Archive: July 2016

Getty / Futurism The Grinch comes in many forms: greedy businessman, bosses that won’t give you the holidays off, and even Fox News hosts. Dagen McDowell, a co-host of the “The Big Money Show” on Fox Business, recently flaunted her zeal for AI — and her distaste for holiday cheer — by declaring that a beloved local Christmas tree farm should be sacrificed to make way for data center infrastructure. McDowell was defending a proposed plan for a 67-mile long

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mike Winkelmann / Chanda Khanna / AFP via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of doing many seedy things on behalf of Meta’s bottom line, but the latest allegations may blow the rest out of the water. According to internal Meta emails and messages filed in a New Mexico state court case which were made public this week, Zuckerberg himself signed off on allowing minors to access Meta’s AI chat

Getty / Futurism In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet.” But what really caught the attention of the company’s most diehard fans was the decision to retire all of its previous AI models, news that was met with a massive outcry among ChatGPT users who’d developed a strong attachment to the outgoing GPT-4o. The backlash was severe enough for CEO Sam Altman to back down in

Published on November 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM Tech Artificial Intelligence Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia: The most powerful CEO of AI falls after two extramarital affairs The unexpected fall of the tech rockstar 4 min Nicolas Lellouche Published on November 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM Tech Artificial Intelligence Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia: The most powerful CEO of AI falls after two extramarital affairs The unexpected fall of the tech rockstar 4 min Nicolas

Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images Last week, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei publicly drew a line in the sand with the US military, insisting that its AI models may not be used for mass surveillance of Americans or deadly autonomous weapons. The move infuriated officials at the Pentagon. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth came out in full force, accusing Anthropic of trying to “seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military”

AI chatbots are recommending fake retail websites, study findsA study testing Gemini, Perplexity, and ChatGPT found that in as many as 15 percent of conversations, chatbots displayed ‘risky’ URLs.A study testing Gemini, Perplexity, and ChatGPT found that in as many as 15 percent of conversations, chatbots displayed ‘risky’ URLs.Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesShoppers using AI chatbots to research products or find places to buy items could

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Think something weird is up with your reflection in the mirror? Allow Grok to interest you in some 15th century anti-witchcraft reading. A new study argues that certain frontier chatbots are much more likely to inappropriately validate users’ delusional ideas — a result that the study’s authors say represents a “preventable” technological failure that could be curbed by design choices. “D

Credit: Aleksandar Pasaric from Pexels US tech giant Microsoft on Monday announced $15.2 billion in investments in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the United Arab Emirates. Microsoft's vice chairman and president Brad Smith said Microsoft had invested $7.3 billion in the Gulf country since 2023 and would spend $7.9 billion more by the end of 2029. The deal sent US chip-maker Nvidia shares up 2.6%, buoyed by hopes the AI juggernaut could see

AI technology is developing rapidly, and in recent years, its use in academic research has become commonplace. Pietro Miotti, an AI researcher from Italy, reported a case in which he “re-discovered a Maya civilization site that had been missing from official registries using AI agents.” “My AI agents re-discovered a Maya site in just 72 hours.” https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site/ On October 18, 2026, while researching Peru, Miotti came across a pers

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The company behind an “AI gun detection” system is being sued by the survivor of a Tennessee high school shooting after it failed to detect the handgun used by the shooter. The lawsuit, filed last month and spotted by Ars Technica, targets Omnilert, which designed and marketed the AI weapon detection system, and System Integrations, the company that installed and maintained it. It was fil

Figure 2. LPIPS Stability (all 8 experiments). Figure 3. Mean grad norms per block (all 8 experiments). 1. Gradient Clipping – a critically important component.The most contrasting result was obtained without gradient norm clipping (no_grad_clip). The Directional CLIP Loss graph (Fig. 1) shows that without Gradient Clipping, the error remains high (0.78–0.85) with no steady decrease, whereas in the baseline it drops to 0.66–0.72.StyleGAN2 has an enormous n

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Thursday that his administration is partnering with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI to bring artificial intelligence into more than 5,000 public schools. The millennial leader, who previously made El Salvador the first nation to make bitcoin legal tender in 2021, is betting big on technology again. In a statement Thursday, xAI said that its Grok chatbot will bring "pe

Version 2026.3 ships with Air alongside the IDE: connect agents, assign tasks, monitor sessions, and review changes. I’ve already tried out Air, and I really like the underlying logic: the agent performs the task, while the IDE helps you monitor its work and check the result. And thanks to ACP for making it possible to choose an agent independently of the editor. The protocol is a legend in its own right.The Zed team introduced the Agent Client Protocol on

Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Meta’s fuzzy Muse AI personal assistant overtook ChatGPT as the top free iOS app in the US after launching earlier this month, surpassing 3.4 million downloads last week. But whether the agent will be able to hold on to that momentum is anything but guaranteed, considering the sheer amount of changes it requires to its users’ behavior. Tech companies like OpenAI and Meta would love us to hand over mundane ta

Shutterstock / Futurism Why shell out for the mundane headshots by a school photographer when you could supercharge your kids’ portrait with the power of AI? That’s a calculation more and more parents are making these days, choosing to tap into generative AI tools like ChatGPT to fast-track school picture day. According to Fast Company, parents are taking to social media to brag up how much AI saved them on their children’s’ school print package — usually

There are some important caveats with the Workspace tool. While this new GitHub project is from Google, it’s “not an officially supported Google product.” So you’re on your own if you choose to use it. The company notes that functionality may change dramatically as Google Workspace CLI continues to evolve, and that could break workflows you’ve created in the meantime. For people interested in tinkering with AI automations and don’t mind the inherent risks,