Archive: February 2019

Credit: Kristin Brunk A new study led by Cornell Lab of Ornithology researchers at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics shows that monitoring and managing select bird species can provide benefits for other species within specific regions. The research, published in the journal Conservation Biology, analyzed more than 892,000 hours of bird sounds recorded across California's Sierra Nevada to test a long-standing conservation strategy—monito

Kevin Dietsch / Getty / Futurism OpenAI’s latest text-to-video generating app, Sora 2, exploded onto the scene late last week, quickly devolving into a mind-numbing mess of AI slop. Before OpenAI stemmed the flood with crudely implemented guardrails, users immediately started generating footage featuring copyrighted materials, from SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth to CEO Sam Altman grilling a photorealistic Pikachu. The spread of copyrighted material

Ensuring that Large Language Models (LLMs) align with human values and preferences is crucial for their utility and safety. Yet, devising effective tools for this alignment presents significant challenges, particularly with the largest and most sophisticated LLMs, which often boast tens or hundreds of billions of parameters. In a new paper NeMo-Aligner: Scalable Toolkit for Efficient Model Alignment, a team of researchers from Nvidia introduces NeMo-Aligne

Hugging Face was recently the victim of a rogue AI attack by OpenAI that has alarmed cybersecurity experts. The CEO of Hugging Face has called for OpenAI to donate $100 million in compute to the company, though it’s unclear whether that will ever happen. The Hugging Face CEO, Clement Delangue, gave his first interview since the incident on Friday to CNN. And Delangue’s answer to questions about possible legal action against OpenAI is pretty interesting. It

There are a lot of reasons to want Flock cameras removed from your neighborhood. That said, harnessing the gold and copper from them is probably not one of them. Unfortunately, Google’s AI Overview may have given people the idea that they can run smash-and-grab operations to cash in on the metals inside the invasive eyes of the surveillance state. It’s become a running joke online and in privacy-focused communities that Flock cameras contain valuable mater

Above, a tambaqui fish fresh out of a normal breeding tank. Below, the same animal, more stressed and darker after 10 days in a 2,000-liter confinement tank. Credit: Celma Lemos/CAUNESP In Brazil, a group led by researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Jaboticabal, in collaboration with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to assess the stress levels of tambaqui (Colosso

Published on March 6, 2026 at 08:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI unveils GPT-5.4, a model presented as more efficient for professional work and complex task automation. The company emphasizes in particular its agent capabilities: AI can use a computer directly, navigate through software, and orchestrate actions on behalf of the user. The major players in AI have only the word 'agent' on their lips, asserting that these are capable of performing a serie

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Lazy undergrads rejoice. A new AI “homework agent” can supposedly log into your account on the learning management system Canvas and automatically complete your homework and assignments for you — streamlining the laborious, outdated process of having to copy-paste answers from ChatGPT. Called “Einstein,” the AI can even participate in discussions, reply to your peers, write essays, and ta

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed. Earlier this month, Ars retracted the story after it was found to include fake quotes attributed to a real person. The article — a write-up of a viral incident in w

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Futurism Open source AI agent OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, has taken over the internet by storm. The tool allows practically anybody to create autonomous AI agents that can complete complex tasks on your computer, like browsing the web and running scripts. It’s a powerful new take on AI that comes with inherent dangers. After all, you’re letting an AI model loose on your machine, going far outside the confines of the browser-based chat

Getty / Futurism In a matter of only a few years, AI chatbots have become a common part of many of our daily lives, even though they remain deeply flawed systems. The reality is that chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude still make regular mistakes. According to an October study by the BBC, even the most advanced AI chatbots gave wrong answers a whopping 45 percent of the time. But many users don’t understand that reality.

@DevMasatomanWhen to use fork() in Claude Code — Criteria for parallel agent designClaudeCodeAIPersonal DevelopmentAgent0Posted at 2026-11-12'I want to run subagents in parallel in Claude Code, but should I use fork() or a regular fresh agent?' — This is a point where you get stuck when trying to automate agent design. Conclusion first.Use fork() when 'the parent context is needed and you don't want the child's output to be fed back into the parent context

Infrastructure challenges drive new computing architecturesThe computational demands of agentic AI systems have exposed limitations in traditional cloud architectures, particularly as foundation model training and inference requirements surge. Huawei Cloud’s response involves CloudMatrix384 supernodes connected through a high-speed MatrixLink network, creating what the company describes as a flexible hybrid compute system combining general-purpose and inte

Getty / Futurism A proposed “hyperscale” data center in Box Elder County, Utah, will create an enormous heat island that could devastate the area’s ecology, according to an expert’s analysis. Dubbed the Stratos Project and backed by the celebrity venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary, the sprawling facility will devour up to nine gigawatts of energy, its developers say, which is more than double the electricity used by the entire state. That epic energy bill co

@@ (Photo=Shutterstock) Amid the sharp decline of Chinese AI-related stocks and the cooling investment enthusiasm in the Hong Kong IPO market, Alibaba is pushing forward with the listing of its AI semiconductor subsidiary, T-Head. This is a large IPO that could raise up to 3 billion dollars (about 40 billion won), and it is expected to be closely watched as to whether the Chinese AI semiconductor industry will receive some level of valuation recognition in

Published on July 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI unveils GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, two new models designed to improve voice interactions with ChatGPT. According to the startup, the models should finally bring AI conversations closer to a natural exchange with a human. The demonstrations are particularly convincing. OpenAI has just unveiled two new AI models, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini. These two artificial intelligence models

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Do you like kicking back and watching some sports after a long day? Do you like AI? Would you like more AI-generated content in your sports? You might not have much of a choice — at least if Itai Epstein, vice president of new ventures at WSC Sports, has anything to say about it. At the Microsoft AI Tour Tel Aviv 2026, Calcalist reports, Epstein bragged that his company is blazing new ter