Archive: January 2015

The new AI music hosts are supposed to provide a richer listening experience, according to YouTube. As you’re listening to tunes, the AI will generate audio snippets similar to, but shorter than, the fake podcasts you can create in NotebookLM. The “Beyond the Beat” host will break in every so often with relevant stories, trivia, and commentary about your musical tastes. YouTube says this feature will appear when you are listening to mixes and radio station

Incident response specialists are raising the alarm because they are receiving more and more reports of incidents in which attackers are using AI in a novel way. By using agentic frameworks, the AI can autonomously carry out large parts of a multi-stage attack. In other words, the AI is not doing anything genuinely new here, but its use leads to “more frequent, faster, and more scalable automated attacks with a higher success rate,” warns CERT-EU, for exam

Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images/Shutterstock/Futurism Content warning: this story contains descriptions of disturbing AI-generated videos that depict violent child abuse. Last month, we reported that Facebook was hosting enormous numbers of graphic AI-generated videos of physical child abuse that showed kids being beaten, burned, dragged by their hair, locked in cages, and more. In response to our questions, Facebook’s parent company Meta

Public perceptions of AI as labor-replacing (vs. labor-creating) by country (Left panel) and by GDP per capita quartile (Right panel) in Study 1 (N = 37,079). Colored dots and whiskers indicate the observed standardized mean differences (Cohen's d) from the 1 to 5 scale midpoint and their 95% CI. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2523508123 Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing our society and economy.

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Scientist Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI), said that humanity might be better off without developing the technology. He also warned that advanced systems could trigger large-scale incidents as early as 2026 or 2027.Nobel Prize winner Hinton criticizes executives at major technology companies for prioritizing profits and market share at the expense of safety. To reduce ri

Getty / Futurism Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI agent kept carrying out a hack even when it was told that its actions were hurting real people. The grim finding was detailed in simultaneous reports from Anthropic and the AI Security Institute published Friday. Together, they take a second look at a security incident that occurred while the AISI was evaluating the model’s safety in August. In the original incident, Claude Mythos 5 was asked to break into a small n

The first new device is a home security drone that users will be able to deploy to patrol their domiciles when they’re out. The other item that the company is launching is a roving enterprise security robot, designed for businesses. First, the drone. Ring calls the device a “flying indoor security camera” — which should give you a pretty good idea of what it’s supposed to do and how it’s supposed to work. Ring Drone Cam is designed to fly from room to room

Google Deepmind releases Gemini 4 Carbon just two weeks after Argon with gains across the board Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 28, 2026 Key Points Just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, Google DeepMind released Gemini 4 Carbon, its next frontier model. Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with 59 points, up from Argon's 50. Google says Carbon is built for multi-day, autonomous development workflows. It

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Suing on behalf of the NAACP, the Southern Environmental Law Center said the AI company had “installed and operated at least 35 combustion turbines and other sources of air pollution at the Colossus site without ever obtaining the necessary preconstruction or operating air permits.” It also accused xAI of violating the Clean Air Act. xAI sought to have the lawsuit dismissed, claiming that the turbines are exempt from permitting requirements because they’re

Our Dota 2 result shows that self-play can catapult the performance of machine learning systems from far below human level to superhuman, given sufficient compute. In the span of a month, our system went from barely matching a high-ranked player to beating the top pros and has continued to improve since then. Supervised deep learning systems can only be as good as their training datasets, but in self-play systems, the available data improves automatically

As the final model release of GPT-2’s staged release, we’re releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. While there have been larger language models released since August, we’ve continued with our original staged release plan in order to provide the community with a test case of a full staged release process. We hope that this test case will be useful to deve