Archive: June 2023

Paul Schrader is best known for his work as the screenwriter of the American cinematic classics Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, films that, in the hands of director Martin Scorsese, serve as studies of the dark, violent corners of masculinity pulled out by alienation and ego. Unfortunately, without a more discerning eye involved, Schrader’s late career has been more bad impulses than warnings about them. Look than further than his relationship with AI. Schrad

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A bulk of Americans really hate AI — and many AI CEOs can’t quite grasp why. There’s a serious mismatch between public sentiment and corporate excitement over AI. Companies continue to AI-wash layoffs and jam the tech into every corner of their products, yet research keeps finding that Americans are opposed to rampant AI expansion: according to one recent Economist/YouGov poll, a staggeri

It’s “precrime” meets “thoughtcrime.” China is using its substantial surveillance apparatus as the basis for a “unified information environment” that will allow authorities to profile individual citizens based upon their online behaviors, financial transactions, where they go, and who they see. The authorities are watching for deviations from the norm that might indicate someone is involved in suspicious activity. And they’re doing it with a hand from tech

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Last year, California State University signed a $17 million deal with OpenAI to provide its over half a million students and faculty with ChatGPT Edu, an education-focused version of the company’s flagship chatbot. It was a statement move for both parties: OpenAI clinched the largest public university system in the country, and CSU secured bragging rights for being pioneering adopters of

Published on June 11, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. Updated on June 16, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. Comment 18 𝕏 Print © 01net The 2026 World Cup kicked off a few days ago. Before the tournament began, we asked five artificial intelligence systems to predict the entire competition, from the group stages to the final. Our goal is to compare their predictions and, as the matches take place, determine which one will prove the most reliable. The 2026 World Cup is in full swing. Ah

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Shutterstock Workplace morale at Meta is in a tailspin after Mark Zuckerberg and his executive crew slashed thousands of jobs to free up more funds for AI. Usually when rank-and-file morale takes a nosedive, corporate bosses are reticent to acknowledge it head-on, preferring instead to offer a buffet of HR-solutionism like resilience training, pulse s

Investor Michael Burry, famous for predicting the 2008 housing market crash, just upped his bet against AI hype. In a post on his Substack, Burry said that he is “moving timelines up,” because “the bubble in AI may burst sooner than later.” Burry, who was portrayed by Christian Bale in the Oscar-winning movie The Big Short, made headlines late last year with his big bet against AI. In a series of cryptic X posts, the investor drew parallels between the cur

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock SpaceX bears are smelling blood in the water. As its stock languishes below its IPO price — at press time, $131 — short sellers are going all in against the company, hoping to make a killing off of CEO Elon Musk’s faltering pull on investors. As CNBC reports citing data from S3 Partners, 185 million SpaceX shares are now sold short, which is nearly 29

In April, 404 Media published the results of a study in which scientists simulated dialogues on behalf of a person in a paranoid state. It turned out that, because of their friendly and sycophantic settings, chatbots often do not stop users' delusional rambles but instead begin actively elaborating on and confirming their conspiracy theories.In the same month, 404 Media released an investigation entitled “Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to War

Google has agreed to pay 250 million euros (about $273 million) to settle a dispute in France after breaching years-old commitments to inform and pay French news publishers when referencing and displaying content in both search results and when training Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini. According to France’s competition watchdog, the Autorité de la Concurrence (ADLC), Google dodged many commitments to deal with publishers fairly. Most recently, it never

I will read the article. Ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), Anthropic released a 42-minute video to persuade investors. Executives, including CEO Dario Amodei, appeared directly to explain why the company deserves a valuation exceeding $1 trillion, showing investors the competitive strengths and growth potential Anthropic, a company that has consistently emphasized AI safety, is presenting. On the 10th local time, Anthropic began its investor road

Taylor Hill/Getty Images/Futurism Following a growing string of high-profile departures, OpenAI has lost its head of ethics at arguably the worst time possible. As the Financial Times reports, Chloé Bakalar left her post as the AI ethics lead in July, less than a year after joining the company and without any accompanying announcement. Interestingly, her LinkedIn still claims she’s employed at the firm. There currently is no replacement lined up, suggestin

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Published on August 27, 2026 at 4:05 p.m. Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic’s AI has a browser of its own for filling out your forms and combing through the web. Your tabs, bookmarks, and passwords stay out of it—and that is precisely the selling point. Exactly one year ago, on August 26, 2025, Anthropic launched its Claude extension for Chrome. Twelve months later, the company is changing its approach and slipping a full browser directly into Claude

It is better to set the aspect ratio in imageConfig.aspectRatio rather than only as a string in the prompt: the string remains a hint, whereas the parameter is enforced.For a scene with a single character, I submit two files: a reference and a view closest to the intended frame. I explicitly label their roles in the text: “reference 1 - a guide for the face, reference 2 - only for the body’s orientation; do not copy the clothing or background from it.” Thi

More than 100 websites belonging to businesses large and small were hit by a hacking collective over the last couple of weeks, stealing data, credit card numbers, and cryptocurrency. Except the collective wasn’t a group of script kiddies, but just one person and their AI agents, according to Reuters, citing a recent report from cybersecurity firm NorForge. The report, published Monday, follows an unnamed Chinese-speaking hacker who allegedly outsourced alm

Published on September 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM Comment 5 𝕏 Print © Bill Gates - © Kuhlmann / MSC Bill Gates is also raising the alarm about artificial intelligence. If misused, this technology could cause “a billion deaths,” the billionaire estimates. Alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Elon Musk, the Microsoft co-founder is calling for more stringent government regulation to prevent abuses. Bill Gates does not mince his words about the risks of AI. Interv

(Photo=Shutterstock) CoreWeave, which triggered a sharp plunge in AI-related stocks last month, announced results that exceeded market expectations and raised its annual outlook. The results confirmed that demand for AI infrastructure remains strong, but it remains unclear whether the company can ease investors’ concerns given its massive debt and financing costs. CoreWeave announced its third-quarter results on the 10th (local time) and unveiled a funding

OpenAI researcher quit over ads because she doesn't trust her former employer to keep its own promises Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Feb 11, 2026 Sora prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@cont

AGI Era reports Woke up to find that multiple GPT accounts had been banned! OpenAI suddenly switched on massacre mode, without any email notification, simply deleting the accounts outright. On the screen, there was only one error message: "Your account has been deleted or deactivated (You do not have an account because it has been deleted or deactivated)." The hardest-hit were the Philippines and Türkiye regions, low-cost Team accounts, and accounts using