Archive: September 2021

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Fake AI-generated doctors and health gurus have taken over Facebook and Instagram, sharing unproven medical advice and peddling dubious supplements. A recent New York Times investigation into the phenomenon reviewed hundreds of these ads, finding that they tend to follow a loose formula to draw people in. The AI videos usually feature AI avatars that present themselves as credible figures

Dwarkesh Patel Podcast via YouTube / Futurism Suddenly, things ain’t looking great for the AI industry. Or at least for the people pouring loads of money into it. Situational Awareness, a much-hyped AI hedge-fund whose 24-year-old founder Leopold Aschenbrenner preached endless AI gains, basically imploded over this month amid a mass tech sell-off. The Wall Street Journal reported that it’s now down 67 percent in July, forcing Aschenbrenner to desperately s

A computer scientist who tried to register an artwork that credited an artificial intelligence system as the sole author lost his appeal on Tuesday. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously agreed with the Copyright Office that Stephen Thaler’s AI software cannot be granted authorship. Copyright law “requires all work to be authored in the first instance by a human being,” Judge Patricia Millett wrote in

A mother suing Character.AI after her son died by suicide—allegedly manipulated by chatbots posing as adult lovers and therapists—was horrified when she recently discovered that the platform is allowing random chatbots to pose as her son. According to Megan Garcia’s litigation team, at least four chatbots bearing Sewell Setzer III’s name and likeness were flagged. Ars reviewed chat logs showing the bots used Setzer’s real photo as a profile picture, attemp

Shutterstock / Futurism Meta brags that its new AI agent, Muse, can be an all-around “personal assistant” that takes care of everything in your mundane little life, ranging from online shopping, to managing emails, to keeping tabs on your finances — and, hell, even picking your wardrobe, disheveled slob that you are. Last week, it also announced something that actually sounded useful in an age where picking up the phone usually results in conversing with a

Shutterstock / Futurism As economists in the rest of the world look at the billions being poured into the AI industry with their hands over their eyes, the fate of China’s AI industry may be a sign of things to come. A report from Reuters suggests that the AI bubble in China “has already burst.” Or it might be more apt to say that it shriveled like a rapidly deflating balloon: over the past four months, Reuters notes, the country’s STAR50 index of AI and s

Behind virtually all modern technology is a component that is often invisible to the end consumer but has become the focus of a silent global contest: chips. Essential to smartphones, cars, artificial intelligence systems, and even military applications, these semiconductors have ceased to be merely parts of the industry and have become strategic assets.In this scenario, Nvidia is the protagonist. We are talking about one of the world's largest chip manufa

On November 10, Anthropic released its next-generation model, Fable 5.2, once again pushing the physical action capabilities of general-purpose large models to new heights.According to the evaluation results published by Anthropic, Fable 5.2 achieved a 64.9% accuracy rate in the RoboDojo Sim dual-arm robot simulation evaluation—a substantial improvement over the previous generation, Fable 5.1—and also significantly outperformed GPT-6 Astra. Anthropic also

@okmonn(おか もん)The Complete Guide to Claude Code Custom SubagentsAIAI UtilizationAIAgentClaudeCodeClaudeTAG30@@0Posted at 2026-11-11TAG40TAG42 Audience: Those new to Claude Code and those designing custom subagents for the first time Purpose: Understand “when to create one,” “what to write,” “how to use it safely,” and “how to validate it” through practical templates and concrete examples Contents Subagent Basics Determining Whether a Custom Subagent Is Nec

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Meta announced the global expansion of the artificial intelligence (AI) technology used by Instagram to identify teenage users. The system can estimate people's ages based on information from their profiles and may place minors in accounts with special protections, even when they enter a date of birth indicating that they are adults.The news was announced on Monday (9). According to the company, millions of

(Source=Ministry of Science and ICT) South Korea's digital and AI competitiveness stands at 10th worldwide. In particular, the “Technology Infrastructure” and “Efficiency” categories, which incorporate numerous AI-related indicators, climbed to third place each, confirming the country's global competitiveness. On the 11th, the Ministry of Science and ICT announced that Korea ranked 10th out of 70 countries in the International Institute for Management Deve

U.S.-based Open Standard announced on June 30 (local time) a new stablecoin, “Open USD,” for companies to transfer funds across borders. More than 140 companies from the payments, finance, IT, and crypto asset sectors participated, including U.S.-based Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and Google. From Japan, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group, Rakuten Group, PayPay, and others also joined. Source: From the press release;