Archive: May 2017

Published on August 5, 2025 at 14:39 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Elice Moore (Unsplash) Will our ears be bombarded tomorrow with AI-generated jingles and elevator music? ElevenLabs, an American company specializing in AI voice generation, has launched a new service called Eleven Music to create music per kilometer. The voice generation and AI voice synthesis services of ElevenLabs can be used for audiobooks, voiceovers, video dubbing, or even podcasts. The 'voic

Credit: Pexels, CC0 Public Domain A Monash University researcher at the forefront of animal cognition and behavioral studies is shining a light on how the field plays a critical role in driving forward societal innovation. From dragonflies inspiring flight mechanics to bee vision informing collision avoidance technology, studying animal cognition can do much more than help us understand how a species forages or avoids predators. Monash University Research

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group and think tank within the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) have released a new report, Water, Waterborne Pathogens and Public Health: Environmental Drivers. Developed by leading scientists and informed by expert deliberations from a December 2024 colloquium organized by ASM and AGU, the report presents a holistic s

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Offshore wind power could provide far more electricity than the U.S. uses for residential, commercial and industrial purposes. But the federal government has recently stopped approving offshore projects in the ocean. Another option is available, though: the Great Lakes, where we are based as water policy researchers, and where state agencies rather than federal officials are the trustees of the lakes. A January 2025 execut

Credit: Michigan State University Imagine a stadium packed with 75,000 fans, all wearing green and white jerseys—except one person in a solid green shirt. Finding that person would be tough. That's how hard it is for scientists to find disease markers—called biomarkers—in the blood. And instead of one stadium, researchers must search through the equivalent of 100,000 stadiums worth of information. To tackle this challenge, a research team from Michigan Sta

Yesterday, OpenAI released its latest voice model, GPT-Live-1. The company called it “a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction.” The full-duplex model allows ChatGPT to talk and listen at the same time, giving the back-and-forth a more conversational flow. It’s designed to be smarter, faster, and more natural. Sounds great! Let’s see how it handles the internet’s one-man voice model red team, TikToker @huskistaken (aka Husk), when

Credit: AI-generated image Artificial intelligence may be marketed as society's great equalizer—transforming businesses, streamlining work and making life easier for all—but for many marginalized Americans, AI doesn't feel like a promise. It feels like a threat. A new University of Michigan study finds that gender minorities, women and disabled individuals—especially those who are neurodivergent or living with mental health conditions—hold significantly mo

Getty / Futurism OpenAI is planning to spend more than $1 trillion in AI infrastructure buildouts — an enormous commitment, especially considering its meager income. Long term, it desperately needs revenue. For now, the vast majority of the money it’s actually bringing in is coming from paying ChatGPT subscribers — and while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman boasted last week that 800 million people are using the AI chatbot on a weekly basis, only roughly five percent

John Reid Campaign (Screenshots) You’ve probably heard of a “straw man,” a fallacy in which you misrepresent an opponent’s argument so it’s easier to refute. Put up a false impression of what they’re saying, and then knock ’em down. We all do it. But what we all probably don’t do is create a full-blown AI-generated deepfake of our opponent and then sincerely try to argue with it for nearly an hour. And we probably aren’t running for public office, either.

Fake GTA 6 download goes after Steam logins and crypto wallet data Cynet researchers followed a “GTA 6 EXE file download” link from a Google Colab notebook to a ZIP archive and found a WARDEN Stealer loader inside. The malware takes saved passwords, browser cookies, Steam and Roblox credentials, and cryptocurrency wallet data from the machine it runs on. A Google Colab notebook promotes a fake GTA 6 executable download (Source: Cynet) Grand Theft Auto VI l

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images China is a country defined by major contradictions. The nation is governed by a communist party that has carefully embraced market forces as part of a long transition away from capitalism. Against this backdrop of ideological tension, it’s no surprise that smaller contradictions abound. Among them is the country’s embrace of human-like AI systems, which are increasingly being embedded in

Getty / Futurism Elon Musk and other AI leaders have repeatedly insisted that the solution to the industry’s extremely costly and energy-intensive data centers is to launch them into space, taking advantage of unfettered access to solar energy and virtually limitless real estate. Late last month, SpaceX — now merged with xAI — filed a patent for an orbital data center constellation with the Federal Communications Commission. The idea is to have up to one m

Getty / Futurism The tremendous hype surrounding AI coding shows no signs of dying down. Last month, Anthropic released a suite of industry-specific plug-ins for its Claude Cowork AI agent, panicking investors over fears that traditional enterprise software-as-a-service companies could soon be made obsolete. The announcement triggered a trillion-dollar sell-off, with many tech companies seeing sharp declines in their share prices. It even seemed to jolt Sa

The article is read for you. (Photo=Shutterstock) Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, resigned after a privacy controversy. The resignation of the founder who led the company for 33 years caused NVIDIA's stock to drop more than 14% during the day, and has increased uncertainty in AI industry investments and supply chains. NVIDIA announced through an official statement on the 12th (local time) that Huang had immediately stepped down from his positions as chairman,

In addition to problems that are mainly exacerbated by geopolitical risks, criminal police authorities at the federal, state, and EU levels face several acute challenges. In particular, massive fraud incidents "with an international connection," which were almost described as Denial-of-Service attacks on the second day of the BKA Autumn Conference in Berlin, occupy the criminal police. Read more after the ad The problem is, for example, the sheer number of

Published on April 29, 2026 at 08:16 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Pixabay - Gerd Altmann. Illustration photo. « The arrival of Boris Lecoeur within Synfonium marks a new step in the group's and its two brands, Qwant and Shadow, trajectory » : Synfonium announces the arrival of its new leader: Boris Lecoeur. A new leader will soon be at the helm of Synfonium, the structure grouping Shadow, the French specialist in cloud PCs, and Qwant, the French search engine. Bori