Archive: March 2023

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Wimbledon tennis tournament in 2025 has brought us familiar doses of scorching sunshine and pouring rain, British hopes and despair, and the usual queues, strawberries and on-court stardust. One major difference with this year's tournament, however, has been the notable absence of human line judges for the first time in 147 years. In a bid to modernize, organizers have replaced all 300 line judges with the Hawk-Eye ele

Do you remember, in the midst of the absolute worst of the crypto phase, when an iced tea company added the word “Blockchain” to their name and saw their stock price spike by almost 400%? We’re officially at that stage of the artificial intelligence hype machine. Allbirds recently announced an AI pivot, and is actually going through with it. The shoe company is changing its name and bringing in a new CEO to lead the shift. The company has abandoned its arg

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Rowan Cheung via YouTube (Screenshot) / Getty Images You know it’s going to be good when an AI executive goes off on a tangent about “hey, what’s a job anyway!” while addressing — or failing to address — the topic of how their tech just might wipe out entire categories of human professions. Today’s offending party, you’ll be shocked to hear, is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who talks about job destruction an

As I pointed out earlier this year when he obtained a permit for dozens of gas turbines to operate the data centers that power such AI innovations as Grok, Elon Musk said a bunch of things about how capitalism’s failures had made fossil fuels profitable during an interview back in 2014. Here’s a sample: […] because there’s no price on carbon emissions it makes things that are carbon-producing very rewarding, because the true price is not being paid. So if

A human performer leaps above robots dressed like terracotta warriors during the opening ceremony of The World Humanoid Robot Games held in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Humanoid robots danced hip-hop, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening. The competition begins Friday with more than 500 humanoid rob

Getty / Futurism In a world beset by complex problems, the brain trust at storied startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator has put their money into a startup dedicated to feeding vibe coders a constant stream of brainrot. Called “Chad: The Brainrot IDE,” the new startup is the concoction of a tech entrepreneur named Richard Wang. The pitch goes like this: when software developers use AI-enabled software development environments — software

Silicon Valley has been holding its breath while the Trump administration weighs new rules around the release of powerful new AI models, which are increasingly viewed by many in tech and government as a threat to national cybersecurity. Those new rules have reportedly been drafted—though it’s not clear when (or if) they’ll be made public. According to multiple reports published Monday, federal officials have completed a preliminary draft of a framework des

Flooding in Key Haven caused by hurricane Wilma on 10/24/2005. Credit: Marc Averette/Wikipedia CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, and the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) have released a report outlining how artificial intelligence (AI) can help address some of the most pressing issues facing the insurance sector and its customers. The "AI for Better Insurance: Enhancing Customer Outcomes amid Industry Challenges" report explores how AI can he

Neuro-sama Amidst mostly unfounded fears that artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs, it turns out there’s one gig AI is pretty excellent at: streaming on Twitch. Meet Neuro-sama, a cutesy AI-powered character which is now the top streamer on Twitch by active subscriber-count, according to Twitch Tracker. At the time of writing, Nuero-sama — streaming via the Twitch channel Vedal987 — has 165,268 paid active subscribers, well above the second-highe

media.ccc.de via YouTube Most mainstream dating sites promise to connect like-minded people of any race, gender, or sexual identity. A far more niche corner of the online dating world, it turns out, promises to match white supremacists by creating safe havens that are inherently based on hate and discrimination. But cybersecurity doesn’t appear to be a strong suit among those running these sites, giving hacktivists a golden opportunity to wreak havoc on th

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images Back in December, Elon Musk’s pet chatbot Grok made headlines for casually distributing the private addresses and phone numbers of everyday people, scraping data from public sources with unsettling ease while other AI models refused. Now, that same model is being welcomed into a far more sensitive arena. This week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Grok wil

Bridge — a separate service in the same docker compose assembly as the rest of the core. It knows nothing about agents. It can do three things: fetch an event from MAX, convert it into an internal message, and send a response back.MAX Bot API: what is neededThe bot works on the official MAX Bot API (platform-api.max.ru). The bot is registered through the MAX partner account.Events are fetched using long-polling, without webhooks. For one bot it's simpler:

Wave of ChatGPT uninstalls, rush to Claude: What's going on? Published on March 3, 2026 at 11:17 Updated on March 12, 2026 at 17:03 Comment 28 𝕏 Print © 01net ChatGPT is not in favor right now. As shown by the data from Sensor Tower, a market research provider, ChatGPT uninstallations increased by nearly 300% in a single day in the United States. However, the app's daily uninstallation rate generally does not exceed 10%. In addition, downloads of the ChatG

JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images Meta’s Ray Ban AI glasses have shot up in popularity in recent years, selling over seven million pairs in 2025 in a considerable jump over the two million it sold in 2023 and 2024 combined. While the smart glasses have scored big with consumers, allowing them to record first-person footage through an integrated camera and microphone array, and analyzing the world around them through Meta’s AI

JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went into full damage control mode over the weekend. A day before the United States attacked Iran, the embattled CEO announced that the company had signed a new agreement with the Pentagon over how its AI models could be used — and the blowback is clearly impacting the company’s bottom line, because Altman is sounding deeply defensive. Many users saw the military terms move as an attempt to swoop i

Nvidia makes a lot of money from deals fueled by AI hype. It also spends a lot of money on deals that in turn fuel that same AI hype. But Nvidia executives want you to ignore how circular that might sound, because the companies they are investing in are going to “become the largest technology companies in history.” Nvidia has woven a tangled, and some argue dangerous, web of deals with frontier AI companies, one in which the chipmaker is slowly evolving fr

Getty / Futurism AI company Anthropic suffered a massive leak of the source code to its Claude Code AI assistant earlier this week, triggering a panicked game of cat and mouse as company representatives sent out copyright takedown requests targeting thousands of copies of its pilfered work. The code allowed tinkerers to reverse engineer aspects of the blockbuster chatbot, highlighting concerns that the leak could give Anthropic’s competitors a major leg up

Why do employers love AI? The official story is that it increases productivity, an assertion that has yet to be proven true. But a financial expert on CNBC spoke candidly on Friday about how the rate of wage growth has plummeted this year. And he pointed to the fear workers have of asking for a raise when they could be replaced with AI. David Kelly, the Chief Global Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, pointed out that less than 6% of private sector wo