Archive: October 2015

Harnessing natural language processing powered by Opera’s AI Composer Engine, Browser Operator interprets written instructions from users and executes corresponding tasks within the browser. All operations occur locally on a user’s device, leveraging the browser’s own infrastructure to safely and swiftly complete commands. If Browser Operator encounters a sensitive step in the process, such as entering payment details or approving an order, it pauses and r

The problems, which started Thursday, were initially flagged as affecting the company’s services in the U.S. and the Americas, but quickly spread around the world, as engineers struggled to recover downed servers. What began as an Outlook email and Teams video conferencing outage soon developed into a full blown meltdown, affecting the company’s cloud services for both consumer and business email, files, and documents. The outage also knocked out the compa

Well-known Hollywood actor and lesser-known Silicon Valley investor Ashton Kutcher is leaving the venture capital firm he co-founded more than a decade ago, as he pivots to new bets on the resources and tech needed to support AI. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures to start a new firm with Morgan Beller. Beller recently served as a general partner at venture firm NFX and previously helped create Meta

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Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families Ransomware attackers threatened employees’ family members or friends at 37% of organizations surveyed for Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. The survey covered 1,200 IT and security professionals at organizations that had experienced at least one successful ransomware attack. “Ransomware has proven to be a great cash-generating activity for criminal syndicates, which have no hesitation about

Getty / Futurism Look, it’s a hard job market out there. Not only has new job creation slowed to a drip, but the positions that do exist are increasingly hidden behind labyrinthian AI screening software and bizarre HR scams. Not to worry, because a new startup is rising to help job seekers brute force their way into one of the worst job markets, consequences be damned. Called “Sorce” — in keeping with the startup economy’s notoriously dismal naming convent

Weak AI safety regulations may “backfire,” creating a product that is potentially more dangerous than AI products created under no regulation, according to a new study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Using theoretical economics and game theory principles, a group of researchers from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon University created a theoretical model that aims to show how AI regulation can be most effective at ensu

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The stock market has taken another beating this week, continuing a weeks-long tech selloff that ignited over fears of a growing AI bubble. The S&P 500 is down almost 3.5 percent over the last five days alone. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has slid more than a full percent on Tuesday alone. Looming over it all is AI chipmaker Nvidia’s Wednesday earnings call — results that could send ripples through rattled markets, for good

Microsoft researchers demonstrate hidden backdoor technique for AI agents Microsoft researchers have demonstrated how small changes to an AI model can implant a hidden backdoor, causing an agent to execute an attacker’s command when a specific trigger appears. The technique, called Lazarus, requires no model retraining and allows the agent to behave normally during standard safety evaluations. The company has not observed threat actors weaponizing the tech

Google announced the new AI model 'Gemini 4 Hydrogen' on November 12, 2026. Compared to the previous high-speed model 'Gemini 3.8 Flash,' processing speed and inference capability have seen significant improvements, allowing for efficient handling of complex tasks such as programming and document creation. Gemini apps and Google Search are also compatible with Hydrogen. Introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Agentic Workflows https://blog.google/innovation-and-

Getty / Futurism It’s difficult to say how many jobs have been lost to AI, or will be lost in the future. But in tech and financial circles, anxieties over an AI jobs apocalypse are running higher than ever. The other week, it was a viral paper from Citrini Research imagining a dire near future in which vast portions of the workforce are outmoded by AI that had Wall Street quivering in its boots. Weeks before that, Anthropic’s new Claude Cowork AI agent sp

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michel Porro / Getty Images One senior figure at the Associated Press appears to have caught a terminal case of tech CEO brain. According to new reporting by Semafor, the news wire’s product manager for AI strategy Aimee Rinehart embraced her inner “Star Trek” villain by bluntly telling her stuck-in-the-past, pencil-pushing grunts that resistance to AI is “futile.” Reporters, not heeding her warning,