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Study Accuses LM Arena of Helping Top AI Labs Game Its Benchmark(2025-05-01 10:00:21)

An anonymous reader shares a report: A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena, of helping a select group of AI companies achieve better leaderboard scores at the expense of rivals. According...
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Satellite Launches On Mission To 'Weigh' World's 1.5 Trillion Trees(2025-05-01 05:00:04)

The European Space Agency has launched the Biomass satellite to study the world's forests using the first space-based P-band synthetic aperture radar, aiming to accurately measure carbon storage and improve understanding of the global carbon cycle. CBS News reports: Forests on Earth collectively abs...
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Why Windows 7 Took Forever To Load If You Had a Solid Background(2025-05-01 00:00:09)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Windows 7 came onto the market in 2009 and put Microsoft back on the road to success after Windows Vista's annoying failures. But Windows 7 was not without its faults, as this curious story proves. Some users apparently encountered a vexing problem a...
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Microsoft Puts Brakes on AI Spending as Profit Increases 18%(2025-04-30 20:02:22)

After 10 consecutive quarters of rising AI-related investment, Microsoft has put on the brakes, spending over $1 billion less than the previous quarter (source paywalled; alternative source). Despite the slight slowdown, Microsoft posted stronger-than-expected results with $70 billion in revenue and...
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Microsoft CEO Says Up To 30% of the Company's Code Was Written by AI(2025-04-30 15:00:03)

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories was "written by software" -- meaning AI -- during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta's LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. From a report: Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how ...
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