California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted
On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act into...
September 2025
Is the “million-year-old” skull from China a Denisovan or something else?
A fossil skull from China that made headlines last week may or may not be...
Burnout and Elon Musk’s politics spark exodus from senior xAI, Tesla staff
Elon Musk’s business empire has been hit by a wave of senior departures over the...
The SUV that saved Porsche goes electric, and the tech is interesting
Porsche provided flights from Washington to Leipzig and accommodation so Ars could be briefed on...
Scientists unlock secret to Venus flytrap’s hair-trigger response
To trap its prey, the Venus flytrap sends rapid electrical impulses, which are generated in...
Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million
Google owner Alphabet today agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit that President...
Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks
On Monday, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, a new AI language model the company calls...
EA will be a very different company under private ownership
This morning’s announcement that EA plans to sell itself to a consortium of private equity...
F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
Google plans to begin testing its recently announced verification scheme for Android developers in the...
ESA will pay an Italian company nearly $50 million to design a mini-Starship
The European Space Agency signed a contract Monday with Avio, the Italian company behind the...
Senators to appropriators: Leave space shuttle Discovery in Smithsonian
A former NASA astronaut turned US senator has joined with other lawmakers to insist that...
It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal
Friday’s reports that Electronic Arts planned to go private were publicly confirmed Monday morning. Silver...
ZR1, GTD, and America’s new Nurburgring war
There’s a racetrack with a funny name in Germany that, in the eyes of many...
30 years later, I’m still obliterating planets in Master of Orion II—and you can, too
I love 4X games. I’ve tried other strategy game genres, but frankly, they don’t stick...
The current war on science, and who’s behind it
We’re about a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Summers across the global...