Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it

Alibaba's HDPO framework trains AI agents to skip unnecessary tool calls, cutting redundant invocations from 98% to 2% while ...

The Last Class That Needed To Code Just Graduated

The keynote sound bite that everybody in the world could be a programmer is now a reality that people are living.

Zed team releases version 1.0 of Rust-built editor: Traditional editor and AI tool

Team wins praise for adding 'disable all AI features' setting for devs who want a code editor to be only a code editor ...
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OpenAI's coding AI has an unexpected goblin problem that required digital exorcism

OpenAI added explicit rules banning goblin and gremlin references in GPT-5.5's coding assistant after users complained about ...
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Gemini edges ChatGPT in real-world AI study tool tests

In recent head-to-head trials, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro outperformed OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.5 in complex, real-world study and design tasks, despite OpenAI's higher benchmark claims. Gemini excelled in ...

Kyle Orland

Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, covering topics ranging from retro games to new ...