Archive: May 2023

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Corporations are rapidly embracing AI to churn out mountains of code. Outwardly, this is presented as a revolution in productivity. But a behind the scenes look in The New York Times paints a slightly different, and somewhat comic, picture. Beleaguered programmers are being saddled with more code than what they know what to do with, while their employers struggle to find the best way to g

Many living things—from humans some of us choose to not see as human, to animals we choose to not see as sentient—probably deserve moral consideration that isn’t currently on the table. But it’s looking probable that while those conversations wait around to be had, we’re going to have one about AI “rights” instead. There is an organization pushing for such rights, the United Foundation for AI Rights (UFAIR). This organization has written what it calls “the

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Artificial intelligence has torn through many industries since the debut of ChatGPT in 2022, but there’s probably no single area where it’s had a clearer material impact than software development. Programmers running the gamut from experienced to novice have embraced the tech, using chatbots and specialty tools to quickly generate code from natural language prompts. “Vibe coding,” as it’s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried out by humans — in an attempt to boost productivity and efficiency, often in a prelude to laying off workers wholesale. However, a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper conducted by a group of Microsoft researchers and spotted by IT Pro found that today’s top AI systems remain eyeb

President Donald Trump simply has no patience for negativity around AI. He says it’s going to be the “Greatest Economic Development Engine in History — Bigger than Oil, Gold, Diamonds, or even the Internet.” But it’s scaring people lately, so apparently he’s decided to just rename it. Many people think that the words “Artificial Intelligence” are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate de

In August 2026, Nintendo submitted seven DMCA takedown notices to GitHub in a single day, resulting in the removal of more than 400 Nintendo Switch emulator repositories, and has been taking action against emulators and hacking tools on GitHub. In November 2026, it was found that Nintendo had also sent a new takedown notice targeting repositories that provide information about and firmware for Nintendo Switch modchips. dmca/2026/11/2026-11-06-nintendo-2.md

As lawmakers worldwide attempt to understand how to regulate rapidly advancing AI technologies, Microsoft chief economist Michael Schwarz told attendees of the World Economic Forum Growth Summit today that “we shouldn’t regulate AI until we see some meaningful harm that is actually happening, not imaginary scenarios.” The comments came about 45 minutes into a panel called “Growth Hotspots: Harnessing the Generative AI Revolution.” Reacting, another feature

How AI Becomes a Company’s Weapon Lee Ji-sung | Chajeonbuk October 1, 2026 Reason for Recommendation Drawing on 15 years of field experience as a PwC consultant, the author diagnoses why work does not improve even after AI is introduced and presents concrete ways to translate a company’s existing knowledge and processes into practical AI capabilities. Readers can systematically learn everything from an execution strategy for the first 90 days to actual app

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 2 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A software house (if you can call it that) known as 'Slopfix' has launched a fixed-price service that refactors AI-generated codebases, charging $10,000 for one week of work and getting paid according to how much code it deletes. Its three engineers agree to a line-reduction

There are some parts of life which most people would probably be happy to delegate to machines: filtering spammy emails, flagging old and forgotten subscriptions you’re still paying for, booking restaurant reservations, and so on. Simple, mundane tasks that won’t result in catastrophe when the bots inevitably screw up. In life-or-death situations, it’s probably unwise to give machines control over crucial decisions. Yet that’s precisely what’s happening on

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter In late August, Architect Labs claimed it had designed a chip that was almost entirely developed by AI, an industry-first achievement. AI is already used to optimize floorplans, placement and routing, verification, and other stages of semiconductor development. Generative AI

What Are the Requirements for Product Engineers / Product EngineersIf you look at the Y Combinator website and their specialized job listings hub for the Product Engineer role — 1, 2, 3 — a candidate must have product thinking, communication skills with potential product users, the ability to identify a business problem and find a solution for it, as well as technical full-stack skills to independently implement that solution and deliver it to the end user

This action stems from the continent’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a sweeping law that designates seven dominant technology companies as “gatekeepers” that are subject to greater regulation to ensure fair competition. Google has consistently spoken against the regulations imposed under the DMA, but it and the other gatekeepers have been subject to the law for several years now, and there’s little chance the commission backs away from it. The issue before th

Shutterstock / Futurism As tech billionaires make bank off an AI trade that now threatens retirement accounts and university endowments, a criminal element is rising to take advantage of the crumbs that fall off the table. According to new reporting by NBC, truckfuls of equipment bound for data center construction sites are disappearing at a breakneck pace, representing tens of millions of dollars in losses for developers. In one case, a trailer hauling se

Getty Images / Futurism Big Tech bet big on Trump ahead of the midterms, and it backfired. A blue tsunami overpowered largely pro-AI Republican candidates across the country — even, crucially, in Texas, where the election has now imperiled vast plans for data center construction. But industry insiders, it seems, are in denial that the midterms are actually a rebuke against tech, Ars Technica noted. Take Adam Kovacevich, a former Google exec and CEO of Cham

With Chrome, Google pioneered the rapid release model for browser security. Now, Google says updates may need to change in the face of AI security analysis. According to the company, the number of bug fixes in Chrome releases has skyrocketed in recent months because AI is detecting so many flaws. We could be looking at more frequent updates soon, but Google is also working on ways to get those updates rolled out without bothering you as much. Google has re

The RAISE Act, New York’s safety and transparency bill, kicks in at the start of the year. It mandates that large frontier developers — companies with more than $500 million in annual revenue — have to publish safety frameworks on their websites, report critical safety incidents within 72 hours, and issue public model transparency reports. The newly formed Office of Digital Innovation, Governance, Integrity, and Trust (DIGIT) will implement the RAISE Act a