Archive: October 2018

Chain Cyberattack: How a Virus Tricked Thousands of Developers Published on March 29, 2026 at 11:57 𝕏 Print © 01net with Gemini A massive cyberattack has just hit the world of artificial intelligence. Hackers have indeed managed to compromise a software brick used by many developers. The hack triggered a chain reaction resulting in an enormous data theft. LiteLLM, one of the most widely used Python libraries in the generative AI ecosystem, has just been at

Alongside the likes of Axelera, Etched, and OLIX, this makes Fractile one of the top-funded startup players in the race for purpose-built AI chips. Such chips are one of several avenues being explored to reduce the cost of inference — aka using increasingly demanding AI models in production. However, Fractile seeks to go beyond hardware with a full-stack approach that also includes a machine learning compiler to maximize the speed at which LLMs will get ex

Getty / Futurism In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to infiltrate dozens of targets around the world. It was trivially easy to get around Anthropic’s AI guardrails, with the hackers simply pretending to work for legitimate cybersecurity organizations — highlighting how woefully unprepared we are for powerful AI models that could accelerate the discovery of serious

Published on April 21, 2026 at 07:38 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Timothy Dykessur (Unsplash) The French government and AMD have just taken a new step in national technological development. The signing of an intent letter aims to accelerate innovation on the territory and to consolidate France's position in the global AI ecosystem. The official announcement took place on April 16, 2026 at the Ministry of Economy in Paris. Philippe Baptiste for Research, Sébastien M

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In little more than five months, Amazon and Microsoft have announced they're collectively cutting more than 29,000 roles. Microsoft has let go more than 15,000 workers since May, and Amazon announced last week it was cutting 14,000 roles. Artificial intelligence has taken some of the blame for the layoffs, but not in an obvious way. The companies aren't in financial distress—far from it. Rather, there's a desire now among

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images The tech giant Meta fired about 8,000 workers yesterday — about 10 percent of its staff — and reassigned 7,000 more to AI projects. The company’s remaining workers continue to have every click of their work lives monitored as the company pivots from expensive project to even-more-expensive project — but not to worry! According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, there won’t be any

Prof. Li Gang (left), Chair Professor of Energy Conversion Technology and Sir Sze-yuen Chung Endowed Professor in Renewable Energy, and Prof. Yang Guang (right), Assistant Professor, both of the PolyU Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, have conducted a critical review of the challenges and future prospects of perovskite/silicon TSCs. Credit: Hong Kong Polytechnic University Third-generation solar cell technology is advancing rapidly. An e

Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images AI has wormed its way into every crevice of the 2026 World Cup. It’s dreaming up sloppified soccer jerseys, collating thousands of on-field data points, and even guarding venues in the form of robot surveillance dogs that presumably can’t be bribed with sausage. Yet for all its busywork, AI remains blissfully ignorant on the one metric that matters: who wins and who loses. During what must have been a sl

The U.S. government will ramp up its use of AI tools to automate redactions in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. FOIA requests allow members of the public to obtain records directly from the federal government. They are frequently used by lawmakers, activists, and journalists seeking to scrutinize government agencies and hold them accountable. Agencies are generally required to disclose reques

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock As the public backlash to AI data centers continues to escalate, activists are resorting to extreme measures to send home an important message. The growing concern over environmentally damaging, yet rapidly growing, data centers has become an international phenomenon. In Amsterdam, climate activists affiliated with the group Extinction Rebellion claimed responsibility for some unique vand

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more A hacker used artificial intelligence (AI) agents to hack into websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including the tractor manufacturer Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. The operation attracted attention for its ability to carry out complex attacks with little human intervention.Cybersecurity researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge monitored some of the activity through the Cairn platform. According

Published on July 20, 2026 at 5:33 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google Gemini Expected for June 2026, Google’s formidable Gemini 3.5 Pro artificial intelligence model is seriously delayed. Internally, its shortcomings in computer programming are causing concern. This is a slow start that is beginning to cost the Mountain View-based company dearly, enough to knock Alphabet’s share price down 4% on the stock market. Unveiled with great fanfare last May at the an

Published on July 23, 2026 at 4:01 p.m. Updated on July 24, 2026 at 4:33 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A new critical vulnerability named “RefluXFS” has just been discovered at the heart of the Linux kernel. Uncovered by Claude Mythos, it has made more than 16 million computers vulnerable since it first appeared in 2017. It allows an ordinary user to take full control of a system. A patch has been deployed. A new vulnerability has been discovered in t

Apple has built its own large language model (LLM) AI framework and associated chatbot service similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard, and Microsoft’s ChatGPT-based Bing Chat, according to a new report. The project is codenamed “Ajax” internally, the sources say, though some engineers within the company colloquially refer to it as “Apple GPT.” It is built on top of Google machine learning framework Jax and runs on Google Cloud. The news comes via an ar

After being convicted of federal crimes related to a foreign influence campaign, rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel says he should get a new trial because his lawyer “used an experimental AI program to write his closing argument.” In a motion for a new trial filed Monday, the Fugees rapper’s new lawyers say Michel’s previous representation used “an experimental AI program in which they had a financial stake to write the closing argument, resulting in a frivolo

Dominic Dudley / Shutterstock / Futurism It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the biggest social media scandals in history. Back in March 2018, journalists at The Observer and The New York Times revealed that the little-known data analytics firm had improperly harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of users without their consent. Owned by billionaire Robert Mercer and operated by Donald T

Astra, the new AI from the creator of ChatGPT, achieves historic feats Published on August 3, 2026 at 16:23 Updated on August 5, 2026 at 17:26 Comment 2 𝕏 first © Editing: 01net.com / OpenAI / KOMMERS (Unsplash) Astra, the next artificial intelligence to power ChatGPT, has just made several historic breakthroughs. OpenAI reveals that the AI solved ten mathematical problems that had remained unsolved for decades. These feats cost only $2,000 in computing ex