Archive: August 2019

Victims of the biggest reported crypto theft in history can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Binance announced Thursday that it has finished replacing all the cryptocurrency stolen in last month’s massive hack. The world’s largest crypto exchange said it committed more than $6.34 billion in company funds to cover the losses from the October 29 attack. Over the past two weeks, Binance has been buying replacement tokens through regular markets and over-the-

@ (Picture=Google) Google has launched 'Gemini 4 Hydrogen', which is specialized in fast processing speed and AI agent tasks. The completion speed is 2.5 times faster than previous lightweight models, and it recorded better performance than the top model 'Gemini 4 Argon' in external comprehensive performance evaluations. Google announced the release of Hydrogen through its official blog on the 12th (local time), and began providing it through Google AI Stu

Published on April 9, 2026 at 14:03 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Meta The self-proclaimed champion of open-source AI has just locked down his new model. The irony is hard to swallow. Meta launched Muse Spark on Wednesday, April 8, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by Alexandr Wang. The model was developed in nine months after a complete overhaul of the company's AI infrastructure. It already powers the Meta AI assistant on the web and

Muse, Meta’s new agentic AI platform will currently let you use 100 million tokens per week for free, according to a Threads post by Mark Zuckerberg. If you have no frame of reference for these kinds of usage limits, that might not mean much. Let me just tell you, it’s a lot. In July, it emerged that Meta was looking to go into business as a cloud provider for other companies. Critics at the time said it was a sign that Meta had overbuilt data centers. A p

(Picture=Shutterstock) It has been confirmed that a Chinese university related to the military, which is on the U.S. export control list, purchased NVIDIA's high-performance AI semiconductor, the H200. The university reportedly acquired the chips directly through a Chinese company and also secured advanced AI computing resources via server leasing, raising questions about the loopholes in U.S. semiconductor export controls to China. Reuters reported on Nov

Published on May 12, 2026 at 12:23 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a platform that leverages its most powerful AI models, including GPT-5.5 and the Codex agent, to analyze thousands of lines of code, detect security vulnerabilities, and generate fixes. Cybersecurity has become one of the main battlefields of artificial intelligence. After Anthropic and its Glasswing project, OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, has unveile

Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images If you thought English-language ChatGPT-prose was annoying, just wait until you get a load of its conversational habits in Chinese. A fascinating piece of reporting by Wired took a look at how ChatGPT handles Chinese, the global language with the highest number of native speakers, according to the Language School at Middlebury College. One of its go-to tics, the publication reports, is to answer questions with “我会稳稳地接住你,”

Editor丨&Different cells in the human body carry essentially the same DNA, yet they perform completely different functions. Cardiac muscle cells need to maintain contraction, immune cells need to recognize and respond to foreign threats, and neurons are responsible for transmitting information. One of the key factors determining these differences is how different cells read the genome and selectively activate or deactivate specific genes.This also presents

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Woe is the c-suite. After heedlessly embracing AI tech at the expense of their workers, some bosses are now whining to The Wall Street Journal that their companies are being overrun by out-of-control AI agents. One company grappling with the influx is Magnum Ice Cream, the parent company of Ben & Jerry’s. We’re just as stupefied by the idea of an ice cream maker deploying AI bots en masse

Everything we know so far about the Nvidia spy scandal targeting CEO Jensen HuangSee all StoriesPosted Nov 12, 2026 at 4:14 AM UTCRYoutubeRichard LawlerAOC chimes in on the Nvidia CEO scandal.Before a New York Times report claimed there’s evidence of a second affair by Jensen Huang and reports surfaced that Nvidia’s board could meet today to determine his fate, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to TMZ last night, focusing on asking why our e

@lemonIN(_ _)Assumptions prohibited.UnityGame DevelopmentAITAG26@@0 Overview At first glance, it looks like an ordinary block puzzle, but it is an unpredictable browser puzzle game filled with gimmicks that thoroughly defy the player's "common sense" and "fixed ideas." As you progress through the stages, new "assumptions" are induced, letting you enjoy a thought-provoking experience of breaking them down.

In May, I wrote about my SD Studio app—a wrapper around Stable Diffusion where you describe the image in ordinary language, while an LLM and presets select the prompt and settings. I built it to generate hundreds of illustrations for a choose-your-own-adventure book for free; why I needed my own app is also explained in the first article.I spent a very long time trying to get six fingers, but couldn't) Over the past six months, local image-generation model

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Humanoid robots could guide travelers and manage crowds at some Chinese border crossings after Shenzhen-based UBTech Robotics said it had won a multimillion-dollar contract to supply its latest models for a trial project. The company said Tuesday it had struck the $37-million deal with a humanoid robotics testing center based near China's border with Vietnam. The project will use mainly the latest version of UBTech's "Wal

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Tech companies are running hot, with Wall Street investors sustaining multi-trillion dollar valuations despite subdued earnings. Companies heavily invested in AI are particularly challenged on that front, thanks to heavy data center spending that isn’t yet — and may ever — result in sizable profits. The gap between those companies’ valuations and their ability to actually make money conti

Development of OCTOID legs performing camouflaging functions. Credit: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Underwater octopuses change their body color and texture in the blink of an eye to blend perfectly into their surroundings when evading predators or capturing prey. They transform their bodies to match the colors of nearby corals or seaweed, turning blue or red, and move by softly curling their arms or snatching prey. This behavior has long been

Conceptual diagram of TVKD: After teaching the human preference dataset to the teacher model, learning proceeds by delivering the teacher's information and the dataset to the student model. Credit: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) No matter how much data they learn, why do artificial intelligence (AI) models often miss the mark on human intent? Conventional comparison learning, designed to help AI understand human preferences,

Gemini 2.5 goes gold Even though Gemini 2.5 was revealed a few months ago, the older 2.0 Flash has been the default model all this time. Now that 2.5 is finally ready, the 2.5 Flash model will be swapped in as the new default. This model has built-in simulated reasoning, so its outputs are much more reliable than 2.0 Flash. Google says the release version of 2.5 Flash is better at reasoning, coding, and multimodality, but it uses 20–30 percent fewer tokens