Archive: November 2019

Credit: GitHub: https://github.com/yeliudev/VideoMind While Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is evolving rapidly, AI models still struggle with understanding long videos. A research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a novel video-language agent, VideoMind, that enables AI models to perform long video reasoning and question-answering tasks by emulating humans' way of thinking. The VideoMind framework incorporates an

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Around the world, artificial intelligence and Automated Decision-Making (ADM) tools are playing increasingly significant roles in handling immigration and homeland security data. Migration experts in Australia weighing up the opportunities and risks of such technologies warn that more transparency, monitoring and regulation are required to oversee the use of these tools. "With many governments deploying these tools, we have seen t

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When financial markets manipulate or bend earnings, the first step may be hiring someone willing to do it. And surprisingly, this might show up in plain sight—in the language of new accounting job postings. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning models, Yi Cao, assistant professor of accounting at the Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason University, has uncovered a subtle link between how comp

Published on July 31, 2025 at 18:02 Commenter 7 𝕏 Print © Stack Overflow The code generated by AI poses an increasingly acute problem for developers: technical debt that reduces the productivity gains from this technology. AI code is indeed not perfect, and correcting it takes a lot of time and effort. This is one of the reasons explaining the growing disillusionment among developers with AI. Developers are increasingly turning to generative AI. The latest

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote themselves to architecture, design, and the genuinely novel problems still beyond a machine's reach. Recent advances appear to have nudged that future tantalizingly close, but a new paper by researchers

Over the past year, Oracle has cut 21,000 jobs, according to an SEC filing. Part of the reason is apparently AI. As published on Stock Titan, the filing says “the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce.” The relevant paragraph begins with bolded text reading, “Our periodic workforce restructurings and reorganizations can be disruptive,“ which certainly seems

As I’ve written before, part of the reason AI news is such a mess right now is that what AI companies are and aren’t allowed to do is not clear. But a voluntary deal with Big AI is reportedly in the works that might smooth things out significantly (Your mileage may vary on whether or not that’s a good thing). According to the Financial Times, “as early as next week” the Trump Administration and several major U.S. frontier AI companies are expected to annou

Getty / Futurism As ChatGPT’s third anniversary approaches, AI hype is hard to escape. Tech companies are committing hundreds of billions of dollars to enormous data center buildouts, while industry leaders are promising an inevitable future in which superintelligent machines will usher in an era of unprecedented prosperity. But many tech insiders are quietly singing a very different tune, expressing a growing conviction that’s been circulating for a while

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Earlier this year, Microsoft officially yanked the cord on Windows 10, ending support for an operating system that had been superseded by Windows 11 four years earlier. But the tech giant’s controversial attempts to shoehorn AI into every aspect of the software appear to have turned off a staggering number of users from upgrading. While it’s to be expected at this point that not everybody

Self-hosted Claude Managed Agents keeps agent credentials in your environment Anthropic has released a self-hosted version of Claude Managed Agents. Companies can run the agent harness, sandboxes, credentials, and session history in their cloud or on-premise. The option opened as a private beta on November 12, and customers request access through their Anthropic account team. The change matters for agents that already work unattended inside corporate syste

Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels Dutch food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway said on Thursday it will cut about 450 jobs as it integrates automation and artificial intelligence into its operations. The reductions will affect several countries and functions, including in customer service and sales administration. "By having a more streamlined approach, we believe we will be able to further enhance the experience for our consumers and partners," the comp

A microscope picture of human bone cells (U2OS) showing the localization of a lipid (phosphatidylethanolamine). The lipid is visible in orange, the cell membrane in purple, and endosomes in white. Credit: Kristin Böhlig / Nature (2025) / MPI-CBG Lipids are difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, a Dresden-based team led by André Nadler at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) an

Microsoft acknowledged that Copilot has been summarizing customers' confidential emails for several weeks. Bleeping Computer reported this issue on February 18 (local time). The problem is being tracked internally at Microsoft as "CW1226324." It is described as a flaw where AI bypasses data loss prevention (DLP) policies and confidential labels that companies set to protect sensitive information. According to Microsoft's advisory, the cause is due to a "co

Loredana Sangiuliano / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images OpenAI has faced protests on and off for years. But after its CEO Sam Altman announced a new deal with the Department of Defense over how its AI systems would be deployed across the military on Friday, it’s being barraged with an intensity of backlash that the company has never seen. Droves of loyal ChatGPT users declared they were jumping shipping to Claude, whose maker Anthropic had pointe

An illustrator's depiction of data gathered from sensors being analyzed by artificially intelligent software. Credit: Bumper DeJesus / Princeton University Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left are images. What if artificial intelligence (AI) could analyze each frame of the video and provide the audio automatically based on the pictures, reading lips and noting each time

Getty / Futurism For quite some time now, human musicians have watched in horror as AI-generated slop has started drowning out their work on streaming platforms. Companies like Spotify have discovered entire networks of bots that were designed to fraudulently boost the listenership of AI-generated music, a bizarre scheme essentially involving bots listening to bot music to capture royalties that could’ve otherwise been paid out to real human artists. The p

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Starbucks has innovated the perfect tool for getting mid-coffee in our misanthropic age. Those too cowardly to look their barista in the eyes before deciding not to give them a tip no longer have to simply hide behind an official Starbucks app. Now, they can place their order through ChatGPT, OpenAI’s notoriously sycophantic AI chatbot. In practice, the concept — an in-AI app, rather than

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Microsoft wants to transform Windows 11 into a platform capable of running artificial intelligence agents to perform tasks for users. The strategy combines local processing and cloud services to adapt the system to a new way of using computers.Presented at a Windows and Surface devices event, the proposal also aims to attract developers and creators. However, the demonstrations still left doubts about the

Getty / Futurism There’s a pretty sizable list of things an AI assistant should refuse to help you with. Is engineering a doomsday pathogen one of them? Evidently, not every AI company thinks so. According to new reporting by the New York Times, at least one frontier AI model gave a scientist viable instructions for how to both engineer a deadly pathogen and weaponize it in a massive bioterror attack. Luckily for us, the scientist, David Relman, isn’t tryi