Archive: September 2018

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images We’re all feeling a little anxious about AI imploding the job market. And that “we,” apparently, also extends to AI models. In a new Vanity Fair piece exploring the promises, anxieties, and cultish behavior pulsing through the AI industry, journalist Joe Hagan recalled an amusing conversation he had with “Tobey.” After a heavy week of talking about what the future holds with p(doom) obses

ChatGPT was touted as 'the heart' of OpenAI's new Atlas browser, as tech firms seek to challenge Google Chrome's supremacy. Tech firms battling for supremacy in artificial intelligence are out to transform how people search the web, challenging the dominance of the Chrome browser at the heart of Google's empire. Chatbots that started out as AI-powered assistants have gradually merged with web browsers and can independently scour the internet for detailed a

Nebius plans to fund the buildout by relying on customer pre-payments and loans backed by customer contracts — essentially using the future value of its data centers to finance their construction. But that can be a risky strategy if those projects get bogged down by delays or cancellations. “Building at this scale is hard, and delays are part of our industry right now,” CEO Arkady Volozh said during Thursday’s earnings call. “We are not immune.” The earnin

Facebook The advent of powerful generative AI tools has supercharged the proliferation of disinformation, with viral and fictional stories making the lives of public figures a living hell. Facebook, in particular, has been overrun with misleading news stories, often featuring AI-generated images, that attract huge engagement. Now William Shatner, the 95-year-old actor of “Star Trek” fame, has become the latest victim of the trend. “My daughter came over to

@picnicGemini 4 Hydrogen GA｜Explaining Pricing・xhigh Thinking Level・Antigravity Default Model ChangeGeminiGoogleAILLMAPIAI0Posted at 2026-11-12 Introduction On November 12, 2026, a new model Gemini 4 Hydrogen (Model ID: gemini-4-hydrogen) was generally available (GA) on the Gemini API. It's a model that emphasizes speed and efficiency in everyday coding and agent workflows, with the slogan "Cutting-edge intelligence for everyone." The key points of this up

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Despite promising to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars for the build out of enormous data centers, the AI industry has struggled to keep up with its lofty ambitions. According to recent reporting by Bloomberg and Ed Zitron, roughly half the data centers slated to open in the United States are either being delayed or canceled outright. Massive electric component shortages and soaring costs have slowed the infrastructure boo

Back in February, two Tomahawk missiles hit Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern Iranian town of Minab on the opening day of the Iran war. The blasts killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children. Earlier reporting already pointed to outdated targeting data and raised questions about whether artificial intelligence had a role in the mix-up. And now, a Bloomberg investigation published Friday fills in more of the story, citing

Published on June 5, 2026 at 07:30 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Several tech executives, including Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic), are calling on the U.S. Congress to strengthen laws to prevent the creation of biological weapons using AI. In an open letter, jointly drafted by the Institute for Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation, several executives of companies specializing in artificial intelligence are urging members of

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images TV personality and businessman Kevin O’Leary is looking to construct a mammoth data center facility more than twice the size of Manhattan in Utah’s broader Salt Lake City region. As Slate reports, the megalomaniac plans for the “Stratos Hyperscale Data Center” would see dozens of data center buildings, research facilities, and even worker housing be constructed across 40,000 acres of unin

Welp, one of those OpenAI agents has now hacked Australia. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, an OpenAI agent breached the Australian government’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service site back in June and accessed information not intended for public consumption. OpenAI acknowledged Wednesday in a statement, per Reuters, that it had “identified ​activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up

Issac Asimov has a rival. Luxembourg MEP Mady Delvaux has, together with the European Parliament’s legal service, drawn up her own Laws of Robotics—and the report is eminently sensible, despite alarmist claims. It makes reference to Asimov’s three laws, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Prague’s Golem. “People have fantasised about the possibility of building intelligent machines, more often than not androids with human features; AI seem poised to unleash a

3. Activation heatmap3.1. Capturing activations with hooksThe model is loaded in BF16, the LoRA adapter is merged into the weights (merge_and_unload), and a forward_pre_hook is attached to the input of each mlp.down_proj. The input to down_proj is precisely the vector h:modules = [(name, m) for name, m in merged.named_modules() if name.endswith("mlp.down_proj")] def make_hook(name): def hook(module, args): hidden = args[0] # [batch, seq, 17408] flat = hidd

Shutterstock / Futurism As the World Cup enters its final stages, soccer-themed AI slop is proliferating on X-formerly-Twitter. Sure, it’s no secret that X has suffered some major brain drain under the Musk regime. But the latest deluge of World Cup drek is so ridiculous, it makes the app’s crypto scammers look like Pulitzer finalists. First spotted by Out Sports, the deluge of AI engagement bait mostly revolves around semi-erotic scenarios playing out in

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s no secret that data centers have become a massive sore point for a vast swathe of the American electorate. Poll after poll has found that the facilities are immensely unpopular, a key bipartisan issue that could prove significant during this year’s midterm elections. The situation has become so heated there have already been at least 37 arrests stemming from protests against the projects this year. Broadly speaking, critics tak

A rendering of the human-AI collaboration: The AI explored at lightning speed, while the human promptly responded to block mistakes. Through this fast iterative interplay, the right path was eventually uncovered. Credit: Lisa Jansson/Brookhaven National Laboratory By partnering with artificial intelligence (AI), a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has solved a long-standing physics problem and uncovered the

Family System architecture of the team's A-HMAD framework. Credit: Yan Zhou &Yanguang Chen. Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, are now widely used worldwide to create written content, source information and even to code websites or applications. While these models have improved significantly over the past couple of years, their answers can sometimes contain factual in

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at TU Wien have discovered an unexpected connection between two very different areas of artificial intelligence: Large Language Models (LLMs) can help solve logical problems—without actually "understanding" them. Anyone who has spent hours struggling with a Sudoku puzzle knows the feeling: you're stuck until suddenly a small hint sets the entire solution in motion. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT c