Archive: May 2019

Getty / Futurism The AI industry is no stranger to bad press, from fears over sweeping job losses to a burgeoning mental health crisis, suicide and even murder linked to the tech. But what’s really top of mind for AI tech leaders, according to new reporting by The Economist, is that their tech could soon be implicated in a Chernobyl-style event — referring to the 1986 catastrophe that’s now nearly synonymous with the failings of the nuclear industry. Exper

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Another tech giant is culling immense numbers of workers. On Thursday, prominent Australian software firm Atlassian announced it was laying off ten percent of its workforce, or about 1,600 employees. Like a growing number of its peers, it wasn’t shy about sharing why: a pivot to AI. The company, which makes most of its money by selling collaboration software, said it will “rebalance” its

New Intelligence Yuan Report On November 11, 2026, Volcano Engine and AMD jointly released a new generation of cloud server instances based on the sixth-generation AMD EPYC processor (codenamed "Venice") and opened up an invitation for testing to customers, further deepening their technical collaboration in the field of cloud computing infrastructure, and providing more powerful, efficient, and flexible cloud computing power support for enterprises' digita

Getty / Futurism Even if you don’t know Nick Bostrom’s name, you’re almost certainly familiar with the idea he’s most famous for. Back in 2003, when he was at Oxford, Bostrom penned an influential philosophical paper with the incredible title of “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?” Loosely speaking, his argument was that sufficiently advanced civilizations will eventually build sophisticated simulations of their own ancestors — and that, given enough

Published on June 6, 2026 at 12:00 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Pexels Data centers are becoming a genuine industrial issue, and for good reason: their energy consumption has exploded as the number of projects devoted to generative AI has multiplied. To avoid threatening its power grid, Europe is going to regulate the existing infrastructure and future projects. Every request sent to a chatbot starts up, somewhere, a data center that devours electricity. Multiplied

Robot Outlook (public account: robot_pro) Author | Zhong Chen and Zhou Jiaqi Editor | Moying Robot Outlook reported on November 12 that today, the top conference in the field of robot learning, CoRL 2026 officially announced its list of award winners. This year's CoRL submissions reached a record high. According to official figures, CoRL 2026 received 2,094 valid submissions, an increase of approximately 184.1% over the 737 received last year. Of these, 68

Google’s DeepMind AI division will face off against humanity’s number one Go player, Ke Jie, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua. Ke Jie is currently the top-ranked Go player in the world. DeepMind’s Go-playing program AlphaGo played against Go grandmaster Lee Se-dol in March. Lee lost to the computer 4-1. Although Lee was the world’s top-rated Go player between 2007 and 2011 and is widely considered to be one of the greatest Go players the world

Published on August 11, 2026 at 09:45 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Dima Solomin (Unsplash) OpenAI has just announced GPT-5.6-Cyber, a brand-new artificial intelligence capable of hunting for zero-day vulnerabilities and building complete exploit chains. Reserved for verified professionals from the famous Daybreak program, this model responds to 95% of offensive requests. This is what distinguishes it from the standard version of ChatGPT. OpenAI has just unveiled GP

Later today, a former Facebook employee, Sarah Wynn-Williams, will testify to Congress that Meta executives “repeatedly” sought to “undermine US national security and betray American values” in “secret” efforts to “win favor with Beijing and build an $18 billion dollar business in China.” In her prepared remarks, which will be delivered at a Senate subcommittee on crime and counterterrorism hearing this afternoon, Wynn-Williams accused Meta of working “han

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 7 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The identifiability of AI-generated content is critical as more and more people use text and images from these services, and the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) set a deadline of August 2, 2026 for AI service providers to start implementing identifiability

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In artificial intelligence, 2025 marked a decisive shift. Systems once confined to research labs and prototypes began to appear as everyday tools. At the center of this transition was the rise of AI agents—AI systems that can use other software tools and act on their own. While researchers have studied AI for more than 60 years, and the term "agent" has long been part of the field's vocabulary, 2025 was the year the concep

Moonshot released the Kimi K3.1 Pro weights, as promised by November 4. It is an MoE (a model in which only some experts run for each token) with 2.8 trillion parameters, of which 104 billion are active. There are 896 experts, with 16 active per token plus 2 shared experts. Of the 93 layers, 69 use KDA linear attention and 24 use sparse Gated DSA. These are the attention mechanisms the model uses to connect the current token to the preceding text. The cont

Tomography of a cell with multiple lipid vesicles transported to the cell surface. Credit: UPF/Sasha Meek An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls constitutive exocytosis: the uninterrupted delivery of spherical molecular packages to the cell surface. This is an essential activity present in virtually all organisms to preserve cell fitness and other vital functions such as communicati

Credit: Seagate Credit: Seagate After dipping to historical lows earlier in the decade, storage pricing per TB has exploded amid the AI boom. According to data collected by Tom’s Hardware, some solid-state drives now cost two to three times their historic lows, and it’s not just SSDs. Mechanical drives haven’t been immune either. According to PCServerParts, a Seagate Exos 24TB drive that sold for $298.99 in the summer of 2025 was priced at $699.99 by Augus

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For an increasing number of Americans, a new kind of co-worker is making their work easier. One in five Americans is now using artificial intelligence in at least part of their work, according to the Pew Research Center. But what does it mean, and what does it take, to collaborate well with AI? Until recently, the answer to that question has been technical literacy skills like prompt engineering, knowing how to get the be