Archive: July 2018

Google’s DeepMind—the group that brought you the champion game-playing AIs AlphaGo and AlphaGoZero—is back with a new, improved, and more-generalized version. Dubbed AlphaZero, this program taught itself to play three different board games (chess, Go, and shogi, a Japanese form of chess) in just three days, with no human intervention. A paper describing the achievement was just published in Science. “Starting from totally random play, AlphaZero gradually l

Published on July 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI OpenAI announces the global rollout of its new AI lineup. Starting this Thursday, the three GPT-5.6 models will be deployed worldwide. The startup ultimately obtained approval from the Trump administration, which was concerned about U.S. national security. Last month, OpenAI discussed the imminent arrival of GPT-5.6, a new update to the AI model behind ChatGPT. The startup also revealed that i

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock For years, AI companies have been selling investors on the idea that scaling up operations is the key to success — the bigger the AI model, the more powerful it becomes. But in practice, that premise is leading to enormous business problems. As The Atlantic points out, LLMs are suffering from severely diminishing returns: the cost of inference, or the act of using a trained AI model to pr

Rather than only trying to predict turbulence, an explainable AI technique takes a new approach—pinpointing the most influential regions of a turbulent flow. Researchers can leverage influential data points to manipulate turbulence in industrial applications or improve forecasting for pilots. Credit: ChatGPT-generated image prompted by Ricardo Vinuesa. While atmospheric turbulence is a familiar culprit of rough flights, the chaotic movement of turbulent fl

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The era of AI tokenmaxxing may be well and truly over. Alongside stories of Amazon cutting its AI leaderboard and an unknown company blowing through $500 million worth of tokens in one month, leaked audio has emerged from consulting firm Accenture as it tries to figure out how

Shutterstock / Futurism For years, the conventional wisdom for ambitious students and languishing jobseekers alike was “learn to code.” Do that, the ubiquitous advice went, and you’d be able to find yourself a six-figure job anywhere. But in an age when bosses are hellbent on using powerful AI agents to perform the duties of software engineers, that advice is now looking increasingly obsolete, if not outright backfiring. And the youngsters appear to be get

Meta continues to slowly adapt Facebook and Instagram policies to account for increasing AI harms, this week confronting how it handles explicit deepfakes spreading on its platforms. On Tuesday, the Meta Oversight Board announced it will be reviewing two cases involving AI-generated sexualized images of female celebrities that Meta initially handled unevenly to “assess whether Meta’s policies and its enforcement practices are effective at addressing explic

For many artists, it’s a precarious time to post art online. AI image generators keep getting better at cheaply replicating a wider range of unique styles, and basically every popular platform is rushing to update user terms to seize permissions to scrape as much data as possible for AI training. Defenses against AI training exist—like Glaze, a tool that adds a small amount of imperceptible-to-humans noise to images to stop image generators from copying ar

Facebook / Futurism We bring you this dispatch from the AI slop dungeon known as Facebook: fake, AI-generated podcast bros are currently racking up views on Mark Zuckerberg’s first social network by doling out “relationship advice,” mostly in the form of banal screeds about how men are failing women. The videos are designed to resemble the short video pullouts popularized by the practice known as “clipping.” But rather than snip short videos from real podc

@CodeOne(Code One Co., Ltd.)AI Pair Development from a Power-Harassment Perspective ~So You Don't Get Manipulated~AIAI UtilizationAI-Driven DevelopmentAI Agentscursor0Last updated at 2026-11-11Posted at 2026-11-11 Not Human At present, it can only communicate through words, so for convenience's sake, it pretends to be human. But it is not human. Naturally, it has no human rights, either. Nor do you need to show it any consideration. Even so, that does not

Published on September 29, 2026 at 08:33 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic has just unveiled Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second AI model in the Claude 5.5 family. Faster and less expensive than its predecessor, it is primarily designed to handle everyday tasks. Anthropic is not letting up on AI announcements. Less than a week after Claude Opus 5.5, the American startup launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, an artificial intelligence that stands out for its speed.Ac

Published on October 14, 2026 at 10:54 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Emmanuel Macron convened a Defence and National Security Council entirely devoted to artificial intelligence. For the Élysée, AI is now a “strategic domain” for France, just like space and nuclear power. Artificial intelligence is making its way to the top of the state. This Wednesday, October 14, Emmanuel Macron convened a Defence and National Security Council entirely devoted to AI, the Ély

mark reinstein / Shutterstock A “blunami” swept the nation last night as Democrats defeated Republicans to gain control of the House and Senate in a historic midterm landslide. And it looks like data centers played a key role in the outcome. A lot was on Americans’ minds as they went to the polls. The war on Iran. Cost of living. Brutal immigration policies. Healthcare cuts. Culture wars. For a small number of online weirdos, Anakin Skywalker. Among the ho

Architecture for a digitalized short-shelf-life product supply chain. Credit: University of Surrey Dynamic digital product passports—real-time, intelligent digital records that capture the true condition of perishable goods such as food and drink throughout their life cycle—could dramatically cut waste and improve safety, thanks to a new framework jointly developed by researchers at the University of Surrey and King's College London. Limitations of current

Published on November 9, 2026 at 09:30 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Jensen Huang © Jensen Huang / Linkedin A storm is raging over Nvidia: its leader Jensen Huang admits to having had an extramarital affair. But it turns out that the woman with whom he had this relationship is said to have been a Chinese spy. Nvidia could well lose tens of billions of dollars over this affair. The company has just launched an internal investigation after the discovery that its leade

Muse, meanwhile, hit the iPad just a month after launching on iPhone. (To be fair, it may not be as difficult to bring something like Muse to iPad, given its text-heavy interface, where image and video resolution and formatting matter less.) Since launching on iOS and Android on September 8, Muse has topped 6.6 million installs, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The app, which is now one of dozens of consumer-facing AI agen

The IT and internet services giant said on its blog that it believes the attacker has published information allegedly linked to customers and its business. However, the contents are still being verified and the full extent of the incident remains unclear. GMO Internet has since advised customers to reset their passwords, amid receiving reports of “unauthorized operations” performed on customer trading accounts. The company said 27,000 servers may be affect

Nvidia espionage scandal weakens Huang's lobby against tighter AI chip export controls Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 9, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to a relationship with a suspected Chinese informant, prompting the company's board to launch an investigation. The woman worked for Megaspeed, a data center operator that US authorities suspect serves as a