Archive: January 2023

Classification of data points can be performed through a photonic quantum computer, boosting the accuracy of conventional methods. Credit: Iris Agresti One of the current hot research topics is the combination of two of the most recent technological breakthroughs: machine learning and quantum computing. An experimental study shows that already small-scale quantum computers can boost the performance of machine learning algorithms. This was demonstrated on a

AI agents keep access to company data after their work is done IT teams responsible for identity security are concerned about AI agents’ ongoing access to company systems and the actions they take on users’ behalf, according to a Delinea’s 2026 Identity Security Report: The AI Enforcement Gap. “Written policy is only as good as your ability to enforce it at the moment an AI agent acts,” said Art Gilliland, CEO of Delinea. “Our research echoes what I hear f

Meta’s social media platforms are coming under growing legal fire over their allegedly addictive designs. Still, the company can’t seem to stop thinking up new ways to monitor users more closely and embed itself even deeper into their lives. The European Commission this week told Meta to make major changes to Facebook and Instagram that would make them less addictive. Following a two-year investigation, the Commission’s preliminary findings determined that

Security researchers hope stuffing passwords with special characters and numbers will soon be history. Fingerprints, access keys and facial recognition are putting a new squeeze on passwords as the traditional computer security method -- but also running into public hesitancy. "The password era is ending," two senior figures at Microsoft wrote in a July blog post. The tech giant has been building "more secure" alternatives to log in for years -- and has si

Schematic of FSS Degisn Software Developed by KRISS. Credit: Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully localized core radar stealth technologies through indigenous development, without reliance on foreign technologies. This achievement is a significant milestone, laying the foundation for the establishment of stealth weapon systems in Korea, which have long been difficul

Consistency models (CMs) are a cutting-edge class of diffusion-based generative models designed for rapid and efficient sampling. However, most existing CMs rely on discretized timesteps, which introduce complex hyperparameter tuning and are susceptible to discretization errors. While continuous-time approaches offer a promising alternative, their adoption has been hindered by significant training instabilities. To overcome these challenges, OpenAI researc

« These tasks will be automated by AI » : Microsoft announces the end of several professions within 18 months Published on February 19, 2026 at 17:02 Commenter 11 𝕏 Print © Thomas Estimbre / 01net.com For the head of Microsoft's AI, Mustafa Suleyman, AI performance will be equivalent to that of humans in most professional tasks within 18 months. During a recent interview granted to the Financial Times, Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft's AI division, did

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images AI leaders insist they’ve got humanity’s best interests in mind. If we’re to take them at their word, then we must say: they have a really unfortunate habit of sounding like they have nothing but contempt for the human race. The latest case in point: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s tone-deaf comments at an event hosted by The Indian Express — made fresh off his skin-crawlingly awk

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Blue collar workers may be enjoying a certain degree of schadenfreude at seeing the panic over tech, finance, and other white collar workers potentially losing their jobs to AI. But mass job destruction would end up being bad for virtually everyone who actually has to work for a living, not just overpaid office drones. That’s according to one of the authors of a new report from Citrini Re

For anyone who dreads being on camera, the new AI avatars will be a welcome relief. This feature lets you produce a polished video without ever stepping in front of a lens. You write your script, choose from a selection of digital presenters, and the AI handles the delivery. It’s perfect for creating consistent training guides, product demos, or team updates without worrying about lighting, background noise, or re-recording twenty takes to get it right. Go

Getty / Futurism A dismal job market has given rise to a grim new cottage industry: a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to do the work they can’t get hired for anymore. The company has been recruiting educated and underemployed experts while keeping them fully in the dark about whose AI they’re even training. As New York Magazine reported last month, shifts are also crushingly long, the va

Published on April 24, 2026 at 13:13 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Meta Third layoff in four months. Meta is laying off 10% of its workforce while planning to spend up to $135 billion on AI infrastructure this year. In January, 1,500 employees from Reality Labs had been laid off. In March, 700 other positions were cut across several divisions. This Thursday, an internal memo revealed by American press and confirmed by Meta announces a massive cut: 8,000 jobs cut on

Multiple AI industry insiders have warned (very publicly) over the past week that the very technology they’ve spent their careers building could very possibly be the agent of our extinction. Evan Hubinger, alignment research lead at Anthropic, went so far as to quantify the level of risk: In an X post last Tuesday, he confidently declared that the likelihood that “AI could kill all humans” within the next ten years was greater than 10%. In Silicon Valley,

It’s all anyone seems to be talking about at the moment. Will AI destroy humanity? Some people who work for the top AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI really think so. But don’t worry, because tech investor Tyler Winklevoss believes he found the answer. “You don’t need the government to tell you how to make AI safe,” Winklevoss wrote in a tweet on Tuesday. “These questions were asked and answered by Isaac Asimov in the 1940s. The frontier labs can hard

(Photo=Shutterstock) Following the massive subscription orders that exceeded several times the public offering amount for Antropic's initial public offering (IPO), forecasts suggest that there could be an additional demand of up to 1.9 billion dollars (approximately 25 trillion won) after the listing. This is due to the anticipated large inflow of funds from index funds that follow major stock indices, as Antropic is expected to be included in major indice

This week’s episode—Oxygen—is the first to show Bill in serious danger, courtesy of a malfunctioning spacesuit that nearly kills her and also, ultimately, saves her from dying: a dichotomy that seems to point to the uneasy relationship some people have with capitalism—a theme that is explored here. And again racism is challenged. I’m reminded of classic Star Trek episodes that score an A-plus for science fiction, while still finding time to scrutinize mode