Archive: May 2015

Today, the Argentine black and white tegu is considered an invasive species in Florida, but long before they arrived via the pet trade, their prehistoric ancestors roamed this region. Credit: Kevin Blackwell / Amphibian Foundation Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After wreaking havoc in Florida's ecosystems, the exotic lizard was classified as an invasive species. But a re

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Does your online grocery order ever feel fishy, like the prices just aren’t adding up? It turns out you’re right to be suspicious — and now we have compelling evidence. New research by a consortium of groups including Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union have found evidence of a massive experiment being run on consumers by grocery delivery company Instacart.

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for Coachella Claire “Grimes” Boucher says that you’re really missing out if you’re not experiencing a mental health crisis at the hands of an AI chatbot. Seriously. We’re not putting words in her mouth. On Monday, the pop musician and Elon Musk baby-mama had everyone wondering if she was suffering a case of so-called AI psychosis after she seemingly argued in favor of

Getty Images / Arman Zhenikeyev Before Stein-Erik Soelberg savagely killed his 83-year-old mother and then himself last year, the former tech executive had become locked in an increasingly delusional conversation with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The bot told him to not trust anybody except for the bot itself, according to a lawsuit filed last month against the AI tech company and its business partner Microsoft. “Erik, you’re not crazy,” the bot wrote in a series of

Credit: Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2025.08.015 Artificial intelligence is now better than humans at identifying many patterns, but evolutionary relationships have always been difficult for the technology to decipher. A team from the Bioinformatics Department at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, working under Professor Axel Mosig has trained a neural network to tackle this issue. The AI can relate any data

Imagine you work a weird job where you fire guns at targets all day. At one point you were told your value to the company would be tied to how many bullets you fired, so you pulled the trigger like crazy. What if, when that caused a bullet supply issue, you eventually received a memo saying you were no longer expected to fire as many bullets as possible. But what if, around that same time, you were given the minigun from Terminator 2: Judgement Day? Accord

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images If you’re running a frontier AI company, now’s not the time to rest on your laurels. The stakes could hardly be higher: whichever corporation manages to outmaneuver its rivals stands to capture not just enormous wealth, but significant political influence over what we’re told is one of the most consequential technologies in human history. As some child safety advocates r

close notice This article is also available in English. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication. Don’t show this again. Hard times are coming for programmers: Now, even the mail-order giant Amazon has released a tool that, according to its own claims, is completely written with software based on artificial intelligence (AI). Human developers have therefore contributed not a single line. Instead, the US compan

New Yuan Report Recently, a domestic large model has sparked a big celebration in the global developer community! Surprisingly, this model hasn't officially launched yet. It is the Qwen 4-Max preview version released by Alibaba today. Previously, industry insiders excitedly predicted: This is an explosive week, with Fable 5.5, GPT-6.2 Sol, Gemini Kryptom, and Qwen 4 all set to debut! Yes, overseas developers have already placed Qwen 4 on the same level of

The experimental and measurement platform that the team used to evaluate the nvDCIM chips. Credit: Nature Electronics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01479-y To make accurate predictions and reliably complete desired tasks, most artificial intelligence (AI) systems need to rapidly analyze large amounts of data. This currently entails the transfer of data between processing and memory units, which are separate in existing electronic devices. Over the past f

ComfyUI's main use cases are image and video generation, but it also supports text generation using LLMs or VLMs to improve prompt quality and create video stories. From version 0.40.0 to 0.45.0, ComfyUI has been optimizing text generation processes, achieving more than double the generation speed compared to previous versions. Doubling LLM token rates in ComfyUI - by rattus128 https://blog.comfy.org/p/doubling-llm-token-rates-in-comfyui While the performa

Getty / Futurism AI agents can often act more like double agents, sabotaging a company from the inside. Have the legions of tech-brained big wigs heeded this lesson? Of course not. On Friday, Jer Crane, the founder of the SaaS startup PocketOS, claimed that its Claude-powered Cursor coding agent screwed up so badly that it completely wiped out the company’s database in a matter of seconds. Taking no prisoners, it also vanquished all the database’s recent b

Getty / Futurism If you decided to blow off a Zoom meeting by sending an AI dummy instead, you might find yourself out of a job. But when a head honcho does it, it’s a masterfully executed stunt, a sign of a business genius who’s got his finger on the pulse. Take Sam Sidhu, the CEO of Customers Bank. During a conference call discussing the company’s latest earnings reports, he waited nearly an hour before revealing that it was actually an AI that had been

Getty / Futurism In an age of AI, our hardworking CEOs are being tortured with a tough decision, according to new Wall Street Journal reporting: they can embrace AI and lay off scores of employees — or keep their employees, but use AI to make them work even harder. If those options sound like a false dichotomy to you, you’re probably not wrong. But it’s emblematic of the logic that business leaders, gripped by AI fomo, are operating with. No one wants to b

Published May 28, 2026 at 5:02 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © 01net/Mistral Three years old and already in the cockpits. The French startup has just secured access to all four Airbus divisions, and it has no intention of stopping there. The Carrousel du Louvre in Paris will host the « AI Now Summit » by Mistral AI this Wednesday, May 28, an event timed precisely for the third anniversary of the startup founded by Arthur Mensch, Timothée Lacroix and Guillaume Lam

The corporation describes TensorFlow as faster, smarter, and more flexible than its predecessor, capable of allowing the company to build and train neural networks up to five times faster compared to the first-generation system. It’s also just slick. Any computation that can be expressed as a computational flow graph can be computed with TensorFlow. Additionally, it provides tools to construct subgraphs common in neural networks, and will also compute deri

@JupLite(JupLite)A Solana toolkit that allows you to “research before swapping” tokens.solanaAIPersonal development0Posted on 2026-11-11A Solana toolkit that allows you to “research before swapping” tokens. Introduction New tokens keep emerging on Solana. If you simply swap tokens based on market trends or community feedback without proper research, you may later realize that you lacked the necessary information. JupLite is a lightweight toolkit that first