Archive: September 2021

OpenAI fired the starting gun for the AI race in late 2022 with the launch of ChatGPT and has since become one of the most valuable startups in the world, reaching hundreds of millions of users every day. Its success, however, has depended on a web of partnerships with other companies that make the silicon chips upon which its AI systems depend. On Wednesday, OpenAI took its biggest step yet towards full technological independence with the unveiling of a n

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The unseen infrastructure powering artificial intelligence (AI) isn't digital—it's physical: massive data centers filled with thousands of computer servers. As the popularity of AI tools continues to grow, it has triggered a once-in-a-generation construction boom for larger and more powerful data centers. Now, the recently announced AI Action Plan is calling for even more infrastructure to power them. Virginia Tech's Land

Sora 2 (Screenshots via Instagram) To take president Donald Trump’s word for it, America’s cities are in ruins, forcing him to deploy federal troops to Portland, Washington DC, and Memphis. There’s just one wrinkle — no one seems to be able to find any real evidence of the mass riots and anarchist violence that Trump and his supporters insist is destroying the nation. Luckily for them, that problem is easily solved with a little help from AI. The phenomeno

Getty / Futurism Your pesky remote freelancers demanding more money as inflation soars? You could try replacing them with AI agents instead — but it probably won’t work out well. New research highlighted by Wired shows how these AI models designed to automate tasks — if not entire jobs — turn out to be incredibly unproductive compared to the humans they’re replacing. Conducted by researchers at the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and the massive data

Getty / Futurism As generative AI seeps into virtually every aspect of our daily lives through jobs, entertainment, and even food, you gotta wonder: is anyone not on board with the AI takeover? Apparently not. Former McKinsey analyst turned Dartmouth University professor Scott Anthony told Fortune that one of the feelings he’s seeing more and more among college students isn’t excitement for the AI future, but utter terror. “One of the things that really su

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Is the AI bubble going to burst? Will it cause the economy to go up in flames? Both analogies may be apt if you’re to believe one leading expert’s warning that the industry may be heading for a Hindenburg-style disaster. “The Hindenburg disaster destroyed global interest in airships; it was a dead technology from that point on, and a similar moment is a real risk for AI,” Michael Wooldrid

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina, creating 125 new jobs for workers throughout the area. Pharmaceutical giant Becton Dickinson is putting $110 million into a manufacturing expansion in Columbus, Nebraska — 120 jobs. A new automotive venture in Orangeburg, South Carolina is investing $120 million into a new

By early Thursday morning, Huang was no longer CEO of the company he co-founded 33 years ago. Then, Thursday afternoon, Reuters dropped another bombshell, publishing a report alleging that Huang had yet another extramarital affair with another unnamed Nvidia employee. The U.S. and China are embroiled in a fierce technological arms race to build the most advanced AI infrastructure, which could shape each country’s economic future, military prowess, and capa

@mrmrmr(mori mori)【Even a 5th Grader Can Understand】What are Bagging and Boosting?G ExamMachine LearningDeep LearningAIBeginner-Friendly0Posted at 2026-11-12 What are Bagging and Boosting? They are the two different methods of creating multiple models. Simple Explanation It's the two approaches:『Having several people solve the same problem and combining their opinions』and『Starting with simple problems and focusing on practicing difficult ones』. Everyday Ex

Franck Fife / AFP via Getty Images Is there anything about this upcoming World Cup — which will be taking place across the entire continent of North America — that isn’t shaping up to be a total disaster? FIFA seems to be nakedly price gouging fans on ticket prices, and may have even outright scammed them on the seats they overpaid for. President Trump threatened to deploy ICE agents at World Cup cities and stadiums. US airports have descended into chaos a

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It may be the beginning of the end for the global legions of C-drama fans. iQIYI, the Chinese streaming service known for its massive library of Asian films and TV shows, is anticipating that AI will create the majority of its content in just five years, Bloomberg reports. In an interview at iQIYI’s annual content showcase, CEO Gong Yu presented a sweeping AI vision so divorced from the c

Published on May 2, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada pour 01net Stanford and the Internet Archive measured the scale of the phenomenon. The most troubling result is not what was expected: the web has not become more fake, but more uniform and strangely optimistic. We have been promised for months a "dead internet," overrun by robots talking to other robots. Researchers decided to check. A team from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Inte

Getty / Futurism Did ChatGPT just solve an arcane math problem that’s foiled mathematicians for over sixty years? Some leading experts say yes, Scientific American reports. Earlier this month, 23-year-old Liam Price shared a solution to one of the so-called Erdős problems, a series of famously abstruse math conjectures left behind by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. While some of these conjectures have gotten the better of savants in the field, Pric

Google joins the decision-model wave with Gemini Decision 1, scoring 1,000 questions in a single pass View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 11, 2026 Google Deepmind is introducing the Gemini Decisions API, an interface built for fast, closed-ended decisions like yes/no questions, multiple choice, and scale-based ratings. The underlying model, Gemini Decision 1, processes up to 1,000 independent questions in a single pass across text, images, au

Alibaba, a major Chinese technology company, released “Qwen4-Max-Preview” as a preview version of the Qwen4 series. Since it was available even on the free plan, I tried making a game with it. Qwen4 is coming.Deeper knowledge. Richer world understanding. Stronger coding and agentic capabilities.Built for real-world tasks — from complex coding and knowledge work to front-end builds and professional software workflows.Qwen4-Max is now in preview on Alibaba’s