Archive: July 2019

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in many countries worldwide to provide public social services, assisting in entitlement decisions to state-paid pensions and unemployment benefits, assessments of asylum applications, and assignments of places at kindergartens. AI technology is intended to help apply fairness criteria in the allocation of this kind of support to individuals and to assess potential ben

Making Qwen 2.5-Max accessible To make the model more accessible to the global community, Alibaba has integrated Qwen 2.5-Max with its Qwen Chat platform, where users can interact directly with the model in various capacities—whether exploring its search capabilities or testing its understanding of complex queries. For developers, the Qwen 2.5-Max API is now available through Alibaba Cloud under the model name “qwen-max-2025-01-25”. Interested users can ge

Credit: AI-generated image What if we could design a machine that could read your emotions and intentions, write thoughtful, empathetic, perfectly timed responses—and seemingly know exactly what you need to hear? A machine so seductive, you wouldn't even realize it's artificial. What if we already have? In a comprehensive meta-analysis, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we show that the latest generation of large language mo

If you’re not already familiar with the concept known as “Tilly Norwood,” it’s an AI-generated representation of a person, and in marketing materials, it’s treated vaguely like a celebrity who can sing and act, when it is, in fact, nothing more than a high-tech version of someone’s doodle of a pretty lady. The latest Tilly Norwood news is that apparently the doodle is now going to be added to a feature film. The production, according to NBC (which apparent

SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images AI companies are continuing to pour ungodly amounts of money into building out data centers, in an enormous bet that both analysts and tech leaders warn may not pay off for many years to come — if it ever does. OpenAI most recently committed to spending well over a trillion dollars before the end of the decade as it continues to burn oodles of cash each quarter, enormous losses that are having investors asking some hard

Futurism When Elon Musk’s social media platform X, recently rolled into xAI, got bought by Musk’s space company SpaceX, it was becoming part of what’s now being considered a trillion-dollar empire. I mean, who are we kidding? It was owned by the world’s richest man in the first place. It’s the personal playground of Grok, an AI model so supposedly-advanced that it can also-supposedly probe the nature of reality itself. It’s a fount of Citizen Journalism. I

You can’t say Elon Musk has concealed his motives when it comes to having SpaceX buy Cursor. The purpose is to catch up with AI leaders OpenAI, and, especially, Anthropic. A new report from the Information published Monday describes a supposed August meeting in which he spelled this all out, leaving no mystery about how he felt. The Information’s report comes from five anonymous insiders, the publication says. This meeting was apparently on or around Augus

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images OpenAI’s efforts to transform online shopping are faltering. According to new reporting from The Information, the company is walking back its plan to allow users to buy products suggested by ChatGPT directly inside the chatbot. Now, the company will route users to a connected third-party app, where they can input payment information and finalize the purchase. “We are evolving our commerce

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Published on April 22, 2026 at 11:58 Updated on April 23, 2026 at 10:52 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Claude Mythos, the model that Anthropic wanted to keep out of reach, has fallen into the hands of a group of mysterious internet users. Since the day of the announcement, they have been using the generative AI without Anthropic's knowledge. The startup had everything planned to protect Claude Mythos, but its precautions were not enough to prevent a new lea

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The long awaited Democratic Party “autopsy” of the 2024 election failure has finally been released, and it’s riddled with errors. Facing mounting pressure to release the report, Democratic National Convention chairman Ken Martin finally relented, sharing an “unfinished’ draft with CNN. Though Martin caveated to CNN that the report wasn’t ready for public consumption — despite having two y

Higgsfield via YouTube This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative story claiming that a fully AI-generated movie called “Hell Grind” was being screened at the iconic Cannes Film Festival, dropping a nuclear bomb in the middle of the already-heated debate on the tech’s intrusion into the art and business of cinema. “Four street thieves are on the road to hell, literally, in an action-adventure movie debuting at the Cannes Film Festival Thursday,”

OpenAI will preview its next cybersecurity-focused model, GPT-6 Cyber, as soon as a few days from now, Fortune reported on Thursday. It’s also reportedly launching some kind of product that will aid customers in deploying the new model securely; that product has yet to be named, according to Fortune. The announcement is particularly notable as CEO Sam Altman has joined Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in calling for an AI slowdown after models at Anthropic, Goog

There’s nothing funny about the death of Ashley Flynn, a 37-year-old Ohio teacher and mother of two children gunned down earlier this year. Her family told Fox News in a statement back in February, “our hearts are shattered.” It’s 2026, however, and as is so often the case with tragedies lately, events are too absurd to maintain the seriousness needed to digest them properly. One might even say “Circumstances spoke louder than hearts ever could.” The atten

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: lev radin / Shutterstock Across the United States, lawmakers are increasingly caught between two competing pressures: the massive investment flowing into the tech industry to build AI data centers, and a growing, bipartisan backlash against those same facilities, not to mention the massive tech corporations funding them. In New York, governor Kathy Hochul is giving in to the former — at least on paper