Archive: June 2022

Published on August 19, 2026 at 18:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Katsiaryna Hatsak OpenAI faces a new kind of problem: its future Astra model is making such rapid strides in hacking that the company refuses to push it to its limits. And the monitoring that comes with it consumes an enormous amount of its computing power. On August 7, OpenAI published a rare warning: its preliminary assessments can no longer rule out the possibility that Astra (GPT-6), the lab’s n

OpenAI has revealed a new feature for ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS that basically tracks your clicks, keystrokes, and more — all so it can fine-tune its AI model, raising obvious privacy concerns. The feature, called Computer History, lets ChatGPT “learn from everything you do on your computer,” said Ari Weinstein, an OpenAI product and engineering manager, on X. The company describes the tool as creating a timeline of your actions that an AI agent can u

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images As the backlash against data centers mounts, American political strategists are scrambling to balance immense public sentiment against the facilities with their obligation to big business. In the Republican Party’s Senate campaign arm, a recently leaked memo exposes just how deep the anxieties go. First reported by Axios, the private document was addressed to major AI companies, warning that the public’s disgus

Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images In a new survey of over 2,000 US adults conducted days ago, Politico found that the vast majority of respondents would pull the plug on the whole AI buildout if they could. The magazine presented participants with an intriguing hypothetical: if you were working on developing AI and started seeing signs that the tech could destroy humanity, would you keep going? The answers were telling: only 38 percent said they would con

Meta / Futurism Must an AI be useful? Isn’t being creepy sufficient testament to its utility? “Creepy” is the word being used to describe Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse. Chances are you’ve seen it pop up on Instagram or Facebook, where Meta is heavily promoting its tool as an AI agent for casual users who are blissfully unaware of what an “OpenClaw” or “Instinct” is. To use it, you install it on your device and link it to stuff like your email and bank acco

The Amazon smart thermostat makes it easy to control your home’s temperature remotely from anywhere. Alexa can automatically adjust the temperature according to your preferences, plus minimize usage when the electricity isn’t clean. An early Black Friday deal has knocked 29% off this handy gadget, so instead of $80, you can grab it for $57 today. For bigger spaces that could use two of these, a 2-pack bundle is now $110, down from $160. You can save more w

Discord is facing backlash after announcing that all users will soon be required to verify ages to access adult content by sharing video selfies or uploading government IDs. According to Discord, it’s relying on AI technology that verifies age on the user’s device, either by evaluating a user’s facial structure or by comparing a selfie to a government ID. Although government IDs will be checked off-device, the selfie data will never leave the user’s device

In a few short years, we’ve gone from easily identifying AI content that featured superfluous fingers to images and videos that look shockingly realistic. How can we know what’s real in the age of AI? Google’s answer is SynthID, which it first demonstrated three years ago. The company says SynthID has since been used to label 100 billion images and videos, plus 60,000 years’ worth of audio. Those numbers are only going up now that SynthID is expanding beyo

jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock / Futurism Anthropic officially filed to go public to the tune of up to $2 trillion dollars last week. The news served as the latest litmus test of how far investors are willing to go as fears of a major financial market reckoning continue to haunt chipmakers and hyperscalers. Sam Altman’s OpenAI, on the other hand, announced over the summer that it was putting off its own IPO until next year at the earliest, with managers tell

Ponderomotive formation of plasma photonic structure. Credit: Communications Physics (2026). DOI:10.1038/s42005-026-02505-x Plasma mirrors capable of withstanding the intensity of powerful lasers are being designed through an emerging machine learning framework. Researchers in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde have pooled their knowledge of lasers and artificial intelligence to produce a technology that can dramatically reduce t

It’s impossible to totally avoid generative AI when interacting with technology anymore, but Apple has a bit less of it. That’s not entirely by choice, though. The iPhone maker has delayed the AI-enhanced Siri multiple times since first promising it in 2024, but a deal with Google will merge the iconic assistant with Gemini later this year. As we approach the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has been working to bring big AI smarts to the modest proce

SynthID is an invisible signal encoded in the pixels of AI-generated images and videos, and in the waveform of AI audio. Google says Gemini alone has integrated SynthID with over 180 billion images and videos, plus 240,000 years of audio. Until now, the only way for those outside of Google’s trusted tester program to check for SynthID was to ask Gemini. This is rather clunky, and the model’s output could sometimes be confusing when you just wanted a simple

Stress does not affect only the mind; it leaves chemical traces in many places throughout the body, including blood, saliva, and hair. A new study analyzing “university sewage” found that traces of the stress experienced by students during university examinations were present in the wastewater. Wastewater surveillance captures multi-marker responses to short-term examination stress in a university population | Nature Water https://www.nature.com/articles/s

Table of Contents AI company Anthropic plans IPO on Nasdaq Billion-dollar deal with tech partners Astronomical computing costs Focus on business customers Security incidents fuel skepticism The US AI company Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, is heading toward one of the largest IPOs in history. According to the updated sales prospectus filed with the US securities regulator SEC, the company is seeking a total valuation of up to one trillion US dollar

Meta announced that it will expand AI-powered age-estimation technology worldwide to provide account protections even to 13- to 17-year-olds who misrepresent their age. Expanding Teen Account Protections to Teens Around the World https://about.fb.com/news/2026/11/expanding-teen-account-protections-to-teens-around-the-world/ For more than a decade, Meta has worked with experts in various fields to develop tools and resources that enable teens and their fami