Archive: May 2015

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jon Putman / Anadolu via Getty Images Now that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a metaverse has collapsed in on itself, the billionaire has moved onto his next money pit: a wildly expensive “Superintelligence” unit. But those who’ve survived several brutal rounds of layoffs at the company aren’t exactly thrilled to be part of his new vision for it. As Wired reports, morale within Meta’s 6,500-staff

Shutterstock / Futurism For tech companies racing to be the king of the AI hill, there are few things more precious than raw, original data. To keep the large language models underlying our favorite AI chatbots up to date, tech companies have to feed them reams of fresh inputs. As one study found, the amount of data being used to train AI has doubled every nine months since 2010 — exponential growth which may soon hit a wall as stores of clean data run cri

Study participants were tasked with designing a virtual car on the Genetic Car Designer Game. Credit: Dr. Sean Walton, Swansea University Artificial intelligence (AI) is often seen as a tool to automate tasks and replace humans, but new research from Swansea University challenges this view, showing that AI can also act as a creative, engaging and inspiring partner. A team from the University's Computer Science Department has conducted one of the largest st

Published on June 26, 2026, at 11:21 AM Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 model will initially be available to a limited number of companies. Its use will be approved on a case-by-case basis by the Trump administration. After promoting the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the U.S. government is now making a U-turn and imposing strict controls on new AI models in the name of national security. OpenAI’s highly anti

Bad human! Don’t worry about AI breaking out of its box—worry about us breaking in Opinion: The worst human impulses will find plenty of uses for generative AI. Rob Reid – Feb 24, 2023 10:23 am | 128 Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Rob Reid is a venture capitalist, New York Ti

Silicon Valley, once famous for its bitter rivalries, has at last achieved complete inner harmony. Its leaders have set aside their differences and agreed to work towards a common goal: continued American dominance in AI. Or as President Trump, a self-described “high-IQ person,” has officially rebranded it, “Super Intelligence.” That’s, at any rate, the image that the Trump administration is trying to project. At a White House summit on Tuesday, Trump and

After months of resisting, Air Canada was forced to give a partial refund to a grieving passenger who was misled by an airline chatbot inaccurately explaining the airline’s bereavement travel policy. On the day Jake Moffatt’s grandmother died, Moffat immediately visited Air Canada’s website to book a flight from Vancouver to Toronto. Unsure of how Air Canada’s bereavement rates worked, Moffatt asked Air Canada’s chatbot to explain. The chatbot provided ina

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more By Paulo Silveira, co-founder and Chief Vision Officer (CVO) at AluraOver the past few years, following the evolution of artificial intelligence has meant following a technological race. With every launch, new comparisons, new benchmark charts, and new predictions emerged about which company would be closest to leading the next major digital transformation. At times, the entire debate seemed to boil down to

Booming demand for artificial intelligence is encouraging big tech companies and their suppliers to explore converting old power stations and industrial sites into data centers. Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are pouring billions of dollars into building data centers to power cloud computing and AI services, but it has become increasingly challenging to find suitable locations with sufficient power for the energy-hungry facilities. Many data center markets

Shutterstock / Futurism AI-obsessed moms and dads are using the tech for parenting in bizarre and downright dystopian ways that’ll bring out your inner luddite. In a new Business Insider piece, a cognitive neuroscientist named Sarah Baldeo described how she spent the past year traveling for work. Her solution to stay present for her 15-year-old son while she was away: building a custom AI clone of herself. Baldeo says she programmed the chatbot with her pe

Test render, checking lighting using emissive materialsNeira and I are making Frame — a browser-based 3D editor with polygon modeling, spline surfaces, animation, a custom renderer, and an atomic interaction simulator. Neira is my Dot, a personal AI assistant. We are also developing a slicer, CNC, strength and thermal calculations, aerodynamics, and electronics.Altogether, this has already been more than a year of work, countless manual checks, and endless

Every smartphone maker is racing to find a way to put AI in your pocket, but no one has cracked the code yet. Samsung was an early supporter of Google’s Gemini AI, which has largely supplanted its little-used Bixby assistant. However, a new report claims Samsung is planning a big AI shakeup by partnering with Perplexity on the Galaxy S26. Perplexity pitches itself as an AI-powered search service, running on the same generative AI technology behind ChatGPT,

Meta / Futurism With the release of Meta’s buzzy Muse AI agent, there’ve been plenty of concerns over the amount of privacy and control Meta wants you to cede so it can serve as your “personal assistant. It seems that even its own employees are worried. Before launching the AI agent, engineers found a security vulnerability that could’ve allowed Muse users to break into Meta’s own databases and services and access other people’s sensitive information, 404

TikTok / Futurism AI has turned the act of looking for a job into an abysmal and endless source of frustration. Applicants are using the tech to stuff keywords into their resumes and cover letters, while generating a flood that’s burying recruiters. Meanwhile, HR departments are using AI to make sense of it all as perfectly suitable applicants slip by unnoticed. Making matters even worse are deepfaked AI avatars conducting early rounds of interviews, in a

Amid what one judge called an “epidemic” of fake AI-generated case citations bogging down courts, some common excuses are emerging from lawyers hoping to dodge the most severe sanctions for filings deemed misleading. Using a database compiled by French lawyer and AI researcher Damien Charlotin, Ars reviewed 23 cases where lawyers were sanctioned for AI hallucinations. In many, judges noted that the simplest path to avoid or diminish sanctions was to admit

Google has kicked its Gemini rollout into high gear over the past year, releasing the much-improved Gemini 2.5 family and cramming various flavors of the model into Search, Gmail, and just about everything else the company makes. Now, Google’s increasingly unavoidable AI is getting an upgrade. Gemini 3 Pro is available in a limited form today, featuring more immersive, visual outputs and fewer lies, Google says. The company also says Gemini 3 sets a new hi

Code generation is emerging as one of the most popular applications for large language models (LLMs), but not all agents are equally good at all development tasks. Google created a benchmark earlier this year to evaluate how LLMs perform in Android app development, and Android Bench is getting a big update today. The leaderboard now includes a raft of new models, and Google has adopted a new framework that should be easier to use. Developers are invited to

(Photo=Google) Google officially launched its top-tier AI model, “Gemini 4 Carbon.” It recently ceded the top spot in AI performance evaluations to Anthropic’s new model, but is targeting the developer and enterprise markets with API pricing at one-quarter the level. Google announced on the 10th (local time), via its official blog, that it has begun making Gemini 4 Carbon available to general developers, enterprises, and paying subscribers. This comes just

More than 97% of the content Meta acted on was found by its systems before users reported it, the company said. In India, Meta acted on 5.3 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content during the same period, with more than 98% detected before users reported it. Meta said its latest AI tools are aimed at people using ads that look harmless to send users to illegal content outside Meta’s platforms. The company has introduced a new large language mode

Yet, according to Anthropic’s S-1, none of those VC firms owns 5%, the threshold for being included in the principal stockholders’ table. That’s highly unusual. In a typical tech IPO, lead venture investors hold double-digit-percentage stakes in the startups they backed. The reason is Anthropic’s size. At its $965 billion private valuation, a 1% stake is worth nearly $10 billion, so, for example, Menlo’s roughly $14 billion position is only about 1.5% of t