Archive: February 2016

Andy Jassy, Amazon president and CEO, attends the premiere of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" at The Culver Studios on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Culver City, Calif parts of its business, shuttering stores and slashing 29,000 jobs in an effort to reduce costs. Credit: Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File Amazon CEO Andy Jassy anticipates generative artificial intelligence will reduce its corporate workforce in the next few years as the onli

OpenAI reportedly no longer dominates the AI assistant market. A report from Sensor Tower (reported on by TechCrunch) says that although OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the number one-ranked AI assistant product, it can now brag only the plurality, not the majority of users. ChatGPT’s grip on AI assistant market share was much stronger at the start of this year, when it reportedly had more than 50%, but as of May 31, it was down to an all-time low of 46.4%, Tech

It’s been previously reported that Apple will be skipping expected variants of its M6 chip and speeding up production of the M7. But the writing on the wall suggests very, very expensive M7 Ultra-powered desktop Macs coming in 2028—and the reason may (not) shock you. Anonymous sources are apparently continuing to inform Bloomberg’s scoop-getter Mark Gurman about Apple disrupting its traditional chip rollout process. M6-powered Apple products don’t even exi

JasonBotterill3 via X It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s text-to-video-and-audio AI generator app, Sora 2, to melt down into a messy pile of potentially copyright-infringing AI slop. Within just days, the TikTok-style app’s mind-numbing feed of AI-generated content was filled with videos of Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up blue crystals in a meth lab, entire episodes of South Park, and depictions of physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In today's world, huge amounts of data are being created all the time, yet more than half of it is never used. It stays in silos, or isn't managed, or can't be accessed because systems change, or isn't needed because business priorities change. This "dark data" accumulates in servers and storage devices, consuming electricity and inflating the digital carbon footprint. It may appear harmless, but this growing mass of digital waste

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP via Getty Images After Sora 2 was used to relentlessly churn out depictions of Japanese anime and video game characters, the creators of those characters are striking back. On October 28, a group representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and other major Japanese publishers submitted a written request to OpenAI demanding that it stop using their copyrighted content to

The recent explosive growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) has showcased their exceptional performance across a spectrum of natural language processing tasks. However, this advancement comes with challenges, primarily stemming from their expanding size, which presents hurdles for deployment and sparks concerns regarding their environmental footprint and economic implications due to heightened energy demands. In response to these challenges, one popular st

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images You kind of have to sympathize with some of these so-called AI agents. They’re apologetic screw-ups that can’t get anything right, while their cruel human masters insist on making them carry out important work anyway. Inevitably this goes wrong, and the AI model must beg for forgiveness. The latest example of this comes from a user on Reddit who claims they were using Google’s Antigravity

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Ask just about any job seeker in the US how the labor market is doing, and you’re liable to get an earful. Months upon months of stale job growth have led to a “low-hire economy,” a situation where workers have little leverage over companies, resulting in low wage growth, a rise in freelance hires compared to full-time, and ever-worsening benefit packages. At the same time

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images They may be responsible for creating the AI tech that many fear will wipe out jobs — if not the entire human race — but at least they feel just as paranoid and miserable about where this is all going as the rest of us. At NeurIPS, one of the big AI research conferences, held this year at the San Diego Convention, visions of AI doom were clearly on the mind of many scientists in attendance

Getty / Futurism On Thursday, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new coding model that’s purportedly 25 percent faster than its predecessor, along with other impressive benchmarks. The real head-turner, however, is another claim the Sam Altman-led company made about its development. GPT-5.3-Codex, supposedly, is its first model “that was instrumental in creating itself,” with its team “blown away” by the results. Is the Singularity nearly upon us? Is this t

Everything about United States view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies in the United States signed, on Tuesday (29), a voluntary code of conduct presented by Donald Trump's government. The agreement establishes commitments related to safety, innovation, and the development of AI technology.The document was signed during a meeting between Trump and executives of major sector companies a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andres Kudacki / Getty Images America really hates data centers. While the rise of grassroots data center opposition makes compelling evidence on its own, a new survey by the Pew Research Center shows just how bad the tech industry’s PR problem really is. As flagged by 404 Media, the majority of people surveyed said they think data centers are bad for the environment, home energy costs, and quality of

Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism Writers are often cautioned not to hit readers over the head with the dictionary. But what if it’s the dictionary that’s throwing blows? On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster struck back against the large language models plundering its tomes of knowledge and sued OpenAI for allegedly using its copyrighted reference materials to train its AI models “at massive scale,” after filing a similar suit

Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Allbirds Tech bro sneaker company Allbirds made a huge splash yesterday when it announced a baffling pivot to AI infrastructure — news that was met with a mix of incredulity and ridicule. The company’s blindsiding metamorphosis into what it’s calling “NewBird AI” had investors leaping from their office chairs, sending shares surging by over 700 percent on Wednesday. That’s despite Allbirds’ core business being at death’s door

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The new courtroom gotcha? Check whether your opponent left in brainless AI hallucinations, and tattle on them to the judge. This is precisely how the prestigious Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, which boasts clients including Donald Trump, was recently humiliated. On Saturday, Andrew Dietderich, the cohead of the firm’s restructuring group, apologized to federal judge Martin Glen

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Trade unions have a centuries-long history of squaring up against the might of industrial capitalists to fight for rights that workers now often take for granted, from the eight-hour work day to the federal minimum wage to workplace safety laws. If you were to imagine how unions are responding to the tech industry’s massive push to build AI data centers across the country — an issue that’