Month: April 2025

Eine neue Architektur für Batteriezellen steigert die Leistung um mindestens 30 Prozent und senkt gleichzeitig die Kosten. Es geht noch mehr. (Akku, Elektromobilität)

Dieser Mobilfunktarif von o2 hat es in sich. Für kurze Zeit sichern sich Neukunden für einmalig 37 Euro noch die PS5 Slim zusätzlich. (O2, Telefónica)

Trotz Einwänden leitender IT-Angestellter erhält Doge Zugriff auf Gehaltsabrechnungssysteme der US-Regierung. Die Kritiker wurden direkt beurlaubt. (Doge, Politik)

Garmin bringt mit Connect+ ein Abo mit KI-Analysen, erweitertem Live-Tracking und mehr. Lohnt sich das nicht gerade günstige Upgrade? Von Peter Steinlechner (Garmin, Sport)

OpenAI erhält viel Geld von Softbank aus Japan. Aber nur, wenn bestimmte Bedingungen erfüllt werden, wird voll gezahlt. (OpenAI, KI)

Der Ex-Elitesoldat David Morales soll für die CIA Julian Assange ausspioniert haben. Über 17.000 E-Mails mit Beweisen sind aber plötzlich weg. (Spionage, Smartphone)

We're back! A long-time reader and subscriber recently mentioned in the Ars Forums that they "kind of" missed the Daily Telescope posts that I used to write in 2023 and 2024. Although I would have preferred that everyone desperately missed the Daily Telescope, I appreciate the sentiment. I really do.

I initially stopped writing these posts about a year ago because it just became too much to commit to writing one thing every day. I mean, I could have done it. But doing so on the daily crossed over the line from enjoyable to drudgery, and one of the best things about working for Ars is that it tends very much toward the enjoyable side. Anyway, writing one of these posts on a weekly basis feels more sustainable. I guess we'll find out!

Today's image comes to you all the way from Mars. One of the most powerful tools on NASA's Perseverance rover is the WATSON camera attached to the end of the rover's robotic arm. In the fine tradition of tortured acronyms at the space agency, WATSON stands for Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering. And because of course it is, WATSON is located on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument. Seriously, NASA must stand for Not Another Screwball Acronym.

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Paramount tut so, als ob das neue Premium-Abo von Paramount+ ein großes Staatsgeheimnis wäre. Ein weiteres Detail ist bekannt geworden. (Paramount+, Streaming)

Russland will in der Halbleiterfertigung unabhängiger werden, insbesondere von China. Auch der Iran will davon profitieren. (Technik/Hardware, Canon)

What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic's founders to quit OpenAI in 2020 and later create the Claude AI assistant, a shared technical hurdle has now brought them together: How to easily connect their AI models to external data sources.

The solution comes from Anthropic, which developed and released an open specification called Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024. MCP establishes a royalty-free protocol that allows AI models to connect with outside data sources and services without requiring unique integrations for each service.

"Think of MCP as a USB-C port for AI applications," wrote Anthropic in MCP's documentation. The analogy is imperfect, but it represents the idea that, similar to how USB-C unified various cables and ports (with admittedly a debatable level of success), MCP aims to standardize how AI models connect to the infoscape around them.

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