Archive: October 2018

Robot walks on concrete paving slabs. Credit: Joseph Humphreys, University of Leeds. Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to be a world first. The work has been published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The pioneering technology allows the robot to change the way it moves autonomously, rather than ha

In just a year, AI psychosis became a term the internet is all too familiar with. Though some have contested the science behind it, various reports of psychotic breaks and, at times, fatal delusions linked to intense reliance on AI have flooded timelines. Some scientists now have a hypothesis on how chatbots could be directly responsible for these incidents. In a new study published in the Nature journal Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience, researchers in

Anthropic launches "Skills" so Claude can automatically pick prompts for specialized tasks View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 16, 2025 Anthropic AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Need more evidence that the AI industry is unlike anything prior to it? Users across the world say they’re encountering supposedly conscious beings inside AI chatbots built by red-hot tech companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Look no further than a Vox advice column in which reporter Sigal Samuel gamely answered a question from an avid user of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, who said they’d been commun

Bringing AI into the SOC means watching for shadow AI and loose permissions In this Help Net Security video, Vince Stoffer, Field CTO at Corelight, talks about how AI is changing work in the SOC and how attackers are using the same tools. He explains how LLMs help with vulnerability analysis and detection engineering, including writing SIEM rules and small programs that analyze packets or Zeek metadata. Those using agentic triage report faster work and few

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For any young job seekers struggling in today’s horrible labor market, experts working for one of the wealthiest companies in the world have a little tough love for you: you’re pretty much cooked, fam. In an analysis of recent economic trends in the US, Goldman Sachs economists David Mericle and Pierfrancesco Mei wrote that “jobless growth” is pretty much the new normal. “The modest job g

Getty / Futurism Tech companies are rushing to deploy AI everywhere. But because glaring issues remain with the tech, it’s almost inevitable that these efforts lead to public embarrassment when the AI malfunctions. In one of the latest examples, Reddit’s new AI was caught making an extraordinarily bad suggestion: that DIY heroin use might be an effective strategy for pain management. As flagged by 404 Media, a user noticed while browsing the r/FamilyMedici

The 6th annual BAAI Conference hosted by Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), commenced today in Beijing, marking a significant gathering for global AI insiders. This premier event, themed “Global Vision, Ideas in Collision, Leading Cutting-Edge Innovations,” brings together top researchers and industry leaders from around the world to share their latest findings and discuss the future of artificial intelligence.This year’s BAAI 2024 conferen

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images OpenAI announced on Thursday that it would retire GPT-4o — an especially warm, sycophantic version of the chatbot at the heart of a pile of user welfare lawsuits, including several that accuse OpenAI of causing wrongful death — along with several other older versions of the chatbot. In a blog post, OpenAI said that will sunset “GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and Open

Proposed FedLLMGuard Architecture. Credit: University of Portsmouth A framework for building tighter security into 5G wireless communications has been created by a Ph.D. student working with the University of Portsmouth's Artificial Intelligence and Data Center. With its greater network capacity and ability to rapidly transmit huge amounts of information from one device to another, 5G is a critical component of intelligent systems and services—including th

@Shiro_Shihi(Shihiro)blastengine MCP verified with one email. Cross-checked sending tool, delivery log, and Gmail.blastengineMCPAI0Posted at 2026-11-12One email was sent. Delivery log also shows SENT. However, the number of used emails obtained from MCP was 0. Sent one email to myself from the official blastengine MCP server and cross-checked with delivery logs and Gmail. Checked the updated_time of the usage status and found it had a value from 23:47:30,

@nrouter_ai1991nRouter's Model Catalog: RBAC Design where deny always takes precedenceLLMAPInrouterAIgateway0Posted at 2026-11-12nRouter's "Models" guide explains the specification of a searchable catalog (/models) that collects all available LLMs and multimodal models. Corresponding providers are cross-cloud, reflecting live availability, and all models can be accessed through a single endpoint and one virtual key (sk-nrouter-*). Viewing the catalog itsel

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The mother of a girl who was horrifically wounded in a school shooting in Canada in February is suing OpenAI for not warning police about the killer, Jesse Van Rootselaar, according to reports. Some eight months before the shooting in British Columbia, which killed eight people including the perpetrator and injured 25 others, OpenAI employees had already been aware of Van Rootselaar’s ala