85-year-old enigma cipher cracked by AI in two days – ChatGPT-6 Astra wrote its own simulator to break it
A German Army radio message encrypted on an Enigma machine 85 years ago has finally given up its contents. The AI model ChatGPT-6 Astra cracked the transmission, known as MVUEH, in about two days. The...
Gamer ran GTA 4 with DLSS 5 on his 22-year-old CRT monitor – it looks phenomenal
A gamer going by Pete_Love combined two technologies from completely different eras. He ran Grand Theft Auto 4 from 2008 with Nvidia neural rendering DLSS 5 and pushed the image out to a professional CRT...
Labs will have to be shut down – Nvidia CEO responds to calls from OpenAI and Anthropic to tighten AI regulation
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has offered a simple solution for frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have recently grown more insistent in their calls for stricter regulation of their own models. In an...
Mathematicians declare the end of an era – 27 prize laureates speak out against OpenAI
For years, leaders of the biggest tech companies have promised that AI will push out a huge chunk of the workforce. The scale of the disruption will supposedly vary from industry to industry, they say,...
The first fight between a human and a humanoid Terminator-like robot took place in San Francisco
An unusual match in San Francisco has been making the rounds online – a human squared off against a six-foot-tall humanoid robot inside a fighting cage. The event was organized by REK, a US robotics...
OpenAI believes AI can link two isolated computers via processor heating instead of Morse code
Noam Brown from OpenAI has cast doubt on one of the main barriers against uncontrolled AI behavior – physical isolation of machines. According to him, a sufficiently advanced model can bypass even a complete lack...
Apple agreed to refund money for the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max due to throttling, but the buyer loses $2000
The owner of a 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Max chip ran into serious overheating and clock speed drops while running AI workloads. The laptop cost A$8,949, roughly $6,362. A warranty replacement didn't fix...
Developer of PS5 Linux port abandons project after vibecoders leaked latest vulnerability to Sony
Andy Nguyen, the PS5 Linux forerunner, has announced he's dropping his entire port of Linux for PlayStation 5. The reason isn't technical difficulties – it's the behavior of newcomers generating code with large language models....
Gamer set GPT-6 Astra to play through Fallout 3 – the AI reached the ending in 59 hours and started paranoidally checking saves
An enthusiast going by imjustnewatai ran an experiment putting the GPT-6 Astra AI model through the main story of Fallout 3. Running on maximum settings through the Codex agent environment, the playthrough took roughly 59...
Microsoft executive called OpenAI's data collection the largest labor theft in human history
Newly unsealed court documents reveal that Microsoft and OpenAI executives discussed AI training on news content far more bluntly behind closed doors than in public. The New York Times reported on the filings, which came...
DeepSeek engineer explains why he's building an AI that will replace him – so the world doesn't become like Cyberpunk 2077
An engineer at Chinese AI lab DeepSeek published a lengthy post acknowledging the inevitability of his own replacement by artificial intelligence. The developer, known online as interestingLSY/intlsy, works on the company's kernel systems and says...
Poster for Sarik Andreasyan's "War and Peace" adaptation is riddled with AI blunders
Director and producer Sarik Andreasyan posted the first poster for his adaptation of the classic novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. It follows the traditional style where characters and scenes from the film get...
Billionaire Gabe Newell formulated a universal rule three years ago about what makes games interesting – and realism has nothing to do with it
A clip from the Half-Life 25th anniversary documentary is making the rounds online again, with Valve boss Gabe Newell breaking down the role of realism in games. Newell opens with a familiar scene from design...
Web development veteran compares AI's impact on frontend to an asteroid impact
Developer Nolan Lawson published a piece on August 23 on his blog Read the Tea Leaves about what's happening to frontend development in the age of agents. The main metaphor made it straight into the...
Daniel Vavra showed 4 versions of the heroine's face from Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 in the DLSS 5 debate
Daniel Vavra returned to the DLSS 5 debate once again, calling the panic surrounding the technology overblown. The Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 creative director posted a side-by-side comparison using Katherine, the game character played by...
HoYoverse won $112,000 in a lawsuit against an AI company that copied voices and character designs from Genshin Impact
Another company developing generative AI models has run into the harsh reality of copyright law. This time, an unnamed "AI company" lost in a Shanghai court after illegally copying character voices from Genshin Impact. HoYoverse...
Fans ran Fallout New Vegas through DLSS 5 seven times and got a real nightmare
Anyone who has been anywhere near the gaming space over the past couple of weeks has probably seen folks messing around with DLSS 5, NVIDIA's AI-driven neural rendering tech that pushes games toward photorealism in...
AI GPT-6 Astra mined a diamond in Minecraft overnight by directly controlling a computer
Developer Wuyang Zhou gave GPT-6 Astra one task – mine a diamond in Minecraft – then hit record and went to bed. By morning the diamond sat in the inventory, and the toolkit that made...
Futurologist Ray Kurzweil joins a startup that wants to replace brain implants with a nasal spray containing nanoparticles
Ray Kurzweil, one of the most well known futurists and AI pioneers, has joined neurotechnology startup Subsense. The company is developing a brain-computer interface that skips surgery entirely. Kurzweil's career kicked off back in the...
In six weeks, AI built on the Godot engine created a full-fledged fishing game
Indie developer Hakim Eiqbal has released the first downloadable build of a fishing game he's building entirely with AI. The project started as an experiment and by week six turned into a playable build available...
