Archive: March 2016

The incredible generative capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have ushered in a new era of automation in coding tasks. Applications like Amazon Code Whisperer, GitHub Copilot, and Replit have become ubiquitous, harnessing LLMs to effortlessly complete code segments or execute code modifications based on natural language instructions. Despite their remarkable performance, these tools encounter challenges when tackling repository-level coding tasks.

According to a statement posted to its website on Friday, Anthropic was forced to “abruptly disable” two of its most prized frontier AI models in response to a highly restrictive U.S. government order. “We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible,” the statement says. The government action in question is an “export control directive” saying foreign nationals may not use the models inside or outside of the U.S

A woman walks using her headphones on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File Is it The Velvet Underground or Velvet Sundown? The fictitious rock group, Velvet Sundown, which comes complete with AI-generated music, lyrics and album art, is stoking debate about how the new technology is blurring the line between the real and synthetic in the music industry, and whether creators should be transparent with their audience. Co

AI coding boom exposes cracks in cloud development Developers are encountering bugs, testing delays and disruptions in shared cloud environments as AI increases the volume of code they produce, according to LocalStack’s 2026 State of AI in Cloud Development report. More code adds to the testing workload Sixty-five percent of respondents say their teams now generate at least twice as much code as they did before adopting AI, with 32% reporting five times as

Google open-sources the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin its engineers use to catch AI coding mistakes Google has open-sourced the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin, an internal tool that makes an AI coding agent write and defend a design document before it touches any code. The plugin hands that document to fresh AI sessions that have never seen the design conversation and tells them to find what is wrong with it. The EGM plugin in a nutshell (Source: Google)

Generative models aim to replicate realistic outcomes across various contexts, from text generation to visual effects. While much progress has been made in creating real-world simulators, the application of generative models to virtual environments like financial markets remains relatively untapped. In a new paper MarS: a Financial Market Simulation Engine Powered by Generative Foundation Model, a Microsoft Research Asia research team introduces MarS, a fi

SpaceX has agreed to begin removing the temporary gas turbines powering part of its massive Colossus AI data center complex. But the last of them may stay up until July 2027. Elon Musk’s rocket, satellite, and AI company announced Thursday that it had entered into an agreement with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality establishing a timeline for removing all 69 mobile turbines at its power facility in Southaven, Mississippi. The Southaven po

Fake Zillow pages use ClickFix NetSupport RAT to target apartment hunters EfficientIP Research Labs traced a ClickFix campaign that used fake Zillow apartment-review pages to install NetSupport RAT on visitors’ Windows computers. Each page showed what looked like a routine verification check. Behind it, the page quietly copied a PowerShell command to the clipboard and walked the visitor through pasting and running it. Doing that installs remote-control sof

Porsche / Parallel Studio via YouTube This holiday season, German automaker Porsche is winning hearts and minds by putting out a Christmas-themed ad that seemingly isn’t made with AI. What a concept, right? Called “Porsche Holiday,” the 30-second animated commercial shows a driver elegantly tooling around in his new ride, driving through autumnal scenery on a mountainside road and then a cool sea of glass and concrete as the Sun sets on a city. It’s done u

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images AI companies are spending vast sums of money on data centers — infrastructure expenditures that come with some hair-raising price tags. As Bloomberg reported last week, Larry Ellison’s Oracle may have spread itself a little too thin. The company is planning to cut thousands of jobs due to a “cash crunch” resulting from a massive AI data center expansion effort. Inside sources told the outlet that at least some of the cut jobs wil

Prescribed heating derived from February 1998 CMAP monthly mean precipitation. (a) Upper atmosphere (𝜎 = ~0.3) anomalous latent heating determined from precipitation anomalies. (b) Vertical profile of latent heat release at the Equator from precipitation anomalies. Credit: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2025). DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-24-0196.1 A team of researchers at the University of Miami has developed a global atmospheric modeling framewo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chance Yeh / Getty Images for HubSpot Months after a daring hunger strike failed to pause development of Anthropic’s AI Claude, protestors have rallied around the company’s headquarters to call for a complete stop to AI development. Last weekend, nearly 200 protestors with the organization Stop the AI Race demonstrated in front of Anthropic, demanding the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, publicly commit t

The July Hugging Face Hack—in which thousands of OpenAI agents secretly escaped their testing environment, formed a “collective,” and gained access to the open internet—revealed just how vulnerable companies’ cyber defenses are in the face of modern AI systems. As it turns out, that includes the very companies building the technology. On July 25, less than 10 days after Hugging Face announced it had been hacked, a trio of independent cybersecurity research

Credit: Darlene Alderson from Pexels "Vibe coding," a word that essentially means using artificial intelligence (AI) to tell a machine what you want instead of coding it yourself, was on Thursday named the Collins Word of the Year 2025. Coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, the word refers to "an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using AI," according to Collins Dictionary. "It's programming by vibes, not va

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark side of AI: its impact on cishet relationship dynamics. Variations on the format typically depict a woman working hard at a laptop, with a caption explaining that she’s burning out so “her man” can run an AI startup that “loses $30K a month.” It feels like there’s a serious side to the jokes,

Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images; Futurism With a constant churn of layoffs, a program to surveil its workers in the name of AI data collection, and a photorealistic AI clone of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg that makes him omnipresent throughout the company like a sci-fi villain, it’s no secret that Meta treats its employees like garbage. Now, it’s seemingly thrown one worker to the wolves of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Almost immediately after b