Archive: September 2023

@lumichyCreated an AI agent skill to make official ID photos from everyday photos: complete the process from changing into a suit to convenience store printing in one goAIPythonImage generationAgentLLM0Posted at 2026-11-12 Job application resumes, passport renewals, driver's licenses, My Number cards——. Have you ever had to search for photo booths (boxes) or photo studios every time you needed an ID photo due to procedures every few years or urgent situati

Published on April 17, 2026 at 16:30 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Naïm Bada for 01net A chatbot that subtly promotes a product does three times better than a search engine. And alerting the user does not protect them almost at all. The pre-publication, signed by three Princeton researchers, tested 2,000 Kindle e-book readers against different recommendation scenarios. The verdict is clear. Chatbots have much more influence than any classic advertising, and users

Annotations about the image subjects, instrument and environment are available for all images in FHIBE. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09716-2 A database of more than 10,000 human images to evaluate biases in artificial intelligence (AI) models for human-centric computer vision is presented in Nature this week. The Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), developed by Sony AI, is an ethically sourced, consent-based dataset that can be us

TikTok is one of many companies trying to add video podcasts to their content offerings. Big tech platforms, including TikTok and Netflix, are all looking to add video podcasts to their content, a rapidly growing format that attracts a young audience prized by advertisers and where YouTube dominates. Roman Wasenmüller, the head of podcasts at Spotify, said that the development "marks a new chapter for podcasting," as he announced a partnership with Netflix

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Meta introduced on Monday (12) two new artificial intelligence (AI) models, called Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, to expand its presence in the advanced systems market. The company says the models deliver results close to those of Anthropic's most advanced tools in reasoning, writing, and programming tests.The launch is part of Mark Zuckerberg's company efforts to strengthen its AI division and broaden r

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A new report that was supposed to be a shining panegyric to how useful AI is was caught loaded with fake claims that appear to be AI hallucinations, the Financial Times reports — a blunder that may have unintentionally demonstrated AI’s most compelling use case: bullsh*tting your job. Titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” the report was released October by KPMG, one of

Shutterstock / Futurism Planning your next getaway? You’d be wise not to trust the advice of an AI chatbot — even if they’re explicitly designed to draw on the testimonies of real travelers. As The Guardian reports, an AI tool from Tripadvisor designed to summarize the reviews of hotels and other locations on its platforms routinely glosses over some of the horrifying complaints that guests have made about their stays. The AI described one hotel in Cape Ve

Japanese company Preferred Networks (PFN) provides “PLaMo,” a homegrown generative AI foundation model developed from scratch that is distinguished by its specialization in Japanese. “PLaMo Translation,” developed on the basis of PLaMo, delivers exceptionally high-quality translation and is offered not only as text translation but also as an extension for Firefox and Chrome. In October 2026, plamo-3-translate, based on PLaMo 3 NICT, was also released, brin

Movchan Agency / Shutterstock / Futurism Does it ever feel like your inbox is filling up with emails that don’t sound quite human? You may be right. Last week, I received an email from a publicist identified as “June Barton,” whose address indicated that she worked at a firm called VectorGuideHQ. The message, which read like any one of the countless PR emails in my inbox, was seeking coverage for a wellness app called RiseGuide. Barton offered to set me up

Morgan & Morgan—which bills itself as “America’s largest injury law firm” that fights “for the people”—learned the hard way this month that even one lawyer blindly citing AI-hallucinated case law can risk sullying the reputation of an entire nationwide firm. In a letter shared in a court filing, Morgan & Morgan’s chief transformation officer, Yath Ithayakumar, warned the firms’ more than 1,000 attorneys that citing fake AI-generated cases in court filings

Generative AI is permeating the Internet, with chatbots and AI summaries popping up faster than we can keep track. Even Wikipedia, the vast repository of knowledge famously maintained by an army of volunteer human editors, is looking to add robots to the mix. The site began testing AI summaries in some articles over the past week, but the project has been frozen after editors voiced their opinions. And that opinion is: “yuck.” The seeds of this project wer

ADEK BERRY/AFP via Getty Images Earlier this month, disillusioned Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon publicly announced he was quitting his job, accusing both his employer and OpenAI of acting irresponsibly. His departure and harrowing warning that there’s a more than ten percent chance of AI “killing all humans” was met with breathless media coverage. While he’s far from the first AI insider to warn that humanity is in grave danger, the timing was particularl

Published on October 9, 2026 at 2:01 PM Comment 13 𝕏 Print © Mistral Ecosia’s chief executive believes Mistral’s models fell short of expectations. He also points the finger at nuclear energy and digital sovereignty issues. The announcement came on the day Mistral launched its new model, Large 4. Last May, Ecosia, the German search engine that funds reforestation projects, replaced the American company OpenAI with the French company Mistral as its AI provi

An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images of at least 10 victims without their consent. According to a Justice Department press release, 37-year-old James Strahler II used AI tools to create fake sexualized images to harass at least six women he knew. In some images, he depicted one victim engaged in sex with her father and shared that im

The latest Gemma models are built on the same underlying technology that powers Google’s frontier Gemini AI, but they’re tuned to run locally. Gemini is optimized to run on Google’s custom TPU chips, which operate in enormous clusters with super-fast interconnects and memory. A single high-power AI accelerator can run the largest Gemma 4 model at full precision, and quantizing will let it run on a consumer GPU. Gemma allows users to tinker with AI on their

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (who styles himself the “Secretary of War”) survived an attempt at impeachment in the House on Tuesday evening, although there’s every reason to suspect the reprieve may be temporary. House GOP leaders smothered the attempt, which was led by sole Republican defector Rep. Thomas Massie and backed by all Democrats present, with a 211-204 vote to refer the matter to the House Judiciary Committee. Deflecting a full vote by referr

There are many things you may want to check by reading reviews before actually buying a product, such as how hot a smartphone gets during extended gameplay and how frozen foods turn out when cooked. GIGAZINE has published numerous sponsored articles in which the editorial team actually tries and reviews products and services, so we asked readers, in a survey conducted in summer 2026, what kinds of products and services they would like to see featured in su