Archive: November 2021

@haoli197654Trying sound ideas with SFX v3: From prompt to sound productionAIVoice generationSound designAPICreative0Posted at 2026-11-12 Trying sound ideas with SFX v3 When you want to try out sound ideas by writing them as text, prompt-based audio tools can help you take the first step lightly. What is SFX v3 SFX v3 is a creative platform that combines a sound effect guide, a prompt library, and an audio workspace. You can try out ideas by selecting a so

The OpenAI logo appears on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen with random binary data, March 9, 2023, in Boston. Credit: AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File OpenAI said Tuesday it has reorganized its ownership structure and converted its business into a public benefit corporation after two crucial regulators, the Delaware and California attorneys general, said they would not oppose the plan. The restructuring paves the way for the ChatGPT maker to more

Published on May 7, 2026 at 17:00 Commenter 2 𝕏 Print © xAI Elon Musk called Anthropic "maleficent" a few weeks ago. His company SpaceX has just entrusted him with the entire datacenter. Business is business. Anthropic announced on Tuesday, May 6, an agreement with SpaceX during its Code With Claude conference in San Francisco. The company will use the entire Colossus 1 datacenter.Over 300 megawatts of additional power and 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs (a mix of H10

Getty / Futurism Mark Zuckerberg is following a path paved by fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: laundering his untold billions through a health research prestige project. Called the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub — his wife Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician, is also involved — the foundation’s stated long-term mission is to “cure and prevent all disease through AI-powered biology, frontier research, and state-of-the-art technology.” True to those enor

In every scenario, China remains the largest market for renewable energy. Renewable energy is still expanding faster than fossil fuels around the world despite policy changes in the United States, with oil demand possibly peaking "around 2030," the International Energy Agency said Wednesday. The Paris-based IEA presented different scenarios for the future of energy in its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO)— the first since coming under fire from the governm

Published on June 1, 2026 at 4:59 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print Le Chat becomes Vibe © Naïm Bada for 01net The calico cat has had its day. Mistral has just renamed Le Chat, its best-known assistant, choosing a name that sounds decidedly more Silicon Valley than the Latin Quarter. Behind the change of label lies, above all, a change of profession. Launched in February 2024, Le Chat had made its mark in the French artificial intelligence landscape, even coming to F

Published on June 23, 2026 at 2:30 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) The Model Capability Initiative program is designed to track Meta employees’ activity. The collected data, some of which is confidential, was accessible to any employee of the company. For reference, Meta deployed the Model Capability Initiative program, an internal system designed to capture employees’ mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes in order to train Meta’s artif

Shutterstock / Futurism Psychiatrists and other researchers are still working to understand the phenomenon known as “AI psychosis,” in which users of chatbots enter into delusional mental health crises following intensive use of the tech. A new paper proposes an intriguing new way to understand AI-fueled delusional spirals — and the chatbot-embedded design features that may reinforce unreality. The paper, coauthored by psychiatrists from King College Londo

A color-treated photo of a group of angry protestors yelling. The shockingly unpopular drive to pepper the United States with massive AI data centers isn’t just driving up electricity prices, wasting huge amounts of water, and reviving heavy-polluter power stations — it’s also making life more expensive for the average American. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the data center boom is driving a “third wave of inflation” which — following president Donal

Shutterstock / Futurism Award winning economist and Brown University professor Roberto Serrano says he has detected what appears to be the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history. As Spanish newspaper El País reports, Serrano noticed red flags as soon as he looked at the scores of a March midterm exam for one of the classes he teaches, an advanced undergrad course in mathematical economics. The take-home and closed-book exam — an “Honor Code” typ

hack the factory For the industrial Internet of Things, defense in depth is a requirement The shift in how we make things brings with it a shift in how we secure things. Matthew Rothenberg – Jun 19, 2019 9:30 am | 42 Sensors, sensors everywhere! Credit: Getty / 7postman Sensors, sensors everywhere! Credit: Getty / 7postman Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize t

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock David Foster Wallace once asked readers to “consider the lobster,” in his famous essay about the ethics of boiling the creatures alive. But new tech brings new horrors, and perhaps Wallace, if he were alive today, would instead be writing about biohacking lobster brains so they can be taken over by an AI agent. Because that’s exactly what a group of young tech founders in San Francisco ha

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock We’ve been hearing plenty about how Meta’s workforce is in total disarray. But this latest story takes the cake — or acorn, perhaps. As Wired reports, a squirrel got loose inside one of the company’s buildings in Bangkok, Thailand, after someone received it in the mail. It’s unlikely the creature had plotted to infiltrate the Meta office, but it coincidentally made it just in time to plun

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images); Shutterstock The “singularity” is here — according to Sam Altman, who we’d wager has an ulterior motive behind promoting this claim. The OpenAI CEO harbingered this sea-changing paradigm shift on a podcast over the weekend. “We are now, like, in the singularity,” Altman said on the latest episode of “Relentless,” as spotted by Business Insider. Definitions vary, but th

Justine Moore via X Text-to-video AI generating tools have come a long way. Just three years ago, we were all unsettled by grisly clips of actor Will Smith’s face morphing while “eating” a moving pile of spaghetti. Thanks to major leaps in the tech, these tools can now generate photorealistic fake footage at the drop of a hat — which could have devastating implications for efforts to keep disinformation at bay. However, those who are heavily invested in AI

Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t afraid to throw humanity under the bus to build his dreams of a society powered by AI. During an interview with Politico’s new podcast Decoded, he laid it all out: that the “world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.” That, in Altman’s view, is what sets the ChatGPT maker apart from the competition — most notably Anthropic, which ha

Published on October 8, 2026 at 09:34 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic has just unveiled Claude Haiku 5.5, a new AI model. Faster and more powerful than its predecessor, it is, above all, 75% cheaper. With this new cost-effective solution, the OpenAI rival startup wants to make AI affordable for everyday tasks, those repeated millions of times throughout the day. Anthropic wants to make AI accessible to every budget. This Wednesday, October 7, the A