Microsoft pledges to cover data center power costs as community pushback grows

Microsoft is rolling out a new initiative for AI data centers after facing mounting opposition from communities across the US.<br /> The article Microsoft pledges to cover data center power cost [...]

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025, the most consequential works w [...]

A-List creatives sign up to fight AI, say it enables 'theft at a grand scale'

Scarlett Johannsson, R.E.M., Vince Gilligan and over 700 other artists are demanding that tech companies stop “stealing” their work in order to train AI models. A new campaign called “Stealing i [...]

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro solves math problems that stumped every AI model before it

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro solves almost a third of the most difficult math problems in the FrontierMath benchmark, a significant jump over the previous record set by Gemini 3 Pro.<br /> The arti [...]

Ambient Dreamie bedside companion review: The best sleep I've had in years

How much would you pay for a good night's sleep? This is a question I've asked myself repeatedly over the last few weeks as I've been testing the Dreamie, a $250 alarm clock and "b [...]

iPhone 17e hands-on: Pretty in pink, with portraits enabled

The iPhone 17e was announced on Monday through a press release, so there was no real chance to immediately get a hands-on with it. But at Apple’s event in New York today, the phone was on display al [...]

Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's ta [...]

Meta cuts hundreds more jobs across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales as AI spending doubles

Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected [...]

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: A True AI Laptop Among Artificial Imitators

The 16-inch laptop is also impossibly thin and light for its performance and screen size. [...]