Archive: November 2018

Stefano Rellandini / AFP / Getty Images Many investors and financial experts are concerned that a looming AI bubble could wreak havoc on the economy — but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can’t wait for it to burst. During a tech conference in Italy last week, Bezos conceded that the AI industry is in a “kind of industrial bubble,” as CNBC reports. Besides companies’ valuations becoming “disconnected from the fundamentals” of a business, Bezos argued that “people

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty / X (Screenshots) An OpenAI exec bragged that ChatGPT had discovered a mathematical breakthrough — and was immediately left with egg on his face when it turned out to be bogus, The Decoder reports. We begin where any good controversy begins: with a now-deleted tweet. This one was by Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI who last week proclaimed that the company’s newest large language model, GP

Define freshness and name an owner“Real time” sounds decisive, but meaningless without a metric. A service‑level agreement (SLA) is far more enforceable.Credit card giant Mastercard formalised “freshness” by engineering its Decision Intelligence platform to score every payment in 50ms. The AI analyses up to 160 billion transactions annually and tags each with a real‑time risk score that issuing banks can trust or override. This keeps false declines low whi

Kristi Noem / The White House via X The White House published an image on X in which the face of a protester had been altered using AI to depict her weeping during her arrest — instead of striking a stoic pose, as she actually looked during the event. The woman in the image, civil rights attorney and organizer Nekima Levy Armstrong, was arrested this week after interrupting a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. The protesters were calling for the resign

Dr. Dre, the pioneering rapper and seven-time Grammy-winning producer behind hit songs like Tupac’s “California Love” and Eminem’s “The Real Slim Shady,” is very much pro using artificial intelligence tools to make music. In an interview with the New York Times, Dr. Dre and Interscope Records co-founder Jimmy Iovine spoke about artificial intelligence’s recent foray into music production, with the producer characterizing those who oppose AI song generation

An entirely AI-led Russian drone operated by Nvidia technology killed three civilians last month in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, according to new reporting from the New York Times. The attack took place on July 6th, with the Russian drone initially targeting propane tanks at a gas station before crashing into a wall and exploding before reaching its target, thus killing three civilians: 19-year-old college student Tetiana Bubynets, 41-year-old Oleks

Referee Scott Foster, wearing an earpiece, signals a call during the second half of a preseason NBA basketball game between the Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, in Miami. Credit: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell The play, in real time to the naked eye, might have looked very close to a violation. LeBron James leaped, got his right hand on the ball with a few tenths of the game's final second remaining and tapped it through the basket to

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images These days, the AI stack beckons: emails, shopping, personal finance — there’s hardly a task some company isn’t clamoring to automate on your behalf. As tempting as it might sound to let AI agents handle your affairs, though, you might want to hold off. A fresh report by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of the UK issued a stark warning that outsourcing responsibilities to an AI

It feels like since xAI changed to SpaceX Super Intelligence, Musk hasn't made any major moves in AI for a long time. Just now, Grok Bot 1.0 version was officially released. "Robots can be shared and are more collaborative and capable than ever before." According to SpaceX Super Intelligence, the new version of Grok Bot can be shared by the entire team, can be added to Slack, Microsoft Teams, and video conferences, and will identify who is saying what, whi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Last week, the New York Times published a rapturous profile of a drug marketing company called Medvi, which the paper declared to be the first one-ish man venture on track to surpass one billion dollars in revenue while leaning almost exclusively on AI to build and scale the business. The news was immediately met with a wave of online backlash over both the framing of the NYT piece and th

gabefacts187 via TikTok For many decades, conspiracy theorists have attempted to argue that NASA’s missions to the lunar surface were somehow faked — and the space agency’s latest trip around the Moon and back is no different. Except this time, the widespread proliferation of AI slop is supercharging the trend, with denialists pointing to faked, AI-generated footage as “proof” of their claims with no apparent sense of irony. One particularly sticky video s

A convergence unit in retinal topography extracted from Ref [65]. Numbers on this figure are chosen for the purpose of illustrating the converging nature of the topography. On average, 50 photoreceptors are connected to a single bipolar cell. Credit: Neurocomputing (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2025.131740 Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon become more energy-efficient and faster, thanks to a new approach developed at the University of Surrey that tak

Published on April 20, 2026 at 17:59 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Airam Dato-on (Pexels) ChatGPT is currently down globally. The AI is simply out of service. Many users on the social network X are expressing their frustration about this situation. You may have noticed: ChatGPT is down. No requests can be made, the AI is out of service. It's enough to visit the social network X to realize that the problem affects users from different regions around the world. We hav

Getty / Futurism For years now, tech leaders have warned that AI will usher in a technological revolution on an unprecedented scale, wiping out countless jobs. If you’re lucky enough to survive sweeping layoffs continuously roiling the tech industry, bosses say their employees will have to adopt the tech to keep their jobs — whether they like it or not. In other words, it’s not hard to see why there’s been a surge in resentment towards AI, which has encroa

Workflow for the construction and analysis of a Magnetic Materials Database. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64458-z Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have harnessed artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new functional magnetic materials, creating a searchable database of 67,573 magnetic materials, including 25 previously unrecognized compounds that remain magnetic even at high temperatures. "By a

Companies that raise national security concerns are listed on the "Entity List" and face export restrictions. NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang and the woman he was involved in an affair with, who is a senior executive at Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed, were also being urged by multiple government agencies to be added to the Entity List. However, it was revealed that the Commerce Department, which oversees the list, had been continually postponing t

SpaceX’s drone landing ships have already proven that uncrewed vessels can handle some of the most dangerous jobs at sea. Now, two Norwegian companies are poised to put robo-boats into one of the most dull: hauling cargo down the fjord. Two Norwegian companies are teaming together to construct a short-range, all-electric coastal container ship that will eventually operate autonomously—eliminating up to 40,000 diesel truck trips per year. The ship, the Yara

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The era of AI maximalism is grinding to a halt. It was only months ago that CEOs were forcing employees to use AI as much as possible for tasks like coding. But at some point during their AI binge, the big wigs stopped to check their tab, and are now having second thoughts. Their employees are hooked on AI coding tools, but the costs of using them are spiraling out of control. How busines