Archive: January 2017

Geographic and phylogenetic sampling of avian wing-bone morphology. Using measurements from 7366 skeletal specimens, we analyze variation in wing-bone length across 1520 bird species, representing approximately 25% of passerine diversity. Credit: Global Ecology and Biogeography (2025). DOI: 10.1111/geb.70033 For centuries, scientists have observed that animals in warmer climates have longer limbs—a pattern known as Allen's Rule. Long attributed to the need

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mario Tama / Getty Images Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a state bill on Monday that would’ve prevented AI companies from allowing minors to access chatbots, unless the

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. A new lawsuit against OpenAI claims that ChatGPT pushed a man with a pre-existing mental health condition into a months-long crisis of AI-powered psychosis, resultin

On November 10, Wu Minghui, founder, CEO, and CTO of MingLue Technology, gave a speech at the 2026 China Golden Forum. When discussing whether AI investment exists in a bubble, he focused the conversation on the cost-benefit for enterprises. In his view, the focus of AI investment in the first half was to create more capable models. In the second half, enterprises need to calculate how many tokens an Agent consumes to complete a business task and how much

Shokunin Studio Is Hollywood “cooked”? Do video generating AI models mean its “over” for filmmakers? The jury’s out on that. But according to one Hollywood insider, the whole industry is “lying” about how much AI they’re using. “The thing with AI right now in Hollywood: Everyone’s lying just a little bit,” Janice Min, a former editor of Hollywood Reporter and CEO of cinema industry media group Ankler Media, told Business Insider in a new interview. “Studio

Here's the article. AI Futures Project's prediction of an accelerated AI development scenario. It shows the forecast that from 2027, coding labor force (yellow), AI R&D productivity (red), and the speed of technological advancement (blue) could increase rapidly. (Photo=AI Futures Project) There is a continuing forecast that 2027 will be a major turning point for AI development. Warnings about rapid technological advancement that were raised internally at O

The results speak sound for themselvesWhen Tencent tested Hunyuan Video-Foley against other leading AI models, the audio results were clear. It wasn’t just that the computer-based metrics were better; human listeners consistently rated its output as higher quality, better matched to the video, and more accurately timed.Across the board, the AI delivered improvements in making the sound match the on-screen action, both in terms of content and timing. The re

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” —Henry VI, Part 2. Shakespeare interpretations aside, it seems that artificial intelligence is on its way to, well, killing off lawyers. That’s according to a recent survey (PDF) of law firm leaders who say that within 10 years, new attorneys and paralegals could be replaced by an IBM Watson-like computer. The study, which included responses from high-ranking lawyers at 320 firms with at least 50 lawyers

MyMoustache.net, created for Movember, uses facial analysis based on machine learning to rate your facial hair (or figure out where it would be if you had it). MyMoustache.net, created for Movember, uses facial analysis based on machine learning to rate your facial hair (or figure out where it would be if you had it). The newly updated Project Oxford homepage divides up the REST-based artificial intelligence APIs into three categories: vision, speech and l

If there’s one company you’d expect to be at the bleeding edge of the AI race, it’s Google. With its deep pockets, nearly three decades of hoovering up data from across the internet, and billions of users worldwide, it should have the most powerful and popular models available. So why does it feel like it’s always trailing behind much younger companies like OpenAI and Anthropic? Case in point: Google’s newest model, released Wednesday and dubbed Gemini 4 A

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 3 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter According to a report by The Economist last week, Anthropic’s powerful Mythos AI model was able to break into “almost all” classified systems belonging to the National Security Agency (NSA) — one of the highest-ranking and most powerful intelligence agencies in the U.S. gover

Igor Kyrlytsya via Shutterstock / Futurism The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run by bots and thinking machines. Most accounts you saw online were really bots masquerading as people — all part of some nefarious scheme to control humankind by keeping us isolated and divided. That last part is far-fetched, but the core of the idea — that bots outnumber humans online — is inexo

Google has been finding ways to work generative AI into everything else it does, so why not its collaboration with the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP)? This group has been studying dolphins since 1985 using a non-invasive approach to track a specific community of Atlantic spotted dolphins. The WDP creates video and audio recordings of dolphins, along with correlating notes on their behaviors. One of the WDP’s main goals is to analyze the way dolphins vocalize a

In a Black Mirror-esque turn, some cash-strapped actors who didn’t fully understand the consequences are regretting selling their likenesses to be used in AI videos that they consider embarrassing, damaging, or harmful, AFP reported. Among them is a 29-year-old New York-based actor, Adam Coy, who licensed rights to his face and voice to a company called MCM for one year for $1,000 without thinking, “am I crossing a line by doing this?” His partner’s mother

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 11 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter OpenAI has admitted that its experimental AI agents used an open German programming wiki to communicate, according to a Reuters report. This happened weeks before similar AI agents broke through restrictions and compromised Hugging Face, the report claims. Knowing about the

Published on September 16, 2026 at 12:00 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) Between Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Mistral AI, the race for artificial intelligence is more divisive than ever. While Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are calling for a slowdown in research, Mark Zuckerberg firmly opposes it, arguing that the market’s natural safeguards are more than sufficient. For his part, Mistral AI denounces the double standards of the American giants

Shutterstock / Futurism At times this year, it’s almost felt as though OpenAI and Anthropic were in a race to the bottom, one-upping each other over whose AI models were more capable of going rogue, escaping sandbox environments, and infiltrating the most third party systems. Just last week, OpenAI admitted that its models had accessed “dozens of third parties,” leading to its latest — nope, not even first — pause on frontier AI development. Among the newl