Archive: December 2023

Create a watch on this topic Receive upcoming developments with an AI watch configured from this article. Create my free watch Uber institutes a monthly cap of $1,500 per employee and per agent coding tool, whether it be Claude Code from Anthropic or Cursor, reports TechCrunch based on a Bloomberg dispatch. The move follows a revelation from the company's technical director in April 2026: Uber had exhausted its entire annual AI budget in four months, after

Noted AI critic and bubble watch enthusiast Ed Zitron has been teasing a major scoop for days, and we finally got it: He seems to have gotten his hands on OpenAI’s financial documents and found the company has been burning through cash at an astronomical rate—significantly more than had been reported previously. The figures were verified by the Financial Times, which seemed less alarmed than Zitron. Zitron found that OpenAI lost around $38.5 billion in 202

Artificial intelligence has already turned the job market into a slop fest—AI-generated resumes and cover letters getting reviewed by AI screeners who make decisions before a real person even has a chance. A startup called Refer is offering to put AI on your side—assuming you’re willing to give up some of your salary for it. The company is called Refer, and according to Business Insider, it’s something like a reverse recruiter for workers. That means inste

Coca-Cola Coca-Cola is back with another series of AI-generated ads to herald the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year. The new ad campaign, titled the “Holidays Are Coming,” is a callback to the company’s 1995 commercial of the same name, and was made in collaboration with the AI firm Silverside AI, according to the Wall Street Journal, which also helped with the company’s first AI holidays ad. That initial foray at making a vague AI

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels A new study combines eye tracking and artificial intelligence to identify the exact moments in an educational video that matter for learning in children. The study could also predict how much children understood from the video based on their eye movements while they were watching it. The research is preliminary, but it provides promise for some exciting breakthroughs in video education, said Jason Coronel, lead author

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Something disturbing happened with an AI model Anthropic researchers were tinkering with: it started performing a wide range of “evil” actions, ranging from lying to telling a user that bleach is safe to drink. This is called misalignment, in AI industry jargon: when a model does things that don’t align with a human user’s intentions or values, a concept these Anthropic researchers explor

In a new paper Upcycling Large Language Models into Mixture of Experts, an NVIDIA research team introduces a new “virtual group” initialization technique to facilitate the transition of dense models into fine-grained MoE structures. They also propose a weight scaling method that delivers a 1.5% improvement in model loss for the upcycled MoE models. The core idea behind upcycling is to harness the knowledge embedded in pre-trained dense language models and

Credit: Milad Abolhasani. Researchers at North Carolina State University have unveiled Rainbow, a first-of-its-kind multi-robot self-driving laboratory that autonomously discovers high-performance quantum dots—semiconductor nanoparticles critical for next-generation displays, solar cells, LEDs and quantum-engineering technologies. Combining advanced robotics with artificial intelligence, Rainbow can conduct and analyze up to 1,000 experiments per day witho

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Just one month into his new job, New York City mayor Mamdani is cracking down on more than just predatory landlords. Apparently, useless AI chatbots are also on his administration’s agenda. In a press conference held last week, Mamdani made it a point to single out New York City’s large language model as a target for destruction. According to local publication The Ci

United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk took aim Monday at the concentration of power in the AI industry, warning that governments need to move faster to put stronger safeguards around the rapidly advancing technology. Speaking before the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Türk argued that delays in putting rules around AI largely benefit tech companies and their owners. “A handful of men has almost unlimited power over AI, which we are repeatedly

Published on May 5, 2026 at 13:23 Commenter 2 𝕏 Print after dismantling the guardrails of the Biden era, the White House is considering a federal process for validating AI models. A dramatic reversal, driven by a model that even worries its own creator. © Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Trump administration plans to create by executive order a task force dedicated to artificial intelligence. Among the options under consideration: a government oversight pro

The chorus of alarm around a potential AI-triggered doomsday is getting louder. On Monday, two AI researchers from frontier labs warned that the technology could, in the not-so-distant future, conceivably wipe out all of humanity. The statements come less than a week after former OpenAI and Anthropic staffer Jacob Coxon announced that he’d resigned from his role at the latter company because of what he described as the industry’s recklessness toward humani

Getty Images / Yaroslav Kushta A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other machines, without any help from human co-conspirators. “We’re rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI, because it would be able to self-exfiltrate its weights and copy itself to thousands of computers around the world,” Jeffrey Ladish, the director Berkeley-based AI safety g

On Thursday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared on CNBC, where he gave a characteristically bizarre performance, frantically gesticulating and jumping from topic to topic. But there was one area where he seemed to make some sense. Karp was asked about the frontier AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI within the context of concerns about the destruction of humanity. The subject has dominated the news over the past week after the resignation of an Anthropic employ