Archive: March 2019

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The Department of Defense might be the first government agency to roll out a department-wide AI chatbot, but the Department of Transportation is about to be the first to draft actual binding regulations with the tech. According to a new investigation by ProPublica, the top transportation agency has tapped Google Gemini to help write new regulations affecting aviation, automotive, railroad

Published on February 18, 2026 at 14:23 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net There will be no ads in Perplexity's search results. The research assistant had however launched a pilot program early on, in 2024, to test the display of advertising banners. But it is now abandoned: a matter of trust with users, the startup explains. Sent to OpenAI, which has just launched ads in ChatGPT... Advertising has become a thorn in the side of major AI players who are trying to

@geolin878Which companies are more suitable to bring GEO back in-house?geoSEOAI0Posted at 2026-11-12First, let me give you a judgment: GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) eventually tends to be brought back in-house by companies. Not because outsourcing is too expensive. But because it's not suitable for long-term full outsourcing. This statement may contradict some peers' interests, but I still want to clarify it. One, all marketing capabilities have gon

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing from the internet. A team of African computer scientists, linguists, language specialists and others have been working on precisely this problem for two years already. The African Next Voices project

Cell-cell connectivity network showing that cell-type–based sorting happens during the emrbyoid development. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr8901 Scientists have sought to capture the first days of how a person comes to be, by recreating those early moments in a lab via models made up of induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPSCs. Induced pluripotent stem cells are cells that are modified to have the ability to become any cell in the

JoJoFunland via YouTube YouTube is rife with AI-generated “educational” videos targeting children, and many of the lessons they’re imparting — if there’s a discernible message at all — could be harming their development. Disturbing new reporting from The 74 and Mother Jones found numerous examples of AI-generated videos either peddling absolute nonsense or damaging lessons to their young intended audience. In one video that’s supposed to be a nursery rhyme

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales once described his creation as a “temple of the mind.” Now, a decade on, it’s taken on another role: a refuge against AI slop. Late this month, the English version of the online encyclopedia officially banned the use of AI to generate or rewrite articles, after years of piecemeal experimentation and heated internal debate among its volunteer editors, 404 Medi

Assistant Professor of Software Engineering Dusan Ramljak, left, collaborated with Vienna University doctoral students Alexander Neulinger and Lukas Sparer, and other researchers on a paper about using blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrency, for AI alignment with human ethics. Credit: Lisa Litzinger-Drayton / Penn State As people increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) in various areas of life to either save time or improve performance, the

Getty / Futurism Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. On February 10, an 18-year-old named Jesse Van Rootselaar killed two family members at her home, as well as five children and a teacher at a school in British Columbia, and eventually herself. It quickly emerged that

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The AI boom has brought with it untold levels of fraud and graft. One of the largest schemes so far, concealed within the record-breaking valuations of the AI hype cycle, was iLearning Engines, a relatively young tech company which quickly scaled itself to a $1.5 billion market cap. A scathing statement by the US Department of Justice alleges that iLearning, an “out-of-the-box AI platform

The lost-item tracker “Pixel Tag,” announced in August 2026, has launched in Japan. However, it was out of stock at the time of writing. Google Pixel Tag https://store.google.com/jp/product/pixel_tag?hl=ja Pixel Tag is a lost-item tracker that determines its location by using a large network built from smartphones in the vicinity of the item, like Apple’s “AirTag.” It is made of polycarbonate and metal. It supports the IP67 waterproof and dustproof rating

Meta’s Muse agentic platform launched on September 8, and has earned enough buzz to top the iOS download chart in the U.S. That’s an indicator of significant curiosity if nothing else—perhaps helped along by the announcement last week that a Muse beta feature can make phone calls on behalf of users. we're expanding our ☎️ 📞 beta for muse! https://t.co/ZJnXM2vb4U — Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) September 16, 2026 A Reuters report seems to confirm that thes

Shutterstock / Futurism For a time, it appeared as if AI would find broad acceptance among the American masses. The peanut gallery on social media happily embraced early image generation models as researchers appeared to make significant breakthroughs with the aid of their newfound tools. On paper, surveys found public attitudes toward the tech continued to improve into 2025 — before sharply reversing. In 2026, America’s honeymoon phase with AI seems to be

SANDY HUFFAKER / AFP via Getty Images It takes a lot to get your typical white-bread American riled up enough that they’re willing to go to jail. Getting arrested is a massive pain, bringing court dates, fines, and a record that can shadow your job and housing prospects for the rest of your life. For most folks, just the threat of jail time is enough to keep them on their best behavior. Yet in 2026, data centers have become one of the rare issues pushing m

Shutterstock / Futurism Nothing escapes the sloppifying tentacles of AI. Not even precious parent-child reading time. As Wired reports, moms and dads across the country are having AI-generated children’s books inflicted on them by the tots’ well-meaning grandparents, sometimes creating tensions within the family. Grandma and grampa think it’s cute to use AI to churn out a picture book with their grandchildren in it. But the parents often aren’t impressed,

Shutterstock The impact artificial intelligence has had on the environment has been nothing short of devastating. The data centers powering the boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators. And given the industry’s unrelenting appetite for more infrastructure supporting ever-more-resource-intensive AI models, the trend is only going to get worse from here. It’s reached the point that AI is giving

CGTrader / Futurism Online marketplaces are being flooded with AI slop — but is anybody willing to actually pay for it? In the case of CGTrader, a long-established online marketplace for 3D assets used by video game developers, film editors, and 3D printing nerds, users are sending a clear message. As 404 Media reports, the marketplace is being flooded by AI-generated assets, representing one in six models — but they only account for only $1 out of every $

20th Century Studios Capturing the zeitgeist has never been actor Gal Gadot’s strong suit. The Israeli performer’s most recent appearances on the silver screen — two lauded starring roles as Wonder Woman not withstanding — have quickly garnered her a reputation for being the butt of the joke, from singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” in an infamous viral March 2020 video to some truly harrowing line deliveries that have spawned countless impressions on social m

Last month, Pavel Rabtsevich—a 28-year-old product manager living in Spain—was hunting for planets. He didn’t have any formal training in astronomy or even a telescope. What he did have was an internet connection and subscriptions to multiple AI tools. He’d been combing through public astronomical data captured by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a space telescope operated by MIT astronomers and launched by NASA in 2018. As its name sugges