Anthropic’s AI models could potentially help spies analyze classified documents, but the company draws the line at domestic surveillance. That restriction is reportedly making the Trump administration angry. On Tuesday, Semafor reported that Anthropic faces growing hostility from the Trump administration over the AI company’s restrictions on law enforcement uses of its Claude models. Two… Read More »
Microsoft’s Office 365 suite will soon incorporate AI models from Anthropic alongside existing OpenAI technology, The Information reported, ending years of exclusive reliance on OpenAI for generative AI features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The shift reportedly follows internal testing that revealed Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 model excels at specific Office tasks where OpenAI’s… Read More »
reader comments 29 After acquiring VMware, Broadcom swiftly enacted widespread changes that resulted in strong public backlash. A new survey of 300 director-level IT workers at companies that are customers of North American VMware provides insight into the customer reaction to Broadcom’s overhaul. The survey released Thursday doesn’t provide feedback from every VMware customer, but… Read More »
Enlarge / An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center under construction in Stone Ridge, Virginia, in March 2024. Amazon will spend more than $150 billion on data centers in the next 15 years. Getty Images reader comments 62 Redis, a tremendously popular tool for storing data in-memory rather than in a database, recently switched its… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 28 with Hosting Ars View more stories Greetings, dear readers, and congratulations—we’ve reached the end of our four-part series on how Ars Technica is hosted in the cloud, and it has been a journey. We’ve gone through our infrastructure, our application stack, and our CI/CD strategy (that’s “continuous… Read More »
Enlarge / DevOps, DevOps, DevOps! ArtemisDiana / Getty Images reader comments 19 with Hosting Ars View more stories One of the most important things to happen in the evolution of development over the past many years is the widespread adoption of continuous integration and continuous deployment, or CI/CD. (Sometimes the “CD” stands for “continuous delivery,”… Read More »
Enlarge / Welcome aboard the orbital HQ, readers! Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 3 with Hosting Ars View more stories Welcome back to our series on how Ars Technica is hosted and run! Last week, in part one, we cracked open the (virtual) doors to peek inside the Ars (virtual) data center. We… Read More »
Enlarge / Take a peek inside the Ars vault with us! Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 17 with A bit over three years ago, just before COVID hit, we ran a long piece on the tools and tricks that make Ars function without a physical office. Ars has spent decades perfecting how to… Read More »