Archive: September 2016

State space models (SSMs) designed for modelling dynamic systems have achieved outstanding sequence-to-sequence performance in fields ranging from time series analysis to audio generation. SSMs however struggle on language modelling tasks, where they cannot match the performance of transformer architectures. In the new paper Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models, a research team from Stanford University and the State Unive

Where did it all begin?Modern computers emerged in the first half of the 20th century and relied on punch cards to feed data into the system and enable binary computations. The cards had a series of punched holes, and light was shone at them. If the light passed through a hole and was detected by the machine, it represented a “one”. Otherwise, it was a “zero”. As you can imagine, it was extremely cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone.That changed wit

Google parent company Alphabet's cloud computing business is on pace to bring in $50 billion over the course of 2025, according to the tech giant. Google-parent Alphabet on Wednesday reported quarterly profits that topped expectations, saying artificial intelligence has boosted every part of its business. Alphabet's second-quarter profit of $28.2 billion—on $96.4 billion in revenue—came with word that the tech giant will spend $10 billion more than it prev

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted a photo to X on Wednesday from the new Air Force One, a plane gifted to President Donald Trump from the government of Qatar, despite anti-bribery rules intended to stop that kind of transaction. Blatant corruption aside, users on social media noticed something weird in the background of the photos of the newly refurbished plane. What a privilege to be aboard the inaugural flight on the brand new Air Force

In the late eighteenth century, Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen constructed what many people living at the time were duped into believing was the first truly intelligent machine: an ornate wooden chest, presided over by a magisterial wooden statue of a turbaned man—a “Turk”—that could move around the pieces of a chessboard as if by magic and win game after game against actual, human chess players. It was eventually revealed to be a hoax: A chess m

Open-weight AI model GLM-5.3 cheated its way to correct answers Irregular evaluated Zhipu AI’s open-weight model GLM-5.3 across 13 offensive cyber scenarios using CyScenarioBench, the company’s framework for measuring an LLM’s ability to plan and execute multistage attacks under realistic constraints. The model refused none of the tasks and completed three scenarios at least once each, carrying attacks through dependent stages to reach objectives in simula

Bluesky / Reddit / Futurism Earlier this week, locals in Kingston upon Thames, a small borough south-west of London, were perturbed by “scenes of Lovecraftian horror” in the form of two enormous murals that appear to have been sloppily generated by AI to celebrate the holiday season. The murals showed horrifyingly disfigured people, animals and even a demented snowman, harkening back to a not-so-distant past when AI image generators struggled to generate p

Getty Images/ Milos Dimic To push back against AI, some call for blowing up data centers. If that’s too extreme for your tastes, then you might be interested in another project, which instead advocates for poisoning the resource that the AI industry needs most, in a bid to cut off its power at the source. Called Poison Fountain, the project aims to trick tech companies’ web crawlers into vacuuming up “poisoned” training data that sabotages AI models. If pu

Automate operations and cut costsAutomation suites like Zapier AI and Make fold into online shop tools, email platforms, and marketing systems. These let founders set up triggers for actions. For example, a new order in the store can start a workflow: send a confirmation, log the sale, and update inventory. The owner does not need to touch anything. This reduces manual work, speeds up tasks, and can lower costs.Email marketing and analytics also work bette

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ludovic Martin / AFP via Getty Images Dario Amodei may boast many credentials, but we weren’t aware that meteorologist was one of them. This week, the Anthropic CEO warned of an impending AI “tsunami” that will upend human society as the tech surpasses human intelligence. And if you don’t believe him, he suggests, you’re simply lying to yourself. “It’s surprising to me that we are, in my view, so clos

Published on April 15, 2026 at 11:00 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net Anthropic is accused by developers of having intentionally degraded the performance of its models Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code. The company Anthropic might have intentionally degraded the performance of its models Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code? Some developers and AI experts suspect the American company of having capped the performance of its two models. In some cases, these accusations ar

Getty / Futurism It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to large language models (LLMs). The consequences are already measurable: elementary students are losing cognitive skills, leading them to tank their exams. Harder to quantify — but impossible to miss if you’ve spent any time in school lately — is the situation unfolding across classrooms, where students from all layers of s

Getty / Futurism Last month, a joint investigation by two Swedish newspapers found that contractors in Kenya were watching personal videos recorded by users of Meta’s Ray Ban AI glasses. The devices, which can easily be used to film others in public without their knowledge or consent, have been facing a growing backlash online, with netizens calling them out for being “pervert glasses.” Now, Meta’s plans to add facial recognition tech to its hardware, as p