Archive: July 2017

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock It’s a desperate time for tech companies trying to assert dominance in the AI boom. Back in April, we found out that nearly half of the data centers that were supposed to open this year had been cancelled or significantly delayed — putting a bottleneck on an industry which will live or die by its ability to access AI chips. The situation has grown so fran

Global Thermonuclear War OpenAI bot crushes Dota 2 champions, and now anyone can play against it Reigning International champions Team OG were soundly beaten over the weekend. Ars Staff – Apr 15, 2019 4:09 pm | 113 Shadow Fiend, looking shadowy and fiendish. Credit: Valve Shadow Fiend, looking shadowy and fiendish. Credit: Valve Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Mini

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has joined progressive groups—including Demand Progress, Open Markets Institute, and the Tech Oversight Project—pressuring the US Department of Justice to investigate Nvidia’s dominance in the AI chip market due to alleged antitrust concerns, Reuters reported. In a letter to the DOJ’s chief antitrust enforcer, Jonathan Kanter, groups demanding more Big Tech oversight raised alarms that Nvidia’s top rivals apparently “are str

OpenAI and Anthropic have each signed unprecedented deals granting the US government early access to conduct safety testing on the companies’ flashiest new AI models before they’re released to the public. According to a press release from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the deal creates a “formal collaboration on AI safety research, testing, and evaluation with both Anthropic and OpenAI” and the US Artificial Intelligence Safety

Over the weekend I engaged in one of my occasional bouts of getting the computer in order. Yes, this is going to be a story, alright. Gather around. The first order of business was freeing up some space by moving my music library onto a flash drive. That involved a couple of hours spent mournfully paring down 135GB of music, so it’d fit onto a 128GB flash drive—yes, I still have a bunch of actual music files, and no, I’m not getting rid of them in favor of

As the global artificial intelligence (AI) race presses on amid a US-China trade war, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)—a $514 billion titan that manufactures most of the world’s AI chips—is warning that it may not be possible to keep its customers’ most advanced technology out of China’s hands. US export controls require chipmakers to monitor shipments and know their customers to restrict China’s access to AI chips. But in a recently p

Getty Images / Futurism A decade ago, young adults were flocking to vaunted tech giants like Google and Apple in pursuit of exciting jobs on the cutting edge of tech. In 2026, however, the status quo of young people who are uncritically enamored with the tech industry and its billionaire overlords has gone completely out the window. A new survey conducted by CNBC’s Generation Labs asked over 1,000 US adults aged between 18 and 34 to share their thoughts on

Terry Wyatt/Getty Images There are many ways to honor someone who’s recently passed. Flowers. Murals. Candlelight vigils. And in today’s age, unfortunately: AI slop. Weeks after Dolly Parton died, the legendary country singer’s sister, Stella Parton, has begged fans to stop posting “fake AI garbage” as supposed tribute, saying it’s making it hard to move on. “Sadly, because of the way our lives have been lived in front of the public, we have no choice but

Published on September 24, 2026 at 08:35 Updated on September 24, 2026 at 16:41 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © 01net A version of ChatGPT gained access to an Australian government portal without any authorization. Blocked by a restriction, the AI model looked for ways to get around it. OpenAI took several months to detect the incident and notify the relevant authorities AI systems keep racking up security incidents. Anthony Albanese, the Australian prime minister, re

Published on September 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google The chips powering Gemini are going to leave Earth. Google is taking its TPUs aboard a test satellite to verify that they survive in space, while a startup backed by Nvidia has already gained a head start. Since the Suncatcher project was announced in November 2025, Google has been entertaining a simple idea: moving some of its artificial intelligence computations into orbit, where the s

By executive order last month, Donald Trump launched his so-called “Genesis Mission.” Described as a “historic national effort” to “invest in AI-enabled science to accelerate scientific advancement,” Trump claimed his mission would address key challenges to American energy dominance, innovation, and national security. This mission, Trump boasted, would be a game-changer to science akin to putting a man on the moon or firing the first nuclear weapons. By bu

ION (Ingroup-Outgroup Neutralization). The team's strategy to mitigate the us vs. them bias in LLMs. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.13699 Large language models (LLMs), the computational models underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and other widely used artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, can rapidly source information and generate texts tailored for specific purposes. As these models are trained on large amounts of texts writt

Published on October 13, 2026 at 2:02 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Edited by 01net The ArtCraft studio, already behind the recoded Adobe suite available for free, has put online equivalents to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Software made using Claude Code, an AI software development tool. After recreating software from the Adobe suite made available for free download, developer Brandon Thomas, creator of the ArtCraft studio, recreated the Microsoft suite. Softwar

Published on October 17, 2026 at 12:08 Updated on October 18, 2026 at 08:01 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Unsplash In just a few months, Nvidia has poured no less than $8 billion into European companies. That figure will reach $10 billion next year. Behind these stakes spread across the continent is something more than simple diversification. This Tuesday, October 13, Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, was in Paris to announce that his company was taking a stake in Doctoli

Shutterstock / YES Market Media Celebrities are shilling AI companies. Lionel Messi, probably among the top five most famous people on Earth right now, just did a World Cup ad campaign for OpenAI. Some genuinely seem to be hooked on the beguiling guidance of the tech. Others just seem to be chasing another big payday. But why does it keep happening, even in the face of massive public backlash? There are fewer better places to start than with Charles Porch,

Lev Radin / Shutterstock New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani blasted Google’s decision to block its search engine in schools that restrict its AI features. “Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools,” he wrote in a social media statement. “No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children.” “Our public schools exist to serve students,” Mamdani added, “not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.” G

There was just one problem: The technology his idea required didn’t exist yet. “Then ChatGPT came along,” said Dram, recalling when OpenAI released the generative AI chatbot that uses large language models (LLMs) in November 2022. His old idea suddenly seemed a lot more possible. Within six months, he launched the concept of Blueprints AI, a startup that uses AI to produce code-compliant and permit-ready architectural construction blueprints in minutes fro

That may be about to change, thanks to a manipulation architecture built by Eka Robotics, which encompasses a force-sensitive gripper and a new kind of deep-learning model. Founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, the startup just closed an $150 million Series A round that values it at $1.45 billion post-money, led by venture funds a16z and F-Prime. “They are already exceeding superhuman performance for