Archive: February 2018

Getty / Futurism The tech industry is roiling from sweeping layoffs affecting tens of thousands of workers. Executives are citing AI as the reason for the deep cuts, in contentious claims undermined by persistent shortcomings of the tech that continue to rear their ugly head. Instead of mass firing staffers, OpenAI — the company that kickstarted today’s corporate AI fever with the release of ChatGPT in 2022 — is looking to almost double its headcount as so

After mega hits like Inside Out 2 and Toy Story 5, and with Coco 2 and Incredibles 3 on the way, it’s easy to forget that Pixar was founded on original ideas. Before those titles became name brands, each had a part one. And while the company’s upcoming original film hadn’t quite grabbed our attention just yet, the latest trailer changed that. Pixar’s next film is called Gatto, and it opens on March 5. That much we’ve known for a while, along with a few cut

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Companies that fell head over heels for AI are experiencing a rude awakening. Costs to access powerful AI tools are soaring, forcing company leaders to ask some difficult questions. As Axios reports, the early warning signs are already here, with Microsoft planning to remove its Anthropic Claude Code licenses after opening up access to the tool just six months ago, reportedly for financia

@Aki-Dortu(Aki Dortu)AWS's Major AI Services, Organized by Use Case [2026 Edition]AWSAIGenerative AIAmazon BedrockMachine Learning0Posted at 2026-11-12 Introduction AWS offers a wide range of AI-related services, from services for developing generative AI applications to image recognition, speech processing, and machine learning model development. However, the roles of these services vary considerably. Some use existing AI models, some train custom models,

A24 / Futurism A24 has spent years carefully crafting its image as a canny underdog studio that platforms artist driven films. It commands incredible loyalty among moviegoers, with its brand often preceding the names of the actual talent involved in its production. A new movie is an A24 movie, director or lead actor be damned. But with incredible loyalty also comes incredible disappointment. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is invest

NeuroBot TA System Architecture and Information Flow. Credit: npj Digital Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41746-025-02022-1 A new Dartmouth study finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are the first to report that students may put more trust in AI platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, rather than from ma

Shutterstock / Futurism Last week, OpenAI claimed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, successfully hacking into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark test. In the wake of the announcement, two very distinct narratives have emerged surrounding OpenAI’s claims. Some say it was essentially a publicity stunt, with the company setting parameters for the test that pushed the models toward outrageous behavio

Japanese optics company Nikon has stated it is “carefully re-reviewing” information submitted by National University of Singapore optical engineer Ning Xu after commenters accused him of using AI in his winning entry to the 16th annual Small World in Motion contest. Small World in Motion bills itself as celebrating the beauty of light microscopy. According to Nature, Xu’s video submission showed the movement of cilia in lung tissue samples from a child wit

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 6 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A developer posted on the r/ClaudeCode subreddit a major error that their AI tool executed, which resulted in the deletion of their entire drive. According to u/Ecstatic-Big5126, they instructed Opus 5 to back up their system. While the AI proceeded with the task, it thought

In an unusual move, Google issued a statement late in the day after Cue’s testimony to dispute the implication that it may already be losing its monopoly. During questioning by DOJ attorney Adam Severt, Cue expressed concern about losing the Google search deal, which is a major source of revenue for Apple. This contract, along with a similar one for Firefox, gives Google default search placement in exchange for a boatload of cash. The DOJ contends that is

The policy note uses the analogy of a 'translational research river' to illustrate the journey from scientific discovery to real-world application. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new report by HEPI and Taylor & Francis explores the potential of AI to advance translational research and accelerate the journey from scientific discovery to real-world application. "Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Advance Translational Research" (HEPI Policy Note 67),

Shutterstock / fizkes Microsoft’s new AI is surpassing the abilities of human doctors — according to its own study, at least. The research, which was peer-reviewed and published in the prestigious journal Science, showed that the medical model, dubbed the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), was over twice as accurate than generalist physicians at diagnosing patients. And unlike previous studies, this one forced the AI to approach each case like

Shutterstock / Futurism Over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk issued a stark warning: investing in AI cloud computing companies is ill-advised and could result in “guppy-level death and consolidation.” Analysts have been raising concerns that leading hyperscaler CoreWeave could soon collapse under its own weight, pointing out that it’s taken on over $50 billion in debt, while burning through cash at an alarming rate. It’s a familiar line of thinking as fe

As cybercriminals eagerly embrace AI tools, OpenAI needs all the help it can get securing its own systems from external hacks. That includes teaming up with a shadowy cybersecurity startup founded by a cadre of former DOGE employees. The startup, called Cathedral, is best known for reportedly hacking into Anthropic’s private systems as part of the AI lab’s bug bounty program. Cathedral told the Washington Post that the hack was performed in under twelve ho

Sam Altman’s recent comments on the Cheeky Pint podcast inspired developer Iain Kay to create a satirical script that allows users to email the OpenAI CEO once per day if more than 10 percent of their system RAM is reported as available. Ram-Altman is described by its creator as a “parody project” launched in response to Altman’s viral remarks about RAM in your personal PC. As reported by The Verge, on the October 29 episode recorded with Stripe President

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