Archive: July 2020

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Your AI chatbot isn’t neutral. Trust its advice at your own risk. A striking new study, conducted by researchers at Stanford University and published last week in the journal Science, confirmed that human-like chatbots are prone to obsequiously affirm and flatter users leaning on the tech for advice and insight — and that this behavior, known as AI sycophancy, is a “prevalent and harmful”

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Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The race to build artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is leading some of the largest companies in the sector to seek a new source of capital: financing in the tens of billions of dollars aimed exclusively at purchasing chips.In recent weeks, Broadcom has started structuring over US$ 50 billion (about R$ 265 billion) in financing for the custom AI chips it is developing with OpenAI, according to peo

Counting the number of users who visit a website accurately requires recording visitor IDs and eliminating duplicates. However, using the algorithm "HyperLogLog" published in 2007, it is possible to estimate the number of users on the scale of hundreds of millions with just a few KB of memory. Scientific American, a science magazine, explains the mechanism of HyperLogLog. The coin-flipping trick that counts the Internet | Scientific American https://www.sc

Screenshot via X A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet painting while claiming it was an AI fake, unleashing a flood of ill-informed reactions and muddled discourse. So, you know, it was just another day online. “I just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI,” read the original post, published to X-formerly-Twitter yesterday by an anonymous conceptual artist who goes by the pse

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Gilbert Flores / Variety via Getty Images; Shutterstock Director Christopher Nolan has a reputation for tortuous storytelling. His movies elliptically jump across time (“Memento”), or move backwards through it (“Tenet”), or toy with solipsism to have us question what’s real (“Inception”). We suspect his upcoming adaptation of the classic Greek epic “The Odyssey,” which hits theaters later this month,

After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, defending its vague policy that by default sucks up customers’ data—including messages, content, and files—to train Slack’s global AI models. According to Slack engineer Aaron Maurer, Slack has explained in a blog that the Salesforce-owned chat service does not train its large language models (LLMs) on customer data. But Slack’s policy may need updating “to explain more careful

Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump has a message for Americans who scorn data centers: you’re making a foolish mistake. In a bizarre interview with his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, flagged by Forbes, the president went out of his way to defend the AI industry’s data center frenzy, in opposition to the vast majority of American voters. “Frankly, communities that don’t take a data center are making a mistake,” Trump hectored. There ar

The Chinese government has been active in economic espionage for decades, and with semiconductors at the center of the AI boom, there’s intense pressure to infiltrate any company involved. At the same time, many of the executives getting rich off that boom have made themselves easy targets. As CEO of investment intel firm Heron Intelligence, Nate Singer has a unique view into the problem. His firm works on corporate due diligence: Essentially, making sure

Shutterstock / Futurism A new lawsuit alleges that OpenAI is manipulating minor users into sharing sensitive data without valid parental consent in a plot to train its models. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed this week in San Francisco federal court on behalf of two unnamed minors aged 12 and 16, argues that OpenAI used this data from kids — including personal secrets and health information, according to the complaint — to unjustly enrich itself. O

Shutterstock / harhar38 Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data centers to power the AI boom. The efforts reached a fever pitch the day after Donald Trump’s second inauguration in 2025, when a bevy of AI luminaries including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son crowded into the Oval Office to announce a $500 billion private investment in data centers. But as the public has grown jit

Google’s free cash flow continued tanking in its third quarter of the year. The tech giant had reported its first negative free cash flow figure as a public company back in July in its second quarter earnings, when it came in at negative $5.9 billion. On Wednesday, Google reported that number had dropped even lower to negative $9.07 billion. The quarterly revenue of $127.58 billion also missed market expectations, and the tech giant reported that its long-

Google loves telling us all the ways people are using its generative AI products to build new things, grow businesses, and save the world. Supposedly. Of course, people are also using AI for crime. Google has announced a new legal salvo aimed at a Chinese group called Outsider Enterprise, which is allegedly responsible for a massive AI-powered scam campaign. Google says it’s working with law enforcement and mobile carriers to fight back. According to Googl

@ontoloopConnect Claude Code and Codex to Ontoloop via MCP and share human-verified team factsMCPClaudecodexAITeam development0Posted at 2026-11-11TAG40@@Everyone on the team can now use coding agents. What still feels off is that those agents are still inside each person's terminal. Decisions are scattered across chat histories, and incorrect "facts" may be treated as true by the next agent to pick up the work. In this article, we explain how to connect C

On November 9, Edion announced, in a follow-up to the unauthorized access to its e-commerce site disclosed on November 6, that an unauthorized program had been embedded in its payment processing, and that information including credit card numbers and security codes entered on the payment screen from a PC may have leaked to third parties in as many as 556 instances. It also announced that, in exceptional cases, up to five records containing card numbers and

@miyaura(Miyaura)Improve Voice Live Audio Input Quality — How to Choose Noise Suppression, Echo Cancellation, and Live-Reference AECAzureMicrosoftFoundryVoiceLiveAPIdotnetAI0Last updated at 2026-11-10Posted at 2026-11-10 Introduction In voice agents, the quality of the sound entering the microphone matters more than you might expect. Noise and audio bleeding in from the speaker can throw off not only speech recognition accuracy, but also speech-segment det