From Pong to path tracing: The leaps that built modern game graphics

Graphics in games don’t improve in a steady, gentle slope. They jump. Someone ships a look that feels like it arrived from ...
Wired

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X

This story contains descriptions of explicit sexual content and sexual violence. Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has drawn outrage and calls for investigation after being used to flood X with “undressed” ...
BGR

Does It Matter Which USB Port You Use On Your Computer?

When you're getting ready to plug an external hard drive or USB flash drive into your favorite device, you have a choice to make. That's because most computers have multiple USB ports, and despite ...
SiliconANGLE

Microsoft debuts Fara-7B, a small ‘computer-use’ model that runs natively on PCs

Microsoft Corp. today showcased its vision of an agentic artificial intelligence future for everyday consumers with the launch of its newest model Fara-7B, which can run locally on personal computers ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft’s Fara-7B is a computer-use AI agent that rivals GPT-4o and works directly on your PC

Microsoft has introduced Fara-7B, a new 7-billion parameter model designed to act as a Computer Use Agent (CUA) capable of performing complex tasks directly on a user’s device. Fara-7B sets new ...
Computer Weekly

US senators seek to prohibit minors from using AI chatbots

Legislation introduced in the US Congress could require artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot operators to put in place age verification processes and stop under 18s from using their services, ...
Phys.org

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

"We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity," says Dr. Faizal. "Therefore, no physically complete and ...
marktechpost

How to Build a Fully Functional Computer-Use Agent that Thinks, Plans, and Executes Virtual Actions Using Local AI Models

In this tutorial, we build an advanced computer-use agent from scratch that can reason, plan, and perform virtual actions using a local open-weight model. We create a miniature simulated desktop, ...
ZDNet

This new Google Gemini model scrolls the internet just like you do - how it works

Google's new AI model can interact directly with website UIs. It joins similar tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. The company also admitted its weaknesses, including hallucinations. Google DeepMind has ...
SiliconANGLE

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can navigate the web like a human

Google LLC has just announced a new version of its Gemini large language model that can navigate the web through a browser and interact with various websites, meaning it can perform tasks such as ...
The New York Times

Why Diamonds Are a Computer Chip’s New Best Friend

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential solution, researchers say. Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity ...
Benzinga.com

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Hails Research Team Which Built Analog Optical Computer Using Smartphone Parts To Tackle AI Workloads

Nadella took to X, formerly Twitter, saying Microsoft's "breakthrough work on an analog optical computer points to new ways to solve complex real-world problems with much greater efficiency. He added ...