cunningham 2024-12-18 14:40:00 arstechnica.com Arm and Qualcomm's dispute over Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips is continuing in court this ...

$2 per megabyte: AT&T mistakenly charged customer $6,223 for 3.1GB of data

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-18 17:19:00 arstechnica.com An AT&T customer who switched to the company's FirstNet service for first responders got quite ...

Amazon’s RTO delays exemplify why workers get so mad about mandates

Scharon Harding 2024-12-18 17:51:00 arstechnica.com Concern about RTO planning is underscored by Amazon reportedly lacking enough space for its current ...

The Backbone One would be an ideal game controller—if the iPhone had more games

Samuel Axon 2024-12-18 16:26:00 arstechnica.com In theory, it ought to be as good a time as ever to be a ...

The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales

Kyle Orland 2024-12-18 12:46:00 arstechnica.com When Sony revealed the PlayStation 5 Pro a few months ago, some wondered just how ...

Russian space chief says country will fly on space station until 2030

Eric Berger 2024-12-18 09:03:00 arstechnica.com "Space is an area of activity where there is never a 100 percent guaranteed result, ...

T-Mobile users can try Starlink-enabled phone service for free during beta

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-16 12:08:00 arstechnica.com "While not yet ready for full commercial service, T-Mobile Starlink was turned on temporarily to ...

Big loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to $15 broadband law

Jon Brodkin 2024-12-17 13:07:00 arstechnica.com The Supreme Court petition was filed by the New York State Telecommunications Association, CTIA-The Wireless ...

OpenAI’s API users get full access to the new o1 model

Kyle Orland 2024-12-17 14:23:00 arstechnica.com Updates for real-time interaction and fine-tuning Developers that make use of OpenAI's real-time voice APIs ...