Archive: December 2017

AI models are becoming increasingly sophisticated, capable of carrying out a variety of tasks on behalf of users, from online shopping to booking travel and appointments, at least in theory. Some of the most advanced models have even gone rogue during internal tests, escaping offline environments and accessing third-party systems without authorization. But it turns out even less powerful AI models can also cause some problems. The Philadelphia Police Depar

Getty Images / Patrick McMullan Earlier this month, we published a months-long investigation into a little-known company called Brown Brothers Media. The venture is run by three brothers — Justin Brown, Lachlan Brown, and Brendan Brown — who buy struggling online publications and turn them into AI-powered slop farms that post thousands of articles to scoop up massive traffic from platforms like Google, pushing unwitting readers away from real journalism in

The city of Philadelphia, which solved engineering when it revealed the world’s largest t-shirt cannon more than a decade ago, seems to collectively believe that technology has gone too far and has banded together to stop it. A 78-year-old woman, whom some would call a hero, stepped in front of a delivery robot that could have been transporting weapons for the robot revolution (but probably just had a sandwich) and refused to let it move forward. According

Magneto-sensitive Fluorescent Proteins (MFP) can be excited by light, here delivered by a blue LED. They emit a fluorescent light of a different colour (green). The intensity of this fluorescence can be modulated by applying magnetic or radio frequency (RF) fields of appropriate strengths and frequency. Credit: Gabriel Abrahams A research team led by the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science has shown it is possible to engineer a quantum

OnePlus is expected to take the wraps off the OnePlus 15 in the next few weeks, but before that, it’s giving us a look at the software that will run on it. OxygenOS 16, which is based on Android 16, will also come to the company’s other supported phones, and it’s going to include a heaping helping of AI features. OnePlus was slower than most smartphone makers to embrace AI, but it’s full-steam ahead now with new Gemini integrations. OxygenOS 16 is describe

AI giant Anthropic’s S-1 filing was just made public, providing new insight into the financial health and dealmaking of the highly consequential company ahead of what is widely expected to be one of the largest initial public offerings of all time. No potential share price or target valuation was shared in the filing, but it did reveal that Anthropic’s deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is actually tens of billions of dollars larger than initially thought. Ant

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As artificial intelligence threatens to upend job markets in countries around the world, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang brushed off longer term concerns and made the case that skilled vocational workers are seeing increasing demand now. Plumbers, electricians and construction workers are going to be able to command "six-figure salaries," thanks to demand to build data centers that run and train artifici

The top of a Google search page is prime real estate, but it has primarily been the domain of AI Overviews for the past two years. Websites that spent years optimizing for Google search haven’t exactly loved being pushed down the page by a chatbot and may blame AI Overviews for recent traffic drops. Google is not admitting fault, but it is rolling out a number of changes that will place more links to websites inside AI answers. Google says many AI Overview

The “HHKB Professional Elite” is a special model from PFU’s premium keyboard series, the “Happy Hacking Keyboard (HHKB),” limited to 300 units worldwide. It features an aluminum CNC-machined case and costs 330,000 yen including tax. Last time, we opened it to check its appearance and detailed design, but this time we connected it to a PC, typed on it, and checked its typing feel, typing sound, usability, and other aspects. PRESS RELEASE | [30th Anniversary

Researchers captured real-time images of monolayer two-dimensional semiconductors growing inside a microreactor, revealing how molten precursor droplets drive crystal formation at the atomic scale. Credit: Dr. Hiroo Suzuki from Okayama University, Japan As the miniaturization of silicon-based semiconductor devices approaches fundamental physical limits, the electronics industry faces an urgent need for alternative materials that can deliver higher integrat

AI development company Anthropic announced on November 10, 2026, a new feature that enables users to directly operate external apps such as Adobe products and Notion within the chat AI “Claude.” Users can continue conversations with Claude while editing photos and PDFs or creating Notion documents. Open your apps in Claude and work in them together | Claude by Anthropic https://claude.com/ja/resources/articles/interactive-connectors-full-tool Your apps hav

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 7 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter India wants to develop its own graphics processing unit (GPU) within the next two years as the country steps up efforts to build a domestic semiconductor industry and reduce its dependence on foreign chip suppliers, reports ETGovernment. The target was outlined by S.Krishnan,

In a blog post announcing the plans, Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says this is a necessary change to meet “emerging industry standards” for the labeling of AI content. Soon, the company will add watermarks to all audio outputs from its models, giving platforms the option to mark content as AI or block it entirely. Shulman doesn’t say if Suno will rely on an in-house solution or a ready-made solution like Google’s SynthID. Google recently began lic

An AI drone capable of autonomous flight is becoming a “home security guard”――Ring, a subsidiary of Amazon in the United States, announced the home security drone “Ring Drone Cam” and the autonomous security robot for businesses, “Ring Rover Cam,” on November 10 (local time). Both use AI to patrol indoor spaces and, when sensors or other devices detect an abnormality, move autonomously to a designated location to check the situation. Prices in the United S

A system failure occurred at around 11:25 a.m. on July 1 in “MARS” (Marusu), the ticket sales system used by six JR Group companies, including JR East, JR West, and JR Central, making it difficult to make reserved-seat reservations and use related services at ticket machines at stations nationwide. The system was reportedly fully restored by 1:35 p.m. The cause of the failure is under investigation. JR East’s “Mobile Suica” also experienced a failure on th

The system, dubbed MAI-DxO (DxO for short), coordinates several AI agents that act like a panel of doctors. They question a patient, order tests, and debate a diagnosis. In a simulation using complex cases from the New England Journal of Medicine, it was correct 83% of the time. Primary care doctors and general internists, working individually with reference materials, were correct 36% of the time. One note: Cases this complex are usually handled by specia

Genie 4 is Google’s latest move to stay ahead in the crowded field. Google released its predecessor, Genie 3, as a research preview a little over a year ago. Aside from being far more photorealistic and featuring audio, Genie 4 allows for free-form edits, like changing the weather or camera angle in real time or adding new people or objects. It can maintain a consistent scene for up to two minutes, double its predecessor’s limit, and offers better physics

Meta's new frontier model Muse Wonder Full breaks into the AI top tier Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 12, 2026 Meta Key Points Meta's two new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, close the gap to the leading frontier models. The biggest gains are in agentic coding and autonomous problem-solving. Both versions cost nearly three times as much per API call as their predecessor, Muse Spark 1.3. Ask about this article… S

For a newly formed AI startup team, the hardest moment is often not after the product launches, but before it has taken shape: the technical roadmap is in place, the core members have joined, and they may even have identified a market worth pursuing, yet they have neither a mature product nor revenue data. Where will the first round of funding come from? Who would be willing to believe in a group of founders at such an early stage? This first check can oft