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Biz & IT Debunking the biggest myths about artificial intelligence From killer robots, to runaway sentience, there’s a lot of FUD that needs clearing up. Rupert Goodwins – Dec 25, 2015 9:00 am | 120 HAL 9000 in the film 2001. HAL 9000 in the film 2001. Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav The concept of inhuman intelligence goes back to the deep prehisto

Illustration featuring a photograph of Sam Altman set against a purple and yellow background. Florida has become the first state in the union to sue ChatGPT producer OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. In a landmark lawsuit filed by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier, the state accused the entity and its chief executive of putting revenue over safety in order to grab market share with a product even though it knew it could harm users. First reported by NB

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI data centers will consume as much water as the water needs of 1.3 billion people by 2030, according to a new report from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. The report, released this week, found that the environmental cost of AI is being “systematically mismeasured” because current assessments focus on the carbon emissions from training large lang

We may have bitten off more than we could chew, folks. An Amazon engineer told me that when he heard what I was trying to do with Ars headlines, the first thing he thought was that we had chosen a deceptively hard problem. He warned that I needed to be careful about properly setting my expectations. If this was a real business problem… well, the best thing he could do was suggest reframing the problem from “good or bad headline” to something less concrete.

(Photo=Shutterstock) U.S. AI technology stocks, which had plunged amid concerns over debt burdens and the AI investment bubble, rebounded across the board following CoreWeave’s earnings release. Market unease eased as CoreWeave presented stronger-than-expected revenue growth and measures to raise funding, while Nvidia shares, which had plummeted amid controversy surrounding CEO Jensen Huang, returned to an upward trend. Reuters, Bloomberg and other outlets

Last week, a federal court upheld the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” a scarlet letter that would effectively label the company a national security threat. It was a major win for the federal government in its long-running dispute with the AI startup, which earlier this year said it would not allow the Pentagon to use its technology for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons systems. The legal battle—which has

While AI is constantly being promoted as tech make life easier, one teen learned the hard way that it can still lead to serious mistakes. A 16-year-old solo hiker had to be rescued Saturday from a mountain near Vancouver after getting stranded while following a route he had planned with the help of AI, North Shore News reports. North Shore Rescue volunteers received a call just before 3:30 p.m. about the teen, who was stuck on a cliff on Crown Mountain, ro

AI is giving scammers a more convincing way to impersonate police, reports show. Just last week, the Salt Lake City Police Department (SLCPD) warned of an email scam using AI to convincingly clone the voice of Police Chief Mike Brown. A citizen tipped off cops after receiving a suspicious email that included a video showing the police chief claiming that they “owed the federal government nearly $100,000.” To dupe their targets, the scammers cut together re

Meta is reportedly teaming up with Walmart, Stripe, and enterprise AI startup Sierra to publish a set of standards for how AI agents should interact with businesses online. Called a “personal agent protocol,” the standards will reportedly help companies distinguish authorized personal agent purchases from others. “We’re defining rails that we hope personal agents and business agents can run over for the future,” Meta Superintelligence Labs vice president o

Published on August 31, 2026 at 4:02 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © MacStadium Tens of thousands of Mac minis would have ended up in OpenAI’s labs. At Nvidia, the first RTX Spark PCs are reserved before they even exist. Meanwhile, consumers are seeing lead times stretch and prices rise. Apple Mac Studio 4.3/5 See the review View the technical specifications You’ve already felt the shortage of RAM in PC prices this year. Now computers themselves are becoming scarce

According to the company, Photos has more than 1.5 billion monthly users, and it stores more than 9 trillion photos and videos. When using the Photos app on a phone, you are prompted to automatically upload your camera roll, which makes it easy to keep all your memories backed up (and edge ever closer to the free storage limit). Photos has also long offered almost magical search capabilities, allowing you to search for the content of images to find them. T

U.S. political ads have officially entered their AI slop era. Political campaigns and groups have spent more than $137 million airing ads created at least partly with AI tools ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, according to new data from the Wesleyan Media Project. That’s a massive jump from the 2024 election cycle. “AI is making its way into the 2026 midterms in a big way this year. For comparison, we identified less than $50,000 in spending on AI-gener

This feature is not currently rolling out widely—it’s available in search labs, which means you have to manually enable it. Anyone can opt in to the new Audio Overview search experience, though. If you join the test, you’ll quickly see the embedded player in Google search results. However, it’s not at the top with the usual block of AI-generated text. Instead, you’ll see it after the first few search results, below the “People also ask” knowledge graph sec

U.S. Navy via Getty Images / Futurism With so many talks about AI’s potential to someday wipe out mankind with some spooky bioweapon, it seems many have overlooked the catastrophic risk that AI is actually posing in the here and now. Bombshell new reporting by CNN revealed a horrifying episode stemming from the US Special Operations Command Pacific which almost kicked off World War III. According to the reporting, US military officials aborted a planned ra

Artificial intelligence has deciphered ancient scrolls and could even help humans communicate with other animals, but now OpenAI is using the technology for another difficult translation task—one that could have huge benefits for critical infrastructure like banking, nuclear energy, and government. The AI startup announced Monday that its latest models, including GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol, have shown “substantial improvements” in their ability to migrate

More than 35,000 web applications created with the vibe-coding tool Grok Build were accessible to third parties without logging in. Claroc, a company specializing in AI security, discovered that the apps’ sharing links could be found through public DNS databases. Based on a sample, Claroc estimates that 650 to 800 of the applications contained private data. The Grok provider SpaceXSI itself was also affected. Continue reading after the advertisement In 24

Sound production of D. volitans recorded at the Adriatic Sea. The oscillogram (upper part) and spectrogram (middle part) highlight the repeated pattern. Credit: Horvatić et al. (2026) Researchers have just published a study demonstrating that the flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans) emits sounds while simultaneously performing movements to communicate—a discovery that enriches our knowledge about the "symphony" of the ocean. Since the 1970s, scientists

Published on October 7, 2026 at 16:39 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Everyone can now upload an image, video, or audio file to synthid.com to look for the watermark embedded by major AI systems. An open tool for the whole world, but it does not see everything. Google is opening its AI-generated content detector, SynthID Detector, to the general public this Wednesday via synthid.com. A Google, Apple, or OpenAI account is all that is needed: upload the suspicious

Having hoovered up basically the entire world of literature, music, and visual art, the insatiable AI behemoth has moved on to software. There’s been a constant barrage of headlines over the last few weeks about the latest piece of software to get a vibe-coded “clone”: entire games, big-ticket software packages, and everything in between. These projects have stepped on some of the biggest toes in the world of software development, so it’s perhaps not surpr

Everything about Google see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Google used artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze and verify the security properties of Signal, one of the best-known messaging apps for its privacy features. The work was conducted by Google DeepMind, the company’s AI research division, and used mathematical proofs to examine parts of the messenger’s code.The analysis used AlphaProof Code, a system developed to work with