Archive: September 2019

Not so long ago, many businesses were urging employees to use AI as much as humanly possible. But as AI bills have ballooned, token-maxxing has yielded to old-fashioned belt-tightening. The consulting giant Accenture, which earlier this year reportedly told senior staff they could either start using AI or kiss their chances of being promoted to leadership goodbye, recently ordered many employees to cap their monthly Claude spending to $29 per month, accord

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter There's a private information leak most days, usually by way of misconfigured services or nasty security bugs. Sometimes, though, users will readily hand over private information without being aware of it. That's the case for over 300 organizations, including several Fortune

Shutterstock / Futurism Let’s get this out of the way: AI models don’t have feelings, and they’re certainly not “alive.” So what does it mean when someone’s accused of building an “AI torture chamber?” Apparently, it means that they must be stopped at all costs. On X — where else — alarm grew this week among AI “welfare” types over someone’s recreation of an experiment researchers conducted to explore “pain” signals in different LLMs. In the pre-print stud

Amazon / Futurism The tech industry has largely failed to win over the public when it comes to AI. Data centers have become a hot-button topic, with the vast majority of Americans — in a still-growing bipartisan cohort — now openly opposing them. Meanwhile, panicking executives are desperately trying to pivot the messaging to shore up some support, in last-ditch efforts that aren’t proving fruitful. As such, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a

Credit: Google Credit: Google Google also calls out the model’s improvement in ARC-AGI-2, which features novel logic problems that can’t be directly trained into an AI. Gemini 3 was a bit behind on this evaluation, reaching a mere 31.1 percent versus scores in the 50s and 60s for competing models. Gemini 3.1 Pro more than doubles Google’s score, reaching a lofty 77.1 percent. Google has often gloated when it releases new models that they’ve already hit the

Amazon and AWS have been using Anthropic’s balanced model, “Claude Sonnet 4.6,” to automatically route internal inquiries and system errors with AI while keeping costs down. They have reported success in reducing costs by 98% by replacing it with the decision-making model “Strands Decider.” Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider | Strands Agents https://strandsagents.com/blog/amazon-saves-millions-replacing-sonnet-with-strands-d

Shutterstock / Frame Stock Footage As crucial elections loom in the United States, AI chatbots are dumping political misinformation onto the populace with astonishing confidence. There’s evidence that the problem is widespread. According to recent reporting by the Washington Post, top AI chatbots are giving horribly flawed information to users asking for voting guides on the midterms. For example, when WaPo tasked ChatGPT with creating a voter guide for al

Shutterstock / Futurism Big tech got a bruising reality check after this week’s midterm elections. American voters overwhelmingly voted for candidates promising to hold Silicon Valley leaders accountable — while approving dozens of ballot measures opposing the construction of data centers. It was a striking and bipartisan message that was followed by mass panic on Wall Street. On Thursday, a massive sell off wiped out a record $2.3 trillion in market value

OpenAI announced Monday that a new role called “Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization” would exist, and be filled by none other than former Trump Administration Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. OpenAI’s announcement explains that Driscoll’s job will be to provide guidance on how AI might “strengthen national and cyber security, with a particular focus on working with U.S. allies to advance its responsible use.” Meanwhile, OpenAI’s teams will rec

Anthropic is expanding its AI assistant Claude with spreadsheet and digital whiteboard applications and integrating external software more closely into the user interface. Continue reading after the advertisement Among the new additions is Claude Sheets, a spreadsheet application integrated directly into Claude that creates tables with formulas and multiple worksheets from text instructions and enables collaborative editing with the AI assistant. Claude Wh

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Google’s AI models may not be in the lead by most measures right now, but the company does have one key advantage: your data. If you’re deep in the Google ecosystem, Gemini models have a lot of context on you already. Google’s latest Google Labs experiment, known as CC, aims to expand that kind of customization to the whole family. CC is an evolution of something that Google announced in 2025. The original CC eventually became Gemini’s Daily Brief, which c

@ohisama@githubBuilding a Custom MCP Server, Part 8Custom MCPAIClaudeDesktopDesktopCommanderVerilog0Posted at 2026-11-11TAG40@@ Overview I became interested in MCP servers, so I looked into them. I asked the AI. I tried using Desktop-Commander. I tried simulating Verilog. Do you know Verilog? Yes, I do. Verilog is a hardware description language (HDL) for describing digital circuits and is used in FPGA design as well as ASIC design and verification. It can

There are indications that the reasoning capabilities of Anthropic’s AI model “Claude Opus 5.5” may have declined sharply around November 3, 2026. Developer Shane Melaugh analyzed approximately 1,400 usage records for the AI programming assistant “Claude Code” and found significant changes in the wording used to express the AI’s reasoning and in the way it approached tasks, despite the model name remaining unchanged. is Opus 5.5 nerded?I just had Gemini 4

(“They’ll tell you they cost $16,000,” Norton says. “That’s a lie.”) We usually only see these robots on YouTube when they’re performing a synchronized martial arts routine, or dancing on “America’s Got Talent.” Here, they’re approachable. Even though I know it isn’t sentient, I want to be its friend. With Norton’s permission, I approach the robot, whose nickname is Gabe. For a moment, I’m not sure how to interact with something that has a LiDAR sensor whe

These personal apps won’t show up in Google Play’s search or listing pages, and won’t be shared with anyone except for the app’s creator. The idea comes as more people are experimenting with building their own applications via AI for specific, personal needs. However, being able to use that app on their own Android device has meant publishing to Google Play, making it accessible to the Play Store’s some 3 billion users. That led many to limit their vibe-co

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The startup today announced a new $25 million pre-Series A round, adding to the $8 million it raised earlier in the year from investors like Lightspeed and South Park Commons, bringing its total raise to $33 million. Nirva was founded in 2025 by two former Meta Reality Labs employees, Wei Lyu and Jason Chen, along with Hanying Hu, who founded a fashion and jewelry brand. The company’s first device is a pendant, which can also be worn as a bracelet. The dev

Synced Report On August 17, programmers worldwide were forced to endure a collective outage. After writing the code and clicking Push, the progress bar spun in place; automated tests froze, pull requests couldn't be merged, and even the AI coding assistant Copilot went offline. The system remained stuck for more than seven hours, and that day, developers around the world waited for it to catch its breath. Three days later, GitHub Chief Technology Officer V