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MCP: The new “USB-C for AI” that’s bringing fierce rivals together

Ars Technica 01 Apr 2025
How to easily connect their AI models to external data sources. The solution comes from Anthropic, which developed and released an open specification called Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024 ... Read full article. Comments .
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How a 1980s Atari creator with cystic fibrosis crafted a story of salmon survival

Ars Technica 01 Apr 2025
In 1982, while most game developers were busy with space invaders and maze ghosts, Bill Williams created something far more profound. a game about swimming upstream against impossible odds ... But Salmon Run was about far more than impressive audio.
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Scientists are storing light we cannot see in formats meant for human eyes

Ars Technica 28 Mar 2025
Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can't even see—ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn, infrared heat signatures that reveal hidden writing, or specific wavelengths that plants use for photosynthesis ... Read full article.
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OpenAI’s new AI image generator is potent and bound to provoke

Ars Technica 27 Mar 2025
But like many early AI systems, DALL-E 2 struggled with consistent text rendering, often producing garbled words and phrases within images ... Read full article. Comments .
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Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

Ars Technica 25 Mar 2025
Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and downtime ... Read full article. Comments .
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You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom

Ars Technica 24 Mar 2025
Deep learning, which uses multi-layered neural networks that can learn from data without explicit programming, represented a significant departure from traditional AI approaches that relied on hand-crafted rules and features ... Comments .
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Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers

Ars Technica 21 Mar 2025
On Thursday, Anthropic introduced web search capabilities for its AI assistant Claude, enabling the assistant to access current information online ... The new feature works with Claude 3.7 Sonnet and requires a paid subscription ... Comments .
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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

Ars Technica 21 Mar 2025
On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called "AI Labyrinth" that aims to combat unauthorized AI data scraping by serving fake AI-generated content to bots ... Read full article. Comments .
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Get to know Benj Pangilinan, the singer-songwriter behind ‘Alinlangan’

The Philadelphia Inquirer 19 Mar 2025
After putting words to our feelings of self-doubt through “Alinlangan,” Benj Pangilinan shares with us his inspirations, creative process... .
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Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average

Ars Technica 19 Mar 2025
A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on average for humor, creativity, and "shareability" than those made by people.
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Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking

Ars Technica 18 Mar 2025
There's a new Google AI model in town, and it can generate or edit images as easily as it can create text—as part of its chatbot conversation ... Read full article. Comments .
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Nvidia announces DGX desktop “personal AI supercomputers”

Ars Technica 18 Mar 2025
During Tuesday's Nvidia GTX keynote, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled two "personal AI supercomputers" called DGX Spark and DGX Station, both powered by the Grace Blackwell platform ... Read full article. Comments .
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Nvidia announces “Rubin Ultra” and “Feynman” AI chips for 2027 and 2028

Ars Technica 18 Mar 2025
He also revealed more specifications about previously announced chips ... Read full article. Comments .
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An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Wired 15 Mar 2025
The old “teach a man to fish” proverb, but for AI chatbots ... .
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Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives

Ars Technica 14 Mar 2025
The researchers were initially astonished by how effectively some of their interpretability methods seemed to uncover these hidden motives, although the methods are still under research ... Read full article. Comments .
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