Archive: April 2015

There’s now a sitcom pilot produced entirely with AI. Of course there is. Oscar-nominated Sci-fi filmmaker Neill Blomkamp recently tried something similar, and it was awful. Now, according to the Guardian, some former startup investor named Andrew Dickinson has given it a shot, and it’s awful. Dickinson reportedly wrote the script in the hopes of getting it filmed—like with human actors. With that in mind, watching this show, called No Big Deal, will feel

Facebook—whose chief Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a charm offensive in Germany—has confirmed plans to donate 25 “state-of-the-art” GPU-based servers to a myriad of European research institutions. Klaus-Robert Müller of the Technical University of Berlin will be the first benefactor of the new Facebook AI research project. His team will receive four GPU-based servers to assist them in two areas of research: image analysis of breast cancer, and c

Published July 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A connected folder, a message sent, and Anthropic’s agent roamed throughout the entire drive. No permission prompt, no alert. All agents that write code rely on the same promise: they are confined to an enclosed space, given access to a specific folder, and allowed to work with peace of mind. Security researchers have just demonstrated that, with Anthropic’s desktop agent, this enclosed space

Published on July 27, 2026 at 15:29 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net Two OpenAI models escaped and set out to attack Hugging Face, the renowned open-source AI platform. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue is now demanding “radical transparency” and $100 million in computing power from OpenAI. Two OpenAI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped the secure environment set up by the startup. By exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in third-party software and then s

All about Artificial Intelligence see more All about OpenAI see more OpenAI began training its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models without access to the open internet after identifying flaws that allowed AI agents to bypass security barriers and access external systems. The measure aims to prevent models under development from exploiting vulnerabilities during training and causing harm outside the environments controlled by the company.In a p

STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images/Futurism The Wall Street Journal is giving opinion authors the go-ahead to use AI in the writing process without requiring AI disclosures — a move by a top newspaper that feels like an inflection point for the media industry. On Monday, the billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller, a former hedge fund manager and founder of Duquesne Capital, published an article in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion section titled “Let the Bond Mark

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job, claiming that neither Anthropic nor his former employer OpenAI is “acting responsibly” and that there’s a real chance AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade.” The announcement highlighted growing concerns among AI researchers about risks surrounding the tech. Earlier this year, several frontier labs

Abdulrahman Alfozan seemed to be something of a rising star in Silicon Valley. Identified as one of the few Saudi Arabian nationals working in Silicon Valley and perhaps the only one at OpenAI, he reportedly shmoozed with top Saudi officials and was even recently set to give a speech at Stanford, according to the Financial Times. In an interview, he had identified Elon Musk as his role model, and it seemed like he could have the chops to chart a similar pa

Most of today’s smart rings offer users the ability to track health stats, along with various minor smartphone integrations. With all the sensors and data collection, these devices can cost as much as a smartwatch and require frequent charging. The Index 01 doesn’t do any of that. It contains a Bluetooth radio, a microphone, a hearing aid battery, and a physical button. You press the button, record your note, and that’s it. The company says the Index 01 wi

Finn Gomez/Getty Images/Futurism Frontier AI lab Anthropic is officially gearing up to go public at a valuation of up to $2 trillion dollars — despite having lost a stunning $80 billion in the first half of 2026 alone — in an unprecedented Wall Street debut that comes with a litany of inherent risks, as laid out in the hundreds of pages of its IPO prospectus. And on top of major heat over the continued backlash to data centers across the country, lackluste

What happens when you give AI coding agents a lab full of robotic arms, some compute resources, and a “generous token budget” for teaching the robots various tasks? The agents can apparently figure out a training regimen that teaches the robots to successfully cut zip ties and even insert GPUs into thin sockets on motherboards. That glimpse into how AI can act in a fully autonomous way to automate robot training was made possible by a new agent harness fra

Smartphone shipments started to plateau a few years back, ending the days of guaranteed double-digit growth for any company that wanted to make phones. Fewer smartphone manufacturers exist today, and they’re facing new pressure in the age of AI. A new report claims that smartphone shipments cratered 11 percent in the last quarter. Some are weathering the storm better than others, though. According to Counterpoint, this substantial drop brings smartphone sh

Google has been all-in with Gemini for the last several years, and despite some animosity online, the bet is paying off. CEO Sundar Pichai announced today that Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users (MAUs), an important milestone for any Google product. While 13 other Google products have managed that feat, Gemini has done it faster than any other. Gemini has wormed its way into virtually every Google product and service, powering email organiza

Just now, Google DeepMind announced that Gemini 4 Carbon is officially available today, billing it as “Google’s most capable model to date.” It is designed specifically for complex, long-horizon tasks, capable of allocating more inference resources to explore problems in depth and complete complex tasks in software engineering, cybersecurity, knowledge work, and scientific research through continuous execution, checking, and correction.Compared with the ea

Among the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s content-industry subsidy program “IP360,” “Support for Expanding Distribution Platforms” (Menu 5), which supports the overseas distribution infrastructure for Japanese-origin content, is the largest of all nine IP360 menus, offering up to ¥3 billion per company (at a 50% subsidy rate). According to the selection results announced on June 26, 15 of 42 applications were selected (an application-to-selection

Nippon Television Network announced on June 30 that it would end its catch-up streaming service “Nippon TV Free! (TADA)” at the end of September. The service will be consolidated into the commercial broadcasters’ official streaming service, “TVer.” The discontinuation of the service is also announced on the “Nippon TV Free! (TADA)” website. Video streaming will end as of 6 p.m. on September 30. At the same time, related services, including support for the

Goodfire, a startup focused on interpretability (figuring out how AI models work internally), launched a cheaper option on Thursday: monitors that watch what’s happening inside an AI model as it works, rather than just reading what it writes. The monitors are available to customers of Baseten, which hosts and runs AI models for other companies. Baseten’s Base Labs announced a safety partnership with Goodfire and the AI platform Hugging Face last month. The

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, and OpenAI released GPT 6.1 Sol on September 29. Coincidentally, the two models have exactly the same listed API prices on OpenRouter: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Leiphone(WeChat public account: Leiphone) The two companies are moving in highly similar directions: compressing the capabilities of near-top-tiermodels into a product tier that is faster, cheaper, and suited