Archive: April 2020

Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model for coding and office work. The company says it responds more than 30% faster than its predecessor and uses fewer tokens to complete many tasks, reducing the cost per task without changing its listed API price. The model is available with zero data retention and through Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Developers can select it on t

DJI’s Mic 2 All-in-One System includes two wireless microphones, a receiver, and a charging case, letting you capture professional-sounding video and podcast recordings while interviewing people, creating vlogs, and even live streaming. Both transmitters record internally in 32-bit float, giving you extra-wide dynamic range that protects against distortion if someone laughs or yells unexpectedly. The DJI Mic 2 has a range of 250 meters in open space. You c

The cuneiform tablet with the newly discovered hymn. Credit: Anmar A. Fadhil, Department of Archaeology, University of Baghdad, with the permission of the Iraqi Museum and the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years. A paper on this discovery is published in the journal Iraq. "It's a fascinating hymn that de

Bellini Capital CISO on AI security governance and the limits of patching faster In this Help Net Security interview, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital and ConnectSecure, explains why AI makes finding vulnerabilities faster while fixing them still takes time. He argues that “patch faster” is not enough and that teams need to cut exposure while remediation is pending. Blakley describes a shared metric for CIOs and CISOs, how his team tests for silent m

AI Generated Video via McDonald's Update: McDonald’s has issued a very strange response to the drama. Thanks to the rise in popularity of generative AI, mainstream companies like Coca-Cola and Google are jumping on the bandwagon to plop out new advertisements. There’s just one issue: pretty much everybody hates it. This year, McDonald’s decided to get in on the corporate slopfest with a 45-second Christmas spot cooked up for its Netherlands division by the

America’s top AI companies must submit new models for government review prior to public release… unless, of course, they don’t feel like it. That appears to be the gist of the Trump administration’s new AI safety assessment framework, which was shared with industry leaders in a closed-door briefing at the White House on Tuesday. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new rules will apply exclusively to the small handful of American AI developers buildin

ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images In a new interview with The Financial Times, Yann LeCun, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, finally dished on his abrupt exit from Meta in November. From how he tells it, most of it boils down to his increasingly fraught relationship with CEO Mark Zuckerberg — and his new golden boy, Alexandr Wang, who ended up bossing LeCun around even though he’s nearly four decades younger. LeCun had been at Zuckerberg’s company for

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images By the time the public harassment started, a woman told Futurism, she was already living in a nightmare. For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related t

Alex Wong/Getty Images During a November podcast appearance alongside OpenAI investor Grad Gerstner, CEO Sam Altman lost his cool. After Gerstner challenged him on how a company “with $13 billion in revenues” can “make $1.4 trillion of spend commitments” through 2030, Altman got catty. “If you want to sell your shares, I’ll find you a buyer,” Altman snapped. “Enough.” At the time, despite certain pangs of panic over a growing AI bubble, the hype was at an

Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Earlier this year, the head of Anthropic’s blockbuster Claude Code AI agent Boris Cherny boasted that “pretty much 100 percent” of the entire company’s code is AI-generated. “For me personally, it has been 100 percent for two plus months now, I don’t even make small edits by hand,” he tweeted at the time. But the glaring cybersecurity implications of giving an AI agent full access over a computer to carry out complex

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, describing it as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.” Company president Greg Brockman went further, saying it would be remembered as the world’s first genuine glimpse of artificial general intelligence—the dawn of a brave new world where computers are more intelligent than humans. What he didn’t mention is that with a jump in intelligence comes a greater difficulty in understanding how those systems wor

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amazon plans to lay off as many as 30,000 corporate employees this week, Reuters first reported on Oct. 27, citing anonymous sources. The layoffs, which Reuters reported are expected as early as Oct. 28, would be the largest wave in the company's history. Amazon previously had two series of cuts in late 2022 and early 2023 that ultimately resulted in 27,000 employees losing their jobs. Amazon has conducted layoffs since 2

Getty / Futurism Bad things happen when an AI chatbot latches onto one of your neuroses. The infamously sycophantic machines are driving many people into hypochondriac-like spirals, causing them to obsess over their health and convince themselves that they may suffer from deadly afflictions. 46-year-old George Mallon in Liverpool, England, told The Atlantic of how he spent hours everyday talking to ChatGPT after the preliminary results of a blood test sugg

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’ve been running headfirst into verification prompts seemingly everywhere you go online, you aren’t alone. Whether you’re jumping through hoops to satisfy a CAPTCHA or checking boxes to verify your identity, these brief interruptions are becoming hard to ignore. The reason behind it? Look no further than AI. As Swinburne University of Technology computer science professor Yang Xiang

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more For those who dream of talking to their pet like Dr. Dolittle or who often wonder what is going on in its head as it stares at and barks nonstop at that forgotten slipper in the corner of the room, artificial intelligence (AI) may be closer to making that wish come true. The technology is already helping scientists investigate animal communication through sounds, identifying patterns that may reveal clues a

Published on June 17, 2026 at 09:52 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Ana Luisa Soares (Unsplash) Just in time for the opening of VivaTech, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu makes a sovereign pivot: 655 million euros for AI, a Mistral chatbot for one million state employees, and a timeline for breaking ties with the American company Palantir. Coinciding with the official opening of the VivaTech show in Paris this Wednesday, June 17, 2026, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

Getty Images is well-known for its extensive collection of millions of images, including its exclusive archive of historical images and its wider selection of stock images hosted on iStock. On Friday, Getty filed a second lawsuit against Stability AI Inc to prevent the unauthorized use and duplication of its stock images using artificial intelligence. According to the company’s newest lawsuit filed in a US district court in Delaware, “Stability AI has copi