Archive: July 2020

Anthropic trained the latest version of its Claude chatbot to be more honest than its predecessors. And honestly? Not everyone’s into it. Unveiled on Thursday, Claude Opus 4.8 was described by the company as being “more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims.” Claude—like all chatbots—is still liable to hallucinate, but the idea behind its new “honesty” upgrade is to add more transparency to its responses, so

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends a round table discussion at the VivaTech fair dedicated to innovation and startups in Paris, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Credit: Sarah Meyssonnier/Pool via AP Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia on Wednesday became the first publicly traded company to surpass a $4 trillion market valuation, putting the latest exclamation point on the investor frenzy surrounding an artificial intelligence boom powered by its industry-leading proces

Graphical representation of the team's results. By comparing word usage and sentence patterns, their AI-based statistical model identified three distinct writing styles, or scribal traditions, shown here in yellow, blue and green. Credit: Faigenbaum-Golovin et al. AI is transforming every industry, from medicine to film to finance. So, why not use it to study one of the world's most revered ancient texts, the Bible? An international team of researchers, in

80,000 relay servers help users in China slip past U.S. AI region bans More than 80,000 relay servers are helping users in China bypass geographic restrictions on leading U.S. AI models, according to Team Cymru. “What we have uncovered is an entire ecosystem designed explicitly to break the frontier model providers’ T&Cs, enabling fraud and illicit activity,” said Scott Fisher, Senior Principal Engineer at Team Cymru. Earlier this month, CISA, the NSA and

A man works on the electronics of Jules, a humanoid robot from Hanson Robotics using AI, at the recent International Telecommunication Union AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva. The world urgently needs to find a global approach on regulating artificial intelligence, the United Nations' top tech chief said this week, warning that fragmentation could deepen risks and inequalities. Doreen Bogdan-Martin, head of the UN's International Telecommunications Union

The court filing, submitted to the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges Musk could not tolerate OpenAI’s success after he had “abandoned and declared [it] doomed.”OpenAI is now seeking legal remedies, including an injunction to stop Musk’s alleged “unlawful and unfair action” and compensation for damages already caused. Origin story of OpenAI and the departure of Elon MuskThe legal documents recount OpenAI’s origins in 2015, s

Getty / Futurism What is it with lawyers and AI? We don’t know, but it feels like an inordinate number of them keep screwing up with AI tools, apparently never learning from their colleagues who get publicly crucified for making the same mistake. But this latest blunder from a New York attorney, in a lawsuit centered on a disputed loan, takes the cake. As 404 Media reports, after getting caught using AI by leaving in hallucinated quotes and citations in hi

AI generated Ireland is just days away from electing a new president — a mostly ceremonial role, though the office does carry constitutional responsibilities like appointing the Taoiseach, or prime minister, and referring legislation to the courts, granting the post real authority. This year, independent progressive Catherine Connolly has surged ahead in the polls, commanding a comfortable lead over her sole rival, the center-right Heather Humphreys. That

AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running projects with more than 50 contributors estimated that close to a third of the code changes landing in their queue are low quality or AI-generated. Those maintainers now worry more about burning out than about the code

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The United States’ anti-immigration regime already boasts an impressive arsenal of surveillance towers, cloud data bases, and automated visa systems. Adding to that panopticon is the personal phone of every Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent currently prowling the streets of US for migrants to round up. 404 Media was th

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As car manufacturers drive to embrace even more automation and data-driven processes as well as artificial intelligence, a study in the International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment suggests that the sector may be overlooking one of the biggest problems in digital transformation: how to equip employees with the necessary skills to thrive in this new era. Industry 4.0 is the term often used to describe the

Smartglasses. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Axrxax Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. More than a decade ago, pricey smart glasses that allowed people to snap photos, text and browse the web generated a lot of buzz but also resistance. People who wore Google Glass in 2014 faced backlash over fears that the smart glasses, priced at $1,500, would secretly record people or make human interactions socially awkward. Two years later,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Earlier this week, the Washington Post announced that it would be launching “personalized” AI powered podcasts that would let users choose their own AI host to regale them on their choice of topics. And now for an entirely unsurprising update: the AI podcasts have turned out to be complete, error ridden disasters. Semafor reports that less than 48 hours after launching, the AI podcasts ha

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The Chicago based multinational law firm Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a thousand employees as part of its pivot to embracing AI, the legal hub RollOnFriday reports. In what might be an augury of how further AI related cuts could sweep other industries, it’s not the lawyers getting the axe, but instead hundreds of their support staff. These include “dozens of roles in London and Belf

Published on March 4, 2026 at 08:00 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI is trying to move past the controversy sparked by the agreement with the US Department of Defense, which has caused a loss of public support for ChatGPT. The company launched a new model, GTP-5.3 Instant, which aims to be less cautious and 'less moralizing'. It also improves online search. Depending on the questions asked, ChatGPT will use one of the AI models available to it: Instant f

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A veteran programmer shared his brutally honest opinions about AI’s role in the workplace, and it’s as much an indictment of the tech as it is of the organizations lazily deploying it. In an X rant that’s being praised in online programming circles, the programmer, Dax Raad, said that what’s holding back software companies isn’t the speed they’re able to churn out code, but the quality of

Bitter taste receptors are not only expressed in oral cavity cells but also in the gastrointestinal lining. To understand the diverse functions of these receptors, understanding the structure is extremely important. In this study, the researchers have used an artificial intelligence (AI)-based prediction model AlphaFold3 (AF3) to understand the structure of these taste receptors. Credit: Professor Naomi Osakabe from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan