Archive: July 2021

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop for all departing flights on Friday “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety.” The extraordinary circumstances weren’t immediately explained, but CBS News that a communications system crashed, causing it to reboot. CBS News reported around 6:45 p.m. ET that an update to the private communications network which connects the entire country’s air traffic control system wa

Credit: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology An advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been developed that can extract three-dimensional (3D) spatial structure and object information within indoor environments using just a single 360-degree panoramic photograph. This breakthrough is expected to significantly impact fields requiring precise spatial understanding, including augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and digital t

Published on July 25, 2025 at 06:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Solen Feyissa (Unsplash) The month ahead is likely to be busy for OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, which provides server capabilities: the new language model GPT-5 should indeed be launched at the beginning of August! OpenAI is ramping up the hype around GPT-5. Sam Altman revealed a few days ago that this version would be released « soon », while setting realistic expectations: « it is an experimenta

Kevin Dietsch / Getty OpenAI is said to be launching a TikTok-like app that recommends an endless stream of swipeable — and purely AI-generated — short-form videos. As Wired reports, the company is expected to launch the stand-alone app alongside its Sora 2 text-to-video AI-generation tool. The app will consist of a personalized video feed that closely resembles TikTok’s For You page, according to documents viewed by the magazine. The focus will exclusivel

Nikodem Bartnik via YouTube / Getty Images As philosophers go, Aristotle was no angel. Sure, he established the first formal system of logic, and yeah, his theories dominated Western science for thousands of years. Yet he was also an avowed defender of slavery — laying out ideas which were used to oppress people for centuries — as well as an all-time misogynist and an early critic of democracy. With all that baggage in mind, it’s probably no surprise an AI

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The alarm bells are going off at OpenAI. What was once a healthy lead over its competition thanks to its blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT has turned into a razor-thin edge, motivating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to declare a “code red.” The financial stakes are almost comical in their magnitude: The company is lighting billions of dollars on fire, with no end in sight; it’s committed to spending well over $1 trillion over the next sever

The adoption rate of AI tools has skyrocketed in the programming world, enabling coders to generate vast amounts of code with simple text prompts. Earlier this year, Google found that 90 percent of software developers across the industry are using AI tools on the job, up from a mere 14 percent last year. But all that convenience has come with some glaring drawbacks. The tools have repeatedly been found to be unreliable and inaccurate, which can lead to mis

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that Starshield, the military version of SpaceX's satellite internet service Starlink, has once again been subjected to speed restrictions. This has reportedly made it difficult to intercept drones coming from Russia. We have detected speed restrictions on Starshield on our Ukrainian territory – in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine. The speed limit is back at 161 kilometers per hour – that’s 100 mile

Artificial intelligence and climate change are topics that are related in various ways. Some say the first worsens the second. Others say the first can help solve the second.Regardless, both topics are among the most important issues humanity needs to address currently.That's what Paulo Artaxo, professor at the Physics Institute of USP, said in an interview with Olhar Digital. Artaxo is also the coordinator of Amazônia Sustentável, a research center at the

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have killed dozens of people during Trump’s second term, including the high-profile killings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. So naturally, the agency is looking for ways to improve safety…for its own officers. One such way, according to a report from 404 Media, is the purchase of Boston Dynamics’ dog-shaped robots. Per an announcement published in the US federal government’s Acquisition Planning

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more OpenAI stated that it fired three researchers for a "significant breach of trust" and denied that the decision was motivated by alerts about the risks of AI.Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni contested the impact of the dismissals in a letter published on Thursday (8), in which they expressed concern about freedom of expression within the company. Incidents invo

Published on May 26, 2026 at 12:31 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Microsoft cancels most of its Claude Code licenses, four months after strongly encouraging its developers to use daily the agent AI tools of Anthropic. Microsoft explains that it made this change to now prioritize its own tools. However, internal notes mention another reason: Claude Code would cost Microsoft a lot of money. According to information from the media The Verge, Microsoft plans t

Without access to Mythos, BNP Paribas bets on Mistral Published on May 28, 2026 at 07:42 Comment 1 𝕏 Print Diamond Tower, BNP Paribas, Milan, Italy © BNP Paribas Shut out of Mythos, Anthropic’s cybersecurity AI reserved for Americans, BNP Paribas is turning to Mistral AI to build the European equivalent. Joint press conference in Paris on May 26. BNP Paribas and Mistral AI announced on May 26 in Paris a cybersecurity shift in their partnership.The first eu

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Earlier this year, a 23-year-old without any formal mathematics training made headlines by claiming he’d used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to solve one of the “Erdős problems” — a database of challenging conjectures left behind by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. Then, last month, scholars were taken aback when OpenAI claimed its AI had disproved an 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture, also dev