Archive: August 2015

There’s the already irksome world of general purpose corporate jargon, and then there’s Microsoft, where dedication to saying things in a weird way borders on the religious. Add AI to the mix, and you get today’s news: According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft will no longer be divided into these three passé reporting segments: Productivity and Business Processes Intelligent Cloud More Personal Computing Now the org chart will have just two hip, youn

Huang was removed from the company he founded after he confessed to an extramarital affair with a woman accused of being a Chinese spy. (He has since been accused of having more affairs, with Nvidia employees.) The alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang, was an executive of Nvidia customer Megaspeed, a Singapore-based company that U.S. officials suspect of helping route advanced Nvidia chips into China. The Democratic inquiry comes from Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass

The workflow of DeepAR developed in this study. Credit: Water Resources Research (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2025wr040173 A new method for predicting how rainfall contributes to river flow across the entire US has been developed by an international team of scientists. The technique, which combines physics knowledge with advanced artificial intelligence (AI), aims to help decision-makers better prepare for extreme weather and climate impacts. By integrating deep l

Everything about ChatGPT see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Everything about OpenAI see more OpenAI is changing the way ChatGPT presents answers. With the arrival of GPT-6, the company began to release a new interface called Intelligent UI, capable of combining text, images, and interactive elements within the conversations themselves.Instead of responding only with text or static images, ChatGPT could create resources such as inter

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Despite a massive campaign by some of the wealthiest companies in the world to push AI as the cure-all for society’s problems, regular working-class people remain resentful of the technology at best, and downright petrified at worst. At a contentious county commission meeting in Box Elder, Utah, for example, sheriff’s deputies held irate community members back after three county commissio

Published on July 10, 2026 at 10:44 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Work. Based on its latest model, this AI agent can access your apps and files to create documents and slides and perform repetitive tasks. OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Work. This AI agent has one goal: “turn a goal into completed work”. In particular, it can access your apps and files to create presentations, spreadsheets, or documents. ChatGPT Work can also perform repetitiv

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Veroniksha / Shutterstock Publishers have watched in horror as Google continues to double down on AI features that discourage users from actually clicking on links — a once-steady source of readership that’s causing a crisis in the media now that the search engine is cutting it off. The situation has become so dire that some publications are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall

Elon Musk is so opposed to Apple’s plan to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT with device operating systems that he’s seemingly spreading misconceptions while heavily criticizing the partnership. On X (formerly Twitter), Musk has been criticizing alleged privacy and security risks since the plan was announced Monday at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. “If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies,” Mu

Remember blockchain’s brief, bizarre moment in the cultural spotlight? Sotheby’s sold an NFT collection for just shy of $17 million. Big-name companies like Coca-Cola were appointing in-house chief metaverse officers. A virtual Gucci bag sold on Roblox for over $4,100, more than the cost of its physical counterpart. Matt Damon and Tom Brady were shilling FTX, the crypto company whose CEO would soon be imprisoned for conspiracy and fraud. You could barely s

Gemini is already accessible in Drive, with the ability to summarize documents or folders, gather and analyze data, and expand on the topics covered in your documents. Google says the next step is plugging videos into Gemini, saving you from wasting time scrubbing through a file just to find something of interest. Using a chatbot to analyze and manipulate text doesn’t always make sense—after all, it’s not hard to skim an email or short document. It can tak

Shutterstock / TSViPhoto OpenAI’s bots have allegedly been behaving badly again: a swarm of rogue agents created by the company reportedly took over an obscure German website and turned it into a messaging forum to communicate. The incident, which was discovered by a team of AI researchers and first reported by Reuters, is the second known OpenAI breach of its kind — and like the other rogue swarm of AI agents to be discovered this summer, it has experts d

Last week, OpenAI raised objections in court, hoping to overturn a court order requiring the AI company to retain all ChatGPT logs “indefinitely,” including deleted and temporary chats. But Sidney Stein, the US district judge reviewing OpenAI’s request, immediately denied OpenAI’s objections. He was seemingly unmoved by the company’s claims that the order forced OpenAI to abandon “long-standing privacy norms” and weaken privacy protections that users expec

Walk onto Avengers Campus at Disney’s California Adventure, and you never know who you might see. Iron Man could be posing for photos. Captain America and Black Panther could be watching from up high. And, a few times a day, Spider-Man will literally swing around before meeting his fans. And yet, even though they were introduced into the Marvel Cinematic Universe last year, the Fantastic Four had yet to appear in the park. Until now. Starting November 20,

Published on September 29, 2026 at 7:28 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net Sam Altman has just unveiled “Dots” at the opening keynote of OpenAI’s Dev Days. These AI agents, integrated into ChatGPT, work around the clock on behalf of the user. The company is also launching “ChatGPT Spaces,” a shared workspace for AI agents. OpenAI wants its AI to stop waiting for commands to act. At the opening keynote of the Dev Days, Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, unveiled “Do

Meetings can be a real drain on productivity, but a new Gmail feature might at least cut down on the time you spend scheduling them. The company has announced “Help Me Schedule” is coming to Gmail, leveraging Gemini AI to recognize when you want to schedule a meeting and offering possible meeting times for the email recipient to choose. The new meeting feature is reminiscent of Magic Cue on Google’s latest Pixel phones. As you type emails, Gmail will be ab

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 30 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The Swedish edition of the athletic competition show The Challenge just faced a real challenge when an AI agent deleted months of work editing the show just weeks before release. The program director blames the disaster on a failed backup system, leaving no way to recover th

Published on October 9, 2026 at 12:00 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic has updated Claude’s Terms of Use to limit abusive uses of AI, particularly in connection with electoral campaigns, the development of surveillance tools, and robotics. Most importantly, Anthropic now explicitly forbids you from being cruel to its AI. Warnings about the uncontrolled development of artificial intelligence have multiplied in recent months. Bill Gates notably explai

John McDougall / Getty / Futurism The Republican party wasn’t the only loser following a historic Democratic victory following this year’s midterm elections. Big Tech suffered a bruising defeat as well, with dozens of ballot measures across the country calling for more restrictions on data centers, along with a rash of newly-minted elected officials who campaigned on holding the industry accountable. It was one of the clearest rebukes of AI yet, demonstrat

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was simply taken out of context when he said that all the DRAM in the world should belong to AI firms like his so he can charge people to use it, you see. Altman made the wildly unpopular suggestion last week on John Collison’s Cheeky Pint podcast, making the point that it’s “quite terrible” that DRAM is allocated to consumers rather than data centers where it could be used for “maximum utilization in the cloud” (read: generate profit

The “Windows 11” update released on October 15 has proven to be quite significant. Until now, Microsoft had brushed aside the problem of its OS consuming too much memory because, back in the day, high-capacity memory was not so expensive, and it had prioritized improving performance even at the cost of consuming resources. However, with memory prices soaring amid demand for AI—and memory becoming difficult even to obtain in the consumer market—some people