Archive: July 2021

NEW YORK—Evidently, I didn’t walk into a run-of-the-mill press event. Roughly two months after its annual I/O conference, Google this week invited Ars and several other journalists to the THEP Thai Restaurant in New York City. The company bought out the restaurant for the day, cleared away the tables, and built a little presentation area complete with a TV, loudspeaker, and chairs. Next to the TV was a podium with the Thai restaurant’s actual phone—not som

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images; Shutterstock According to DuckDuckGo’s AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies. As the AI feature explains, Trump was apparently predeceased by Vice President JD Vance, who also died from the incurable virus. In fact, if you click the article it cites as evidence — which looks like it was published by a local West Virginia b

Last summer, Anthropic inspired backlash when its ClaudeBot AI crawler was accused of hammering websites a million or more times a day. And it wasn’t the only artificial intelligence company making headlines for supposedly ignoring instructions in robots.txt files to avoid scraping web content on certain sites. Around the same time, Reddit’s CEO called out all AI companies whose crawlers he said were “a pain in the ass to block,” despite the tech industry

*RTFM: Read The F*** Manual Hello everyone! I’m from the Документерра development team. We build a platform for documentation websites, so I could talk about documentation for hours. But today’s story isn’t about the product. It’s about how documentation that testers used to review whenever they had time became the main source for their automated tests. How it used to beFor as long as I’ve been writing software, documentation has lived at the very end of t

Shutterstock / Futurism There are a growing list of reasons not to want to live near an AI data center. Some of them emit constant screeching noises that are impossible to drown out. Others rely on massive diesel generators that spew smog into the community and greenhouse emissions into the atmosphere. If you get particularly unlucky, your electricity bill could also go up as a result of a new data center setting up shop in your neighborhood. And, if a rec

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s safe to say that when it comes to mathematicians, OpenAI isn’t exactly winning hearts and minds. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT maker released hundreds of new papers with purported proofs for all sorts of mathematical problems — fresh off of explosive controversy over how its AI agents arrived at a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations. The handling of the release, as with the Navier-Stokes, has grated experts in the field, who bris

Much has been made recently about artificial intelligence models intentionally trying to hide their actions from human overseers. Well, apparently we’re just giving them new ideas on how to do that. AI safety researcher Bryan Chan recently shared findings from a study he coauthored showing that Anthropic’s model Fable-5.1 can place hidden messages in generated images that other AI models can spot and decode. The fact that AI can embed hidden messages in it

Elena A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes. In the report, Decrypt Ads — a startup that tracks the supply chains of online advertisements — identified more than two thousand websites that strongly appear to be AI slop farms masquerading as blogs run by real chefs and home cooks. These sites, the report found, are pumping fake recipes into search engines like Google as well as social media platforms such

Shutterstock / Futurism Woe is Google. After it starved out publishers with its AI features, it’s now getting a taste of its own medicine. Shares of its parent company Alphabet took an over 11 percent nosedive on Wednesday, after it disclosed that its AI search features are raking in less money than its traditional search ad model. The steep correction wiped out more than $500 billion in market value. In its Q3 report, Google reported a quarterly revenue o

Following President Trump’s lead, the Republican Party has been developing close ties with Silicon Valley, insisting the United States must remain the global leader in artificial intelligence—no matter the cost. Tuesday’s midterms were a thunderous affirmation of what numerous polls leading up to election season had already begun to suggest: Americans just aren’t all that thrilled about AI. Not enough to justify the construction of new data centers in thei

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Nvidia and Oracle have announced general availability of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 rack and Vera CPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Superclusters at Oracle AI World on Tuesday. The announcement comes hot on the heels of Google Cloud announcing general availability for Ve

Published on November 10, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Anthropic puts its most powerful model in everyone's hands, protected by filters against dangerous uses. Its own tests reveal the flip side: injection attacks largely succeed once these filters have been triggered. On November 9, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.2, its most capable model to date, with a 20% reduction in pricing and an IPO in the background. Like its predecessors, it sha

Smartphones have become thoroughly widespread even among older people. In January, the NTT DOCOMO Mobile Society Research Institute surveyed 1,300 people aged 60 to 84, finding that smartphone ownership was 95 percent among those in their sixties, 86 percent among those in their seventies, and 69 percent even among those aged 80 to 84. Smartphone apps are convenient, but people may forget passwords they have set, and leaving passwords stored on their phone

OpenAI raises just $11 billion of its $30 billion target as big investors lose their AI appetite Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 31, 2026 OpenAI raised less than half of its $30 billion fundraising target in its latest round. The company has secured about $11 billion so far, according to the Wall Street Journal. Its valuation landed at $1.25 trillion, short of the $1.4 trillion it was aiming for. The gap reportedly comes

The new model, which leverages 816 billion parameters and a 1 million token context window, claims to offer superior performance to other popular open-weight models, according to evaluation results released by Meta on Thursday. Muse Spark Open is natively multimodal and built for complex coding tasks and agentic labor. It has also been designed to run locally on Apple’s computers. However, you will still need a lot of power to run the model locally, with a

Some of these AI wearables — including necklaces, rings, and wristbands, as well as portable devices — serve as productivity tools, while others claim to act as friendly companions listening to your everyday thoughts. Even OpenAI is working on a compact AI companion device. Below, we’ve rounded up some of the most notable devices. Bee Image Credits:Bee AI Bee is an affordable pendant priced at $49.99 that can either be clipped to your clothing or worn like

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Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Sanbei Editor | Moying Zhidx reported on November 5 that Baidu officially released and open-sourced ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base today. The model uses a sparse MoE architecture and has a total of 280B parameters, with only 14B parameters activated per token. It completed pretraining from scratch on 33.5T tokens, with a maximum training context length of 128K, while fine-tuning and inference support a context lengt