Archive: October 2017

The feature goes through a cycle of three commands:/opsx:propose add-partial-refund: the agent creates a change folder with proposal, specification deltas, design and tasks. On this step, you review the plan until no line of code has been written./opsx:apply: the agent implements tasks from tasks.md and marks completed ones./opsx:archive: the change goes into the archive, and deltas are merged into the main specifications in specs/.Requirements and plan li

Getty Images After being merged with Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, SpaceX is gearing up for a $1.25 trillion IPO — but since the entity is still currently private, it’s remained mostly out of reach of everyday investors. But Powerlaw Corp, a fund that owns stakes in buzzy and not-yet-public companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, is giving retail traders an early taste of what could be in store for them. As Bloomberg reports, the $1.2 billion fund

FrameForward AI via YouTube Moviegoers just took a stand against slop and won. Following a flurry of online backlash, AMC Theaters said it would no longer allow an AI-generated short film to be shown at its US locations, in the latest example of the mounting resistance to AI’s encroachment on the arts. The short film, Igor Alferov’s “Thanksgiving Day,” won first prize at the inaugural Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival last week. Part of the prize inv

（Image: Google） The third-party AI performance metric "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index" scores Hydrogen at 51 points at the standard thinking level, surpassing Argon (50 points). It can complete tasks approximately 2.5 times faster than the previous generation lightweight model "Gemini 3.8 Flash." The thinking level can be selected from four tiers: low, medium, high, and xhigh, with xhigh being newly added this time. The default setting is high. CEO

close notice This article is also available in English. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication. Don’t show this again. United Airlines is taking action against personal AI agents that book flights for customers without permission. The company aims to block such access to its own platforms as well as through travel agencies and agents. According to the Wall Street Journal, AI agents can still display flight o

New Yuan Intelligence Report Imagine a customer service system where hundreds or thousands of user requests come in every second. Each request has to go through a "triage desk": is it a refund, a logistics inquiry, or a complaint? Should it be transferred to a human agent? Which tool should be called? These types of questions have one common feature: the answer is among a few given options . For this purpose, the industry has developed specialized decision

ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images/Futurism Even for an executive long known by employees as the “Eye of Sauron,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the concept of micromanagement to its final form, the Financial Times reports, by using AI to develop a “photorealistic, AI-powered 3D” version of himself to converse with and offer feedback to employees. The dystopian effort is part of a broader push to create avatars, based on public figures, that Meta’s cust

Jacob Coxon, the 27-year-old AI researcher whose resignation from Anthropic, accompanied by a loud prophecy of doom, triggered a huge online fervor, and a freakout on Capitol Hill, does not stand to profit if his statements inflate Anthropic’s eventual market capitalization, he told Axios on Wednesday. This is because he wasn’t with the company long enough for his shares to vest. Coxon spoke out on Tuesday, and his Wikipedia article was created on Wednesda

Zhi东西（WeChat official account: zhidxcom） compiled | Sun Xiaowen edited | Cheng Xi Zhi东西 reported on November 12, that yesterday, the UK AI inference chip unicorn Fractile announced that it has completed a $720 million C round of financing. This round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Google's CapitalG and the UK National AI Venture Fund Sovereign AI. The company's post-money valuation reached $7 billion,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As if air travel in the United States wasn’t cursed enough, the Trump Administration wants to ease the burden of air traffic scheduling with the help of some private-market AI solutions. US Department of Transportation secretary Sean Duffy — the same guy who was briefly in charge of NASA, weirdly — recently confirmed that the government is working on integrating AI software into the air t

American Airlines' major carrier, United Airlines , announced that it has prohibited the use of AI agents and AI assistants for flight bookings. The reasons cited include concerns about information leaks, prevention of fraudulent use of miles, and the possibility of violating regulatory requirements. United Restricts Access for Third-Party AI Agents https://united.mediaroom.com/news-releases?item=125496 United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights o

Published on May 20, 2026 at 10:11 Comment 0 Print © Google Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash, a lightweight, fast, and cost-effective model, but one that would show similar, if not superior, performance compared to top models. As expected, it's about agentive AI. Gemini 3.5 Flash doesn't just answer questions; it acts on your behalf and executes actions. During the conference Google I/O 2026, Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash, a lightweight, fast, and cost-

Getty / Futurism AI companies have swept customers onto the bandwagon by offering cheap and even free access to their AI models. But the bill is finally coming due, and the results could be ugly. Earlier this month, Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot customers were informed that they would have to reduce their usage of the AI coding tool because of the “significant strain” placed on company servers. It also nixed free trials for new accounts, citing abuse of the s

Big consequencesWhen traditional video security systems layer AI on older infrastructure, false alerts and performance issues arise. Alerts and missed detections are not just technical hiccups, but risks that can have devastating consequences. Shou points to a recent case where a school surveillance system, which used an AI add-on for gun detection, misidentified a harmless object for a weapon, setting off an unnecessary police response.“Every mistake, whe

Getty / Futurism In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating tool, Kiro, over third-party alternatives from competitors. “While we continue to support existing tools in use today, we do not plan to support additional third party, AI development tools,” the memo read, as quoted by Reuters at the time. “As part of our builder community, you all play a critical role shaping these products an

Darren Cullen An artist in London plastered fake OpenAI ads inside city subway cars calling attention to ChatGPT’s close ties to a series of youth suicides. The artist Darren Cullen, a Banksy-like figure who has conducted many similar “subvertising” campaigns before, posted photos of the faux advertisements on X-formerly-Twitter. The fake ads reflect OpenAI’s minimal black-and-white style, and are affixed with OpenAI’s logo next to text reading “ChatGPT.”

A snapshot from an AI-generated wildlife video A video is circulating on social media in which a leopard enters the backyard of a house where a child is playing, and a cat confronts the leopard and scares it away, protecting the child. The video has garnered over a million "likes" and has been shared more than 15,000 times. Another series of videos shows bears or deer jumping on a trampoline in a backyard. In another, three raccoons float down a river ridi

Nvidia’s latest GPU driver introduces its new AI-based upscaling technique for making lower-resolution videos streamed offline look better on a high-resolution display. Now available via the GeForce driver 531.18 released on Tuesday, Nvidia’s RTX Video Super Resolution (VSR) successfully cleaned up some of the edges and blockiness of a 480p and 1080p video I watched on Chrome using a 3080 Ti laptop GPU-powered system, but there are caveats. By Nvidia’s mea

4chan users who have made a game out of exploiting popular AI image generators appear to be at least partly responsible for the flood of fake images sexualizing Taylor Swift that went viral last month. Graphika researchers—who study how communities are manipulated online—traced the fake Swift images to a 4chan message board that’s “increasingly” dedicated to posting “offensive” AI-generated content, The New York Times reported. Fans of the message board ta