Archive: December 2015

Published on August 6, 2025 at 18:11 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Perplexity Two fundamentally opposing views of the web are clashing between Cloudflare and Perplexity. On one side, the traditional functioning of the web as it has existed for decades, where bots must adhere to the publisher's choices. On the other side, an AI that claims to act on behalf of the user and does not want to be subject to the same constraints. Back to the sender. This week, Cloudflare

Amazon / Futurism Amazon has infused its famed assistant Alexa with the power of artificial intelligence — an upgrade that’s apparently come with some serious drawbacks and headaches. As The Verge reports, the company is set to launch new hardware later this week as part of an effort to bring its new-and-improved Alexa Plus service to more customers. To test it, Verge senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy was able to get early access to Alexa’s new ChatG

A new study involving Binghamton University researchers offers a promising solution: developing an AI system to map out interactions between content and algorithms on digital platforms to reduce the spread of potentially harmful or misleading content. Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York Falling for clickbait is easy these days, especially for those who mainly get their news through social media. Have you ever noticed your feed litte

Jason Mendez/Getty Images for NETFLIX Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is no fan of AI. In fact, for his latest film, a reinterpretation of Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel “Frankenstein,” he says he was inspired by the hubris of the tech sector. “My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity,” he told NPR in an interview. “I think that’s what drives most of the world’s worst features.” “But I did want it to have the arrogance

FireSat can detect multiple simultaneous wildfires across large landscapes to enable coordinated response efforts. Multiple active fires were detected near Borroloola, Northern Territory, Australia, on July 11, 2025. FireSat’s Mid-Wave Infrared (MWIR) channel identified a number of active fire areas and burning fire fronts scattered throughout the region. Both the MWIR and Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) channels reveal variations in surface temperatures across

71% of vulnerability exploitation starts within a week of disclosure Attackers are exploiting newly disclosed security flaws within days, leaving organizations little time to respond, according to Rapid7’s Q3 2026 Quarterly Threat Landscape Report. The company reported an average of three days between public disclosure and exploitation of high-severity vulnerabilities, with 71% of tracked exploitation occurring within the first week. Cumulative exploitatio

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Vox Media Though the children’s gaming platform Roblox has notched over 200 million daily users at its peak, they’re not all there for fun and games. Active since 2006, the extremely popular online game has become a haven for bad actors, like racketeers running online casinos for underaged users, or pedophiles prowling for victims. It’s an issue Roblox has been keenly a

Getty / Futurism According to a fresh study by the Pew Research Center, 64 percent of teens in the US say they already use AI chatbots, and about 30 percent of those who do say they use it at least daily. Yet as previous research has shown, those chatbots come with significant risk to the first generation of kids navigating the intense new software. New reporting by the Washington Post — which has a partnership with OpenAI, it’s worth noting — details a tr

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain At a time when conflict and division dominate the headlines, a new study from UCLA finds remarkable similarities in how mice and artificial intelligence systems each develop cooperation: working together toward shared goals. The findings are published in the journal Science. Both biological brains and AI neural networks developed similar behavioral strategies and neural representations when coordinating their actions, sugg

Leon Neal / Getty Images Color us shocked: pretty much everyone hates that Elon Musk’s Grok has been digitally undressing photos of adults and children. At least that’s the case in the UK, providing the closest thing we’ve currently got to a gauge of the public sentiment on the issue. In a new survey conducted by YouGov amid the latest controversy surrounding the xAI chatbot, a staggering 97 percent of respondents said that AI tools shouldn’t be allowed to

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO after espionage scandal wipes out $1.4 trillion in market value View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 12, 2026 Jensen Huang resigned as CEO, president, and board member of Nvidia effective immediately, according to a statement on November 12, 2026. The move came after the Wall Street Journal reported that the board was planning to fire Huang following revelations about two extramarital affairs, one of them

In San Francisco, meetings have reportedly been happening in which Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao is taking questions from would-be investors ahead of the public release of the company’s IPO prospectus. Remarkably, that prospectus is expected to include verbiage spelling out the fact that the public is fearful upset about what AI companies are doing, according to CNBC. CNBC, which cites anonymous “people familiar with [the] matter,” first re

Published on March 26, 2026 at 17:20 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Wikipedia It's official, Wikipedia does not want articles generated by AI. The online encyclopedia has decided to ban the use of large language models to create or rewrite articles. The use of AI technology is not entirely prohibited. Generative AI has disrupted Wikipedia. AI models extensively draw from the encyclopedia's content to generate answers for users, who no longer need to visit the site. C

New research examines how AI models could emulate the response of climate to anthropogenic forcings. For example, increased precipitation associated with atmospheric rivers, like the one pictured above off the western U.S. coast, can occur in response to an increase in carbon dioxide. Credit: NOAA/NESDIS Modelers have demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) models can produce climate simulations with more efficiency than physics-based models. Howeve

All about Artificial Intelligence view more Never has so much money been directed toward a new technology as is currently being invested in artificial intelligence (AI). The scale of investments already exceeds the amounts invested in previous technological revolutions, such as railways and the internet — and is beginning to raise questions about how long it will take for the investments to generate returns.According to a PwC projection cited by Reuters, c

Published on April 20, 2026 at 16:15 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada for 01net Provider of AI models for major design tools, Anthropic now launches their direct competitor. Figma's stock fell 7% on the day of the announcement. Before leaving for the weekend, Anthropic's teams presented Claude Design. The tool generates prototypes, slides, and marketing materials from a simple natural language instruction. The presentation came the day after the general ava