Archive: May 2016

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Images Twitter co-founder and Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey ain’t your typical corporate suit. For one, he doesn’t always wear them. He brings up “world peace” when endorsing his favorite tech like crypto. Nobody really knows where he lives. He meditates frequently and sports a longish beard. He comes off as more New Age guru than CEO. So perhaps it was very on brand th

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images (edited) Amid mounting scrutiny into AI usage creeping into the newspaper of record, the New York Times has cut ties with a freelance writer after discovering he turned to an AI model to help write a book review, The Guardian reports. A thudding prose style wasn’t the giveaway this time, but accidentally-cribbed work. The NYT was alerted to the issue by a reader who

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is now part of everyday life. It's in our phones, schools and homes. For young people, AI shapes how they learn, connect and express themselves. But it also raises real concerns about privacy, fairness and control. AI systems often promise personalization and convenience. But behind the scenes, they collect vast amounts of personal data, make predictions and influence behavior, without clear rules

close notice This article is also available in English. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication. Don’t show this again. One week after a cyberattack on the company's own MCP-Server (Model Context Protocol), the North Rhine-Westphalian hoster Mittwald is still struggling with the consequences. Now there has been a second attack, this time also affecting the hoster's website. Most links, including to the compan

Published on May 14, 2026 at 16:42 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada pour 01net Apple has officially defended Google against European projects that would force Android to open up to competing AI assistants. When the two biggest tech rivals team up, it's rarely out of altruism. The scene has something surreal. Apple, the company that has spent the past three years fighting the DMA in European courts, has just submitted an official contribution to the Commissi

Published on June 3, 2026 at 1:13 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) Meta is giving its employees a 30-minute break with no data collection to calm internal protests. Meta's MCI program aims to track employees' work to train its artificial intelligence models. Mark Zuckerberg justifies this program by describing its employees as "intelligent." While Meta tracks its employees' mouse clicks and keystrokes, a measure has been taken to calm the

Published on June 9, 2026 at 07:20 Updated on June 10, 2026 at 12:14 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI was named this way because AI was intended to be open to everyone. In 2026, the free version of ChatGPT will display advertising, and the chat interface is officially “dead.” Generative AI is about to change completely, and there will be little left of what we know. The turning point began in January 2026, when Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s head of applications, an

Shutterstock / Futurism German AI researcher and hedge fund manager Leopold Aschenbrenner became the poster child for the hubris of an AI-obsessed Wall Street last month. Some $35 billion of investors’ money, in the form of leveraged bets on AI infrastructure stocks, evaporated in front of the 24-year-old’s eyes as tech shares were hit by yet another major sell off. The humbling couldn’t have come at a worse time. The funds vanished days before his wedding

Representative false-color SEM images of treated P. aeruginosa and S. aureus monomicrobial and co-biofilms. Credit: npj Biofilms and Microbiomes (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41522-024-00637-y University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides—the body's own tiny protein molecules—for a spray to help the red meat industry solve headaches around bacterial contamination and spoilage. It's a telltale sign of meat past its use-by date: a sticky, slimy

@softbrixai1(SoftBrixAI)AI Data Engineering: Pipelines, Quality Checks and Embeddings That Make AI Systems WorkAILLMragdataengineeringMachineLearning0Posted at 2026-11-11 AI Data Engineering: Pipelines, Quality Checks and Embeddings That Make AI Systems Work Most AI systems do not fail because the model is too weak. They fail because the data reaching the model is incomplete, inconsistent, out of date, or impossible to trace back to its source. A language

Many people have called what we’re living through an epistemological crisis, and the most famous of them is probably Barack Obama, who told the Atlantic in 2020, “If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work. We are entering into an epistemological crisis.” Maybe Obama is overstating things a tad when it comes to the implie

Published on September 21, 2026 at 10:04 Comment 1 𝕏 Print Sam Altman and Satya Nadella respectively head OpenAI and Microsoft © X / Sam Altman Defend AI training in court during the day, call it “theft” in internal messages in the evening. The documents unsealed in the New York Times trial provide a memorable stark contrast for Microsoft and OpenAI. The legal showdown between the New York Times and the OpenAI-Microsoft duo enters its third year. Filed in

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us with an immersive world where we could seamlessly combine digital and physical information. The parent company, renamed Meta along the way, had begun introducing headsets and reimagining everyday computing with its Project Orion augmented-reality glasses. Now, however, Meta is making deep budget cu

AI job postings may be increasing, but that doesn't necessarily mean more jobs are being created, Northeastern research finds. Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Artificial intelligence is reshaping how companies operate, but it may not translate into more job creation, according to new research. That's a major takeaway from a recently published study co-authored by Northeastern University economics and public policy professor Shantanu Khanna.

Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images It turns out the only thing more sycophantic than AI chatbots are the people in charge of building them. After president Donald Trump decreed that artificial intelligence should now be referred to as “Super Intelligence” (caps included), tech and AI CEOs — or should we say “SI” CEOs — have eagerly complied with this absurd rebranding attempt. An analysis by CNBC found that Microsoft, SpaceX, Meta, Tesla, and IBM all us

It’s clear that communities now have an effective playbook to block data center construction. This week, researchers flagged the first quarter of 2026 as producing the “most blocked and delayed data center projects on record,” NBC News reported. Data Center Watch, a project from AI intelligence firm 10a Labs that tracks data center fights around the US, reported that protestors “blocked or delayed at least 75 projects nationwide worth about $130 billion fr

One way Donald Trump plans to celebrate July 4th is by rolling out children’s savings accounts, known as Trump Accounts, and apparently, he’s been angling to get a big donation from SpaceX as part of that push. A person familiar with talks involving the Trump administration told Semafor that SpaceX has spoken with US officials about donating stock to Trump Accounts. At this stage, however, it remains unclear if a donation will be made or what impact a Spac

New York became the first state to pause all construction of massive new data centers after Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The state-wide ban applies to data centers using 50 megawatts or more, officials told Reuters, and it won’t be lifted until the state figures out what “consistent standards” for responsible data center development in New York should look like. Across the US, calls to halt