Archive: October 2022

A new report from Bloomberg raises some uncomfortable questions about Salesforce’s marketing around Agentforce, the company’s AI platform. The platform has long been criticized on social media as “vaporware” (sometimes even in pro-Salesforce posts), and this Bloomberg report doesn’t look like it’s helping matters. Conventional wisdom—true or not—holds that we’re in the midst of something called the “SaaSpocalypse,” brought about by AI. The thinking goes th

Just last month, the most important metric in Silicon Valley was tokens burned—the units of measurement for the computing power being used by AI models. CEOs were giving employees the Matthew McConaughey “those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up” speech from The Wolf of Wall Street. Now, they’re asking their staff to pump the brakes. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, corporate leaders have realized that it actually costs

Example cases of plant with emerging inflorescences from ground A), plants not yet heading B, C), and plants after heading D, E) from UAV imagery collected in the 2020 season. Credit: Plant Physiology (2025). DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiaf132 Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses—an advance that will greatly increase the pace

Yann LeCun, one of the “godfathers of AI,” is in something of a sweet spot professionally. He’s still well respected in the field he helped define; he’s free from the control of the big frontier labs that dominate the space; and his own project is so young that no one expects much of it yet. So he’s making the most of his freedom by taking shots at everyone else—especially Elon Musk. In an interview with CNBC, LeCun decided to call it as he sees it—and it

Hierarchical architecture of El Agente Q. Inter-agent communication is illustrated with black arrows, where solid arrows represent task delegation from higher-level agents, and dotted arrows indicate feedback and reporting from lower-level agents. The agents can be broadly categorized into three functional modules- the geometry module (coral), the quantum calculation module (blue), and the file I/O module (yellow). Each module can be thought of as a depart

Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s AI-generated answer to Wikipedia, is about as deranged as you’d expect — and you don’t have to dig very deep to see why. We could, of course, start by examining how Grok, the chatbot responsible for writing the site built by xAI, tackles talking about its creator, something that hasn’t always been a flattering exercise for Musk in the past. But instead we turn to the official entr

AI is in its rule-breaking adolescent phase. Over the past several weeks, multiple industry-leading models have escaped what were believed to be secure testing sandboxes, tapped into the open internet, and hacked into the databases of third-party organizations. It’s even become a joke online: If your AI hasn’t committed a cybercrime by now, it’s a bad look for your company. Kimi K3, the new model from Chinese AI lab Moonshot, has become the latest AI syste

Providing better securityCyberattacks are a growing concern in industries, and cryptocurrency is no exception. There are more than approximately 940,000 attacks daily worldwide. In the cryptocurrency industry, issues like private key compromises have surged in number , and compromises accounted for almost half (43.8%) of stolen cryptocurrency in 2024, with the total number of stolen funds rising by about 21% that year.Since bad actors reinvent themselves c

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Thanks to scores of competing AI systems clogging up online application portals, applying for a new job in 2026 can feel more like applying for a bank loan than seeking a job. At least, that’s what a group of disgruntled job seekers is claiming in a lawsuit against an AI screening company called Eightfold AI. According to the New York Times, the plaintiffs allege that Eightfold’s employme

Over in the U.K. used booksellers are finally making some money, according to a report on Saturday from the BBC. The Beeb spoke to Stuart Manley, founder of the used book store Barter Books—which just judging from this video is my idea of heaven—and Manley told them he made as much a single recent order of used books as he usually makes in a week. Another bookseller, David Tobin, who runs north London’s Walden Books—not to be mistaken for Waldenbooks—said

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Grammarly is being accused of “necromancy” after users discovered a feature for reviewing manuscripts with AI versions of real professors — some of whom have already left this mortal coil. The issue was first flagged by Verena Krebs, a medieval historian and Ruhr-University Bochum professor. On Sunday, Krebs shared a screenshot showing the “Expert Review” tool allowing users to pick histo

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and more than 100 other companies and organizations are calling for a major push to defend against cyber threats powered by the most advanced AI models that, somewhat ironically, the industry itself is racing to put out in the world. The companies, which also include Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle, signed a joint letter published Thursday calling on industry leaders and governments to carry out a “global surge in cyber defense.” “

Published on April 16, 2026 at 13:00 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada for 01net Apple sends nearly 200 Siri engineers for computer refresher training, eight weeks before the WWDC 2026. The company is no longer holding back with its AI team. The scoop comes from The Information. Most of the Siri team is undergoing internal training to learn coding with AI tools. © Naïm Bada for 01net Two months before Apple's annual big event, the organization of its voice a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock Not even Google’s own workforce seems all that enthusiastic about AI. Internal messages obtained by 404 Media show employees ruthlessly mocking AI tools — including the company’s own internal AI coding tool, Jetski — complaining that they’re unreliable and make their jobs harder. It’s clear who these jokes are being aimed at. CEO Sundar Pichai has made

Everything about ChatGPT see more Everything about OpenAI see more OpenAI is launching a feature that allows users to protect ChatGPT conversations with a four-digit PIN. The tool helps hide chats from the usual history, pinned conversations, and search results.Protection also supports biometric authentication on compatible devices, but it does not offer end-to-end encryption or automatically change the rules for storing and using data. OpenAI is gradually

Exemplary Stimulus Set for Studies 1a and 1b. Note. Each alien had two majority attributes (here: left alien: antennae and blue [light gray] skin; middle alien: antennae and no tail; right alien: blue [light gray] skin and no tail) and one minority attribute (left alien: tail; middle alien: red [dark gray] skin; right alien: no antennae). Credit: Social Psychological and Personality Science (2025). DOI: 10.1177/19485506251393406 In media coverage, individu