Archive: January 2018

After rumors swirled that TikTok owner ByteDance had lost tens of millions after an intern sabotaged its AI models, ByteDance issued a statement this weekend hoping to silence all the social media chatter in China. In a social media post translated and reviewed by Ars, ByteDance clarified “facts” about “interns destroying large model training” and confirmed that one intern was fired in August. According to ByteDance, the intern had held a position in the c

Making such changes alone takes a tremendous amount of time. In this situation, AI tools proved useful by helping me refactor the code and modernize the project in a much shorter time.This article describes how the project changed, how ChatGPT and Cursor were used, and what problems had to be addressed.Description of the demonstrations and physics theoryThe current version of the projectThe updated project can be viewed here. A website with the demonstrati

On Thursday, a digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, published an expansive investigation into AI-generated police reports that the group alleged are, by design, nearly impossible to audit and could make it easier for cops to lie under oath. Axon’s Draft One debuted last summer at a police department in Colorado, instantly raising questions about the feared negative impacts of AI-written police reports on the criminal justice system. Th

Shutterstock / Futurism As programmers make more and more use of generative AI in the workplace, their responsibilities are quickly transitioning from creating new products from scratch to babysitting a large language model that cobbles together code. It’s gotten to the point where some engineers are no longer able to make sense of the code being spat out by an AI, as chip optimization software company Infinity founder Jeremy Nixon told Business Insider. T

There’s a chasm running through the heart of the global tech industry. On the one hand there are companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google building proprietary (or “closed”) AI models—systems whose training data and source code are accessible only to their owners. On the other are open-weight models, which can be freely accessed and modified by developers. And while the latter has been championed by powerful tech executives like Mark Zuckerberg and Jens

Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies. Musk—who filed the lawsuit alleging that OpenAI under its current leadership has abandoned its nonprofit mission to build AI that benefits humanity and instead serves to enrich people like Altman—spent three grueling days o

The earliest arrests under the Take It Down Act (TIDA) suggest that cops don’t have to work too hard to identify people illegally posting and selling nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes of women online. Last week, the FBI arrested two men after visiting porn websites and clicking on hashtags like #AI #Deepfakes or video titles like “AI_tits” or “Ass_AI.” One suspect accused of violating TIDA was 20-year-old Arturo Hernandez. He allegedly posted 113 albums v

Published on October 23, 2026 at 12:30 Comment 15 𝕏 Print © 01net Investigators are trying to find the suspects in the looting that took place on October 17. To help them, they have a powerful tool developed by a French startup. It enables them to track looters through tons of video footage. In the aftermath of the looting on October 17 and 18, the police’s priority was to track down and find the looters and vandals. Tools were made available to them, incl

Microscopic image of an ultralow-noise prototype device made from a tantalum-based nanowire with several metal electrodes. The scale bar is 1 micrometer. Credit: Balandin Lab/UCLA That low-frequency fuzz that can bedevil cellphone calls has to do with how electrons move through and interact in materials at the smallest scale. The electronic flicker noise is often caused by interruptions in the flow of electrons by various scattering processes in the metals

Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” on Tuesday, a feature it first launched on Instagram. The new tool allows Facebook users to influence the content they see in Feed and Reels by describing their preferences in their own words using natural language. Rather than relying entirely on automated recommendations, users can now communicate directly with the platform about the topics and content they want to see more or les

“These were kind of the ‘Gen 1’ AI products, and because of my background, these companies called me and asked me to help them,” Fadell said. “I didn’t.” It’s no surprise that these companies want Fadell’s advice. He’s credited as the “father of the iPod,” a co-creator of the iPhone, and the founder of Nest, the smart thermostat company acquired by Google. “You have to really understand what you’re trying to do, what pain you’re trying to solve,” he said.

Olivia Moore covers consumer AI as a partner at Andreessen Horowitz — and on Monday, she released a report on the top 100 consumer AI apps. ChatGPT is still the biggest player by a mile, but smaller players like Suno and ElevenLabs are showing real staying power. Even more interesting is what we don’t see, as Moore’s report details half a dozen consumer categories that seem to be completely untouched by AI. Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, par

In Mayer’s case, that involved asking an AI tool for help with a school-assigned description of her daughter. For OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, that’s included suggesting that parents create personalized podcasts for their kids’ drive to school and also declaring that he could not imagine parenting without ChatGPT. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has even suggested that it will become increasingly acceptable to meet your social and romantic needs through AI. This all le

“I spend about maybe $100[,000] to $200,000 a year on tokens,” he told Isaacson. He uses agents for countless work projects and coding tasks and has freely shared his set of 23 Claude Code skills, called gstack, on GitHub — an effort to help teach others what agents can do, he said. On the one hand, he uses his agent the way many people use AI: to help him research Isaacson’s podcast and prep for the kinds of questions he might be asked. On the other, his

Synced reports The owner went to sleep, but at 4 a.m., Claude got busy mixing paints all by itself. Late on the night of November 6 in Berlin, developer nil (@dhvanil) left a note for the Claude at home before going to bed: “Paint an autumn tree.” Then they turned off the lights, got into bed, and expected no miracles. In the studio, only the robotic arm remained, quietly moving up and down. A dark brown trunk slowly took shape on the paper, while the pale

@geolin878Why Does AI Mention Competitors but Skip You?geoSEOAI0Posted at 2026-11-09When AI doesn’t mention you, it’s usually not because your product is inadequate; it’s because your information hasn’t made it into its “corpus.” GEO—Generative Engine Optimization—is designed to address precisely this: giving AI a reason to include you when answering relevant questions. Below is the explanation in a practical, actionable order. 1. First, understand how AI