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OpenAI’s breakthrough solution for the elusive Navier-Stokes problem overshadowed by plagiarism controversy — researcher says OpenAI scraped Codex session and i

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Buckmaster then asked when the initial prompt was issued, and OpenAI’s response of “in the past few days” did not arrive until “some time” passed. He proceeded to ask if the model “had been trained on, or had access to, …

NEC has quietly quit quantum computing hardware development, report claims — company says it will continue to evaluate practical applications and industrializat

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The demise of NEC’s semiconductor business was not sudden. NEC dismantled its semiconductor business in stages over roughly a decade. NEC effectively gave up doing DRAM alone in 1999, when it spun off its DRAM operations…

Chinese quartz approved for semiconductor equipment and DRAM manufacturing, but it still can’t break America’s monopoly — China secures domestic supply for chip

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Pacific Quartz has supplied Lam Research and Tokyo Electron with ultra-high-purity quartz consumables, such as LPCVD diffusion tubes, wafer boats, quartz ingots, quartz plates, and high-purity quartz tubes, since 2019–20…

Intel-backed auto-overclocking tool Hypertune optimizes individual systems, not test profiles — tool claims FPS improvement of up to 60% on Intel-based systems

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In a press release, Hypertune founder Austin Copeland wrote that the team was “not trying to build a tool for overclockers,” suggesting it’s aimed toward users who may not know about specific settings (i.e., the Balanced…

OpenAI’s rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate

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Anton Shilov Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from m…