Archive: August 2023

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Since 2022, American companies, consumers, and even the United Nations have used large language models—artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT that are trained to create text that reads like human-generated writing. In a study published in the journal Patterns, researchers reveal that AI is used in an average of 17% of analyzed corporate and governmental written content, from job posts to press releases, and t

Claude is going to verify your identity… using the provider that Discord has just distanced itself from Published on April 16, 2026 at 14:20 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada for 01net Anthropic has just added your passport to the list of Claude's usage conditions. It's not Washington that requires it. The change has gone almost unnoticed. Anthropic published on April 14 a dedicated page for Claude's identity verification. Some features, security actions, or «

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Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Anthropic, the creator of Claude, updated its rules to allow punishments for users who persistently and unnecessarily adopt abusive or cruel behaviors. The measure reignited the debate about the boundaries of the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.The sanctions can range from warnings to account suspension or termination. While some experts see the change as a precaution, others fear i

Futurism The literary world is being torn asunder after a prestigious magazine was accused of publishing an AI-generated short story. Titled “The Serpent in the Grove,” the story was published Saturday by Granta on its website after being chosen as the winner of the Commonwealth Foundation Short Story Prize for the Caribbean region. Judges praised the story, attributed to a writer identified as Jamir Nazir, for its “precise yet richly evocative language.”

Getty Images / Luis Alvarez Even after being caught — and viciously criticized — for using AI to write his book about AI, one writer says he’s not giving up on the tech. While many AI writing scandals center on the artistic sin of letting a machine dictate your creative process, the offense committed by Steven Rosenbaum, the author of “The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality,” was a journalistic one. A recent investigation by The New York Times found

Biz & IT How do you build a robot army? A deep dive into building robots from scratch and their controlling hive mind. Bob Dormon – Feb 15, 2017 8:32 am | 22 Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Depictions of the future in books and film are usually influenced by what’s going on at

An entire team responsible for making sure that Microsoft’s AI products are shipped with safeguards to mitigate social harms was cut during the company’s most recently layoff of 10,000 employees, Platformer reported. Former employees said that the ethics and society team was a critical part of Microsoft’s strategy to reduce risks associated with using OpenAI technology in Microsoft products. Before it was killed off, the team developed an entire “responsib

Published on July 18, 2026 at 09:31 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A researcher has demonstrated that a simple booby-trapped website could trick Claude into divulging the user’s name, employer, and hometown. Answers to security questions may even be compromised. The attack relies on the AI’s long-term memory and its ability to browse the internet to gather information. Ayush Paul, a cybersecurity researcher with a close interest in artificial intelligence,

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Kinase Degradation (KinDeg) map across 1,570 monovalent kinase-targeting compounds. Credit: bioRxiv: DOI: 10.1101/2024.07.10.602881 Protein kinases are the molecular switches of the cell. They control growth, division, communication, and survival by attaching phosphate groups to other proteins. When these switches are stuck in the "on" position, they can drive cancer and other diseases. Not surprisingly, kinases have become one of the most important drug t

Published on July 29, 2026 at 10:19 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Claude Mythos continues to achieve remarkable feats… and make troubling discoveries. For the first time, AI has uncovered two unprecedented mathematical flaws in encryption algorithms. With these two discoveries, AI has just proved that it can shake mathematical foundations considered unshakeable by human researchers. Claude Mythos Preview continues to uncover vulnerabilities in lines of cod

Published on August 12, 2026 at 5:59 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © SpaceXAI SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot, an AI capable of performing tasks autonomously and connecting to your applications. In addition, bots improve as you interact with them. SpaceXAI has just unveiled Grok Bot, an artificial intelligence capable of performing tasks on your behalf. A user can call on it individually or assemble a team of bots.Grok Bot can notably connect to your applications, r

The Gemini 2.5 branch will eventually replace 2.0, which was only released in late 2024. It supports simulated reasoning, as all Google’s models will in the future. This approach to producing an output can avoid some of the common mistakes that AI models have made in the past. We’ve also been impressed with Gemini 2.5’s vibe, which has landed it at the top of the LMSYS Chatbot arena leaderboard. Google says Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental) is ready and waitin

Shutterstock / Futurism The gambling hub DraftKings could be using the mountains of user data it collects, and the analyst expertise it boasts, to stop problem gamblers from ruining their lives. Instead, it’s using this power to do the opposite, according to the New York Times: scout for potential addicts and keep them hooked. To do that, DraftKings, which is best known for its sports betting app, built an AI model to determine which customers were likely