Archive: April 2019

Getty / Futurism An eyebrow-raising trend has emerged this year: tech leaders rating their employees’ productivity based on the number of AI tokens they use. The trend, ribbingly dubbed “tokenmaxxing,” has sparked discourse for symbolizing the Silicon Valley’s unbridled infatuation with using AI as much as possible — and, quite literally, at all costs. But what’s so far been a free or at least low-cost ride could be coming to a screeching halt. Setbacks pl

Published on May 19, 2026 at 17:34 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Meta Meta announced the reallocation of 7,000 of its employees into four new organizations dedicated to the development of AI tools and applications. Two days later, on May 20, the company will implement its layoff plan affecting 10% of its global workforce, which amounts to approximately 8,000 employees. This Monday, May 18, Meta announced the reallocation of 7,000 of its employees into four new organ

Unitree via YouTube Chinese tech company Unitree has quickly established itself as the brand to beat in the humanoids robotics industry, wowing observers with a string of headline-grabbing demos of its bots’ abilities in everything from acrobatics to basketball to manual labor to public rizz. Now the outfit has further differentiated itself with an explosive new offering: a fully functional 500 kilogram mecha suit called the GD01 that a human operator can

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The family of a 19-year-old college student who died of an overdose after consulting ChatGPT for medical advice is suing OpenAI, alleging that chatbot-generated drug recommendations were responsible for the teen’s death. Filed this morning in California, the complaint details how University of California, Merced sophomore Sam Nelson — whose death was first reported in January by SF Gate—

Getty / Futurism Even for employees who’ve managed to hold onto their jobs, AI is having a very real impact at work. As corporations boast about how much they’re investing in automation, the reality is that many employers are practically forcing the tech on their workers. Nowhere has that been more visible than software engineers, with companies including Meta even introducing “leaderboards” to show which employees are burning the most AI tokens in real-ti

Artificial intelligence research is still quite far from developing chatbots that seem convincingly human. But how much does the delivery of the chatbot’s chat affect the result? What would happen if chatbot responses were delivered by a real human? Researchers at the London School of Economics and Political Science have designed a series of experiments that test whether human delivery makes a difference in how people perceive an artificial intelligence sy

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A Chinese open-weight AI model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, has sent a shiver down the spines of AI tech executives. The powerful, 2.8 trillion-parameter model impressed with its competence, igniting a war with far more expensive alternatives being offered by the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. Top executives at both companies are sounding alarm, the Wall St

Jensen Huang is CEO of Nvidia, the leader among chip makers that are releasing new and more powerful processors much faster than before. In pursuit of the AI dream, the tech industry this year has plunked down about $400 billion on specialized chips and data centers, but questions are mounting about the wisdom of such unprecedented levels of investment. At the heart of the doubts: overly optimistic estimates about how long these specialized chips will last

Published on August 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI’s most intelligent model has just gained a turbo mode. Except that it won’t be coming to ChatGPT, no pricing has been announced, and only a handful of companies have access to it. On August 13, OpenAI opened a limited preview of Ultrafast, a new service tier for its programming interface. The idea comes down to one line: the same GPT-5.6 Sol, the same intelligence, but served up to 14

After a long and gloomy winter, many people are looking forward to some summer travel. Google has some new tools to help you plan, but like most of what Google does now, the new features lean heavily on AI. And unusually, the most interesting of these additions is launching first on iOS. Google says that lots of people tend to take screenshots when they’re planning a trip. Instead of letting those images become lost in your camera roll, Google will let you

When far-right white nationalist Jake Lang rolled up to a peaceful religious procession in Dearborn, Michigan earlier this month with a sign calling to “deport 100 million” Muslims, he clearly didn’t plan on making any friends. Predictably, the repeat-agitator of Michigan’s Arab-American community — who served four years in prison for his role in the January 6 insurrection — got into a scuffle with a small but angry crowd, resulting in three arrests. In ot

Joe Raedle/Getty Images As the bipartisan hate for data centers continues to grow, Texas governor Greg Abbott is suddenly singing a dramatically different tune. During a Sunday interview with ABC, Abbott said that AI companies have “basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them, and that’s why they got the backlash they deserve.” His comments indicate that it’s not just blue states growing wary of data centers. It’s a particular

I have a lot of thoughts about the finale of VisionQuest, which I’ll get into in our recap later today. But right now, all anyone can talk about is that end-credits scene, and who am I to deny you some wild speculation about what it could possibly mean? Let’s talk about what happened at the end of VisionQuest. VisionQuest actually has two end-credits scenes. The first one ties more into the show, while the second one ties more directly into Avengers: Dooms

Testing in Chen’s lab at Duke shows an AI model that can identify thousands of images transmitted wirelessly with high accuracy in the blink of an eye. Credit: Duke University As drones survey forests, robots navigate warehouses and sensors monitor city streets, more of the world's decision-making is occurring autonomously on the edge—on the small devices that gather information at the ends of much larger networks. But making that shift to edge computing i

Published on October 6, 2026 at 06:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Elon Musk / X SpaceXAI, Elon Musk’s subsidiary, which develops Grok, will soon be called SpaceXSI. Five days after Donald Trump’s decree banning “artificial intelligence” from official American vocabulary, the billionaire is falling in line. It will be the second name change in three months. Washington has officially stopped saying “artificial intelligence.” Since the September 29 decree, federal ag

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Following the release of TypeSafe's Jev, many AI players have launched competitors, and many similar open-source projects from the likes of Microsoft, OpenAI, and many more have since emerged. Yet Nandakishor Mukkunnoth, of ConvAI Innovations, said that he'd come up with the ba