Archive: June 2017

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Sanbei Editor | Xinyuan Zhidx reported on November 11 that Alibaba announced today the release of its next-generation large model, the Qwen4-Max Preview, debuting the Token Plan for the Qwen AI platform. For a limited time, users can pay 20% of the regular price, with new users receiving an additional 50% discount, allowing them to try the Qwen4 model for as little as 10% of the regular price. The Qwen4-27

The proposed multi-path architecture leads to a remarkable data rate of 108 Gb/s with total power of 210.8 mW. Credit: Sangwan Lee / Hanyang University High-voltage, higher-order PAM-8 signals are essential to achieve data rates beyond 100 Gb/s, requiring highly linear receivers to maintain excellent signal-to-noise ratios. In recent work, a team of researchers, led by Mr. Sangwan Lee, an integrated M.S. and Ph.D. degree student in electronic engineering,

Credit: Burak The Weekender from Pexels Like other sectors of society, artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how investors, traders and companies make decisions in financial markets. AI models have the ability to analyze massive amounts of data while reading company filings or news headlines almost instantaneously. This is allowing for faster, more automated trading, which is making it difficult for human traders—not utilizing AI—to find an edg

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 Apple filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI company and its chief hardware officer of stealing its trade secrets."OpenAI and its cohorts, led at least in part by former Apple employees, have recruited candidates from Apple, extracted their knowled

Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, testifies before a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 8, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File Accompanying Time's annual person of the year selection Thursday is a magazine cover that resembles the "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photograph from the 1930s showing eight of the " Architects of AI " sitting on the beam. "This was the year when artificial intelligence's full potential roar

Credit: University of Warwick A University of Warwick-led analysis of almost 5,000 student-authored reports suggests that student writing has become more polished and formal since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022—but grades have remained stable. Published in Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, the new study examines student reports submitted over a 10-year period and finds that the 'language' in students' writing has become more sophi

The founder of an AI startup in San Francisco was indicted this week for allegedly conspiring with his wife for six years to defraud investors out of $60 million. According to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California, Alexander Beckman—founder of GameOn Technology (now known as ON Platform)—and Valerie Lau Beckman—an attorney hired by GameOn who later became his wife—were charged with 25 counts, including conspir

When Francesca Mani was 14 years old, boys at her New Jersey high school used nudify apps to target her and other girls. At the time, adults did not seem to take the harassment seriously, telling her to move on after she demanded more severe consequences than just a single boy’s one or two-day suspension. Mani refused to take adults’ advice, going over their heads to lawmakers who were more sensitive to her demands. And now, she’s won her fight to criminal

Continues after the advertisingThe announcement was made by Karthik Thirumalai, Director of AI Products for Android. Before the expansion, Gemini Intelligence was already available on the Pixel 11 and the Samsung Galaxy S26, S26+, S26 Ultra, Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Ultra, and Z Flip8 models.The update brings new features, such as creating custom widgets and controlling phone settings through voice commands, as well as expanding existing features, such as organizi

Fun fact: Billionaire PayPal, Founders Fund, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, when he’s not busy exerting his ghastly influence over the U.S. government, moonlights as a touring theorist and lecturer on Christianity, the end times, and the antichrist. Thiel and his team have tried to create an air of secrecy around the ‘Antichrist’ lectures, which began with a 2025 series in San Francisco. Thiel’s complete lack of qualifications to speak on theology, o

Some AI researchers have been raising alarms this year that AI could lead to human extinction within the next decade. Now, major AI companies are reportedly running scenarios for how they would handle the fallout from a catastrophic AI incident. Axios reports that many AI insiders believe a major AI-related incident could happen within the next six to 12 months. They anticipate a large-scale event such as a cyberattack that could disrupt access to financia

Published on August 26, 2026 at 07:43 Comment 0 𝕏 Print One week ago, Hugging Face was celebrating the 3 million models hosted on its platform. © Hugging Face Hacked in July by ChatGPTs, courted in August by buyers in the $13 billion range. For Hugging Face, the summer of all dangers is turning into a jackpot, and even its defenses have a story to tell. The story could have ended with a spectacular hack, already recounted in our columns. It has now taken a

Shutterstock / Futurism As backlash against its surveillance network refuses to die down, Flock Safety is kicking off an employee buyout program that’ll let workers leave the company with a “generous” severance package, Wired reports. It’s seemingly an admission that the company is in turmoil. Protestors have targeted Flock’s AI-powered license plate scanning cameras so fiercely that many cities and police departments are cancelling or declining to extend

Published on September 26, 2026 at 09:11 Updated on September 28, 2026 at 13:02 Comment 5 𝕏 Print © Mariia Shalabaieva OpenAI AI agents searched several U.S. government sites this summer. The Department of Education, the Census Bureau, and the financial watchdog are involved. OpenAI says no data was stolen but acknowledges “misaligned” behavior. Update on September 28 In response to this new misstep, OpenAI decided to suspend the training of its latest AI

KNTDaily / Futurism “I’m recording you right now and you probably can’t tell, because there’s no annoying little blinking light on these glasses,” a creator boasting nearly half a million followers declares in an August TikTok video. “I’m gonna be the first one to tell you, go save that $400, and grab some of these from TikTok Shop.” A disclaimer on the video denotes that the creator is “eligible for commission,” meaning that if a follower clicks through a

Facebook / Futurism In the age of AI, Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram have become breeding grounds for content farms peddling in emotionally charged AI slop. Some click mills traffic in racist incitement against minorities, others in violent depictions of child abuse, but all of them converge on a common quality: bizarre and disturbing attempts at attention-hacking users on a platform that’s all but given up on proactive moderation. A new case i

A special model, the “HHKB Professional Elite,” has been introduced from PFU’s premium “Happy Hacking Keyboard (HHKB)” series. Limited to 300 units worldwide and priced at 330,000 yen including tax, it is a special-spec model that, unlike the standard models, features a machined aluminum housing. This time, we were able to borrow an actual HHKB Professional Elite, so we took a close look at its appearance and detailed design. PRESS RELEASE | [30th Annivers

Over the past two weeks, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have outlined plans to spend more than $740 billion on capital expenditures this year, which Wall Street is reading as AI infrastructure spending, including data centers and chips. Earlier in the AI boom, investors largely rewarded such big outlays, viewing them as a sign of confidence in the technology’s growth potential. But as we enter the fourth quarter, that enthusiasm seems to be giving w

In 2004, Zhang Yimou captured an unforgettable water-sleeve drum dance in *House of Flying Daggers*. (Leifeng Network (official account: Leifeng Network)) The dancer portrayed by Zhang Ziyi stood at the center of a drum formation. Leaping and spinning to the music, she sent two long water sleeves billowing through the air, sometimes tracing immense arcs and sometimes whipping them toward the drums surrounding her. The performer's movements, the trajectory