Archive: September 2017

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the world of high finance, companies are hedging their bets on artificial intelligence (AI). Indeed, AI has already been used in algorithmic trading and fraud detection. As the technology grows more powerful and autonomous, so there is an urgent need to put in place checks and balances to ensure ethical and valid use of these tools. Research published in the International Journal of Business Information Systems now offe

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Proteins catalyze life by changing shape when they interact with other molecules. The result is a muscle twitching, the perception of light, or a bit of energy extracted from food. But this crucial ability has eluded the growing field of AI-augmented protein engineering. Now, researchers at UCSF have shown it is possible to make new proteins that move and change shape like those in nature. This ability will help scientists

Pangram is the company behind the most prominent AI text detector tool out there. For that company to release a study looking at how much AI-generated content there is on social media is a little like Charmin releasing a study revealing an epidemic of skid marks. But hear them out anyway. Their findings are both eye-popping and plausible. Pangram’s marquee finding is that 41% of longform LinkedIn posts are “flagged as fully AI-generated,” as is 30% of shor

AI-generated changes create review bottlenecks in software delivery 83.4% of respondents who use DevOps practices run CI/CD pipelines, making them the most widely adopted practice in that group, according to JetBrains’ The State of CI/CD in 2026 report. Adoption exceeds that of containerisation and orchestration, infrastructure as code, GitOps and platform engineering. CI/CD is still at the center of software delivery (Source: JetBrains) Client demands and

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you plan a trip using AI, triple check that the locations it recommends visiting actually exist. The BBC reports that unsuspecting tourists all over the world are leaning on AI to plan vacations — and getting themselves into potentially dangerous situations because AI model are hallucinating fictitious locations. In one instance, two tourists were traipsing through Peru to get to a non

Getty Images / Viktoriya Skorikova College students are being wrongly accused of using AI to cheat on their assignments by their university — based, in a headache-inducing twist, on the findings of another AI system. That’s according to new reporting from Australia’s ABC News which illustrates the nightmarish impact that AI’s inroads has had in education as it irreversibly erodes the trust between professors and pupils. A student named Madeleine told the o

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@mattxiv via X San Francisco is plastered with billboards advertising AI tech, all in varying degrees of in-your-face dystopic. Even so, a new crop of them has managed to stand out from the pack by being shockingly upfront about the industry’s attitude toward regular humans. “Our AI does your daughter’s homework. Reads her bedtime stories. Romances her. Deepfakes her,” reads a billboard asking you to visit a website called Replacement.AI. “Don’t worry, it’

Matt Shumer via X Last week, AI investor Matt Shumer posted AI-generated first-person-shooter footage that was intended to be an impressive glimpse at the future of video games. “AI games are going to be amazing,” he tweeted in the caption of the 84-second clip. But instead of demonstrating that the video game industry is about to be revolutionized by the advent of generative AI, the clip drew widespread derision and mockery. And it doesn’t take long to fi

Getty / Futurism Naming your child isn’t a task to be taken lightly. It’s a crucial step in the child-rearing process that could fundamentally shape a child’s identity, influence first impressions, and reflect the parents’ heritage and values. That hasn’t stopped some from taking some baffling technological shortcuts. As the Baltimore Sun reports, one couple — and doubtless countless more — used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to name their firstborn son. “We were lookin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk’s X — formerly known as Twitter and newly acquired by SpaceX — says it will give a million bucks to a proudly self-proclaimed Nazi. On Tuesday, the social media site and Grok-run asylum announced the winners of its “$1M Article Contest,” with the grand prize going to a user named Beaver with the handle @beaverd. As many quickly noticed, that user happen

The risks posed by AI—like climate change and nuclear proliferation—are global problems in need of global solutions. And according to Bill Gates, humanity can no longer afford to wait on that front. In an essay published early Wednesday morning, the Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist wrote that the AI boom is a technological revolution unlike any other in history, with huge implications for virtually every sector of human life—from healthca

Overview of the Bayesian optimization workflow designed for improving the accuracy of the MEDSLIK-II oil spill model simulations. The workflow iteratively refines the simulation configuration parameters by evaluating the objective function and optimizing the acquisition function until a convergence criterion is met. Here, we denote the iteration number with the superscript (i), for the sake of clarity. Credit: Ecological Informatics (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.

Cybersecurity Cloud, which provides enterprise security services such as WAF (Web Application Firewall), announced on November 12 that there were suspicious accesses to its managed area on GitHub, raising concerns about the potential leakage of personal information it had stored. It confirmed through information provided by an external entity that one piece of GitHub authentication information used by employees in their work had been leaked. It also stated

Published on April 1, 2026 at 12:01 Updated on April 2, 2026 at 08:54 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic made a major mistake. In the last update of Claude Code, the startup slipped a file that allows reconstructing the entire AI source code. Hackers managed to take control of one of the main developers' accounts of Axios, a popular JavaScript library used for HTTP requests, on the official site of NPM (Node Package Manager), the online platform that