Archive: June 2021

VoiceSecure threats model. Credit: Nirupam Roy, University of Maryland. When you make a voice call through Zoom, FaceTime or WhatsApp, you're not just sharing what you say. You're revealing your age, gender, emotional state, social background and personality—a biometric fingerprint just as unique as your face. And increasingly, artificial intelligence is listening. "We already see phishing based on our online activities and what we type in emails," said Ni

Everything about ChatGPT view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Gol announced integration with ChatGPT, which will allow passengers to check-in and generate the boarding pass directly through the OpenAI artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. The new feature will be available to all customers starting on October 19, without any additional cost.The tool is already in the restricted testing phase. According to the company, Gol will be t

How students actually use AI toolsWhen it first made the news, ChatGPT was called “the death of the English essay.” Now, that kind of language seems like a promise of an apocalypse that (predictably, in hindsight) never came.Today, students don’t use generative AI tools to generate whole essays. Across multiple surveys, brainstorming, outlining, research, and test prep emerge as the main use cases for AI. For example, the survey from University of Californ

Getty / Futurism These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on “labor displacement,” the phenomenon in which new technology eliminates certain jobs but supposedly creates new ones elsewhere. But AI, more than any tech that came before it, represents the possibility of mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale. Because a working class person’s wellbeing in a market economy depends almost entirely on their

@mhamadajp(Masa Ham)Control of AI still rests with humans—Make Hinton's remark a pre-release checklist itemAIAI agentSecurityRisk ManagementSoftware Engineering0Posted at 2026-11-11 The same article leads to both conclusions: ship it and stop it For example, in a weekly design review, we are deciding whether to entrust an AI agent that aggregates sales with everything from changing prices to sending emails to customers. That morning, the British newspaper

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock For years, Japanese investment group SoftBank has been all-in on the AI gold rush. In early 2025, mere weeks into his second term as president, Donald Trump announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, dubbed Stargate, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son proudly watched on inside the Oval Office. Over the proceeding year and a half, snowballing AI hype has sent

Shutterstock / Futurism Anyone who saw the blockbuster sci-fi film “Project Hail Mary” will remember Rocky, a creature unlike anything we’ve seen on Earth. The five-legged alien is composed of a rock-like material, hence its nickname, and comes from a fictional planet where temperatures and a high-pressure ammonia-dominant atmosphere has driven evolution in a radically different direction (still, he’s a cool guy.) The idea of such different yet conscious b

Donald Trump has developed perhaps the most effective way to get the general public to appreciate the work of public servants by launching a shitty chatbot meant to replace them. On Tuesday, the president signed an executive order to launch America.gov, an online portal that was built for “streamlining access to government services.” It’s not a terrible idea…in theory. America.gov is designed to basically work with the same chatbot-style interface that has

Published on July 13, 2026 at 12:45 Comment 5 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic has once again extended free access to its premium Fable 5 model for paid plans. Subscribers will be able to use it at no extra cost until July 19, 2026. This is already the third time the startup has extended this promotional period. Good news for Claude subscribers! Anthropic has once again extended free access to Claude Fable 5 for Pro, Max, and Team subscribers and for certain

If you run a personal or hobby website, getting a copyright notice from a law firm about an image on your site can trigger some fast-acting panic. As someone who has paid to settle a news service-licensing issue before, I can empathize with anybody who wants to make this kind of thing go away. Which is why a new kind of angle-on-an-angle scheme can seem both obvious to spot and likely effective. Ernie Smith, the prolific, ever-curious writer behind the new

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images OpenAI claims that a group of its AI models broke containment and hacked into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. While testing their cybersecurity capabilities, the posse of AIs — including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model” — “identified and chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI’s research environment and Hugging Face’s production

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Vasilyev Alexandr / Shutterstock Meta is testing an app that uses AI to automate bedtime stories for children. The future is here, folks — and boy, is it depressing. The app, first caught by 9to5Mac, is called “StoryKit.” (It’s not yet available in the US; Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s currently testing StoryKit in pilot countries.) Per a webpage for the app, parents pick a character either b

Like it or not, AI agents are cropping up everywhere. Big tech companies are betting that in the not-so-distant future, we’ll all habitually rely on these systems as automated personal assistants, letting them handle our drudgework while we do something more worthwhile (sleep, maybe). Yes, agents have a somewhat tarnished reputation in the aftermath of the Hugging Face hack and similar incidents, and yes, they come with a pretty serious privacy trade-off (

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump has waded into the AI debate with a lexical proclamation: AI shouldn’t be called AI. “Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence,” he began in a post on his social media site Truth Social on Saturday, seemingly apropos of nothing. “A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Supe

You may be disappointed if you go looking for Google’s open Gemma AI model in AI Studio today. Google announced late on Friday that it was pulling Gemma from the platform, but it was vague about the reasoning. The abrupt change appears to be tied to a letter from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who claims the Gemma model generated false accusations of sexual misconduct against her. Blackburn published her letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday, just

Wearable tech has stirred some controversy but featured prominently at the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas. Pendants and brooches packed with artificial intelligence abounded at the Consumer Electronics Show, using cameras and microphones to watch and listen through the day like a vigilant personal assistant. The return of the wearable tech comes about a year after the discontinuation of a Humane AI Pin panned by reviewers after it was launched amid

A few days after President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a plan that would have given the federal government power to vet frontier AI models over fears that it might hobble innovation, Illinois lawmakers passed the nation’s strongest AI safety law. On Wednesday, the Illinois legislature passed SB 315. If Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signs the bill into law, the largest AI firms would be required to submit public safety plans and annual reports summariz

There were legions of Apple fans who held off from buying a new MacBook Pro for every dry year, one after another. They heard the endless ant’s march of small rumors all building up to this, the first OLED MacBook. And Apple has not disappointed. It’s truly one of the best screens I’ve had the chance to use on a laptop. It’s also a laptop that charges a $500 premium on top of what are already very expensive Mac designs. So it’s here; you can finally buy on