Archive: August 2018

All about Apple see more All about Artificial Intelligence see more Nvidia announced three new open artificial intelligence models aimed at creating AI agents for businesses. On the same day, Meta unveiled an open-weights model and announced a partnership with Apple to run it locally on high-performance Mac computers.The launches expand the range of AI options developed in the United States, although it remains unclear whether they will attract users to ch

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded an optimistic note three years ago when he wrote about the progress his company was making in automated moderation tools powered by artificial intelligence. “Through the end of 2019, we expect to have trained our systems to proactively detect the vast majority of problematic content,” he wrote in November 2018. But as recently as March, internal Facebook documents reveal the company found its automated moderation tools

Published on July 20, 2026 at 12:32 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © EA Sports Since 2010, EA Sports FC has never got a World Cup winner wrong. In 2026, the algorithm had already correctly predicted Spain, who were crowned on Sunday. There are algorithms that would almost overshadow the best tipsters of Mon Petit Prono. For the fifth consecutive football World Cup, EA Sports FC correctly predicted the tournament winner before kickoff.This time, it was Spain that lifted

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 19 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Californians pay the highest gas prices in the U.S., and a proposed class action says that the issue has been exacerbated by an AI tool that smartly squeezes customers for the best profits. A newly filed lawsuit at the Sacramento, ​California, federal court says that gas sta

Published on August 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM Comment 8 𝕏 Print © JESHOOTS.COM / Unsplash Ghost restaurants, forgotten visas, and dangerous hiking routes: using artificial intelligence to organize your vacation can be a very risky bet. No more dog-eared old guidebooks and dozens of tabs open on the computer. Nowadays, one in four French people—and even one-third of those under 35, according to the Kantar Institute—is considering entrusting the organization of th

In the nascent field of AI hacking, indirect prompt injection has become a basic building block for inducing chatbots to exfiltrate sensitive data or perform other malicious actions. Developers of platforms such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT are generally good at plugging these security holes, but hackers keep finding new ways to poke through them again and again. On Monday, researcher Johann Rehberger demonstrated a new way to override prompt in

Google / Futurism Last month, Google updated its home page to replace its iconic “Search” button with various AI features. The move was the latest sign of the tech giant succumbing to the draw of AI that remains deeply flawed — and the staggering amount of misinformation that comes along with it. Even the experience of shopping online is starting to look dramatically different, and consumers may be paying the price. According to a recent experiment by e-co

Ken Cedeno / AFP via Getty Images While the US appears to be further away from meaningful AI regulations than ever before, lawmakers certainly have plenty of ideas on how the country could go about setting meaningful rules. It’s a particularly precarious moment as fears over rogue AI models wreaking havoc and endangering humanity continue to mount. Even tech leaders from the majority of frontier AI labs have started to coalesce around the idea that the ind

Deep Think is based on the same foundation as Gemini 2.5 Pro, but it increases the “thinking time” with greater parallel analysis. According to Google, Deep Think explores multiple approaches to a problem, even revisiting and remixing the various hypotheses it generates. This process helps it create a higher-quality output. Credit: Google Credit: Google Like some other heavyweight Gemini tools, Deep Think takes several minutes to come up with an answer. Th

Futurism The shift to digital platforms has not been kind to the independent media industry, which has had to scramble for a shrinking share of ad revenue and adapt to near-constant changes to Google’s algorithms. Yet as problematic as the move away from print media was, few could have imagined just how grim the media ecosystem would become once generative AI hit the scene. Traffic to web media sites has nearly hit terminal velocity over the past year, as

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence dominated the conversation as CES 2026 opened on Jan. 6. Nearly every major exhibitor framed AI as a tool that can make daily routines smoother, faster and more efficient. The emphasis was less on far-off science fiction and more on practical systems designed to improve how people live and work right now. The four-day event takes place across multiple venues, including the Las Vegas Convention Cent

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Watchers and reporters in the AI space have long pointed out how its circular economy could implode, potentially taking associated investments with it. The IMF has examined those fears in its latest Global Financial Stability Report, and its conclusions are stark. In the IMF'

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Have you ever had the experience of rereading a sentence multiple times only to realize you still don't understand it? As taught to scores of incoming college freshmen, when you realize you're spinning your wheels, it's time to change your approach. This process, becoming aware of something not working and then changing what you're doing, is the essence of metacognition, or thinking about thinking. It's your brain monitoring its o

Project Solara is not something you’ll have to worry about killing your apps anytime soon. It’s limited to a few pieces of concept hardware and software that are awaiting the magical agents of the future. The vision is for Solara to run on myriad specialized devices with interfaces generated on the spot, and it’s all powered by the explosive intelligence of models that Microsoft and others insist will soon exist. According to Microsoft, Solara is a chip-to

Zhidx (WeChat Official Account: zhidxcom) Author | ZeR0 Editor | Mo Ying Zhidx reported on November 11 that today, at the 2026 Tektronix Innovation Forum (TIF), American oscilloscope leader Tektronix unveiled the newest member of its oscilloscope portfolio—the all-new 1 Series DPO oscilloscope. The all-new 1 Series DPO oscilloscope is a “high-value, high-quality choice,” featuring a compact design, weighing just 4.8 pounds, and purpose-built for entry-leve

Nippon Life’s annual general meeting, where questions were raised about its investment in Space X = the 2nd, central Osaka (photo provided by the company) Space X is a space development company led by U.S. entrepreneur Elon Musk. It made its initial public offering (IPO) on June 12 and was listed on the U.S. Nasdaq market. On the 11th, it set its IPO price at $135 per share (roughly ¥21,600 at the time), raising approximately $75 billion (about ¥12 trillio

Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Amazon recently followed Microsoft’s lead and said it will no longer use nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) while negotiating with local governments over data centers. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Sean O’Kane, Rebecca Bellan, and I discussed Amazon’s announcement, which came in the middle of a longer blog post making the case that data centers are actually good for communities. Rebecca was a

Honeyjar, which will be attending this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt as part of the Startup Battlefield 200, wants to use AI to make the expertise and judgment of the best PR pros available to everyone, including founders who have no idea where to start. The startup’s founders, CEO Michelle Masek and CCO Nadia Jamshidi, certainly fit the bill when it comes to PR expertise. They’ve both spent decades in the field, doing in-house communications and working at ag