Archive: January 2015

Starbucks has stopped using an AI-powered inventory tool after just nine months because it made the most basic of errors, according to a report from Reuters. The news comes after other AI tools have reportedly made serious mistakes, such as the case of a Pizza Hut franchisee who sued the pizza chain’s parent company after a system meant to make things more efficient allegedly cost $100 million in lost revenue. “Starting today, Automated Counting will be re

A video went viral in India about a month ago appearing to show a vast number of garment workers wearing tiny, head-mounted cameras while they worked in a dreary-looking factory. A widespread hunch was the technology the video depicted was a system for what’s known as egocentric data collection—gathering first-person footage of people in action to train AI models, in order to replace the workers with robots. But it wasn’t totally clear if the video was rea

Over the last several years, Nvidia has been a prolific investor, pouring tens of billions into startups annually and participating in 105 rounds this year alone, often as the largest investor, according to PitchBook. “If that direction changes, it’ll be a big blow to so many young companies,” said Maria Davidson, founder of Relational Capital. Huang’s absence leaves the startup ecosystem without one of its biggest champions and with far less capital for n

Anthropic, fresh off becoming the most valued frontier AI lab in the game and announcing plans for its initial public offering, has expanded access to Claude Mythos Preview, its model that would supposedly destroy the very concept of cybersecurity as we know it if released in the wild. According to the company, it is expanding access to the model via its Project Glasswing initiative, making it available to 150 new organizations across 15 countries. Per Ant

A new draft bill that would regulate some of the most advanced artificial intelligence tools was released for public comment by Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte of California and Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts on Thursday. The Obernolte-Trahan bill, dubbed the Great American AI Act, would ask large AI developers to keep the government informed about the development of its frontier models, make plans to mitigate the most severe harms to cybersecu

Developing a large feature from scratch often starts deceptively easy. The client explains the idea, the team discusses the screens, developers roughly understand the architecture. It seems ready to start. But as soon as you move from the general concept to specific behavior, questions arise, each with its own answer from every team member.Let's take a web system for booking shared equipment. An employee selects a projector and a time, confirms the booking

Central bankers are some of the most powerful people in the world, and we should all pay attention to what they’re saying and hearing. With that in mind, I have troubling news. According to Reuters’ Wednesday report from the European Central Bank’s annual meeting in Sintra, Portugal, AI is being talked about like a thousand-mile-wide UFO hovering above Europe. According to Reuters, nearly every time anyone had a conversation, AI came up. Quotes collected b

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images OpenAI appears to be losing money out the wazoo. An analysis by The Register of the latest earnings report from its key partner Microsoft, released Wednesday, suggests that the ChatGPT maker lost $11.5 billion last quarter — a figure that epitomizes the dizzying spending driving the AI industry. Those losses come as OpenAI completed restructuring its for-profit arm, whi

Getty / Futurism OpenAI unveiled its AI browser Atlas last month, effectively building a web browsing interface around its blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT. The browser’s “agent mode” has caught most of the attention so far. The feature can navigate the web on behalf of the user, like a human, to carry out tasks like research or online shopping. Besides some serious security concerns — and a glacial pace that undermines its effectiveness — another striking issu

Getty / Futurism Despite its half-a-trillion-dollar valuation, the reality is that OpenAI is almost certainly burning through cash at an alarming rate. According to recent filings, the ChatGPT maker lost a whopping $12 billion last quarter alone. Yet, it wants to spend well over $1 trillion over the next several years, once again stoking fears over an AI bubble that could wipe out the entire US economy if it were to burst. Even its AI video-generating app,

Getty Images / PhotoAlto / Frederic Cirou Say what you will about AI chatbots, but there’s no question they’re now affecting the real world — including imploding your marriage. We’ve talked pretty extensively about all the alarming ways that AI is disrupting people’s personal lives, including serving as a delusion-prone person’s own little cult leader, a friend or romantic companion for lonely teens and adults, and as a chaotic therapist that’s blowing up

If you’re thinking of attending any sort of public meeting about, say, zoning changes in and around your community that enable the building of data centers, here’s something to keep in mind: a school teacher has now been carried out of one such meeting and booked in jail for clapping after someone else’s speech. “I think we’re all in a state of fear because of what this government’s doing to us,” an anonymous attendee of that meeting told the Wichita TV ne

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain "This is a game changer." That's how Paul Scully, New South Wales Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, described the state government's launch of a tender for an artificial intelligence (AI) solution to the housing crisis earlier this month. The system, which is aimed at cutting red tape and getting more homes built fast, is expected to be functioning by the end of 2025. "This is allowing construction to get underway a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images With the mass adoption of AI chatbots comes immense potential for their abuse. These tools which cheer us on endlessly, no matter what we ask it, have already pushed vulnerable people to wild delusions, murder, and suicides. Adding to the list is Sam Nelson, a 19-year-old who died of a drug overdose after an 18-month relationship with ChatGPT took a turn for the worst. Throughout the mont

Examples of AI art exhibitions. Credit: Retos (2025). DOI: 10.17163/ret.n29.2025.01 Artificial intelligence is transforming the creative process. AI can not only generate complex texts, high-quality images, and videos in just a few minutes. It can also support creative thinking and act as a research tool in the stages prior to artistic production. However, its adoption also raises ethical concerns around issues such as originality, authorship, ownership, a

Published on March 17, 2026 at 09:30 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Manus Meta has just enhanced Manus, the Chinese AI agent acquired a few months ago. A new feature allows the AI to leave the cloud and install directly on your PC. By improving its latest acquisition, Meta offers a mass-market alternative to OpenClaw, the open-source agent that has excited developers, positioning itself as a rival to Perplexity's Personal Computer. Last year, Meta acquired Manus, a