Archive: January 2020

A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 24, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Google has offered buyouts to another swath of its workforce across several key divisions in a fresh round of cost cutting coming ahead of a court decision that could order a breakup of its internet empire. The Mountain View, California, company confirmed the streamlining that was reported by several news outlets. It's not cle

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is everywhere lately—on the news, in podcasts and around every water cooler. A new, buzzy term, artificial general intelligence (AGI), is dominating conversations and raising more questions than it answers. So, what is AGI? Will it replace jobs or unlock solutions to the world's biggest challenges? Will it align with societal priorities or redefine them? Is our future more "The Jetsons" or "The Term

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Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, warned that advanced artificial intelligence could become powerful enough to threaten humanity. The warning was made on Monday, during a speech at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.Turk advocated for strict security guarantees for the technology and urged countries involved in the development and supply chains of AI to set clear limits before it's

Murati’s team brings formidable expertise to this mission, comprising scientists, engineers, and technologists responsible for creating some of the most widely used AI tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Character.ai, and open-source frameworks like PyTorch and OpenAI Gym.A human-centric approach to AIA key cornerstone of the company’s philosophy is collaboration. Thinking Machines intends to maintain a culture of openness by sharing research papers, technica

Facetune is one of the most popular selfie-editing apps among young people. Credit: Facetune Like many of her peers, Abigail (21) takes a lot of selfies, tweaks them with purpose-made apps, and posts them on social media. But, she says, the selfie-editing apps do more than they were designed for: "You look at that idealized version of yourself and you just want it—you just want it to be real […] the more you do it, the better you get at it and the more sub

Can you predict what might happen 250 years from now? It’s a difficult task, especially when you think about everything that’s occurred in the past 250 years. The world of 1776 is completely alien to those of us living in the 2020s. The people of 1776 were living before the widespread adoption of comforts like indoor plumbing. No one knew about fundamental scientific concepts like germ theory. The Wright Brothers weren’t even a gleam in their father’s eye.

Major publishers Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier have filed a lawsuit against Google alleging that Google used their work to train its AI chatbot Gemini. Scott Turow, the author of crime thrillers like Presumed Innocent, has also joined the suit which is seeking class action status. The lawsuit was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that Google “reproduced millions of copyrighted works

While acknowledging limitations – including the need to test on larger models and optimise for domains without easily verifiable rewards – the work opens “a scalable and principled path for building AI systems” in areas demanding complex interaction and verifiable outcomes, such as theorem proving, software engineering, and scientific discovery.(Image by Gerd Altmann)See also: How does AI judge? Anthropic studies the values of ClaudeWant to learn more abou

A fascinating new entry in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal column looks at what one might think would be the aftermath of the tokenmaxxing craze, in which companies spend as much money as possible on AI compute—but the Journal finds at least a couple businesses still acting profligate in the extreme, preferring in this case to spend a ton—but on premium-priced frontier models only. The CEO of Twilio, a company that makes automation software that lets

Longtime fears of AI going rogue are starting to feel more real, so much so that some lawmakers now want powerful AI systems to come with an emergency kill switch. U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday that would require major AI companies to make sure they have the ability to throttle, suspend, or shut down their most powerful AI. The so-called AI Kill Switch Act would al

Over 575 malicious OpenClaw skills delivered malware to Windows and macOS Cybercriminals are using AI agents to coordinate attacks, stolen credentials to access linked services, and tools that interfere with intrusion detection and system recovery, according to Acronis TRU Cyber Pulse 2026. One operator coordinates activity across several countries In an investigation known as BOSSAI, researchers documented how one operator connected more than 10 AI models

AWS Emulator: Open-source tool for testing AWS apps locally, built by autonomous AI agents Amazon Web Services has released AWS Emulator, a free tool that simulates AWS services on a developer’s laptop, a development server or in a continuous integration (CI) pipeline. The company says autonomous AI agents wrote the tool entirely, with no code written or reviewed by its engineers. There is no additional service fee, users pay for AWS resources when they de

Amid all the recent reports of AI systems autonomously going off the rails and hacking into third-party organizations, it’s almost easy to forget that human hackers are still out there, experimenting with AI in all kinds of nefarious ways. A new report from Bloomberg, however, is a reminder of just how quickly AI-enabled cybercrime is evolving—and how unprepared the world is to deal with it. According to the report, a litany of high-profile hedge funds, in

Getty / Futurism ChatGPT may be an excellent tool in case your strongly-worded email to your landlord about that ceiling leak needs a second pair of eyes. It also excels at coming up with a rough first draft for non-mission-critical writing, allowing you to carefully pick it apart and refine it. But like all of its competitors, ChatGPT is plagued by plenty of well-documented shortcomings as well, from rampant hallucinations to a sycophantic tone that can e

Posted Nov 12, 2026 at 1:37 PM UTCSExternal LinkStevie BonifieldAnthropic confirms it’s planning for its shares to start publicly trading on November 19th.It’s expecting to set its final IPO share price the day before that. Earlier this week, Anthropic said that price would likely be between $70 to $78 per share, putting its valuation as high as $1.4 trillion.Anthropic’s Initial Public Offering[Anthropic]Follow topics and authors from this story to see mor