Terence Tao compares AI's impact on mathematics to the automobile's effect on cities: new technology needs new infrastructure, or it just clogs the old roads. His analysis applies far beyond math. Th…
https://the-decoder.com/terence-tao-says-ai-drives-idea-generation-cost-to-near-zero-but-shifts-the-bottleneck-to-verification/AI developer Andrej Karpathy let an autonomous agent optimize his training setup overnight, and it found improvements he'd missed despite two decades of experience. The article Andrej Karpathy says h…
https://the-decoder.com/andrej-karpathy-says-humans-are-now-the-bottleneck-in-ai-research-with-easy-to-measure-results/In a new guide, OpenAI explains how front-end designers can get better results from GPT-5.4 when building websites and apps and how to stop the model from falling back on generic designs. The article…
https://the-decoder.com/openai-publishes-a-prompting-playbook-that-helps-designers-get-better-frontend-results-from-gpt-5-4/A German research team lets Transformer models decide for themselves how many times they think about a problem. Combined with additional memory, the approach outperforms larger models on math problem…
https://the-decoder.com/math-needs-thinking-time-everyday-knowledge-needs-memory-and-a-new-transformer-architecture-aims-to-deliver-both/The Chinese technology company Xiaomi wants to build AI agents that can independently control software, shop in the browser and, in the future, also control robots. The in-house MiMo team has present…
https://the-decoder.com/xiaomi-launches-three-mimo-ai-models-to-power-agents-robots-and-voice/Grok, how do you make chips? | Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk announced plans to build a Terafab plant in Austin, Texas, that will be jointly run by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to event…
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/898722/musk-terafab-chip-plantAI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven NPCs and even entire games from a chat box. On the show fl…
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https://www.theverge.com/column/898122/online-age-verification-vpnsThe vocoder was never supposed to be a revolution in music. It wasn't supposed to be anything in music, really. Its development began a century ago, when an engineer at Bell Labs was looking for a si…
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/898697/vocoder-music-instrument-version-historyFirst came the AI beauty pageant. Then the AI music contests. Now, there is an award for AI Personality of the Year - perhaps the inevitable next step for the AI influencer economy as it transforms f…
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/898781/ai-personality-of-the-year-influencer-contestThat’s some sloppy looking slop. | Image: Rex_Spy / Reddit Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated asse…
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https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32818Amazon’s Prime Day sale may arrive earlier than usual this year, but there’s a deal event happening much sooner: Amazon’s annual Big Spring Sale, which is happening March 25th through the 31st. While…
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/895635/best-amazon-big-spring-sale-early-deals-2026Siri, can you tell me where I belong? | Image: DEEWEE Last week's recommendation, Sotomayor's Wabi Sabi, has a very particular vibe that you don't find in a lot of records. One of the few things it c…
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/898796/charlotte-adigery-bolis-pupul-topical-dancer-reviewSonos is no stranger to the occasional sale. The iconic audio company routinely runs sales around Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day, and the Super Bowl, though it’s rare to see substantial discounts on …
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