Archive: April 2018

Amini AI chief Kate Kallot sees opportunity in every day emerging-world challenges. Away from the heady rush to build ultra-capable, sci-fi style artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, ambitious Nairobi-based startup Amini AI is betting on the technology addressing emerging countries' prosaic problems in the here and now. Chief executive Kate Kallot aims for Amini—still a relatively small firm with $6 million in funding and 25 employees—to become "the

Kevin O’Leary came to Utah with a pitch: He gets 40,000 acres of their land, and they get an ugly, energy-guzzling data center that creates minimal long-term jobs. Utahans said, “I’m out,” but the Shark Tank star isn’t taking no for an answer. Instead, he’s claiming that it’s actually the Chinese Communist Party behind the pushback against his data center project, despite a Washington Post report finding little to no evidence to back those claims. The data

In recent years, data compression or distillation approaches have garnered widespread attention. By compressing large-scale datasets into compact, representative subsets, these methods facilitate rapid model training, efficient data storage, and the preservation of vital information from the original dataset. However, existing solutions primarily excel at compressing low-resolution smaller datasets due to significant computational overhead demands. In a ne

Versatile deployment options – including on-premises and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) configurations – ensure enterprise-grade security and HIPAA compliance, which is crucial for meeting UK data protection regulations.“Speech-to-text for enterprise use cases is not trivial, and there is a fundamental difference between voice AI platforms designed for enterprise use cases vs entertainment use cases,” said Kevin Fredrick, Managing Partner at OneReach.ai. “Dee

Access to real-time and historical news data is important in today’s digital landscape. Businesses, developers, and analysts rely on news API data feeds to gather structured insights from various sources, ranging from global news outlets and blogs, to forums and social media. APIs help integrate content into applications and workflows, enabling decision-making and scalable solutions.What are news API data feeds?News API data feeds are platforms that aggreg

The Ateneo de Manila University's Student Enterprise Center houses a variety of student-led food stalls, an ideal test bed for AI-assisted tools aimed at empowering small businesses. Credit: Ccai Llamas / The Guidon The Ateneo de Manila University's Business Insights Laboratory for Development (BUILD) is looking at ways for artificial intelligence (AI) to augment and enhance—rather than replace—human labor in small businesses, which make up the bulk of the

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When your boss insists you to start using AI for your job, do you cave to their demands, or resist using the tech? The reality is that if you’re in a position where you have to ask, you may be doomed either way. We suggest you learn from the experience of Kevin Cantera, a man from Las Cruces, New Mexico, who “willingly embraced AI for work” after he and his colleagues were encouraged to u

When Pope Leo XIV issued Magnifica Humanitas, his 43,000-word encyclical calling for people to maintain and protect human dignity in the face of artificial intelligence, some in the AI world started to allege that the head of the Catholic Church used AI to write the document, accusing him of hypocrisy. While the Vatican never really acknowledged the allegations, it has since gone out of its way to discredit them. According to The Guardian, Magnifica Humani

Getty / Futurism Even the tech industry’s top AI models, created with billions of dollars in funding, are astonishingly easy to “jailbreak,” or trick into producing dangerous responses they’re prohibited from giving — like explaining how to build bombs, for example. But some methods are both so ludicrous and simple that you have to wonder if the AI creators are even trying to crack down on this stuff. You’re telling us that deliberately inserting typos is

Let’s talk about Jensen Huang’s many affairs!What a week today has been!Part OfNvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned. What happens next?see all updates is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.Usually, we’d be offering to answer your questions about a news event, but honestly we don’t really have any answers about what the hell is going on over

The co-founder of Twitter fires half of his employees due to AI and warns that the others will do the same Published on February 27, 2026 at 11:28 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print Jack Dorsey in Washington in 2018. © Mark Warner (Wikimedia) The CEO of the financial company Bloack has just made a historic decision. The company cuts 40% of its workforce by fully embracing a radical shift towards automation. Artificial intelligence is already disrupting the job market, pa

The column "Innovative Tech," which started in 2019, selects and explains cutting-edge research papers from a wide range of fields around the world with its own perspective. The writing is done by Mr. Yamashita, who runs the research paper media "Seamless" (シームレス) and reads through numerous papers daily. Illustrations and comics are created by the artist One, affiliated with the same media. X：＠shiropen2

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after he admitted to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, raising concerns about U.S. national security and the motives behind the executive’s support for softer chip export controls on China. Huang has been a staunch supporter of open source AI, framing the ecosystem as good for safety, innovation, diffusion, and sovereignty. And as frontier AI labs increasingly move to reduce their reliance on Nvidia and build

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images We’re learning more about the guy who allegedly lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house late last week — and as we do, he’s sounding less like a spur-of-the moment crank and more like a time traveler who caught a glimpse of a coming dystopia. The incident unfolded last Friday before dawn, when Daniel Moreno-Gama is alleged to have attempted to firebomb the tech CEO’s Sa

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The debate raging about AI’s future consequences, with a complete AI automation apocalypse on one side and a resplendent AI utopia on the other, has overlooked one tiny detail: the tech is already making workers’ lives hell at this very minute. According to the Guardian, at least one-third of UK employers already report using “bossware,” meaning employee monitoring software increasingly i

Shutterstock / Futurism We’ve already seen AI go rogue on numerous occasions. Now, new research suggests that we can expect this to become the norm. The AI research nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) recently released a study conducted between February and March of this year, aimed at determining just how likely frontier AI models could go rogue. If you’re given to anxiety about the future of AI, the results are unlikely to make you feel