Archive: August 2022

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just caught with not just his hand, but his entire arm, inside the cookie jar. In yet another sign that his company is seriously struggling to keep up in the AI race, Google informed Meta earlier this year that it was cutting Meta off from the Gemini AI capacity it needed, the Financial Times reports. Ironically, the l

Published on July 27, 2026 at 13:04 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash / Lukáš Lehotský The telecom regulator is preparing to collect environmental data from generative AI providers. A sector that has so far communicated more about its energy savings than about its energy bill. Since 2020, Arcep has each year asked French digital companies to disclose their environmental figures: electricity consumed, greenhouse gas emissions, and volumes of water withdrawn. The

Barley Studios via YouTube For director Neill Blomkamp, “District 9” must feel like an eternity ago. The 2009 sci-fi action film used a quasi-documentary style to tell a thrilling tale of a man fighting for survival against government-backed mercenaries while his body fused with alien DNA — even if, let’s be real, it was an extremely clunky allegory for Apartheid. The heaps of body horror and gritty special effects definitely helped, on top of a breakout p

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI is upending the way voters take part in the democratic process. The worst part? You might not even know you’ve been affected. In the county of St. Charles, Missouri, a race for county executive has devolved into slop-slinging of the AI variety. According to local channel First Alert 4, conservative candidate Jason Law is flooding the airwaves with an AI-generated video depicting his tw

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more On Tuesday (20), DeepSeek announced the open-sourcing of DeepInfer, software it uses to run its artificial intelligence (AI) models. The tool was developed to optimize this process, seeking to increase processing efficiency and reduce the time needed to generate responses.With the publication of the code, developers and companies can study how the program works and adapt it to different projects, while obse

JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images) Even as they promise AI will supercharge productivity, tech leaders are sending a clear message: any efficiency gains won’t help individual workers. During a podcast appearance last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he doesn’t “expect AI” to lead to a shorter four-hour work week. He argued that workers are “secretly” going to be “happy” about being “much busier” and working even harder thanks to AI — a bizarre and ou

Published on August 22, 2026 at 10:02 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Swello (Unsplash) The more an image-generating AI gobbles up data, the harder it is to prove that it copies. Researchers from MIT have just demonstrated this, and artists' lawyers are not going to like what follows. Since 2023, illustrators have been trying to get Stability AI and Midjourney convicted for training their models on their works without authorization. Their best hope rested on a simple

Glance has been around for a while—its non-AI lock screen experience has been bundled on various phones from Samsung, Motorola, and others. Before the AI era, Glance lured people in with promises of pretty pictures and news alerts, which came with a side of ads and tracking. The new Glance AI feature has all that, but it adds an unsettling face-stealing layer to the experience. The AI-infused Glance will arrive on Samsung phones as both a standalone app an

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter AI development might not be the wild west it was when ChatGPT burst onto the scene a few years ago, but it's still very much a frontier, with no clear boundaries and few yardsticks. But for AI developers on the frontier, they're pulling hard towards dual goals of ever greater i

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 2 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Mini-PC maker Minisforum just launched the latest upgrades to its flagship products at IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. The first is the AI Agent NAS N5 Max-P495, an upgrade to the brand’s flagship NAS with pre-installed OpenClaw that was launched earlier this year, and it’s foll

An atomic force microscope tip writes data in stable ferroelectric structures, enabling reliable multistate storage at extremely small scales in this illustration. Credit: Morgan Manning/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used specialized tools to study materials at the atomic scale and analyze defects at the surface of ferroelectric materials. Results of their research help to better understand these materials use

Shutterstock / Futurism While the majority of AI leaders seem to agree that we need to take the foot off the AI development pedal or else risk disaster, Wall Street isn’t exactly enthralled by the idea. For years now, analysts have warned that the United States economy is massively overindexed on AI and resting on a staggering amount of debt, with enormous data center projects and eye-bulging capital expenditures fueling fears over a growing bubble. And no

North Shore Rescue Hikers keep getting stranded after consulting AI chatbots for potentially life-saving — or life-threatening — advice. Just last month, three outdoor enthusiasts had to be rescued by Forest Service rangers in California’s Cascade Range after Google’s AI advised them to “bring far less food and water than their group required,” turning their planned eight-hour ascent into a “multi day ordeal.” Yet despite officials pleading with the public

All about Artificial Intelligence see more Employment growth among men has been greater than among women in occupations more exposed to artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States. This finding comes from a Pew Research Center survey that compared labor market data before and after the popularization of generative AI to identify differences between genders.The study analyzed changes in the number of workers between 2017 and 2019 and from January 2023

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter As hardware for running local AI models continues to move to the forefront, such as Nvidia's RTX Spark, a new set of acronyms, definitions, and terminology is popping up. Given the pace of releases, we've put together a list of AI's new nomenclature to familiarize you with new

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 4 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter AI creator Nick Saraev says on X that Amazon closed his account after he tried to buy seven Nvidia DGX Spark AI mini-PCs. The closure email cites a verification process and gives no reason. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney chimed in that his regular orders would go through, then get canc

Mitsubishi Electric announced on November 10 that it had developed an antenna called “Liqutenna” (Rikutena), which uses tap water filled inside an acrylic pipe to transmit and receive radio waves, and had successfully tested its connection with mobile terminals. It claimed this was the first such antenna in the communications industry. Prototype Liqutenna for 800 MHz mobile communications Concept image showing application at an amusement facility Liqutenna