Archive: December 2018

Getty Images For quite some time, investors have been warning that the hundreds of billions of dollars being poured into the buildout of enormous AI data centers could trigger a credit crisis. A recent Bank of America survey found that over a third of fund managers believe corporations are overinvesting in physical assets. Yet all told, AI companies are looking to spend a record-breaking $650 billion on AI in 2026 alone, an astronomical sum that has invest

“This whole thing sucks, and I wish none of it had happened. It’s a really sad day! But I want to make one thing clear: we’ll keep fighting for open-source AI, harder than ever. This is too important to slow down now. Let’s go!,” Delangue wrote on X. This whole thing sucks, and I wish none of it had happened. It’s a really sad day!But I want to make one thing clear: we’ll keep fighting for open-source AI, harder than ever. This is too important to slow dow

Published on April 7, 2026 at 10:11 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Friend Launched with heavy advertising in the Paris metro, the intelligent necklace Friend was supposed to become the new fashionable connected companion. Capable of listening to its environment and conversing with its wearer, the AI gadget is finally banned in France and Europe. And it was to be expected. A few months ago, the startup Friend made a lot of noise in France. Founded by the young Ameri

Reuters recently published a joint experiment with Harvard, where they asked popular AI chatbots like Grok, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and others to craft the “perfect phishing email.” The generated emails were then sent to 108 volunteers, of whom 11% clicked on the malicious links.With one simple prompt, the researchers were armed with highly persuasive messages capable of fooling real people. The experiment should serve as a stern reality check. As disruptive as

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Hey kids! Want to tell your mom you love her, but without expending a single iota of emotional effort? If so, you’re in luck: a new service called Cards for Agents fulfils that exact grim service, presaging a dystopian future in which you can express love to your family members without ever having to actually interact with them. “Your AI can finally send your mom a real card,” the site en

Jayne L. Black via Instagram Jayne Black is a Wisconsin-area environmentalist and mother of four. An organizer with the group Moms Clean Air Force, Black has plenty of experience struggling for environmental justice throughout her home state — but when a proposed data centered forced the fight onto her own doorstep, she won in a round-one knockout. A 64-year old activist, Black first got her start organizing when two of her four children were diagnosed wit

Getty / Futurism It’s not looking good for finance bros as another major banker has sung the praises of AI automating their profession. On Monday, CEO of JPMorgan Jamie Dimon said that the multinational lender would likely hire less traditional bankers in the future, and instead favor bringing in more AI specialists. Out with the pencil pushers, and in with the prompters. “I think it will reduce our jobs down the road,” Dimon said in a Bloomberg Television

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no surprise that tech companies are spending gobs of cash on the upcoming US midterm elections. What is surprising is the scale of electoral financing, as certain newly-founded AI super PACs are now spending more on candidates than the candidates are spending on themselves. According to reporting by the Los Angeles Times, political

Published on July 16, 2026 at 09:44 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © OpenAI OpenAI has launched its first physical device. It is not the mysterious ChatGPT speaker envisioned in collaboration with Jony Ive, but a limited-edition mini keyboard intended for developers. Priced at $230 and designed with the manufacturer Work Louder, this small control pad allows developers to physically control Codex coding agents For months, rumors have multiplied about OpenAI’s first phy

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock As corporate AI bills spiral out of control, many companies are beginning to ask themselves a simple question: why pay a pretty penny for the US’s leading AI models when Chinese ones are far cheaper? Major companies like DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are adopting Chinese AI tools, the Financial Times reports, attracted not only by their lower costs but their “open-weight” approach that al

Now let us imagine that we need to find the boundary between dark and light regions.For a human, this is obvious: it is enough to look at the image. But a computer must perform certain calculations to detect such a change in brightness.One way to solve this problem is to use a small weight matrix called a convolution kernel (kernel).It moves across the image, analyzes small patches of pixels, and calculates how much they differ from one another.This is the

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 8 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter AI-generated slop code has been a plague for some open-source projects, namely but not only Gentoo Linux, Curl, and Ghostty, limiting or outright banning LLM-created contributions. And yet, just like both the models themselves get better and the people using them become more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain United Parcel Service Inc. will invest $120 million in 400 robots used to unload trucks, according to people familiar with the matter, revealing new details on the logistics giant's $9 billion automation plan that aims to boost profits by decreasing labor costs. Unloading trucks and shipping containers at warehouse docks is mostly done by people and remains a key bottleneck in the shipping industry. The UPS order puts a s

Schematic diagram of the combination of satellite and regional numerical forecasting prediction. Credit: Liangchen Guo The intermittent nature of solar energy poses challenges to grid stability, making accurate ultra-short-term solar irradiance forecasting crucial for balancing supply and demand. However, traditional numerical weather prediction models often struggle with cloud initialization, leading to forecast inaccuracies. Recently, Min Chen and Liangc

The testing must have gone well because Google is now allowing more chatbot makers to sign up for AdSense. “AdSense for Search is available for websites that want to show relevant ads in their conversational AI experiences,” said a Google spokesperson. If people continue shifting to using AI chatbots to find information, this expansion of AdSense could help prop up profits. There’s no hint of advertising in Google’s own Gemini chatbot or AI Mode search, bu