Archive: November 2019

An aerial view of meandering streams through the desert landscape of southeastern Jordan. Credit: United States Geological Survey/Unsplash Floods account for up to 40% of weather-related disasters worldwide, and their frequency has more than doubled since 2000, according to a recent report from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Global flood losses now average $388 billion a year. Simultaneously, droughts are becoming more widespread an

Published on May 27, 2026 at 09:01 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Alberto Pizzoli / AFP Three months after being banned by Trump, Anthropic shares the Vatican's platform with Pope Leo XIV to present the first encyclical on AI. Coincidence or strategy? On May 25, 2026, Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, shared the Vatican's platform with Pope Leo XIV to present Magnifica Humanitas, the first papal encyclical devoted to artificial intelligence. Exactly three

close notice This article is also available in English. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication. Don’t show this again. CrowdStrike introduces an AI kill switch at its company event Fal.Con Europe: If an agent deviates from its intended behavior, defenders should be able to terminate it directly where it is running. At the same time, the restart of the agent should be prevented and access to the corporate net

OpenAI has released two newcomers to its GPT-6 family of models, promising lower token costs, more intuitive communication, and an ongoing effort to prevent the kind of rogue agent behavior that has hung heavy over the company in recent months and added more fuel to already heated AI safety debates. GPT-6 Sol and Luna, launched Tuesday afternoon, cost about half as much as their GPT-5.6 counterparts, which made their public debut in July following a stagge

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images; Shutterstock Earlier this year, Anthropic refused to release its Mythos AI model to the public, saying it was simply too dangerous. At the time, executives claimed the model was capable of punching through powerful cybersecurity safeguards, pointing at researchers who used it to discover thousands of vulnerabilities in widely-used open source code. Months later, Ant

Recorded on July 28, 2021. Click here for transcript. We’ve spent the past few weeks burning copious amounts of AWS compute time trying to invent an algorithm to parse Ars’ front-page story headlines to predict which ones will win an A/B test—and we learned a lot. One of the lessons is that we—and by “we,” I mainly mean “me,” since this odyssey was more or less my idea—should probably have picked a less, shall we say, ambitious project for our initial outi

Artists defending a class-action lawsuit are claiming a major win this week in their fight to stop the most sophisticated AI image generators from copying billions of artworks to train AI models and replicate their styles without compensating artists. In an order on Monday, US District Judge William Orrick denied key parts of motions to dismiss from Stability AI, Midjourney, Runway AI, and DeviantArt. The court will now allow artists to proceed with discov

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 10 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Apple's planned M7 Ultra chip is being designed to support up to 1.5 TB of unified memory and to push AI performance toward the class of Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators, according to a new Bloomberg report published by Mark Gurman. But whether the lofty top memory config can

Shutterstock / Futurism With the rise of agentic models, why stop at using chatbots to look up answers? Some students are directing AI agents to “take” entire online courses for them, letting the software run in the background while they focus on better uses of their time, like doomscrolling on their phone or gaming. The New York Times unpacked the trend in a recent story, and it’s a testament to how extreme AI-enabled cheating has become, but also of the

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it is deepening its ties with the US government through a partnership with the National Laboratories and expects to use AI to “supercharge” research across a wide range of fields to better serve the public. “This is the beginning of a new era, where AI will advance science, strengthen national security, and support US government initiatives,” OpenAI said. The deal ensures that “approximately 15,000 scientists working acro

Shutterstock / Futurism New research gives us a grim portrait of how rampant AI usage is affecting young students’ academic performance and learning. In a study that tracked nearly 27,000 students in China between the ages of 12 and 18 (grades 7-12), around 80 percent reported using AI models like DeepSeek and ByteDance’s Doubao. The remaining 20 percent, who abstained from using AI, formed the control group. What the researchers from Stockholm University

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The grocery delivery service Instacart is using artificial intelligence to experiment with prices and charge some shoppers more than others for the same items, a new study found. The study from nonprofits Groundwork Collaborative and Consumer Reports followed more than 400 shoppers in four cities and found that Instacart sometimes offered as many as five different sales prices for the exact same item, at the same store an

Shov I’ve never shot a gun before — and it’s not an activity I’d actively seek out, given the grim implications of trivializing an act of violence by transforming it into recreation. Yet it’s never been easier to fire a weapon. Now, in fact, it doesn’t even require you to get off your couch. A just-launched website called Shov allows users to “shoot guns on the internet” by remotely-controlling a weapon right inside their web browser. The pneumatic weapons

Elliott Choy via YouTube As the public backlash to cheap AI-generated slop continues to grow, companies continue to insist on cutting costs by relying on the tech for their ads. Some are taking the trend to the extreme by creating deepfakes of videos uploaded by real influencers to market their products. Sleazy gambling and insider trading platform Kalshi is under fire after tech YouTuber Elliott Choy found that one of his videos had been turned into an ad

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatbots for is cranking out smut. These prompts, though, are far from private. According to a new scoop from 404 Media, hundreds of human contractors who were hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI are reviewing users’ image editing prompts and the photos that they upload. And many of these workers say they’re being inundated with dark and sexually explicit requests. J

Published on September 25, 2026 at 06:33 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI was presenting its integration into Siri as the showcase for its partnership with Apple. In a court filing submitted in Texas, the company now describes a feature that almost nobody was using. Apple and OpenAI announced their partnership at the opening of WWDC in June 2024: ChatGPT was set to assist Siri with questions that were too complex for it and with writing, directly from the

Google DeepMind has been tinkering with Lyria for a while now, offering limited access in developer-oriented products like Vertex AI. Lyria 3 is more capable than previous versions, and it’s also quicker to use. Just select the new “Create music” option in the Gemini app or web UI to get started. You can describe what you want and even upload an image to help the robot get the right vibe. And in a few seconds, you get music (or something like it). In case

Imagine initiating an AI system one time, and then getting billed $1,213,430 when the run finishes. No really, OpenAI wants you to imagine it. The company has published an intriguing blog post about “an autonomous vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline” that spawns countless agents that hunt down a massive number of software vulnerabilities, prove they’re scary, and create the code that would eliminate them. It sounds a little like a