Running a business is difficult, but overseeing the operation of a factory on a treacherous alien planet is nearly impossible. Satisfactory is a first-person base-builder, where your task is to research and develop alien planet Massage-2(AB)b for FICSIT Inc. as a part of Project Assembly. The bases you build in the game are factories that…
Sergey Brin co-founded Google in the 1990s along with Larry Page, but both stepped away from the day to day at Google in 2019. However, the AI boom tempted Brin to return to the office, and he thinks everyone should follow his example. In a new internal memo, Brin has advised employees to be in…
Perhaps because of the disappointing results, Altman had previously written that GPT-4.5 will be the last of OpenAI’s traditional AI models, with GPT-5 planned to be a dynamic combination of “non-reasoning” LLMs and simulated reasoning models like o3. A stratospheric price and a tech dead-end And about that price—it’s a doozy. GPT-4.5 costs $75 per…
Imagine, if you will, a trip through the stars. Imagine a mission to find a new planet Earth. Imagine having to battle hordes of angry aliens with nothing but your Rock Paper Scissors skills. Right, enough imagining. Time for the real thing. In this unique retro RPG, designed by Takaya Imamura (who, among Majora’s Mask…
AMD is releasing the first detailed specifications of its next-generation Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs and the RDNA4 graphics architecture today, almost two months after teasing them at CES. The short version is that these are both upper-midrange graphics cards targeting resolutions of 1440p and 4K and meant to compete mainly with Nvidia’s incoming and…
AMD’s new Radeon RX 90-series cards and the RDNA4 architecture make their official debut on March 5, and a new version of AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) upscaling technology is coming along with them. FSR and Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) upscalers have the same goal: to take a lower-resolution image rendered by your…
After more than 21 years, Skype will soon be no more. Last night, some users (including Ars readers) poked around in the latest Skype preview update and noticed as-yet-unsurfaced text that read “Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams.” This morning, Microsoft has confirmed to Ars…
AI and robots need data — lots of it. Companies that have millions of users have an advantage in this data collection, because they can use the data of their customers. A well-known example is Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 service, which I recently lambasted. reCAPTCHA v2 is a cloud-based service operated by Google that is supposed to stop bots from…
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft. These repositories, belonging to more than 16,000 organizations, were originally posted to GitHub as public, but were later set to private, often after the developers responsible realized they…
It took a couple of years, but it happened: Microsoft released its Copilot AI assistant as an application for macOS. The app is available for download for free from the Mac App Store right now. It was previously available briefly as a Mac app, sort of; for a short time, Microsoft’s iPad Copilot app could…