Archive: May 2018

In the Overcooked video game, players work to cook and deliver as much onion soup as possible. In the study’s version of the game, one player can give onions to help the other who has further to travel to make the soup. The research team wanted to find out if AI systems could learn altruism by watching different cultural groups play the game. Credit: PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0337914 Artificial intelligence systems absorb values from their

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after years of search dominance, the company has lost a major antitrust case that could reshape both it and the web. The closing arguments in the case just wrapped up last week, and Google could be facing serious consequences when the ruling comes down in August. Losi

Shutterstock / Futurism The majority of Americans are harboring some apocalyptic fears about AI. According to a new Politico poll that surveyed over 2,000 adults, about two thirds of the American public believes there’s now at least a “moderate” chance that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Intriguingly, the prevalence of this view extends across political lines, with only slight variation. Americans who voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential e

Now that it’s looking like Chrome will remain in the Google fold, the browser is undergoing a Gemini-infused rebirth. Google claims the browser will see its most significant upgrade ever in the next few weeks as AI permeates every part of the experience. For people who use AI tools, some of these additions might actually be helpful, and for everyone else, well, Firefox still exists. The most prominent change, and one that AI subscribers may have already se

Published on October 13, 2026 at 09:30 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © 01net After fourteen months of reorganization and tens of billions of dollars invested, Meta unveils Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, new AIs designed to rival the best ChatGPT and Claude models. With these two high-performing models, Meta is making a strong comeback in the race for artificial intelligence. Meta wants to play with the big boys. This Monday, October 12, the American group unveiled

A man who lost over $308,000 making sports wagers on Kalshi is suing the prediction market for violating the state of Washington’s ban on online gambling. He’s trying to turn those losses into an overall victory with a lawsuit seeking a payment of over $580,000. Bellevue, Washington, resident Scott Bright’s “wagering occurred at a time when it was unlawful in Washington and when the Washington Attorney General had already sued KalshiEX LLC in this Court al

Table of Contents ITU Plenary Assembly: Southern Countries Demand Participation in AI More or Less Internet Regulation? Fairness in Orbit German Candidate Since Monday, the plenary assembly of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has been meeting in Doha. Every four years, it sets the work programme of the UN organization responsible for telecommunications. The agenda includes artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and satellite services. C

Shueisha issued a statement through its official X account on June 29 concerning the issue of the “Newly Illustrated Meta Knight Card,” a giveaway distributed by bookstores from July 1 at the summer comic fair “Natsukomi 2026,” having been listed at high prices on flea-market apps before distribution began. The statement reported that it had “confirmed” listings on flea-market apps. It explained, among other things, that the signature on the card was “prin

Founded in 2024 on the basis of research done in Macquarie University in Sydney, the Australian startup deploys thousands of AI agents that masquerade as innocent victims. The agents can answer scam calls, respond to shady messages and emails, follow phishing links, and join social media groups to bait fraudsters. They pretend to be people of all stripes, sporting different ages, genders, and accents, and speak various languages as they try to keep scammer

OpenAI's millennium proof dispute raises the question of whether researchers can trust AI labs Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Sep 9, 2026 Key Points In the dispute over AI-generated evidence for a mathematical Millennium Problem, researcher Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI of using his drafts, pressuring him, and rejecting his co-author Levent Alpöge—who is employed by Anthropic—as an author. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and resea

ChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI's Images 2.6 model Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 4, 2026 ChatGPT can now create animated GIFs. The update is based on OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model and is rolling out to all ChatGPT and Codex users on web, desktop, and mobile apps, The Verge reports. Users can generate a GIF from a text prompt or uploaded photo, then adjust animation speed or ed

Andrej Karpathy built a curated video platform in a weekend using Claude and 20 years of Hacker News Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 8, 2026 Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and current Anthropic AI researcher, built HackerTube over a weekend using Claude's Opus 5.5 model. Claude filtered 43 million comments from 20 years of Hacker News and distilled them into 6,454 videos that keep getting recommended there. The result

We’ve developed a simple meta-learning algorithm called Reptile which works by repeatedly sampling a task, performing stochastic gradient descent on it, and updating the initial parameters towards the final parameters learned on that task. Reptile is the application of the Shortest Descent algorithm to the meta-learning setting, and is mathematically similar to first-order MAML (which is a version of the well-known MAML algorithm) that only needs black-box