Archive: January 2015

Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot Earlier this month, Google publicly griped that “commercially motivated” actors were trying to clone its Gemini AI through agents that queried the chatbot up to 100,000 times to “extract” the underlying model. The hypocrisy of Google’s accusations was palpable. For years, the search giant has relied on indiscriminately scraping the internet for content to train its AI models, without compensating copyright holders — and

Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images The ongoing attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched by a joint coalition of US and Israeli military forces, have so far claimed 555 Iranian lives, including 165 deaths from an attack on an elementary school in Southern Iran. As the Wall Street Journal reported as the attacks unfolded the military strike force had a hand in selecting its targets from Anthropic’s Claude chatbot. According to the paper, Ant

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The New York Times faced scrutiny online this week after netizens speculated that a personal essay featured in its storied “Modern Love” column was generated using AI and published without disclosure. Nothing is proven; the AI allegations remain exactly that. The AI paranoia among readers, though, is very real. The controversy kicked off over the weekend, when Becky Tuch of Lit Mag News t

Guest author: Or Hillel, Green LampAI systems aren’t experimental anymore, they’re embedded in everyday decisions that affect millions. Yet as these models stretch into important spaces like real-time supply chain routing, medical diagnostics, and financial markets, something as simple as a stealthy data shift or an undetected anomaly can flip confident automation into costly breakdown or public embarrassment.This isn’t just a problem for data scientists o

@whitemarshallComparing Kimi K3.1 Pro and Claude Fable 5.2 on 19 tasks──the difference was not in capabilityAILLMPythonAPI0Posted at 2026-11-12 ※Some parts of the draft used AI assistance. All numerical data and results were executed and verified by myself. Let me write the conclusion first. If you are placing one model for user-facing chat, choose Claude Fable 5.2. If you are doing batch processing or budget-focused tasks, choose Kimi K3.1 Pro. The capabi

@0xNurstar(Nurstar)The agent's "skills" are a new npm package — why a single scan isn't enoughAIAgentSkillsGitHub0Posted at 2026-11-12 Introduction The "skills" of agents are the most recent supply chain risks in AI. Skills are Markdown files that instruct agents on what to do, often bundled with several scripts. They can be installed with a single command, and agents follow them in the next execution. However, people who read them line by line are probabl

Sean M. Haffey / Getty Images In February, Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that the company required them to review disturbing and sensitive footage captured by its Ray-Ban AI glasses. Some reported seeing wearers naked or using the toilet. Another saw a man’s wife undressing in their bedroom, after he left the glasses on a table, the joint investigation found. Other footage they reviewed included en

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images On Tuesday, OpenAI threw a party for the release of GPT-5.5 (it was the fifth of May and the fifth month of the year, you see.) If celebrating with a bunch of tech bros sounds like the opposite of a good time, you’ll not be swayed from your position by the news that CEO Sam Altman consulted the non-human entity of the hour to plan its own party — producing, in Altman’s o

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat that could impact all life on Earth. Our best experts can’t agree on its trajectory or even its distance from our planet, but knowledge of its presence is enough to throw society into a fervor. There’s no way to know: it could hit with such force that it lays waste to all but a chosen few,

Kirby, meet Stanley (This article is the first of a three-part series. Click here for part 2 and here for part 3) Until recently, it was the stuff of Hollywood. Movies from The Love Bug to Minority Report have depicted cars that let passengers just hop in, tell the car where they want to go, and then relax and enjoy the ride. But here in the real world, cars need human drivers. Then in 2005, a modified Volkswagen, dubbed Stanley, turned science fiction int

Many types of fungi can cause rot in apples, both before and after harvest. Credit: Jorunn Børve Rot development during fruit storage is a problem. Now, metabarcoding may become a tool for detecting fungi that can cause diseases in apples. Many types of fungi can cause rot in apples, both before and after harvest. In packing facilities, apples are often sorted in water, but researchers do not yet know whether fungal spores from rotten apples can spread thr

Former Iowa State University doctoral student Diana Escamilla working in a field. Credit: Diana Escamilla/Iowa State University Developing high-yielding, nutritious and climate-resilient crops is vital to safeguard the future of global food production. To meet the challenges ahead, Iowa State University scientists are working with crop breeders to look for approaches that can efficiently speed up crop improvement programs. "Genomic selection is an importan

Published on July 28, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Publicly, everyone loves open source. Behind the scenes, the two AI stars would lobby in Washington to rein it in. The revelation sent Silicon Valley into a frenzy and forced Anthropic to step into the open. Open source occupies a special place in the world of artificial intelligence: open-weight models, which anyone can download and modify, serve as a counterweight to closed services sold b

A gaggle of Gemini The model dropdown in the Gemini app is a bit convoluted, particularly as we see products like Veo 2 and Personalization popping up there. Google has been releasing so many preview models and new ways of using Gemini that it can be hard to know which option to choose for a given task. In fairness, Google is far from the only major AI player with this problem. Tulsee Doshi is Google’s director of product management for Gemini, which means

(From left) Walid Saad and Alexander DeRieux present their novel eQMARL framework at the opening of Academic Building One in Alexandria. Credit: Luke Hayes for Virginia Tech Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such communications are also reliant on internet connectivity, often including wireless signal