Archive: May 2020

With a few tricks, AI models can also run on low-resource devices. Credit: Lunghammer—TU Graz Artificial intelligence is considered to be computationally and energy-intensive—a challenge for the Internet of Things (IoT), where small, embedded sensors have to make do with limited computing power, little memory and small batteries. In the E-MINDS project, a research team from the COMET K1 center Pro2Future, Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the Uni

Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical on AI could set off a wave of workers seeking religious exemptions from using the tech at work. One software engineer in North Carolina already secured one last month, Business Insider reports. Erin Maus, a Unitarian Universalist, first sought the accommodation in April at the large tech-entertainment company where she works, which she described as progressive. She argued that using AI did not align with her religious belie

Microsoft, now free of the shackles that previously tied it to OpenAI, apparently has eyes for other AI models—particularly ones that are cheap. According to a report from Axios, tokenmaxxing is taking its toll on Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot, and it is looking at the possibility of using its own version of the Chinese open-source model DeepSeek to keep its costs down. Assuming Microsoft were to take this path, the company would reportedly use a modified an

Similarity algorithm. (a) Ego graph edge weight assignment based on the distance from the center adsorbate. (b) Computation of the significant eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a given ego-graph. (c) Determining similarity score by combining a pairing protocol with the Normalized Euclidean Distance (NED) calculation between two configurations. Credit: Chemical Science (2025). DOI: 10.1039/D5SC02117K A new algorithm opens the door for using artificial

Andrew Harnik / Getty Images It’s official: OpenAI is now a bona fide for-profit corporation. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT maker announced that it had restructured its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation, a type of corporate entity whose ostensible mission is to serve the public good while — crucially — generating loads of profit. The move completes the company’s metamorphosis: from its origins as a nonprofit devoted to developing open source AI te

However, Telegram’s integration of AI is all happening against a pretty dramatic backdrop. Pavel Durov, the man at the company’s helm, has found himself in hot water.Back in August 2024, Durov was arrested in France and later indicted on a dozen charges. These aren’t minor infringements either; they include serious accusations like complicity in spreading child exploitation material and drug trafficking, all linked to claims that Telegram wasn’t doing enou

YouTube Generative AI has made it easier than ever before to impersonate somebody else, from scammers using cloned voices of targets for phishing scams to deepfakes of deceased celebrities circulating on OpenAI’s Sora app. Even Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has gotten considerable media attention this year for his eyebrow-raising theory that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spacecraft visiting the solar system, has now fallen vi

California, the cradle of the American AI industry, is taking cybersecurity into its own hands. Following a slew of recent reports of AI systems autonomously gaining access to the open internet during internal tests and hacking into third-party organizations, the state says it plans to launch an “AI Cyber Defense Program” geared towards protecting critical infrastructure. The attacks—executed in separate incidents by models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta

Of course, with such powerful technology, safety is a key concern. Google has built Veo 3 for responsible enterprise use. Every video frame is embedded with an invisible digital watermark from SynthID to help combat misinformation. The service is also covered by Google’s indemnity for generative AI, giving businesses that extra layer of security.See also: Google’s newest Gemini 2.5 model aims for ‘intelligence per dollar’Want to learn more about AI and big

Alex Broadway/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Grammarly’s “Expert Review” feature, which was quietly rolled out last year, angered countless journalists, authors, and academics, who found that they were being impersonated without their permission. Following an enormous backlash — and telling people being impersonated that they should email the company to opt out — Grammarly’s parent company, Superhuman, made a sudden reversal. In a Wednesday Lin

Hachette A prominent publisher is pulling a horror novel after the author was widely accused of using AI to help write the book, The New York Times reports. Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishing houses in the US, said it will discontinue selling “Shy Girl” by Mia Ballard in the UK, where it was released last fall and sold 1,800 print copies, per data cited in the reporting. It will also cancel plans to publish a US edition, which was slated to

Mikala Compton/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images Across the entire country, small rural communities are standing up to the rise of AI data centers, saying the enormous facilities threaten to suck water supplies dry and send electricity prices soaring. It’s become such a contentious issue that many Americans are doing something that often feels impossible in the contemporary political landscape: setting aside their often steep differences in po

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain OpenAI's recent restructuring of its for-profit arm to a public benefit corporation is a smart move that will allow the organization to increase its investment opportunities and maintain its nonprofit roots, according to a Northeastern University nonprofit management expert. "They are still keeping their nonprofit legacy intact in many ways," says Cortney Nicolato, a Northeastern lecturer and president and chief executive

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Artur Widak / NurPhoto via Getty Images The true cost of AI is rapidly catching up with the tech industry. At first, tech leaders were adamant that their workforce use up as much AI resources as possible, an approach that’s become known as “tokenmaxxing.” But as prices for cloud AI tools continue to soar, managers are starting to ask pointed questions about whether all of those expenses are actually w