Archive: November 2016

According to xAI, Grok 3 Reasoning outperforms its rivals on a variety of prominent benchmarks:These reasoning models are already integrated into features available via the Grok app. Users can select commands like “Think” or activate the more computationally-intensive “Big Brain” mode for tackling particularly challenging questions.xAI has positioned the reasoning models as ideal tools for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) applicatio

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Most high-severity cloud security findings are downgraded once an AI agent checks the environment Cloud security platforms turn every failed rule into a finding, and those findings pile up in queues sorted by severity. Research from Sola Security tested what happens to that order when each finding gets checked against the environment where it lives. The researchers, Leon Goldberg and Gal Engelberg, built an AI agent that re-grades findings raised by third-

Credit: Wikimedia/Pexels/The Conversation Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as a way to boost lagging productivity growth. The AI productivity push has some powerful multinational backers: the tech companies who make AI products and the consulting companies who sell AI-related services. It also has interest from governments. Next week, the federal government will hold a roundtable on economic reform, where AI will be a key part of the agenda. Ho

Launched during its 11/11 Summit in New York, ElevenAI is still in preview, and you have to sign up for early access instead of just downloading an app. ElevenLabs, valued at $22 billion, is very much positioning this as a product that lives within a team as compared to a productivity tool for an individual. ElevenAI packs all the features typically found in other apps in the category. It can take meeting notes across your meetings and notify other partici

Doublespeed AI You know those obnoxious social media accounts that flood your messages with spam? Those might not be scammers after all, but a legitimate new business backed by one of the most powerful venture capital funds in Silicon Valley. Introducing Doublespeed, a startup operating a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated slop on behalf of its clients. In a nutshell, phone farming is a tactic most often used by hackers and financial crimin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff. Will it transform society into a utopia, freeing us from all responsibilities, or will it come to life and kill us all? And who benefits from those outcomes, anyway? According to esteemed sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom, the answer is clear: no matter which way you slice it, the AI future i

AI Generated Video (Screenshots) via X In the wake of the deadly attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of president Nicolás Maduro by the United States, netizens looking to manufacture support for the strikes have found a friend in generative AI. Since the kidnapping, people in the West have been fiercely debating who should control the narrative about the military action. By many accounts, those most impacted by the attacks — Venezuelans living and working i

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Sunday (4) the creation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF) (Super Intelligence Force, in literal translation), a task force focused on coordinating the U.S. government's actions related to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). The announcement came after Trump met with leaders of the largest AI companies in the United States last

Yext will be exploring the massive impact AI has had on search and user behaviours, and how Scout can inform marketing professionals, at a webinar, ‘Winning Search in EMEA: How Yext Scout Drives Visibility Across Local and AI Platforms.’ It’s scheduled for Wednesday, 24 September at 1pm BST / 2pm CEST.With AI now ever-present in digital interactions, platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and latterly, Grok, have huge influence over consumers’ discove

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief of the esteemed Wall Street Journal, just heaped praise on the sloplords drowning journalism in AI-generated dreck. In an email obtained by Semafor, Tucker congratulated a Fortune editor for being a likeminded individual embracing AI, and was so impressed by the magazine’s AI efforts that she forced her underlings to read about them. Last month, the WSJ re

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In a move that could be seen as either responsible AI development or an expertly-executed hype maneuver, Anthropic says its new Claude Mythos Preview model is so powerful that the company’s only releasing it to a select group of tech companies, since giving it out to the public would be too dangerous. (Where have we heard that one before?) In its system card, the Dario Amodei-led company

Getty / Futurism Earlier this month, we got a glimpse of the harrowing conversations that Florida State University school shooting suspect Phoenix Ikner had with ChatGPT before his deadly massacre. Ikner asked the chatbot how to turn off the safety switch on his weapon, what ammo to use, and even where to find the most people to kill on the university’s campus — horrific queries highlighting how some are already using AI to plan and perpetrate unconscionab

Robotic vehicles move slowly and are required to obey all local traffic laws. For nearly 50 years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded scientific developments and promoted their adoption by the companies that supply military technology. For the last few years, the agency has been encouraging the development of automated vehicles through a series of Grand Challenges. The first two editions tested the ability of automated vehicle