Archive: April 2023

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast-moving body using the world's most powerful telescopes. It was found to be one quarter mile (400m) long and very elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it was wide. Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout." 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star known to h

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A hype cycle as overwhelming and logic-defying as the AI boom comes with its own whirlwind succession of trends that are their own mini booms driven by billions of dollars of money. Once the world got used to large language model-powered AI chatbots, autonomous AI agents became the next big thing. This past year, video generating models have been having their time in the Sun after rapid i

Claude Code extension poisoned with persistent SSH backdoor A tampered build of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers’ machines, researchers at macOS security firm Phorion have found. The company spotted the malicious package, version 2.1.313, on Open VSX, an open-source marketplace for VS Code extensions run by the Eclipse Foundation. VS Code’s default extension store is Microsoft’s Visual S

On the path to achieving artificial superhuman intelligence, a critical tipping point lies in a system’s ability to drive its own improvement independently, without relying on human-provided data, labels, or preferences. At present, most AI systems lack such recursive self-improvement capabilities, making this an ideal time to examine and define its characteristics and implications. In a new paper Boundless Socratic Learning with Language Games, researcher

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI models are being unleashed into schools across the world, in a massive experiment on kids with uncertain results. Now, fresh research provides a clue about the tech’s effects on children’s education, and it’s not promising. According to a new study from Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education, AI poses profound risks to children’s social and intellectual development — an

Published on February 26, 2026 at 15:56 Commenter 2 𝕏 Print The Copilot mascot. © Microsoft Microsoft, though one of the most important promoters of generative AI, has clearly realized that its insistence on integrating this technology at the foot absolutely everywhere could be annoying users. Especially since the quality is not necessarily up to par — this is the famous "AI slop," these mediocre contents generated by AI. Generative AI has (possibly) advan

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with an array of conditions, adding to a rising consensus among medical experts that interacting with unregulated chatbots might steer some users into crisis. The research, conducted by a team of psychiatrists at Denmark’s Aarhus University and published earlier this month in the journal

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images Not even the most enduring symbol of New York city is safe from the AI onslaught. No, we’re not talking about the iconic pizza rat, or even the stable of mascots wandering Times Square like some kind of sad, brand-name purgatory. We’re talking about bodegas, the ubiquitous corner stores that first emerged in the 1950s as waves of Puerto Rican migrants began calling

Published on April 15, 2026 at 15:41 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Google Each skill is a specific request, allowing you to perform various tasks such as recipe analysis or product comparison. Artificial intelligence will soon have a prominent place on Chrome. Google plans to integrate Gemini directly into the search engine to assist you during your various browsing sessions. In this regard, Gemini in Chrome has just added a new feature called « Skills ». Also rea

Published on April 16, 2026 at 15:00 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI Two months after launch, already a change of direction. Advertising in ChatGPT is shifting to pay-per-click, and entry barriers are melting away rapidly. OpenAI is preparing to switch its advertising model from cost per thousand impressions to pay-per-click for its integrated advertising system within ChatGPT. Incidentally, the minimum ticket for advertisers drops to 50,000 dollars. The syst

Getty / Futurism For years, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been hiring an army of desperate job-seekers — often including educated and underemployed experts — to train AI models to replace them in the workforce. It’s a grim facet of an AI-dominated future in which the business world continues to push for automation, hoping to wean itself off relying on pesky and expensive human labor once and for all. As MIT Tech Review reports, an eerily

In November 2022, .NET 7 and ChatGPT were released with a three-week gap. It became a convenient reference point: .NET 7 was the last release written before ChatGPT. In May 2025, the Copilot coding agent arrived in dotnet/runtime, and by the end of October 2026, it had opened 1734 pull requests, 1207 of which were merged.Does AI break code? You can argue for a long time, but performance can be simply measured. I measured DI, configuration, logging, cache,

Example of a 5-day forecast of river discharge and flood events. In early June 2024, a significant flood affected Southern Germany. While the top row shows the floods obtained from the GloFAS reanalysis, the bottom row shows the river discharge forecast by our approach. The severity of floods is categorized by the statistical flood return period, i.e., occurring every 10 years. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.22535 Extreme weather events suc