Archive: September 2020

The 2023 BAAI Conference, a premier event in the AI industry, concluded successfully in Beijing on June 10. Initiated on June 9, the conference played host to an array of esteemed AI scholars, experienced industry leaders, passionate AI researchers, and global attendees, engaging in a blend of virtual and in-person interactions. This year, the BAAI conference stage was graced by a remarkable lineup of AI research luminaries. The roster included Turing Awar

Robot artist Ai-Da said its art promotes 'responsible innovation' When successful artist Ai-Da unveiled a new portrait of King Charles this week, the humanoid robot described what inspired the layered and complex piece, and insisted it had no plans to "replace" humans. The ultra-realistic robot, one of the most advanced in the world, is designed to resemble a human woman with an expressive, life-like face, large hazel eyes and brown hair cut in a bob. The

Anthropic's IPO is six times oversubscribed and on track to become the largest public offering in history View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 13, 2026 Anthropic is on track for the largest IPO ever, with orders exceeding available shares by a factor of six. That's according to Bloomberg. The Claude developer and its co-founders aim to raise up to $64.4 billion through the public offering and another $26 billion via a private placement, wh

AI slop submissions force Google to freeze its open-source bug bounty Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), after a wave of invalid, AI-generated submissions swamped the engineers and open source maintainers who review them. The rules page for Google’s OSS VRP states that “as of October 1, 2026, we are no longer accepting product vulnerabilities submitted to t

AI Generated Video (Screenshots) Welcome to the age of slop spectacle, where AI horrors are flushed down to you from the very top. On Saturday night, sitting president of the United States of America Donald Trump shared an extraordinarily bizarre AI-generated video of himself piloting a fighter jet labelled “KING TRUMP” while strafing droves of peaceful protestors with multiple barrages of — we swear we are not making this up — liquid diarrhea. This is not

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Annually, tens of thousands of wildfires ravage the United States, posing significant threats to people, wildlife, and infrastructure. A percentage of those wildfires are caused by degraded or downed electrical equipment. But what if artificial intelligence (AI) could detect the spark before wildfires even start? Like any other infrastructure, power lines are susceptible to the elements and erode over time. This can resul

Getty / Futurism We’ve heard story after story about people becoming obsessed with AI chatbots and experiencing profound breaks with reality. But there was always an ambiguity: was AI use pushing people into psychosis, or were people already suffering from mental health problems seeking out AI as a means to cope? Now, new research has provided an important clue. As PsyPost reports, scientists have found that people who use AI chatbots tend to experience hi

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study published in Nature Biotechnology reveals a powerful new use for artificial intelligence: designing small, drug-like molecules that can stick to and break down harmful proteins in the body—even when scientists don't know what those proteins look like. The breakthrough could lead to new treatments for diseases that have long resisted traditional drug development, including certain cancers, brain disorders, and viral infecti

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has equipped AI agents with the ability to interact with users through natural, human-like conversations. As a result, these agents now face dual responsibilities: engaging in dialogue and performing complex reasoning or planning tasks. Their conversational interactions must be contextually informed, while their actions need to work toward achieving specific goals. This balance between conversation and multi-step re

Earlier this month, Anthropic started placing an imperceptible label on all text produced using its Claude AI model to serve as an indicator that the material was generated with AI. The folks who don’t want it outed that they are using AI for work are now spending their hours looking for a way to scrub their outputs of that marker. As Business Insider notes, the term “AI watermark remover” has started trending on Google, jumping 60% in search interest week

models from Hugging Face and most of the registry are in quantization Q4_K_M. Larger Russian models, such as GigaChat 3.1 Lightning, T-lite, and YandexGPT-5-Lite, didn't fit into 4 GB and are waiting for tests on a larger server. Before the measurements, I had to spend some time with the server and do four things: Swap 4 GB with vm.swappiness=10. Without it, the kernel would terminate 4B models on long texts due to memory shortage, but with swap they work,

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Whether you like it or not, whether you use it or not, generative artificial intelligence "took off". The technology has deeply changed how we do things. And how we think about things.Currently, we are in the "AI agents" phase of this technology. At this level, AI does things for us, instead of just guiding us. Whether it does it well or not depends on factors such as: how much you paid to use the tool, ho

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Harun Ozalp / Anadolu via Getty Images According to Elon Musk, xAI’s Grok chatbot has a new bona fide: blatantly lying about the history of America. On Wednesday, the centi-billionaire culture warrior boasted that the “4.20” version of his is officially “BASED.” Why? Because it won’t “equivocate” when it’s asked if the US is built on stolen land. Instead, it gives an emphatic no as its answer, while o

A US Virginia-class attack submarine during sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: US Navy courtesy of General Dynamics Electric Boat For over a century, the ocean has been the ultimate refuge for those who wished to disappear. From the U-boats of the first world war to the nuclear-powered leviathans that glide through today's deep waters, the submarine has thrived on one simple principle: stealth. Sound waves travel farther and faster in water than lig

Much to the chagrin of many a city council member hoping to get their beak wet, Americans have a more-or-less universal antipathy for data centers that cuts across all demographics and has only grown more intense over time. So great is the hatred of these buzzing, energy-hogging buildings that the topic has quickly become one of the defining issues of the forthcoming midterm elections. And those who once thought this might be a seasonal wedge issue are now

Published on March 20, 2026 at 08:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net Can AI do better than humans in content moderation? Meta is convinced of this. The social media giant has every intention of expanding the existing AI tools to « automate moderation further ». External contractors will have to find another job. Meta has embarked on a deep transformation of its content moderation system. Early 2025, the company was ending its fact-checking program to better alig

Published on March 20, 2026 at 08:30 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Google To use Gemini on a Mac, you currently have to go through a web browser. We are far from the native experience of the competition: OpenAI and Anthropic offer macOS apps for their own bots. In order to catch up, Google is developing proper software. Using an AI bot via a web browser is great… but it's even better when you can use it in a 'native' app, better suited to the operating system and

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Many executives lately have been using AI as a convenient excuse to lay off staff as the economy crumbles. Paradoxically, a growing number of CEOs are also turning the tech on themselves — using AI as an excuse to get out while the gettin’s good. New reporting by CNBC detailed the retirement of CEOs James Quincey and Doug McMillon of Coca-Cola and Walmart, respectively. In interviews with

November 11th is "Caregiver's Day." In the face of an aging population, the caregiving industry is confronting a serious shortage of personnel. The younger workforce that is supposed to take on caregiving services is decreasing, and dissatisfaction with the workload and wage levels is accelerating turnover. In an effort to address these issues, new technologies that support the caregiving frontline are being developed and introduced. Enactic, a start-up co