Companies work to finalize terms as OpenAI pursues for-profit restructuring. On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development in a relationship that has grown increasingly complex as both companies compete for customers in the AI market and…
Physicists spliced merger’s gravitational signal into isolated frequencies to determine surface areas. Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, the newly formed black…
“We are all addicted to hypervisors, and that needs to change.” VMware will lose a significant chunk of business over the next three years, according to Gartner research VP Julia Palmer. Of course, some organizations have already abandoned VMware or are plotting partial or total migrations. Broadcom acquired the…
The Ars Difficulty Matrix™ helps us analyze the many dimensions of Silksong’s challenges. For seven years, the discussion around Hollow Knight: Silksong focused on the cult-like levels of devotion among fans patiently waiting for the sequel. Now that Silksong has been available for about a week, though, that discussion…
Gmail reorganizes its order-tracking and promotion filters ahead of the holiday season. An update to Gmail begins rolling out soon, readying Google’s premier email app for all your upcoming holiday purchases. Gmail has been surfacing shipment tracking for some time now, but Google will now add a separate view…
“This is the first time we’ll have a space layer fully integrated into our warfighting operations.” The first 21 satellites in a constellation that could become a cornerstone for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense shield successfully launched from California Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Falcon…
People used to pay $55 a month for TV, Zaslav recalls. Someone might want to tell David Zaslav to read the room. Despite people’s ongoing frustration with the rising prices of streaming services—and just about everything else—the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) thinks that there is reason for…
Wyden says default use of RC4 cipher led to last year’s breach of health giant Ascension. A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form of encryption that Windows…
The Pixel 10 Daily Hub has vanished, but Google says it will come back when it’s ready. Google is one of the most ardent proponents of generative AI technology, as evidenced by the recent launch of the Pixel 10 series. The phones were announced with more than 20 new…
Anthropic outage takes down AI tools some developers rely on to create software. On Wednesday afternoon, Anthropic experienced a brief but complete service outage that took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the management console for around half an hour.…
