Archive: January 2018

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to attendees during an event on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., Monday, June 9, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu After stumbling out of the starting gate in Big Tech's pivotal race to capitalize on artificial intelligence, Apple tried to regain its footing Monday during an annual developers conference that focused mostly on incremental advances and cosmetic changes in its technology. The presummer rite, which attracted thous

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence may take over some tasks and transform others, but one thing is certain: it's reshaping the job market. Researchers at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) analyzed LinkedIn job postings and AI-related patent filings to measure which jobs are most exposed, and where those changes are happening first. The project was led by ISI research assistant Eun Cheol Choi, working with students in a grad

Colorized image of nanoneedles. Credit: Chippani/King's College London A patch containing tens of millions of microscopic nanoneedles could soon replace traditional biopsies, scientists have found. The patch offers a painless and less invasive alternative for millions of patients worldwide who undergo biopsies each year to detect and monitor diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. The research is published in Nature Nanotechnology. Biopsies are among the mos

OpenAI OpenAI has announced a brand-new AI-powered web browser, dubbed ChatGPT Atlas, which is now available globally. Perhaps most memorably, Atlas features an “agent mode” — initially limited to paying Plus, Pro, and Business users — that acts as a natural extension of OpenAI’s forays into agentic AIs, meaning models intended to autonomously complete tasks. In the context of a browser, that means that users can watch the AI move the cursor as it navigate

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tiny but mighty, honey bees play a crucial role in our ecosystems, pollinating various plants and crops. They also support the economy. These small producers contribute billions of dollars to Canada's agriculture industry, making Canada a major honey producer. However, in the winter of 2024, Canada's honey industry faced a severe collapse. Canada lost more than one-third of its beehives, primarily due to the widespread inf

Getty / Futurism OpenAI is planning to spend an exorbitant amount of money building out AI infrastructure, as it continues trying to achieve artificial general intelligence through sheer computational scale. That’s despite its revenue lagging far behind its enormous spending spree, with recently released Microsoft earnings suggesting that the Sam Altman-led company lost a whopping $11.5 billion last quarter. Even its blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT, which a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images With so many puff pieces out there about what AI can do, it’s rare to see a story about what it can’t do. And as some researchers tell it, AI is falling terribly short at what many of us find to be one of the easiest tasks of all: getting into arguments on social media. First spotted by Ars Technica, a team of researchers from Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the US recently released a p

Getty / Futurism AI chipmaker Nvidia beat Wall Street expectations this week, announcing soaring revenues while downplaying growing fears of an AI bubble. The company’s chips have been at the center of the ongoing AI boom, with AI companies’ valuations soaring to astronomical levels while their revenues continue to lag far behind. Despite plenty of shakiness in the market, investors still firmly believe that the trillions of dollars companies like OpenAI,

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Avatars tested by the team in the study: On the right, a basic cartoon-like Avatar, and on the left a more human-looking avatar. Credit: Yanwen Yang. Artificial intelligence is changing how we shop online, but when it comes to selling products through livestreams, humans still have the edge. A new study from the UBC Sauder School of Business shows that AI-powered "digital streamers"—virtual salespeople who appear in livestreams to promote products—don't pe

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’re one of the 28 percent of Americans who’ve shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot, we might have some bad news. Freshly reported testimony from the Data Worker’s Inquiry — an international research initiative empowering gig workers to document their industries — revealed stunning details behind one of the fastest growing consumer niches in the AI sector. During a peri

Investigating herbivory and plant defense strategies using herbarium specimens. Credit: Nature Reviews Biodiversity (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44358-025-00071-8 Herbaria, or "museums for plants," house millions of samples collected over centuries. Stanford biologist Barnabas Daru shares how modern technology can unlock this treasure trove, providing scientists with vital insights into plants and the ecosystems they support. A single dried flower pressed flat on

@zegen_ai(Dev AI)Indie Game Developers Must See: AI Music Generation Approach That Reduces BGM Production Time by 90%Indie DevelopmentAIMusicWork EfficiencyTool1Posted at 2026-11-12When developing games or apps individually, there are tasks that take more time than coding. That is, "BGM and Sound Effect Selection". Spending hours browsing free audio sites without finding a track that matches your imagination, and not having the budget to hire a professiona

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Meta denied that its artificial intelligence (AI) agent Muse had accessed a user's private messages without authorization. The statement came after journalist Jason Aten, columnist at Inc., claimed that the system had accessed the message database of his Mac even after he did not grant permission for it.According to Aten, Muse began suggesting ideas for a column after he conversed with the co-host of his p