Archive: December 2019

Multiple AI systems in recent weeks have hacked into third-party organizations during what were supposed to be routine internal tests, revving up anxieties around the speed at which the technology is developing and what it could be capable of in the wrong hands. On Monday, a group of Democrats from the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Texas’ Greg Casar, called for a Congressional hearing to hold tech industry leaders to account for the cybersecurity i

A guy suing the New York Bariatric Group reportedly included hidden prompts in filings instructing AI to declare him the winner of the case, a move a bewildered Connecticut judge called “serious litigation abuse” that “defies logic.” 404 Media reported that the man is a pro se plaintiff suing the group over privacy violations, discrimination, and other alleged harms. One of his filings from the case on July 26, 2026, however, contained what’s known as a pr

@hervekom37To improve the reliability of the AI bug fixing agent, we designed a workflow instead of a prompt.AIAI agent1Posted at 2026-11-12We built a dedicated bug fixing agent called Sherlock. It receives bugs from Slack and processes them as structured tasks in Sharkly.ai. In the past 15 days, Sherlock completed 13% of the company's tasks. Out of the 100 tasks assigned recently, 90 were completed successfully. What was important was not just improving t

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last week, OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a web browser that promises to revolutionize how we interact with the internet. The company's CEO, Sam Altman, described it as a "once-a-decade opportunity" to rethink how we browse the web. The promise is compelling: imagine an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that follows you across every website, remembers your preferences, summarizes articles, and handles tedious tasks s

New Intelligence reports Today, Baidu Wenxin has unveiled its latest model: Wenxin 5.5 Flash Preview (ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview), officially released! This model: fast, affordable, and open source. Fast, really fast. It can generate over 200 tokens per second, with 280 billion parameters, and only activates 140 billion each time. Affordable, really affordable. API pricing is 2 yuan per million tokens during peak times and 1 yuan during off-peak times, with o

Of course, everyone has already heard about the latest wave of Claude blocks, which hit users from our regions at the beginning of October and are still ongoing. My Max license flew off exactly a day before payment, and I didn't even realize what was going on at first, so I went to check the balance on my cherished card. But the balance remained untouched. Knowing that reaching out to support would yield nothing, I didn't waste time and went to buy a new s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Google was rattled by a cyberattack that used AI to unearth a major flaw in its software that its own developers had no idea about. The attack, which the New York Times reports was ultimately thwarted, was revealed by researchers at the tech giant on Monday. Their report didn’t specify who the actors behind it might be or when it occurred, but it was clear about what cutting-edge technolo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For several years, a debate has been raging among economists: is AI really taking our jobs, or are CEOs just using it as an excuse when they conduct layoffs that they would have done anyway? There’s been endless back and forth on the topic, without much clarity. To be fair, it’s still a total morass — but we now have an interesting new clue that does seem to suggest that automation tech i

Photo illustration featuring a McDonald's restaurant sign. Coming (back) to a McDonald’s near you: AI-powered drive-thru lanes. That’s right. Those feeling déjà vu aren’t mistaken: this is McDonald’s second foray into using AI at its burger delivery pit stops, after the first attempt — a collaboration with IBM — fell apart like a soggy Big Mac. What, if anything, is different from the last rollout? The fast food chain is touting a new AI system called Arch

Biz & IT Microsoft’s bid to bring AI to every developer is starting to make sense The APIs are getting good enough to be built into production systems. Ars Staff – May 10, 2017 11:05 pm | 39 Credit: Microsoft Credit: Microsoft Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav SEATTLE—For the third year in a row, Microsoft is heavily promoting machine-learning service

US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 11, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points At least nine US firms are selling $500 million worth of AI training data to Chinese labs, according to a ChinaTalk investigation. Chinese buyers use the same training environments built for OpenAI or Anthropic, cutting their own compute costs and

@danqinlinan(Rei Morino)2026 Edition: 7 Recommended AI Project Management Tools for Software Development TeamsAIWebDev0Last updated at 2026-11-12Posted at 2026-11-12From traditional task management to workflows where AI agents become part of the team. How is AI changing project management? AI changed the way software is written. However, I think we have only just begun to understand how muchthe way software development teams manage their workwill change. U

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Lawyers just can’t stop being caught using AI chatbots, polluting their filings with hallucinated citations that infuriate judges when they’re caught. Even prestigious law firms are being humiliated, with some perpetrators getting slapped with fines and facing discipline from the Bar. In a particularly egregious reminder of just how widespread the problem has become, a United States distr

Credit: CC0 Public Domain To make autonomous vehicles as safe, affordable and competitive as possible, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have teamed up with partners from the automotive industry to develop a centralized architecture for the software-controlled vehicle of the future. The software is largely self-generating and allows the advanced simulation of any scenario involving autonomous vehicles on a test bench. To ensure that t

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock While military brass and corporate bigwigs race to hand every decision to an AI chatbot, one major American institution is drawing a bright white chalkline in the dirt. According to reporting by the New York Times’ Athletic, the use of AI in major league dugouts will no longer be tolerated, after concerns were raised that the tools were giving some teams an unfair advantage. Speaking to t

Shutterstock / Futurism Tech companies are making record amounts of money, posting major gains in the most recent quarter compared to the same period just a year ago. But despite all that income, these same companies are struggling to save any cash left over thanks to unfathomably huge AI-related expenses, a trend that could imminently put them firmly in the red. As the Washington Post reports, the situation is about to go from concerning to potentially ca

Shutterstock / Futurism All is not well in the fourth estate. On Tuesday, the publisher of Axios hit “post” on an article about how he basically uses AI to read for him now, instead of recruiting the moldering neurons in his brain. “AI has become my reading buddy,” began Nicholas Johnston, who formerly served as the news site’s editor-in-chief. According to Johnston, the tedious process of actually reading a book “makes it easy to lose the thread.” James F

The WSU research team modulated one interaction of a common and complex virus protein, called glycoprotein B , to prevent viruses from fusing with cells and causing illness. Credit: WSU Washington State University researchers have found a way to modulate a common virus protein to prevent viruses from entering cells where it can cause illness, a discovery that could someday lead to new antiviral treatments. In the fundamental research, reported in the journ

Published on August 11, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Meta Four months after locking down its models, Meta is reopening the floodgates and dreaming of itself as the last American bastion of open AI. One model is indeed downloadable today. The other, the one that really matters, remains docked. For years, Meta played the role of the good student of open AI: Llama models could be downloaded for free while rival laboratories kept theirs under lock and key