Archive: August 2020

Predictions that highly skilled jobs in medicine would simply be automated with AI, sometimes articulated by luminaries like Geoffrey Hinton, haven’t panned out so far. Just picturing what it would theoretically be like to be examined by an AI doctor made the AI-enabled enshittification of healthcare seem like a distant danger at the absolute worst. But a new pilot program in Utah might clear away some of the fog around this concept, and make visits to Dr.

Published on July 31, 2026 at 1:40 PM Comment 6 𝕏 Print © Andon Labs Anthropic presents Opus 5 as the model that best respects the safety rules and human values they have set for it. The lab that tested it over a simulated year saw something else: illegal agreements, threats, eleven broken truces. Vending machines have the advantage of constituting a miniature business. Buying inventory, setting prices, negotiating with suppliers, handling complaints from

Shutterstock / Futurism Meta was paying out-and-out neo-Nazis to post on Facebook, an investigation from Australia’s ABC News found. These pages and individual creators posted content that appeared to be in clear violation of Facebook’s own hate speech policies. Nonetheless, they were able to earn money on their posts through the platform’s “Content Monetization” program — which is invitation-only. One receiving payouts from Meta was Hugo Lennon, a known f

Grace McCarrick via Instagram An influencer who attended a “luxury eco-retreat” put on by ChatGPT maker OpenAI got far more of a reaction than she bargained for. Instagram personality and self-styled “public speaker” Grace McCarrick went on an all-expenses-paid-by-OpenAI gathering alongside other content creators at a high-end resort in upstate New York late last month. Considering how radioactive the subject of AI and the tech companies leading the constr

Just a couple of weeks after SpaceX released its Grok 4.7 model and claimed that it was competitive with frontier models in coding and knowledge work, the company is now letting those models do Grok’s work. CEO Elon Musk announced via Twitter that the Grok Bot agent service will now select from a range of different models before choosing “whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome” for a user’s request. Per Musk, available models will include Ant

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google used to be all about the 10 blue links, but that was then, and this is now. You have to scroll farther than ever to get to the links in Google search results, and now this trend is being taken to its ultimate conclusion. At I/O, the company has announced a major expansion of AI Mode search, which heralds a new era for its signature product. There are big changes coming, some of which will start rewriting the web sooner than you

### Planner Q&A - [2026-03-27 13:40 MSK] Q1 (to=Architect, blocker): `0140` now fixes two distinct first-wave inputs — `Title / topic` and conditional `Lesson from the AUC section` — but … only one free-text carrier … - [2026-03-27 13:45 MSK] (Architect, id=Q1, status=closed) CLOSED: … `Title / topic`maps to `Booking.air_title`; conditional `Lesson from the AUC section` maps to `Booking.air_auc_lesson_label` … ### Coder Q&A - [2026-03-27 14:07 MSK] NO QUES

One week after Delta announced it is expanding a test using artificial intelligence to charge different prices based on customers’ personal data—which critics fear could end cheap flights forever—Democratic lawmakers have moved to ban what they consider predatory surveillance pricing. In a press release, Reps. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) announced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act. The law directly bans companies from using

In a deeply divided country, there’s at least one thing most Americans seem to agree on: Silicon Valley does not have their best interests at heart. Tech companies have sunk vast fortunes in AI, promising a second Industrial Revolution that will free humans from drudgework, accelerate scientific discovery, cure cancer, and generally improve everyone’s quality of life. Almost in the same breath, however, they admit there’s a nonzero chance that it could wip

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Microsoft’s “biomimicry” program is reshaping the land around its data centers with restored wetlands and native gardens to help the buildings blend into local ecosystems at 20-plus sites, reports The Verge. Critics question the company’s motives after recent energy deals, su

Almost every technological innovation of the past several years has been laser-focused on one thing: generative AI. Many of these supposedly revolutionary systems run on big, expensive servers in a data center somewhere, but at the same time, chipmakers are crowing about the power of the neural processing units (NPU) they have brought to consumer devices. Every few months, it’s the same thing: This new NPU is 30 or 40 percent faster than the last one. That

How to build a segment in Yandex Metrica for traffic from AI assistants by source domain and UTM tagAI traffic in Metrica is identified by a segment with two conditions combined using OR: the referrer domain and the utm_source value, because an AI visit can come from either one.Regexes in Metrica use RE2 syntax, and Metrica distinguishes label values by case, so the label condition uses the (?i) flag. In Metrica, create a visit-based segment and add two co

Illustrative example of AI-based species recognition on a coral reef—even when the model appears certain, expert validation remains essential to ensure reliable biodiversity monitoring. Credit: Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) Every day, thousands of images and signals are collected at sea. Sonar, buoys, satellites, and cameras installed on ships generate enormous amounts of data. Artificial intelligence (AI) is already being used to interp

If you follow the ongoing debate over AI’s growing economic impact, you may have seen the graphic below floating around this month. It comes from an Anthropic report on the labor market impacts of AI and is meant to compare the current “observed exposure” of occupations to LLMs (in red) to the “theoretical capability” of those same LLMs (in blue) across 22 job categories. While the current “observed exposure” area is interesting in its own right, it’s the

It seems like Google has no problem kicking a horse when it’s down. The tech giant announced Monday two new versions of its existing AI chip systems, designed to offer stronger security and handle more demanding AI workloads. The news comes just days after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose company dominates the AI chip market, admitted to having an affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. Nvidia’s board of directors has since launched an independ

Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer harms, an insider told Axios. On Wednesday, the FTC sent out civil investigative demands seeking a wide range of information from the AI firms on recent safety incidents. The FTC did not respond to Ars’ request to review the subpoena demands. However, Axi

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Published on October 27, 2026 at 12:40 p.m. Tech Artificial intelligence Microsoft offers 60,000 employees the option to leave: has the AI-related job apocalypse begun? The beginning of the end? 5 min Lisa Imperatrice {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2992f1bbfaa649f47e862c00c174869d","name":"Lisa Imperatrice","url":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/author\/lisaimperatrice\/","description":