Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more

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The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing at an exponential rate, with a broad range of topics spanning from the latest CPUs, GPUs, ASICs and FPGAs that run modern AI workloads, along with the different types of AI usages, such as the different types of large language models (LLM) and how they are trained and then used for inference workloads. Here you'll find Tom's Hardware's leading coverage of all things AI.

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Daniel Newman’s number comes from OpenRouter data, where agents passed humans in February and grew 14x by August.

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Google suspends product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports.

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The California DOJ has got its eyes on OpenAI.

The model created its own World of Warcraft pathfinder on a private server with one prompt in OpenAI's Codex.

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Suspect faces 20 years in prison

PewDiePie says OpenAI banned him twice while he made Ajax, a fine-tuned Qwen3.5-9B agent.

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Premium Nvidia’s new Open Agent Safety Platform combines OpenShell sandboxing with BlueField-powered Sentry hardware to monitor and rapidly quarantine rogue AI agents

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Premium Can AI outsmart the ingenuity of human thinking and design? If so, what does that mean for proprietary IP? We explore the tools, and the potential pitfalls.

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DeepSeek and Huawei have released open-source programming tools for Ascend 950 AI chips, including compute and communication libraries, aimed at making Huawei hardware easier to program and optimize.

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