Archive: April 2021

Mutual success has only heightened tensions between Microsoft and OpenAI, whose partnership helped kickstart the AI boom. Now, the Financial Times reports the latest escalation between the two heavyweights: Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI. The drama is a bit of a corporate love triangle, and concerns a $50 billion deal to offer OpenAI’s new product, Frontier, on Amazon Web Services, the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing platform. Microsoft believes

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Joan Cros / NurPhoto via Getty Images Privacy nightmares. Pervert glasses. These are some of the not-so-flattering ways detractors describe Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses. Now, we’re nominating another hellish descriptor into that list: dysmorphia accelerator. On Friday, Meta announced a host of new features for the smart spectacles that include the ability to track and give advice on everything a wearer e

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you were arrested after an AI facial recognition camera wrongly flagged you as a trespasser, how far would you go to get justice? Jason Killinger is looking to go all the way. The Nevada man recently filed a lawsuit against the city of Reno, after a police officer named Richard Jager placed him under arrest for 12 hours on the guidance of an AI surveillance system. The filing naming th

Getty / Futurism The public outrage over the tech industry’s obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the pitchforks are coming out. Most recently, a man allegedly lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house. Days earlier, a councilman in Indianapolis said that somebody had fired a dozen bullets at his house, with a handwritten note reading “No Data Centers” left on his doorstep. A similar story is playing out across swathes of rural

Published on April 29, 2026 at 13:44 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Meta announced the layoff of 700 employees from Covalen, a Meta subcontractor, during a video conference. Most of the laid-off employees were annotators contributing to the improvement of AI systems for content moderation. During a brief video conference, 700 employees of Covalen, a Meta subcontractor, were notified of their layoff. As expected, the cause of this layoff is artificial intellig

Published on May 15, 2026 at 08:20 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net/Canva With 20 times fewer computational resources than its competitors, a model born at INRIA Paris beats the operational weather forecasting systems. And its code is open source. Weather forecasting using artificial intelligence has become, in three years, a battleground among giants. Google DeepMind launched GraphCast in 2023, then GenCast in 2025. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather F

Credit: AI-generated image The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it's become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, in what may seem like a tipping point, the digital marketing firm Graphite recently published a study showing that more than 50% of articles on the web are being generated by artificial intelligence. As a scholar who explores how AI is built, how people are usi

Verisign, which manages the “.name” domain, has canceled the mass deletion of third-level domains and the termination of its email forwarding service, both of which had been scheduled for February 2027. Existing domains can continue to be renewed, and email forwarding is expected to remain available at registered addresses. However, the application to end new registrations will need to be resubmitted. Updates to the .name Third-Level Domain Name Registrati

Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images; Futurism Twelve nurses in New York City were laid off on Sunday and replaced with AI software, according to their union — a move that comes not long after nurses went on strike and fought for safeguards against AI. One of the laid off workers, Marilyn Shuler, had worked at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx as a utilization nurse for 39 years before suddenly losing her job. Utilization nurses review patient charts to show

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Over 200 economists, researchers and industry executives, including sixteen Nobel Prize winners, signed an urgent letter warning that AI could radically transform the economy at an unprecedented pace and scale — and that policymakers and governments need to move to mitigate the fallout. Titled “We Must Act Now,” the letter is brief. It predicts that “AI may become radically more powerful

In many ways, life on Earth feels like a miracle. Had things gone differently, Earth might have looked more like our neighbors in the solar system. Scientists long suspected that plate tectonics was partly responsible for how Earth evolved, but pinning down when it began has proven difficult. Now, researchers have identified a “chemical fingerprint” that points to when plate tectonics likely began. The team studied over 1,200 rocks spanning nearly 4 billio

After Stanford Internet Observatory researcher David Thiel found links to child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in an AI training dataset tainting image generators, the controversial dataset was immediately taken down in 2023. Now, the LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) team has released a scrubbed version of the LAION-5B dataset called Re-LAION-5B and claimed that it “is the first web-scale, text-link to images pair dataset to be thoro

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s no secret that AI is becoming increasingly unpopular around the world, as the tech’s garbled output has become impossible for the average person to avoid. For a rising cohort of workers, AI is also becoming inescapable on the job. According to one piece of research, staffers aren’t exactly thrilled with that reality. The new survey, conducted by the Indeed-owned workplace review site Glassdoor, found that mentions of “AI” in em

Shutterstock / Futurism As if a million white collar workers suddenly cried out in terror at once, a great disturbance in the AI force forced down every major AI chatbot service — a brief moment of reprieve from our AI empire overlords. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and X’s Grok mysteriously went down Thursday morning, and we still don’t know what’s behind it. “All the AI is down,” as one X user put it buntly. OpenAI’s status page

If there is one thing this moment of techno-negativity—from the rejection of Flock Security cameras to the distrust of AI companies gobbling up data—tells us, it’s that people hate feeling watched. You could put the brightest minds of our generation in a room and task them with coming up with the worst possible idea to meet this moment, and they wouldn’t be able to come up with a better idea than the startup Outlit, which promises an AI agent over every pe

People arrive at the CES Unveiled tech show Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, in Las Vegas. Credit: AP Photo/Abbie Parr With the start of the New Year squarely behind us, it's once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech that companies plan to offer in 2026. The multiday event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, kicks off this week in Las Vegas, where advances across industries like robotics, health care, vehicle

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter External GPUs (eGPU) have been tried time and again, and while they have found their niche among laptop users, they're not commonplace. Now that the AI craze is in full swing, more people are looking into owning a graphics card of some sort for the single purpose of running L

Finn Gomez/Getty Images)/Futurism The overly-serious eggheads at Anthropic are adamant that they’ve “solved” a problem that’s been plaguing humankind since time immemorial: humor. At least, that’s according to former employee Jacob Coxon, best known as the guy who quit Anthropic and claimed that the AI industry was “gambling with our lives.” In a new interview with New York Magazine, Coxon recalled some of the “groupthink dynamics” he saw taking hold at An