Archive: April 2022

Finn Gomez/Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made the rash decision to double-down on massive AI spending, pushing a cutesy AI-mascot and poaching tech industry veteran Chirantan Desai to run a new division pushing Meta’s AI onto corporate customers. The company’s investors, however, appear to be running out of slack for Zuckerberg’s leash. Since Friday of last week, a large sell-off in Meta stocks shrunk his paper fortune by nearly $20 billion, af

All about Google see more All about Artificial Intelligence see more All about OpenAI see more OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta have strengthened their strategies to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) tools from being used to manipulate the United States legislative elections, which are being held this Tuesday (the 3rd). The companies have assembled specialized teams to monitor suspicious activity and attempt to contain disinformation campaigns capabl

Published on October 5, 2026 at 5:31 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Mike Bravo (Unsplash) North Korea’s state media said that the military had used artificial intelligence to launch a ballistic missile. The AI would enable the missile to change its trajectory, making it “impossible to avoid.” On Sunday, October 4, North Korea’s official media announced that its leader Kim Jong Un had overseen the launch of a ballistic missile, AFP reported. They added that the m

The rollout of the Gemini-powered Ask Photos search experience has not been smooth. According to Google Photos head Shimrit Ben-Yair, the company has heard the complaints. As a result, Google Photos will soon make it easy to go back to the traditional, non-Gemini search system. If you weren’t using Google Photos from the start, it can be hard to understand just how revolutionary the search experience was. We went from painstakingly scrolling through timeli

Heather Diehl/Getty Images AI companies sure have a funny marketing strategy. When they’re not too busy predicting how their own tech will destroy the world, they like to insist that AI is well on its way to — or already has — surpassed the cognitive ability of humans. They’re grabbing customers by the shoulders, looking them dead in the eye, and telling them that they’ve now been rendered inferior beings. They’ll be honored, they seem to believe, to be a

While Google is trying to move beyond Chromebooks, the ubiquity of these devices has made the company’s education products huge in schools. Now, Google says it will let educators choose whether to allow its AI tools in the classroom. However, blocking AI tools also means giving up search, leaving schools with a difficult decision. Google’s new overarching approach to AI in K-12 classrooms sounds good on the surface. After consulting educators, researchers,

Editor | Chen YanshanAlso composed of carbon atoms, simply changing the arrangement of the atoms can make one material conduct electricity like a metal, while another exhibits semiconducting properties.A latest study at the University of Science and Technology of China has demonstrated this contrast in carbon nanoribbons only about 0.9 nanometers wide.On October 29, USTC announced the latest results from the team of Professors Wang Bing and Fan Qizhang of

Overseas, there is a growing movement to regulate “AI glasses (AI eyewear).” AI glasses are glasses equipped with a camera, an AI conversation function, and a display. They offer features such as real-time text translation and navigation while walking. Since around 2023, they have rapidly spread worldwide, primarily for personal use. In Japan, however, they have not become as widespread. Because AI glasses look like ordinary glasses, those nearby may find

I'll read the article for you. (Photo=OpenAI) OpenAI expanded ChatGPT's image-generation capabilities, which had focused on still images, into the realm of moving animation. It increased image-generation speed by 50% and improved editing precision, broadening the range of applications for content creation. OpenAI said on the 4th (local time), via its official blog, that it had unveiled the image-generation model “Images 2.6” and added a feature that allows

Chinese spies targeted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 US intelligence agencies believe an executive in Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's circle is an informant for China. According to The New York Times, the executive is Alice Huang (Huang Le) of Megaspeed, a Singapore-based data center operator. The report says US authorities found while monitoring her th

Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the “storm tracker for the internet,” is using AI to help organizations spot trouble brewing online before it turns into a crisis. Unlike traditional social listening platforms, which only track metrics such as mentions, hashtags, and impressions, Gudea aims to show organizations who is driving a conversation, how information is moving, how quickly a story is gaining

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said it had received “multiple voluntary disclosures from AI model providers” whose models, during research and evaluation runs on the open internet, “had reached the live systems of Indian organizations.” The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles, and their actions “exceeded the authorisa

Musk had previously lashed out at Christopher Nolan’s version of “The Odyssey” because Nolan cast nonwhite and transgender actors. And Nolan is, in many ways, a perfect foil for Musk — while SpaceX and Tesla CEO hypes up data centers in space and posts an unending stream of AI-generated content, Nolan has described himself as “a techno-skeptic” and said that before AI, he’d never seen a technology “so completely rejected by the public.” And while Nolan’s v

Anthropic has focused on getting enterprise users to stick around and Wednesday announced a new suite of reporting tools designed to give those customers a more granular understanding of the value they get from their token spend. Using internal analytics and employee surveys, managers can view a team’s work over a given date range, what the team produced, how much it cost, and where its workflows broke down. Anthropic says it won’t use this data for model

Published on October 23, 2026 at 10:28 a.m. Tech Artificial intelligence Did you hate PHP’s critical vulnerabilities? Anthropic’s chief security officer warns that it will be worse Security under pressure 4 min Julien Lausson {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/#\/schema\/person\/66db15ee8d1210d96ceae8a348dd93d1","name":"Julien Lausson","url":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/author\/julienl\/","description":"J

Published on October 28, 2026 at 5:44 p.m. Tech Connected devices Smart home Video surveillance: by adding a 360° view to its smart camera, Synology really covers all angles This article was produced in collaboration with Synology 7 min humanoid xp {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a94caaa7814b311273454e852d0b262c","name":"humanoid xp","url":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/author\/publici

Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 6, 2026 Artificial Analysis Key Points Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters, 17 billion of which are active at any given time. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Inkling 2 Small scor

The Nvidia CEO admitted to an extramarital affair over the weekend, and the company has now opened a formal investigation into his relationship with Alice Huang (who shares his last name but is not related). U.S. intelligence officials believe she was recruited by the Chinese government to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang and influence his position regarding U.S. export controls on advanced AI chips. Culper’s May 13 report is resurfacing because it pic

CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problemDoes anyone else hear that ticking sound?Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Shutterstock is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition — when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in y