Archive: November 2016

Google has been controversially granted access to confidential patient records by the NHS—the UK’s national health service. According to a scoop from New Scientist magazine, the ad giant’s artificial intelligence company DeepMind inked a data-sharing deal with three London hospitals run by the Royal Free NHS Trust. Roughly 1.6 million patients at three hospitals—Barnet, Chase Farm, and the Royal Free—will have their data analysed by Google’s AI system each

Regarding NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, whose affair with a woman regarded as a Chinese spy has been widely reported, it has newly been alleged that he was also having an affair with his direct subordinate, Kimberly Powell, a vice president in charge of healthcare. Lawmakers are calling on Huang to resign as CEO, citing the risk this poses to national security, and consideration of summoning him before Congress is also underway. Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Re

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Under all the bluster of AI hype lies a real conundrum: companies are charging out-of-this-world prices for a tool that still can’t match the value of a competent human. As AI companies and their financial backers continue to dump billions of dollars into AI development, the consequences of that basic contradiction are spilling out into offices and shops throughout the US. The fintech fir

On Monday, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on AI that outlines the federal government’s first comprehensive regulations on generative AI systems. The order includes testing mandates for advanced AI models to ensure they can’t be used for creating weapons, suggestions for watermarking AI-generated media, and provisions addressing privacy and job displacement. In the United States, an executive order allows the president to manage and operate t

FotoField / Shutterstock / Futurism Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down. Earlier this week, the social media company announced during its second quarter earnings call that it was raising capital expenditures from $125 billion to at least $130 billion, a clear sign that it’s not taking its foot off the pedal. Yet amid renewed concerns that the tech industry may be nearing the edge

Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism Even before Donald Trump was sworn in for his second stint in the White House, he was promising to unleash “AI innovation” on an unprecedented scale. Despite grumblings from the populist Republican sect, the billionaire-in-chief soon made good on those promises, cozying up to AI moguls like Sam Altman and promising to flip the US power grid on its head in order to feed the growing demand for AI data centers.

Published on August 1, 2026 at 9:06 AM Comment 0 𝕏 Print @@TAG@@ © LinkedIn Four out of ten long-form posts would be generated by an AI. LinkedIn is launching a button to flag them, three days before Brussels mandates that this content be labeled. Over the years, the professional social network has developed an unmistakable aesthetic. The line break every two sentences, the personal anecdote that leads to a management lesson, the three-lesson structure. No

TAG17@@Simplified diagram: each stage has its own tool, and data is transferred between stages manually.It does not identify a specific company.In September 2026, Alexander Sitnikov, head of Gazprom Neft’s Scientific and Technical Center, called “the systematization of dozens of disparate software systems” the next stage in Gazprom Neft’s development as a digital oil company. Note the wording: dozens of software systems, not dozens of digital twins. I will

Shutterstock / Futurism Schools across the world are experimenting with AI tools, usually to the dismay of unsuspecting parents. But one privately-run school is explicitly embracing AI as part of its sales pitch, and the in-class experience sounds more bizarre than anything you’d imagine. A blistering new article by education policy writer and cognitive scientist Benjamin Riley took a look under the hood of Alpha School, a private K-12 school company in th

For game developer teams, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) is a very big deal. A nomination for the IGF Awards provides a game with priceless publicity, including a showcase at the festival, and a shot at winning one of the industry’s most prestigious independent gaming honors. The Awards are judged by panels of industry representatives—and this year, 19 such jurors have issued a statement declaring that they will not vote for “any game that uses gener

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is “believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation.” Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author

Google’s current mission is to weave generative AI into as many products as it can, getting everyone accustomed to, and maybe even dependent on, working with confabulatory robots. That means it needs to feed the bots a lot of your data, and that’s getting easier with the company’s new Private AI Compute. Google claims its new secure cloud environment will power better AI experiences without sacrificing your privacy. The pitch sounds a lot like Apple’s Priv

Eight countries and top AI labs agree to shutdown mechanisms in new Paris declaration View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 10, 2026 Sora prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now

As the OpenCode team struggled to keep pace with the attack, the scramble to respond highlighted a growing problem: Companies without vetted access to AI models with fewer safety restrictions have a hard time defending against large-scale, AI-driven cyberattacks. “We had a security breach last night related to a large-scale distillation attack that impacted 1.4% of OpenCode Console users,” the company wrote on X. “We have notified them all this morning via

Synced Report Unprecedented! Witten, the “Pope of Physics” and the only physicist to receive the Fields Medal—the highest award in mathematics—publicly acknowledged AI. In the acknowledgments of a recent preprint paper, Witten wrote: Many details were assisted by Claude Opus 5.5. Many details were assisted by Claude Opus 5.5. Even more astonishingly, in the main text of the paper, Witten admitted that Claude Opus 5.5 proposed a key solution. Who is Witten?

Google's AI detects high blood pressure from a regular smartwatch without a cuff Manuel Uth Nov 7, 2026 A Google Research AI can detect signs of high blood pressure using a regular smartwatch, with no blood pressure cuff needed for calibration. The AI relies on two sensors already built into modern watches—a pulse sensor and a motion sensor—according to a Google blog post. The study was published in Nature. A neural network learned from nearly 500,000 hour

OpenAI lands an $11 billion funding round, but has to court dentists for more capital Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 7, 2026 OpenAI has received roughly $11 billion in new funding, the first tranche of a round valuing the company at $1.25 trillion. The money was wired on Friday, Bloomberg reports. The full round could grow to $20 billion, with the rest expected in the coming weeks. OpenAI originally sought $30 billion at