Archive: November 2017

Organelle segmentation on different biology samples by the universal lipid staining and deep learning. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57877-5 A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and provide insights into a wide range of diseases. The study, recently published in the journal Nature Communications, unveils an innovative approach that combines super-

SAG-AFTRA signage is seen on the side of the headquarters in Los Angeles on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Richard Vogel,File Unionized video game performers have overwhelmingly voted to approve a new contract with their employers. The vote, whose results were announced Wednesday night by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, ends a nearly three-year-long effort from union negotiators to obtain a new contract

Mario Soto, left, a master's student in the crop, soil and environmental sciences department, and Aurelie Poncet, assistant professor of precision agriculture in the crop, soil and environmental sciences department for the Division of Agriculture and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, demonstrate a piece of equipment used in a study to measure herbicide effectiveness on plants. Credit: U of A System Division of Agriculture By

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As some of us continue to calcify our brains asking ChatGPT to answer an email or blow up our lives for an AI side chick, others are paying hand over fist for it via power bills. Wholesale electricity costs have increased as much as 267 percent since 2020 in areas near data centers, and consumers are emptying their pockets for the power companies. A very granular Bloomberg analysis of who

Conceptualization of ultra-compact coherent silicon photonic links enabling a future disaggregated data center. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01686-1 Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) has come up with an optical chip that can transfer massive amounts of data at ultra-high speed. As thin as a st

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Microsoft really wants you to update to Windows 11 already, and it seemingly thinks that bragging about all the incredible ways it’s stuffing AI into every nook and cranny of its latest operating system will encourage the pesky holdovers still clutching to Windows 10 to finally let go. Actually, saying Microsoft is merely “stuffing” AI into its product might be underselling the scope of i

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Companies going all in on AI could see their strategy backfire Four of the five highest-ranked enterprise risks in Gartner’s Quarterly Emerging Risk Report were AI-related. AI strategy miscalculation and AI-driven competitive displacement debuted at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively. The AI workforce preparedness gap held fifth place. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities and geopolitical energy supply shocks held the top two spots for the second consecutive q

Improved remote sensing model allows for enhanced accuracy. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Remote sensing object detection is a rapidly growing field in artificial intelligence, playing a critical role in advancing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for real-world applications such as disaster response, urban planning, and environmental monitoring. Yet, designing models that balance both high accuracy and fast, lightweight performance remain

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The term artificial intelligence renders the sense that what computers do is either inferior to or at least apart from human intelligence. AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that may not be the case. Agüera y Arcas, Google's CTO of technology and society, traced the evolution of both human and artificial intelligence in ways that seem to mirror each other as part of a Wednesday event sponsored by Harvard Law School's Berkm

Claude Meetings lets Anthropic's AI join your video calls View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 12, 2026 Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a feature that puts Claude into video calls as a visible participant. During a call, Claude can answer questions, generate documents and whiteboards, and log notes and action items, responding in text by default and accessing connected tools when granted permission. All notes, transcripts, and document

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s looking more and more like using AI to churn out work can take a considerable toll on your mental health, despite the tech’s promises of easing workloads. The latest research to illustrate this grim trend: a survey of nearly 1,500 full time US workers, which found that an alarming proportion of employees who constantly use AI at work to push their productivity past their normal capac

Since returning to office in early 2025, Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs that have disrupted nearly every sector of the global economy. Now they’ve found an unlikely new target: artificial intelligence, an industry the president has vowed to protect. According to new reporting from Politico, the Trump administration is discussing a round of tariffs on semiconductors, despite objections from Silicon Valley. Citing anonymous sources, Politico reports that

Getty / Futurism In October, ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced it would be opening the floodgates for “mature apps.” “Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases,” he tweeted at the time. “As part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults,” Altman added. Five months later, an “

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Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaGenome 2. The AI model predicts how DNA changes affect gene activity in different cell types and states. Google hopes to gain insights into disease causes and potential targets for new drugs. Read more after the ad Almost all body cells possess the same DNA. Depending on their function, different genes are active within them. This applies, for example, to heart muscle cells or immune cells that fight infections. How smal

Performance of LMs on the verification (left) and confirmation (right) of first-person belief tasks involving false statements. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01113-8 Large language models (LLMs) may not reliably acknowledge a user's incorrect beliefs, according to a new paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The findings highlight the need for careful use of LLM outputs in high-stakes decisions in areas such a

Credit: Matt Curnock A new study led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) finds that artificial intelligence (AI) models are providing more accurate and more hopeful predictions for the future of coral reefs amid climate change. Findings show that while many reefs face serious risks and degradation, others may remain stable or even recover, especially where local management reduces pressures like overfishing, water pollution, and coastal degradation.