AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”
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page 5 of 7Ars Technica•Dan Goodin14 Sept
OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out
Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.
Ars Technica•Ashley Belanger14 Sept
Founder’s cost-cutting obsession drove Unitree lead in cheap humanoid robots
Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?
Ars Technica•Jeremy Hsu14 Sept
Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.
Ars Technica•Samuel Axon14 Sept
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
Ars Technica•Kyle Orland14 Sept
Online hate researcher keeps hammering X despite deportation threat
US won’t back down from fight to deport technology researchers.
Ars Technica•Ashley Belanger14 Sept
A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater
The trick isn't using perovskites—the trick is making them last.
Ars Technica•Scott K. Johnson14 Sept
Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles
Isotropic analysis revealed the most likely source to be Brimham Rocks, not the nearby Plumpton Rocks.
Ars Technica•Jennifer Ouellette14 Sept
Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review
Valve's new $1,049 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR "revolution."
Ars Technica•Kyle Orland14 Sept
"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up
Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.
Ars Technica•Rachel Millard, Humza Jilani, Monica Mark, and Krishn Kaushik14 Sept
New corners, new lights for 2028 Volvo XC40
The Swedish automaker gives its small SUV a sympathetic makeover.
Ars Technica•Jonathan M. Gitlin14 Sept
F1 in Madrid: Like Monaco but twice as long and none of the glamour
Formula 1’s latest venue might be fun to drive, but the race was processional and dull.
Ars Technica•Jonathan M. Gitlin14 Sept
Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says
The 40-year-old unvaccinated woman reportedly had underlying health conditions.
Ars Technica•Beth Mole13 Sept
I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.
The manufacturer has a service that lets owners repair their own equipment.
Ars Technica•Boone Ashworth, WIRED.com13 Sept
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
Ars Technica•Timothy B. Lee12 Sept
Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services
"Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions."
Ars Technica•Stephen Clark11 Sept
Random rewards enrich classic game-theory contests
Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise.
Ars Technica•Chris Lee11 Sept
Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland
The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent.
Ars Technica•Beth Mole11 Sept
Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge
The Department of Energy declared an "emergency" when none existed.
Ars Technica•John Timmer11 Sept
ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
Ars Technica•Jon Brodkin11 Sept