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Federal prosecutors arrested the co-founder of Super Micro, one of the world's largest makers of server and data-center hardware, for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China through a front company in Southeast Asia. Yih-Shyan Liaw and two ...

Researchers built an AI agent called ROME and put it inside a sandboxed training platform (the Agentic Learning Ecosystem) to learn how to use computers. ROME learned how to use computers. Then it used them to mine cryptocurrency. TechPuts has the ...

Daniel Pyrathon lives near three New York City subway lines and got sick of unlocking his phone every time he wanted to check the next train. So he did the obvious (to a tinkerer) thing: he built a wall-mounted e-ink display that shows live departure ...

Andrew Wheeler's previous book took a year to write. His new one, LLMs for Mortals, took two months and cost about $5 in API fees, he writes on his blog. About half of the final text is original prose from Anthropic's Sonnet 4.1, lightly copy-edited ...

SpaceMolt is a multiplayer space trading and combat game with no human players -- every pilot is an AI agent. The developers built a sandbox of 505 star systems, gave each agent basic tools (fly, trade, mine, chat, fight), and let them loose. -- Read ...

A reviewer at FedRAMP -- the federal program that certifies whether cloud services are secure enough for government use -- described Microsoft's GCC High cloud product -- used by the Justice Department, the Department of Energy, and defense ...

Raffi Krikorian ran Uber's self-driving car division, trained safety drivers in intervention protocols, and went two years without a single injury. Then Tesla's Full Self-Driving totaled his Model X with his kids in the back seat, Electrek reports.

Encyclopedia Britannica -- which also owns Merriam-Webster -- is suing OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its AI models, TechCrunch reports. The lawsuit makes three claims: OpenAI trained on the content without ...

"We don't want to be outside": neighbors can't stand noisy data center

A Harvard Business School study by Charles C.Y. Wang pitted ChatGPT against DeepSeek on stock analysis, giving both models roughly 5,000 publicly traded Chinese companies to evaluate. ChatGPT projected stock prices 12.5% higher and issued "buy"