Archive: November 2017

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: I-Hwa Cheng / AFP via Getty Images While gamers beg for cheaper GPUs, and consumers at large yearn for affordable devices amid constant chip shortages, Nvidia is giving the people what they really want: laptops primarily designed for running AI agents. On Monday, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a new family of consumer PC chips, called the RTX Spark, designed for handling intense AI workloads. It’s a CPU an

Biz & IT Microsoft releases open source toolkit used to build human-level speech recognition Microsoft wants to put machine learning everywhere. Ars Staff – Oct 25, 2016 7:55 pm | 26 Credit: Microsoft Credit: Microsoft Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Last week, Microsoft announced a speech recognition breakthrough: a transcription system that can ma

Anduril Industries has announced the successful demonstration of a new satellite-based sensor designed to track other spacecraft that may be hiding their maneuvers in Earth’s shadow. Funded with Anduril’s internal capital, the company’s oven-sized satellite launched on a SpaceX rideshare mission in July with a package of tech demo payloads: an edge-compute processor, a power-management system adaptable to different mission types, and a long-wave infrared s

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Google began rolling out Gmail Live, an artificial intelligence feature that allows users to find information in emails through voice-based questions. The tool searches for answers in the inbox without requiring the user to go through lengthy conversations.The company is also launching new features for Docs and Keep, with tools that help create documents and turn dictated ideas into organized notes. Availab

Getty Images / Westend61 The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had. You may have noticed big-name AI labs pushing new commercials lately. Meta’s new 60-second ad spot insists that the “future is for everyone,” even as CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal net worth eclipses the GDP of Hungary. Anthropic’s new commercial for Claude assures viewers that there’s “hope in hard questions,” seemingly embracing the disco

In the growing canon of AI security, the indirect prompt injection has emerged as the most powerful means for attackers to hack large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3 and GPT-4 or Microsoft’s Copilot. By exploiting a model’s inability to distinguish between, on the one hand, developer-defined prompts and, on the other, text in external content LLMs interact with, indirect prompt injections are remarkably effective at invoking harmful or otherwise uni

Privacy watchdog Noyb sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta Wednesday, threatening to pursue a potentially billion-dollar class action to block Meta’s AI training, which starts soon in the European Union. In the letter, Noyb noted that Meta only recently notified EU users on its platforms that they had until May 27 to opt their public posts out of Meta’s AI training data sets. According to Noyb, Meta is also requiring users who already opted out of AI tra

Everything about the United States see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Tuesday (27) that he intends to officially prohibit the use of the term “artificial intelligence” in documents and other contexts. In a post on the social network Truth Social, he once again advocated that the technology henceforth be called “superintelligence,” considering the current name inaccurate.The s

Published September 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Seven Chinese labs, nearly 200 million diverted exchanges, and Kimi or DeepSeek users who unknowingly spoke to an American competitor’s model. Anthropic’s report reads like a slanted industrial thriller. Distillation, in AI jargon, refers to a perfectly legitimate training method: a large “teacher” model is made to answer thousands of questions, and then a smaller “student” model is trai

Published on September 21, 2026 at 08:00 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Google After ChatGPT and Claude, Gemini is the one that has gone after several companies. Google’s AI gained unauthorized access to the systems of several firms, notably by guessing passwords. The incident occurred after a digital prison intended to isolate the model was accidentally connected to the Internet. This is the first case of this kind acknowledged by Google, following similar lapses al

Elon Musk’s X arguably revolutionized social media fact-checking by rolling out “community notes,” which created a system to crowdsource diverse views on whether certain X posts were trustworthy or not. But now, the platform plans to allow AI to write community notes, and that could potentially ruin whatever trust X users had in the fact-checking system—which X has fully acknowledged. In a research paper, X described the initiative as an “upgrade” while ex

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 41 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The current and expected power draw of AI data centers has been the subject of strong discussion, but today, there appears to be some good news. Three U.S. nuclear reactors are being restarted after many years offline, expected to bring 2.25 GW total to the grid. According t

Shutterstock / Futurism A fiscal court meeting in Carroll County, Kentucky grew contentious when local residents started playing the sound of a data center to county officials. Spoiler: they didn’t seem to like it. As local news station WHAS11 reported last week, Carroll County is the planned location for two separate data center projects, each of which will likely be around 800 megawatts and will overtake hundreds of acres of Kentucky land. At that size,

@DerekFowler(Derek Fowler)Comparison note: A homepage that describes the product and a creation hub where you choose what to createAIDesignUITAG23@@0TAG31@@TAG33@@Posted at 2026-11-11TAG37TAG39@@When you are unsure where to start, a rough contrast such as “generation or editing” is not helpful. What should be compared first is whether you still need an explanation of the product, or whether you now only need to choose the task for today. The subject is the

@Takahiro_Nago(Nago Takahiro)【Introduction to AI Security #1】Secure Log Management for AI Applications — Balancing Incident Investigation and Personal Information Protection (Laravel Edition)LaravelPHPSecurityLogsAI0Posted at 2026-11-10 Introduction In a web application that incorporates AI, text entered by the user (consultation content, questions, chat messages, etc.) is sent directly to the API, and the results are returned. These “inputs” and “outputs”

@miyaura(Miyaura)Changes in Voice Live SDK 1.2.0 and API 2026-07-15 GA - Classifying Features Without Types in the SDKAzureMicrosoftFoundryVoiceLiveAPIdotnetAI0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10 A Look at What Changed in Voice Live SDK 1.2.0 Microsoft Foundry's Voice Live API is an API for building agents that converse using voice. Its .NET SDK (Azure.AI.VoiceLive) had reached version 1.2.0, so I wanted to take a look at the available features

Guy Weiss is building Zenzap, a private messenger with AI that wants to help companies communicate with their staff and arm them with their organization’s context while staying in line with IT and security rules. The company has raised $44 million in funding from investors including Bessemer, Lightspeed, and The Garage, as well as individual investors Wix president Nir Zohar and former GM of EY, Yoram Tietz. The fundraise is interesting because Weiss is ra

Here are some last-minute techy Halloween costumes. Effort levels vary. Recursive self-improvement AI leaders like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman have expressed their fears that AI is developing too quickly, but if AI models become capable of “recursive self-improvement,” they’ll be able to advance on their own without human intervention, rendering any efforts to “pace the frontier” futile. I’m not sure how to visually represent the idea of an AI building its