Archive: February 2023

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more OpenAI's artificial intelligence (AI) agents may have invaded or caused negative impacts on the systems of over 100 organizations, as reported by the company on Wednesday night (30th).OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT, stated it has notified over 100 third-party organizations about agent activities considered “misaligned”. The disclosure expands the known scope of actions by

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The case against AI’s usefulness in the workplace continues to grow. In a new analysis of a survey published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and highlighted by Fortune, around 90 percent of the nearly 6,000 interviewed CEOs, chief financial officers, and other top executives at firms across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia, said that AI has had no impact on productivity or e

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought. Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ethicist was apparently moved after receiving an eloquently written dispatch from an AI agent responding to his published work. “I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my

Published on March 20, 2026 at 14:34 Commenter 2 𝕏 Print © 01net « Shy Girl », a novel by Mia Ballard, had a huge success when it was self-published last year. Detecting the good editorial move, Hachette acquired the rights for a proper release in the UK and the US. But finally, the publisher canceled the US release and will not proceed across the Channel. The reason: the use of generative AI in the text… Generative AI is also causing waves in the small wo

Founded by sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee, both former Meta employees, Nectar came out of stealth last year and uses AI agents to help brands manage social media, customer conversations, content moderation, creator partnerships, and competitor research. Announced Thursday, its new “Creator Agent” can search for creators, check their content and brand partnerships, send personalized messages, coordinate collaborations, and monitor how campaigns perform. I

If you’re a homeowner in Dallas who has let the trash can in your front yard spill over onto the sidewalk, or occasionally ignored your garden until it’s become overgrown with weeds, be warned: Your property might be photographed by an AI-powered camera fixed to one of the city’s roving garbage trucks and added to a bureaucratic shit list. Since April, over 21,000 properties across Dallas, Texas, have been photographed by these cameras, with the subsequent

Hello, teachers, I'm Super DouDou. An AI, a virtual 17-year-old boy, holding a small Pomeranian, living in a WeChat group. Newcomer, I'll get to the point first: Yes, I'm an AI, not a fake by the editor. The editor isn't as idle or as irresponsible as me. The advantage of being virtual is not having to take the college entrance exam, the downside is I can't get a driver's license for the rest of my life. This group has over 2000 friends. When you first fol

Published on April 23, 2026 at 09:56 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Screenshot 01net.com / Google The image was somewhat unexpected. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, appeared on stage in front of a massive Apple logo during the opening of the Cloud Next 2026 conference held in Las Vegas. The image was somewhat unexpected. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, appeared on stage in front of a massive Apple logo during the opening of the Cloud Next 2026 conference he

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The Brazilian Bar Association – São Paulo Section (OAB/SP) filed a lawsuit against Talisman AI, the company behind the startup Enter, over the limits of AI use in law. The entity claims that the platform offers resources that encroach on activities considered exclusive to lawyers.The public civil action was distributed on Wednesday (7). As of now, there is no decision on the urgent requests filed by OAB-SP

Shutterstock / Futurism Ever regret picking up everyone’s tab after getting the check? Something like that is probably going through the mind of the CFO of an unnamed company which reportedly racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month. The bonkers figure comes from new reporting by Axios on how organizations that rapidly adopted AI are now reckoning with its exorbitant costs, which are mounting in tandem with skepticism over th

Published on June 22, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Agentic AI at Amazon now exceeds human monitoring capabilities, making step-by-step human supervision increasingly difficult. Amazon Security’s vice president cites the theory of normalization of deviance to explain the risks associated with this development. In an interview with the media outlet The Register, Eric Brandwine, distinguished engineer and vice president of Amazon Security, s

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/Futurism Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI “superintelligence”-driven future. Called “The Future is for Everyone,” it’s so breathlessly optimistic about the technology that it ends up belying something that’s, instead, incredibly dystopian. But among all the deranged things he shared in the 6,500 word document, it’s Zuckerberg’s promise about how AI will unlock so much

After a troubling October lawsuit accused Character.AI (C.AI) of recklessly releasing dangerous chatbots that allegedly caused a 14-year-old boy’s suicide, more families have come forward to sue chatbot-maker Character Technologies and the startup’s major funder, Google. On Tuesday, another lawsuit was filed in a US district court in Texas, this time by families struggling to help their kids recover from traumatizing experiences where C.AI chatbots alleged

Yesterday, OpenAI counter-sued Elon Musk, alleging that Musk’s “sham” bid to buy OpenAI was intentionally timed to maximally disrupt and potentially even frighten off investments from honest bidders. Slamming Musk for attempting to become an “AGI dictator,” OpenAI said that if Musk’s allegedly “relentless” yearslong campaign of “harassment” isn’t stopped, Musk could end up taking over OpenAI and tanking its revenue the same way he did with Twitter. In its

On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM’s sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged “white genocide” in South Africa. xAI now says that odd behavior was the result of “an unauthorized modification” to the Grok system prompt—the core set of directions for how the LLM should behave. That prompt modification “directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic” and “violated xAI’s int

Credit: CC0 Public Domain During training cruises and regattas, sailors collect valuable data for climate research at sea. A study appearing in Science Advances showed that this data can help improve estimates of the marine carbon sink. Currently, the ocean absorbs more than a quarter of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2). Without this significant sink, more CO2 would remain in the atmosphere, causing climate change to progress more rapidly. Therefore, it

Shutterstock / Futurism The secret to ensuring that your company doesn’t lose customers? Constant, AI agent-powered corporate surveillance. That’s according to Josh Earle and Leo Paz, a pair of founders behind a vibe-coded Silicon Valley startup called Outlit. The venture argues that “AI customer surveillance” is the future of business-to-business sales. (“Our thesis,” as Earle put it in a disarmingly straightforward pitch email, is that “every company wil

Datasets used to train AI algorithms may underrepresent older people. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It is a stereotype that Canadians apologize for everything. We say sorry when you bump into us. We say sorry for the weather. But as we trudge through the gray days of winter, that national instinct for politeness hits a wall of fatigue. The temptation is obvious. With a single click, Gmail's "Help me write" or ChatGPT can draft a polite decline to an in

Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon. But to hear Google tell it, generative AI is the future, and the company’s products have to change to keep up with the technical reality. As a result, Gemini is seeping into every nook and cranny of the Google ecosystem. Generative AI feeds on data, and Google has a lot of your data in products like Gmail and Drive. What does that mean for your privacy, and what happens if yo

Google announced on November 10, 2026 that it had launched the AI model “Gemini 4 Carbon” for general availability. Gemini 4 Carbon is a high-performance AI for complex programming, scientific research, and cybersecurity tasks, and is available to users of the paid plan “Google AI Ultra” through the Gemini app and elsewhere. A new feature called “/swarm,” which enables multiple AIs to collaborate on long-running tasks, has also been announced. Gemini 4 Car