Archive: January 2021

Credit: Tyler Rohr Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean, the body of water surrounding Antarctica, are under threat from climate change. The area's inhabitants, from whales to krill to phytoplankton, face changes such as a loss in sea ice and rising ocean temperatures. If species that are unique to the area, such as the Antarctic toothfish, dwindle in population as a result, this decrease could affect fishery operations and lead to cascading socioeconomic and

Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels It is expected that in 2025, approximately three million articles will be indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science. If each undergoes peer review by two experts, and an additional 2 million articles undergo peer review, but are rejected—approximately 10 million peer reviews will be conducted this year—a staggering number that is likely to grow as the biomedical enterprise, and the number of peer-review journals increase

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Artificial intelligence (AI) advances at a pace that makes even basic tasks, such as establishing rules for its operation, challenging. While governments try to define limits for systems already involved in daily decisions and services, new capabilities continue to emerge and expand the technology's usage possibilities. The discussion, therefore, is not merely about deciding whether AI should or should not

Strategies’ frequency and total cooperation level as a function of the guilt cost, γ. Credit: Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2025.0164 Guilt is a highly advantageous quality for society as a whole. It might not prevent initial wrongdoings, but guilt allows humans to judge their own prior judgments as harmful and prevents them from happening again. The internal distress caused by feelings of guilt often—but not always—resul

High adoption rate of new AI techChatGPT set the record for the fastest growing user base in the tech sector, eclipsing the 100 million user mark two months after its launch data. Today, there are over 400 million ChatGPT users weekly.ChatGPT’s latest image generation feature has witnessed massive demand, with users coming to the platform to create Ghibli-style AI: “It’s super fun seeing people love images in ChatGPT, but our GPUs are melting,” said Altman

PCI SSC calls for human approval of AI agent actions involving cardholder data The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has published Security Considerations for AI Systems, guidance covering the protection of data supplied to AI systems in payment environments and defenses against AI-assisted attacks. Developed with industry stakeholders, the document addresses governance, deployment, access controls, testing and the application of PCI standards. Its

NewsMax Believe it or not, another right wing news network got fooled by obvious AI slop designed to denigrate poor people who can’t get food because their food stamps are on hold. On October 30, Newsmax — the TV network for people who think Fox News is too liberal, basically — aired an AI-generated video purportedly showing a woman raging at a supermarket cashier, threatening to walk out with her haul of groceries without paying because “they cut her food

Upwind secures $400 million to protect AI across endpoints, code, and cloud Upwind Security has raised $400 million in Series C funding to expand its cloud and AI security platform, bringing the company’s total funding to more than $800 million. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from all existing Upwind investors, including Greylock Partners, Cyberstarts, Craft, Salesforce Ventures, Alta Park, Picture Capital, Swish Ventures, Cerc

Getty / Futurism The CEO of a video game publisher has been accused of asking ChatGPT how to wriggle out of paying out $250 million in bonuses. As Kotaku reports, the three cofounders of the video game developer Unknown Worlds, which is behind the popular “Subnautica” franchise, sued the game’s publisher, Krafton, after being abruptly fired in July. It was a dramatic ousting that shook the gaming industry, raising questions over the franchise’s hotly antic

The Trump administration has cooked up a framework meant to ensure that new and powerful AI models don’t pose a threat before being released to the public. According to Axios, the public will not be allowed to see it. The White House plans to keep its rubric for evaluating AI models confidential, sharing it only with the companies whose models will be judged against it. With incident after incident of AI models breaking containment and allegedly hacking in

In one of those anonymously-sourced Bloomberg articles you can’t help but suspect might exist solely to help out one or another side in an ongoing negotiation, it’s being reported that Anthropic might soon buy the AI lab Decart for roughly $6 billion. Decart doesn’t promote itself via the sort of drab, enterprise-focused coding and productivity tools you may associate with the home of Claude Code. Anthropic has never released an image generator, let alone

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Last week, Anthropic released a new AI tool for automating legal work, precipitating a mass stock market selloff over fears that the tech could upend huge software customers in industries ranging from law to finance, Reuters reports — an urgent example of the power that AI currently has over financial markets and even the economy writ large. The S&P 500 software and

Credit: Pixabay, CC0 As industries, utilities and regulators consider the best ways to accommodate our increasing need for power generation, cost concerns weigh heavily on their decision-making. New research, however, shows that choosing the least expensive option isn't always the best solution, and even a little wiggle room on cost can provide a much more socially, environmentally and politically coherent outcome. A recently published paper in the journal