Archive: September 2022

From drug discovery and protein folding to tumour detection, AI is revolutionizing the biomedical and healthcare fields. Recent research into brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) has revealed their potential to restore rapid communication to people with paralysis by capturing neural activities evoked by attempted speaking actions and decoding these into text. Among the many teams working on such BCIs, Frank Willett’s is one to watch. Willett is a research scie

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The language capabilities of today's artificial intelligence systems are astonishing. We can now engage in natural conversations with systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others, with a fluency nearly comparable to that of a human being. Yet we still know very little about the internal processes in these networks that lead to such remarkable results. A study titled "A Phase Transition between Positional and Semantic Lea

Who watches the AI watching your street? Yusaku Fujii, a professor at Gunma University in Japan, has designed audits and penalties to stop operators from misusing AI that analyzes street camera footage. His system adds an independent record-keeper and unannounced spot checks to the AI’s outputs. Fujii’s test setting is what he calls a Fully Monitored Public Space (FMPS): streets where cameras are dense enough to follow people and vehicles continuously. It

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The nascent AI industry has attracted untold hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the past few years, but it’s still operating in a near-total regulatory vacuum. That’s not to say it’s had no negative impact. The tech has been linked to a wave of mental health breakdowns, suicides and even murder — and that’s without getting into allegations about the secto

The photonic microchip (below) developed for the study on physical neural networks, along with the electronic chip (above, the yellow one) of control. Credit: Politecnico di Milano, DEIB—Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Artificial intelligence is now part of our daily lives, with the subsequent pressing need for larger, more complex models. However, the demand for ever-increasing power and computing capacity is rising faster than t

A crowd gathers outside the New York Stock Exchange following the 'Great Crash' of October 1929. Credit: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, US Library of Congress The electrification boom of the 1920s set the United States up for a century of industrial dominance and powered a global economic revolution. But before electricity faded from a red-hot tech sector into invisible infrastructure, the world went through profound s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Harun Ozalp / Anadolu via Getty Images; New Line Cinema Elon Musk’s new AI data center has turned a formerly quiet Mississippi town into a noisy nightmare. The $20 billion facility, run by Musk’s AI firm xAI, is powered by 27 methane gas turbines that run day and night, belching fumes and emitting a constant noise like jet engines, NBC News reports. The turbines were trucked in because Southaven, the

Cross-sectional schematic of the core-shell structure illustrating multilayer CoPc crystals on KB (left) and the corresponding high-resolution TEM image (right). Credit: Applied Catalysis B: Environment and Energy (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2025.125852 Researchers at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, have introduced a new approach for electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO₂) reduction. By designing multilayer cobal

Published on March 23, 2026 at 17:46 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Herbinisaac / Pixabay A green light: the Conseil d'État, the highest administrative court in France, has given its opinion on the senatorial law proposal aimed at better protecting authors and artists against artificial intelligence. A green light: the Conseil d'État, the highest administrative court in France, has given its opinion on the senatorial law proposal aimed at better protecting authors an

This is a shocking twist for one of the most valuable companies in the world, which designs the chips that make the AI boom possible. Few people would have predicted this turn of events even just a week ago, as Huang has been so central to Nvidia throughout the company’s existence that he never even established a succession plan. But Huang has now been ousted after reports that he had affairs with both an alleged Chinese spy and one of his direct reports a

Uber did not disclose how quickly it would roll out robotaxis, starting in 2027, as a result of its alliance with AI chip star Nvidia. Uber and Nvidia on Tuesday announced an alliance to deploy 100,000 robotaxis starting in 2027. "Together with Uber, we're creating a framework for the entire industry to deploy autonomous fleets at scale, powered by Nvidia AI infrastructure," Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said in a release. Nvidia also said it was wor

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns amid spy, affair scandalsAfter reports of Huang’s two extramarital affairs with an alleged spy and an Nvidia executive, he’s out, and Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is in.After reports of Huang’s two extramarital affairs with an alleged spy and an Nvidia executive, he’s out, and Nvidia CFO Colette Kress is in.Jensen Huang at GTC Berlin last month. Photo: Soeren Stache / picture alliance via Getty ImagesPart OfNvidia CEO Jensen Hua

Getty / Futurism The advent of generative AI continues to undermine the very concept of copyright, from entire books shamelessly ripping off authors to tasteless AI slop depicting beloved characters going viral on social media. The sin is foundational: all today’s popular AI tools were built by pillaging copyrighted material without permission. Even software isn’t safe. As 404 Media reports, a new tool dubbed Malus.sh — pronounced “malice,” to give a subtl