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- Perplexity AI has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion. (Tech Crunch)
Perplexity doesn't have $34.5 billion.
Minor detail.
- In a world of vibe-coding startups, Uno Platform is one. (Tech Crunch)
Good for them I guess.
- Anthropic has offered all branches and agencies of the federal government unlimited use of its services for $1. (Tech Crunch)
For one year.
First year is free.
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- Training AIs to be warm and empathetic makes them sycophantic idiots. (ArXiv)
Whoever would have guessed?
- So-called "reasoning" AI models aren't. (Ars Technica)
The models can explain their reasoning, but the explanations bear only surface resemblance to the actual reasoning.
- And generally, don't ask AI models why they did what they did: They don't know. (Ars Technica)
And they don't know because when this information was added during testing, they could no longer do what they did.
The key to solving some problems is not knowing it's impossible.
I'll need to read this one more closely; it sounds even worse than I thought.
- PayPal can now only be used on Steam in EUR, CAD, GBP, JPY, AUD, and USD. (WCCFTech)
Why? We don't know. Neither PayPal nor Stream have offered a full explanation.
- In theory AMD's Radeon 9060 - a graphics card currently only found in prebuilt systems - should perform between Nvidia's 5050 and 5060. In practice that's exactly what it does. (Tom's Hardware)
TDP is a fairly modest 135W. It's only available in an 8GB model, but at a suitably attractive price it could be a win for budget builds.
- The UK's National Drought Group says you should delete old emails to save water. (The Verge)
For once it's not The Verge itself I'm mad at.
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"The models can explain their reasoning, but the explanations bear only surface resemblance to the actual reasoning."
Are you suggesting that "a tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot" doesn't qualify as "reasoning"?
Are you suggesting that "a tale full of sound and fury, told by an idiot" doesn't qualify as "reasoning"?
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 14 2025 01:12 AM (VW9lJ)
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I think you meant "5050 and 5060" in the Tom's article about the 9060?
Also, I noticed them claiming the card "sips" about 135W. Do people just not understand words these days? 135W is pretty low for a video card but in absolute terms I'm not sure "sips" is the right word.
I griped about this a couple of years ago on WCCFTech where they used the word sip to describe something quite a bit higher--250-300W, probably, for a high-end video card. Ugh. Although I gave them a bit more slack since I think most of the writers there aren't native English speakers.
Also, I noticed them claiming the card "sips" about 135W. Do people just not understand words these days? 135W is pretty low for a video card but in absolute terms I'm not sure "sips" is the right word.
I griped about this a couple of years ago on WCCFTech where they used the word sip to describe something quite a bit higher--250-300W, probably, for a high-end video card. Ugh. Although I gave them a bit more slack since I think most of the writers there aren't native English speakers.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 14 2025 01:17 AM (VW9lJ)
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Yes and agreed.
135W is reasonable but the 4060 was a 110W card, so it's not remarkable.
135W is reasonable but the 4060 was a 110W card, so it's not remarkable.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, August 14 2025 01:46 AM (PiXy!)
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