Archive: April 2023

Credit: Aalto University How many coins can touch one coin, or how many basketballs can "kiss" one basketball at the same time? This seemingly playful question lies at the heart of the famous kissing number problem, a mathematical riddle that becomes almost supernaturally difficult to work out in dimensions beyond 4D. Despite its whimsical name, similar problems have practical applications in areas such as mobile communications and satellite navigation. Aa

It seems like the only thing that Silicon Valley has been able to talk about in recent years is how glorious the future of humanity is going to be, thanks to artificial intelligence. Personalized education, a doctor-slash-therapist that’s available 24/7, cures for all diseases, and the elimination of poverty—virtually anything we could possibly desire will be just a few prompts away. But there’s been a distinct vibe shift over the past two weeks. Suddenly,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Fear of AI is at an all-time high. Not fear of a Skynet-style superintelligent singularity seizing power, generally speaking, but of something perhaps just as horrifying: that life under capitalism continues much as it always has, with one key difference — AI has made human labor obsolete. A new survey by consulting firm Mercer polled nearly 1,000 executives across the United States. A ja

This October, boys at Westfield High School in New Jersey started acting “weird,” the Wall Street Journal reported. It took four days before the school found out that the boys had been using AI image generators to create and share fake nude photos of female classmates. Now, police are investigating the incident, but they’re apparently working in the dark, because they currently have no access to the images to help them trace the source. According to an ema

Threats from malicious cyberactivity are likely to increase as nation-states, financially motivated criminals, and novices increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence into their routines, the UK’s top intelligence agency said. The assessment, from the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, predicted ransomware will be the biggest threat to get a boost from AI over the next two years. AI will lower barriers to entry, a change that will bring a su

Published on August 31, 2026 at 18:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI is making a major change to the billing of some of its large customers. No more tokens burned without tangible benefit; performance-based billing is taking its place. Sam Altman’s company hopes in particular to reassure companies that fear seeing their AI budget go up in smoke without achieving the expected results. For the time being, major artificial intelligence providers us

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as AI, right? Well, we hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but a new piece from Politico makes it sure sound like that Congress is completely stumped by how to tackle AI, with over a dozen lawmakers and congressional aides venting to the newspaper about the lack of urgency on the Hill over regula

Shutterstock / Futurism AI is supposedly going to kill us all, but at least it’s doing wonders for the stocks for a few multibillion-dollar companies. Mounting fears over the technology’s existential risks reached a fever pitch over the weekend, tanking AI chip stocks across the globe. This earthshattering discussion had a curious aftershock, though. Instead of double-checking their fortified bunkers, investors poured even more money into Microsoft, Google

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter American nonprofit C4ADS, a monitoring organization funded mostly by the U.S. government, produced a report shedding light on the many ways that American AI accelerators reach China. Somewhat paradoxically, the U.S. refuses to sell advanced AI chips to China, while simultaneous

IRGC via Getty Images Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI has been instrumental to the American campaign. On the home front, AI and its infrastructure is quietly shaping the ideological battlefield: President Donald Trump is spewing out wartime propaganda slopped together by generative AI, as US-owned data centers and tech company offices become widely accepted as military targets. AI is also pro

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Alicja Ostrowska's doctoral thesis "Life and AI at NASA" examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the way science is conducted within some of the world's most ambitious space projects. The study investigates how AI is used in NASA's missions exploring the conditions for present or past life on other planets and moons and what this means for how knowledge is produced. The research is based on fieldwork with sci

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images In 2024, award-winning singer songwriter Taylor Swift became the victim of a wave of pornographic deepfakes flooding social media feeds. The controversy set the stage for a pandemic of nonconsensual AI-generated nudes, forcing big tech companies into damage control mode and even striking up a political brawl during the runup to the 2024 presidential elections. Even at the time, Swift’s lawyers were no strangers to their client

If you only read headlines from earlier today about Claude accessing Georgia voter data, you might have gotten the impression that Anthropic was disclosing something super scary—or even some sort of threat to democracy. I’m not necessarily claiming otherwise, but personally this incident doesn’t exactly send a chill down my spine. In fact, it makes me almost feel for Claude. And that’s because in essence all the model did was break a paywall. Axios, who br

The European Union may soon ban nudify apps after Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok emerged as a prime example of the dangers of an AI platform failing to block outputs that sexualized images of real people, including children. In a joint press release, the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees confirmed that lawmakers voted 101–9 (with 8 abstentions) to simplify the Artificial Intelligence Act and “propose bans on AI ‘nudifier’ syste

Cheeky Pint via YouTube Shares of US chipmaker Intel cratered on Friday, plunging almost 30 percent, the worst stock collapse in 52 years. The wipeout, analysts said, could be due to a massive slowdown in the PC market. The market softness shouldn’t come to anybody’s surprise, given the AI boom has made individual components, most notably memory and storage, practically unaffordable. However, leaders of AI frontier labs aren’t blinking. To OpenAI CEO Sam A

PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images The “blue tsunami” that swept over the midterm elections made it clear that voters are sick of tech billionaires meddling in politics, opposed to data center construction, and deeply suspicious of the AI industry. But OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar apparently didn’t get that memo. In an interview with CNBC on Friday, she vowed that OpenAI would keep pouring money into data center construction so it can ple

(Photo=Shutterstock) OpenAI’s third-quarter revenue rose 2.6-fold from the same period last year, reaching $10 billion (about 13.34 trillion won). Growth recovered as demand for its latest AI models and enterprise products increased, but its operating loss also expanded to $10.9 billion (about 14.54 trillion won). Rival Anthropic recorded $17 billion in revenue (about 22.678 trillion won) during the same period, surpassing OpenAI. The Information reported

@hervekom37How to turn a Slack thread into a task, implement it with an AI Agent, and connect it to a GitHub PRAI0Posted at 2026-11-10Development teams often discuss bug reports and feature improvements in Slack. However, when the content is manually transferred to a task management tool after the discussion ends, the original conversation or technical context can sometimes be lost. Therefore, let's consider a workflow that creates tasks from Slack threads

The trend of companies entrusting system development itself to AI is spreading. AI agents handle everything from requirements definition to code generation, while people focus on judgment. Examples of development speeds increasing severalfold through such “AI-driven development” are no longer rare. ASKUL is one such company. However, the gateway to full-scale adoption was not a proactive investment. It was a ransomware attack that brought the entire busine