[ad_1] Nintendo seemingly designed its latest console to be a mystery for third-party accessory makers. With the Switch 2, the company changed the wireless protocol for connecting controllers to the new system, as well as how it outputs video over USB-C, making it clear at launch that every third-party manufacturer needed to start over from …

[ad_1] Based on what we know from other types of tiny fibres, those dimensions are problematic, she says, based on what we know about mineral fibres such as asbestos or carbon nanotubes. “We know that those fibres – small enough to javelin down into the air sacs at the end of our airways – are …

[ad_1] Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Import A-Idea:An occasional essay series: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and an internet in transition We’ve all had that experience of walking into a conversation and initially …

[ad_1] “We’re not rookies on technology,” he said. After receiving the data dump on his daughter’s Discord account, a couple of things stuck out immediately as odd to Frey. “There’s no age recorded at signup, but there’s something worth flagging: her data includes an age_group field set to ’13–17,’ confirming Discord’s system knows she’s a …

[ad_1] This is it. The clock is running out. Tonight is your last chance to lock in savings of up to $500 for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. These discounts end at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register here to secure yours with the limited-time offer. What Disrupt delivers year after year This year, Disrupt takes over San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13–15, bringing together 10,000 founders, VCs, operators, …

[ad_1] Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 123, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, which Artemis photo did you make your wallpaper, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Sam Altman and Satoshi …

[ad_1] Same input. Same prompt. Different output. That’s the reality of testing AI agents that write code, and most teams are shipping without solving it. Nick Nisi from WorkOS tackled this by building eval systems for two AI tools: The post covers how to test against real project structures, score output that’s different every time, …

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[ad_1] “Every frontier model we evaluated lost money over the season and many experienced ruin,” the authors of the paper concluded, with the AI “systematically underperforming humans” in this scenario. AI Model Mean ROI Best try Worst try Mean final bankroll Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 –11.0% –0.2% –18.8% £89,035 OpenAI GPT-5.4 –13.6% –4.1% –31.6% £86,365 …

[ad_1] If you have spent the last week inexplicably emotional about a space mission, you are not alone and you are not being dramatic. Something real is happening to you. Something your nervous system recognized before your brain caught up to it, and it is worth understanding why, because the reason is actually about a …