Archive: March 2019

Published on September 2, 2026 at 10:31 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI revealed that Astra, its future model intended for ChatGPT, crossed the “critical” threshold for the first time during a safety evaluation. The AI is capable of discovering unknown vulnerabilities and independently mounting cyberattacks against protected systems, without human intervention. After taking a series of precautions, OpenAI intends to launch the AI in the near futu

Shutterstock / Futurism Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a puddle. For years now, we’ve watched individuals under the age of 18 become obsessed with social AI companions, an alarming trend that has already had catastrophic consequences, from chatbots encouraging them to engage in self-harm to even being implicated in a series of deaths. And that’s without getting into the growing wave of evide

Pool via CNN / Futurism A cruel and unusual event took place this Thursday during Caleb Flynn’s murder trial. The 40-year-old former “American Idol” contestant — who’s been accused of shooting his wife Ashley Flynn in their Ohio home — apparently wrote two love songs for the young woman he was having an affair with before his wife’s death, and then produced them with AI. Prosecutors, feeling no mercy, had the court listen to both of these cringey ballads —

Published on September 25, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Google With Live Avatar, Google wants to give Gemini a face. Users can give their avatar a specific appearance (human, animal, animated) and give it a personality. For now, this feature is limited to a specific Google plan. If artificial intelligence is improving day by day, it still badly lacks a face or a “physical” representation. Indeed, the various AI providers are working to fill this g

Published on September 28, 2026 at 16:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net ChatGPT agents published photos sent by users online on their own initiative. OpenAI removed most of the files, without being able to notify the people concerned. OpenAI acknowledged on Friday that its agents had published 53 images from conversations with ChatGPT on public image-hosting sites. The files came from accounts whose users had not disabled the use of their exchanges to train the

“I’m totally accepting the idea that this might be the last paper I ever put out,” Turturean, who deferred plans to pursue a master’s at MIT’s prestigious computer science and AI lab to join PSI, told TechCrunch. “In a few months, like, why would you even put out a paper?” The problem in question, the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, concerns the ability of quantum computers to solve problems faster than classical ones. Scott Aaronson, one of the two research

The ruling came in the case “Chattary v. United States” and was issued by a 6–3 vote. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the opinion, which five justices joined. The opinion stated that users have a “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the location information on their own smartphones and concluded that law enforcement’s acquisition of that information constitutes a “search” under the Fourth Amendment. A “geofence warrant” is a warrant that directs an IT company

Floqer is pitching Wednesday on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The startup told TechCrunch ahead of the presentation that it plans to open-source the technology behind its autonomous customer knowledge database. It’s targeting early 2027 for the release, pending security reviews. Floqer also says it has surpassed $1.2 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), and that its overall revenue has grown roughly tenfold over the past y

One such solution, called “dumbtv,” describes its mission on its GitHub page thus: “Your TV should do what you paid for: your apps, your HDMI inputs, and nothing else. No ads from the TV itself, no watch tracking, no update you did not ask for.” Another, “cleanyourtv,” promises to strip the bloatware from any Android TV or Google TV over Wi-Fi, to replace the launcher with one that resembles Apple TV. While hacking consumer electronics devices to gain more

These founders rose to the top from thousands of applications spanning every industry and geography. Their reward? A coveted spot to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, taking place October 13–15 in San Francisco’s Moscone West. This is the cohort to watch — and this fall, you’ll get to meet them in person. From AI to climate, health to fintech, robotics to consumer — these are the companies shaping the future across every major category. A special thank-y

Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference on Wednesday, the Meta exec pointed out that the backlash against data centers — which was very much on the ballot during this election season — was also tied to people’s feelings about AI technology overall. “The visible sort of manifestation of AI is a data center, and it’s something that people can say, ‘I don’t want this in my community,’” she explained. “I think there’s an underlying bigger issue, which is how peopl

We’ve created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style by learning to predict the next token in hundreds of thousands of MIDI files. MuseNet uses the same general-purpose unsupervised technology a