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After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

Ars Technica 13 Feb 2026
On Monday, a pull request executed by an AI agent to the popular Python charting library matplotlib turned into a 45-comment debate about whether AI-generated code belongs in open source projects ... Read full article. Comments .
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OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

Ars Technica 13 Feb 2026
On Thursday, OpenAI released its first production AI model to run on non-Nvidia hardware, deploying the new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark coding model on chips from Cerebras ... OpenAI is rolling out API access to select design partners.
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Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

Ars Technica 12 Feb 2026
On Thursday, Google announced that "commercially motivated" actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it ... Google is also no stranger to the copycat practice ... Read full article. Comments .
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OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of "Facebook" path

Ars Technica 11 Feb 2026
On Wednesday, former OpenAI researcher Zo� Hitzig published a guest essay in The New York Times announcing that she resigned from the company on Monday, the same day OpenAI began testing advertisements inside ChatGPT ... Read full article. Comments .
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Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

Ars Technica 11 Feb 2026
Tinney went on to paint more than 80 covers for Byte, working almost entirely in airbrushed Designers Gouache, a medium he chose for its opaque, intense colors and smooth finish ... He cited Ren� Magritte and M.C ... Comments .
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Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler

Ars Technica 07 Feb 2026
But as usual with claims of AI-related achievement, you'll find some key caveats ahead ... Read full article. Comments .
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OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads

Ars Technica 05 Feb 2026
Anthropic's campaign seemingly touched a nerve at OpenAI just weeks after the ChatGPT maker began testing ads in a lower-cost tier of its chatbot ... It's control." ... "Betrayal," "Violation," "Deception," and "Treachery." ... Comments .
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AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them

Ars Technica 05 Feb 2026
On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products built around the same idea. instead of chatting with a single AI assistant, users should be managing teams of AI agents that divide up work and run in parallel ... Read full article.
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Nvidia's $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished

Ars Technica 04 Feb 2026
In September 2025, Nvidia and OpenAI announced a letter of intent for Nvidia to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI's AI infrastructure. At the time, the companies said they expected to finalize details "in the coming weeks." ... Read full article.
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Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.

Ars Technica 04 Feb 2026
On Wednesday, Anthropic announced that its AI chatbot, Claude, will remain free of advertisements, drawing a sharp line between itself and rival OpenAI, which began testing ads in a low-cost tier of ChatGPT last month ... Comments .
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The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat

Ars Technica 03 Feb 2026
On November 2, 1988, graduate student Robert Morris released a self-replicating program into the early Internet ... Morris did not intend to cause damage ... Read full article. Comments .
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Developers say AI coding tools work—and that's precisely what worries them

Ars Technica 31 Jan 2026
Software developers have spent the past two years watching AI coding tools evolve from advanced autocomplete into something that can, in some cases, build entire applications from a text prompt ... It has caused many to wonder ... It's not how they work.".
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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

Ars Technica 31 Jan 2026
It arrives complete with security nightmares and a huge dose of surreal weirdness ... Read full article. Comments .
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Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude ...

Ars Technica 29 Jan 2026
Anthropic's secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul—whether or not anyone actually believes that's true. But Anthropic isn't saying exactly what it believes either way ... Read full article.
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New OpenAI tool renews fears that “AI slop” will overwhelm scientific research

Ars Technica 29 Jan 2026
On Tuesday, OpenAI released a free AI-powered workspace for scientists ... The launch coincides with growing alarm among publishers about what many are calling "AI slop" in academic publishing.

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