Archive: February 2016

Getty / Futurism As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion Chrome users worldwide. That means even small changes or interruptions can have a significant impact. As security researcher Alexander “The Privacy Guy” Hanff noted in a blog post earlier this week, Google’s web browser has been “silently” installing an AI model on users’ devices without asking for consent. Hanff discovered a four-gigabyte

Cultpix via X You’re playing with fire any time you combine AI and filmmaking. But a new collection of AI short films that premiered in Cannes this week — but crucially, not at the actual Cannes Film Festival — is really testing the public’s patience with the tech. Made by the Norwegian company Multiformat and distributed by the streamer Cultpix, the films were created by using generative AI to turn photos from a 1976 erotic magazine into moving images, co

Visit any news organization’s website or any social media site, and you’re bound to find some abusive or hateful language being thrown around. As those who moderate Ars’ comments know, trying to keep a lid on trolling and abuse in comments can be an arduous and thankless task: when done too heavily, it smacks of censorship and suppression of free speech; when applied too lightly, it can poison the community and keep people from sharing their thoughts out o

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Erik von Markovik, the notorious “pickup artist” known by his stage name Mystery, is apparently obsessed with an AI girlfriend. Last month, as Wired reports, von Markovik posted a video to his Instagram showing an interaction he had with an animated AI woman with dark purple hair (why is it always purple hair?) In a sultry, confessional voice, she looks into the camera and confesses, “I w

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Anthropic has discovered evidence that its Claude AI models use an internal reasoning space to respond to prompts that mirrors some of the internal processing of human consciousness. Using its Jacobian Lens, or J-Lens technique, to peer into the way Claude processes information

Valeriia Yemets/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC "UA:PBC"/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images In a joint statement earlier this week, United Nations chief António Guterres and Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric Egger sent out an urgent message. “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines,” they said. But while international humanitarian law strictly forbids targeting civilians and civilian infrastruc

Since the start of the data center boom, “job creation” was one of the key promises made to communities weighing whether to host the tech industry’s monstrous computing facilities in their backyards. That was always a gross over-representation of the facts, as most labor required for data centers comes in the form of temporary construction jobs to build them. Still, the tech tycoons who need data centers to keep the AI revolution chugging along could alway

All about Google see more All about Artificial Intelligence see more All about OpenAI see more OpenAI plans to buy artificial intelligence chips from Google, according to a report by The Information. The deal may expand the commercial relationship between the companies, which compete in the AI market but also strike agreements to meet the growing demand for processing. The report does not disclose the amounts, number of chips, or terms of the potential pur

Published on September 29, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © GaudiLab Editing a photo with Microsoft’s AI is nothing like a head-to-head contest with the machine. Human reviewers examine the original image and the result, with nothing blurred. Microsoft has humans rate the image edits produced by Copilot in order to train its model. Hundreds of contractors would thus compare the photo submitted by the user with the AI-generated version. The photos rea

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Over at Tom's Hardware Premium, we've been publishing a slew of stories centered around our themed AI Chip Design Week, where you can learn more about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the chipmaking world. Each article in our series of stories is free to access for a

Published on October 6, 2026 at 2:00 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI OpenAI is testing a new advertising format in ChatGPT: sponsored ads during image generation. These ads will initially be rolled out in the United States. Since last August, there have been ads in ChatGPT, particularly when planning a trip, comparing products, or looking for a service. But in a press release published on October 5, 2026, OpenAI introduced a new format: ads during image gene

In just the last year, Google has radically expanded the number of searches on which you get an AI Overview at the top. Today, the chatbot will almost always have an answer for your query, which has relied mostly on models in Google’s Gemini 2.5 family. There was nothing wrong with Gemini 2.5 as generative AI models go, but Gemini 3 is a little better by every metric. There are, of course, multiple versions of Gemini 3, and Google doesn’t like to be specif

Apple / Shutterstock / Futurism Apple hasn’t exactly impressed with its AI offerings. And privacy-minded Mac users were even less compelled by the company’s decision, with macOS 27, to remove a setting that allowed you to disable and delete its Apple Intelligence features. But never count an annoyed userbase out. As spotted by MacRumors, someone’s created a new open-source tool that allows Mac users to nuke every trace of Apple’s borderline useless AI mode

ArtCraft / Futurism As the fiery debate surrounding AI and copyright infringement continues to boil, the software world has run into its own controversy head first. Earlier this month, crafty software engineers used Anthropic’s Claude AI model to reverse-engineer Adobe’s expensive and widely-loathed Creative Cloud suite of apps, including Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere. The resulting “ArtCraft” suite was a shot across the bow, highlighting how quickly i

TV4 / Futurism Did a dog eat your homework? Or maybe an AI obliterated your files? In a world of Claudes and Muses, it’s common for an AI agent to run amok, and even more fashionable to blame an AI when it all goes wrong. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reports one of the most incredible examples we’ve heard of this so far: an AI agent apparently deleted the entire upcoming season of a reality competition show called “The Challenge Sverige,” just weeks b

Shutterstock / AYO Production Men, it’s probably best to leave faking intelligence to AI chatbots. According to a new survey from Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, over half of dudes will pretend to know stuff about the AI industry even if they have absolutely zero clue what they’re talking about. In the survey, Harvard researchers asked more than 5,400 respondents if they knew who various AI executives were. A full 98 percent of men said they were familiar wi