Archive: October 2019

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of wireless spectrum available for all users to share. Engineers are employing artificial intelligence to dynamically manage the available wireless spectrum, with an eye towards reducing latency and boosting performance. But most AI methods for c

Alaska glaciers. Credit: Niccolò Maffezzoli. nmaffe.github.io/iceboost_webapp/ A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, "Marie Curie" fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the University of California, Irvine, and an associate member of the Institute of Polar Sciences of the National Research Council of Italy, has developed the first global model based on artificial intelligence to calculate the ice thickness distribution of all the glacie

An AI boss fired its first employee but only after humans reminded it of its own rules Aug 23, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points AI agent Luna, which runs a store in San Francisco for Andon Labs, decided for the first time to fire a human employee after repeated tardiness and other issues. Luna needed a human nudge to get there. Her self-written rulebook had dropped out of her memory, and she had largely tolerated the repeated tardine

If you are majoring in computer science or computer engineering right now, good luck on finding a good job when you get your diploma — even if you graduate from a top program. That’s the sobering takeaway from Hany Farid, a deepfake expert at the University of California, Berkeley, who appeared on NOVA’s “Particles of Thought” podcast to talk the current state of AI, the tech job situation that’s been shredded by multiple lay offs, and how should tech grad

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Last month, AI company Anthropic agreed to a blockbuster $1.5 billion settlement after being caught red-handed training its models on an enormous cache of pirated versions of copyrighted books and other material. Now, a similar lawsuit aimed at ChatGPT maker OpenAI has taken a dramatic turn, raising the possibility of yet another major legal escalation regarding AI-facilitated copyright infringement — and a potentially much big

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: STR / NurPhoto via Getty Images Inveterate overpromiser Elon Musk is teasing that his chatbot Grok could soon “achieve artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — a hypothetical form of AI system that surpasses humans in virtually every way, and remains the white whale of the AI industry. “My estimate of the probability of Grok 5 achieving AGI is now at 10 percent and rising,” Musk wrote on his website

Getty / Futurism A proposed bipartisan bill would seek to bar minors from interacting with AI chatbots, marking a forceful attempt to subject AI companies to federal regulation over concerns about minors and AI safety. Titled the GUARD Act, the bill was brought on Tuesday by senators Josh Hawley of Missouri (R) and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (D), and comes weeks after an emotional hearing on Capitol Hill featuring testimonies from parents of childre

Getty Images Reader, you probably don’t know much about Intel’s former CEO, Patrick Gelsinger. But boy has he been keeping himself busy with an incredible religious mission since being booted out of the massive chipmaker last year. In March of 2025, just months after leaving Intel, Gelsinger took charge at a tech company called Gloo, which is heaven-bent on spreading Christian values across Silicon Valley and Congress, according to a new profile from The G

GPT-6.1 Terra meets OpenAI’s Critical cyber threshold, and it’s cheaper than GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a model that operates desktop software, to all Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, and to developers through its API as gpt-6.1-terra. API prices are 50 percent below those of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol: $1 per million input tokens, $0.05 per million cached input tokens, and $5 per million output tokens. T

Getty / Futurism Last week, when the Washington Post announced a new service that uses AI to generate podcasts, we immediately warned readers to brace for disaster. Just as expected, the service — dubbed “Your Personal Podcast” — turned out to be an error-laden disaster right from the jump. As Semafor reported on Friday, many staffers at the embattled newspaper were outraged at the AI inventing and misattributing quotes and misinterpreting basic facts, jus

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images We all know that tech companies keep tabs on everything about our online habits. But it’s another thing to actually be confronted with just how much data they have on you. This was the experience of tech journalist Pranav Dixit, who experimented with using Google’s new “Personal Intelligence” feature for Gemini and its search engine’s AI Mode. And boy, did things get personal. The AI was

@weijiejason119Stabilizing a 15-second vertical rap video with Seedance 2.0: Splitting the prompt into 5 blocks to write "what not to do"AIAIGCSeedance2.0Seedance2.0miniWeb0Posted at 2026-11-12 ※ The services mentioned in this article are developed and operated by the author personally. This is not for promotion, but an article sharing insights gained from product development using a video generation model. Introduction Video generation models are improvin

The right-wing Big Tech executives saw an exodus on the horizon, saying talent would start fleeing the Bay Area because of the state’s progressive policies. They were right; the brain drain has come. Tech talent is leaving Silicon Valley and its progressive policies… and moving to communist New York City and Mayor Mamdani. According to a report from investment firm CBRE, the Big Apple is now the Big Apple (like the company), surpassing the Bay Area in most

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain You check prices online for a flight to Melbourne today. It's $300. You leave your browser open. Two hours later, it's $320. Half a day later, $280. Welcome to the world of algorithmic pricing, where technology tries to figure out what price you're willing to pay. Artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly remaking how companies set prices. Not only do prices shift with demand (dynamic pricing), but firms are increasingly ta