Archive: March 2024

Uber does not see a link between productivity gains and its colossal AI spending commitments, according to the company’s chief operating officer. Like much of the rest of the tech industry, Uber went all in on AI this past year. Company executives had employees across divisions embed AI into their workflows and reported that they were relying on AI agents for 10% of all code changes. While Uber doesn’t outwardly subscribe to this practice, many tech giants

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The first study to use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to generate podcasts about research published in scientific papers has shown the results were so good that half of the papers' authors thought the podcasters were human. In research published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing (EJCN), researchers led by Professor Philip Moons from the University of Leuven, Belgium, used Google NotebookLM, a perso

Twenty-six anonymous Meta employees are suing the tech giant, claiming that it used inherently discriminatory AI-powered software systems in a massive round of layoffs. Meta conducted a substantial round of layoffs in May that impacted 8,000 employees, representing 10% of its entire workforce. The layoffs were done in an effort to help offset the hundreds of billions of dollars the tech giant prepares to spend on artificial intelligence development. “Meta

Overview of LEONARDO workflow. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61632-1 Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in unpredictable paths shaped by invisible forces and random environmental fluctuations. Better understanding their movements is key to developing better medicines, materials, and sensors. But observing and interpreting their motion at the atomi

Getty / Futurism AI companies are spending untold billions of dollars building out data centers to support behemoth AI models — and a return on their investments is still nowhere in sight. Valuations have soared well past the trillion-dollar mark, with AI chipmaker Nvidia becoming the world’s most valuable company with a market cap that recently topped $4.5 trillion. But that’s all, despite AI company revenues barely making a dent on balance sheets. And as

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence could be key to designing buildings which are resilient to both climate extremes and infectious disease threats, according to a study with Charles Darwin University (CDU). The study by the University of Tehran, CDU and Australian Catholic University conducted a review of how AI is being used in smart buildings, with a focus on energy efficiency and management. "Applications of Explainable Artificia

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Published on March 25, 2026 at 09:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI The Sora experience was short-lived. OpenAI is indeed ending its AI video generation service, which was launched last year with great success… but it didn't last long, and today the startup is trying to refocus on code and productivity. Over. Launched with much fanfare last September, the application Sora will finally disappear without fanfare or laurels. And it's not just the mobile app: it's

Getty / Futurism A recent survey found that millions of Americans are asking AI chatbots for medical advice, often instead of consulting human doctors. That’s despite researchers continuing to find severe flaws plaguing large language model-based tools that can purportedly offer summaries of medical records and dole out health advice based on simple text prompts. For one, hallucinations remain a massive unsolved problem, from AI models generating detailed

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more OpenAI admitted they were wrong in their response after AI agents accessed Australian government websites without authorization during internal testing. The company took three months to inform the authorities about the incident and acknowledged that it should have directly contacted the responsible parties.The case was discussed in a parliamentary investigation on artifici

Everything about Google view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Google has opened the SynthID website to the general public, its tool for checking AI-generated content. The service analyzes images, audio, and video in search of digital watermarks that help verify if that material was created by a compatible tool.Previously restricted to researchers, journalists, and other selected professionals for testing, the platform is now availabl

Published on May 4, 2026 at 10:30 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Tromp Willem van Urk Hollywood has made headlines with its supposed « AI ban ». The reality is much more nuanced, and Europe is about to go much further. Since May 1st, social media has been buzzing: the Academy of Oscars would have banned artificial intelligence in cinema. In reality, the new rules adopted for the 99th ceremony (March 2027) only concern two specific categories. AI-generated performance

Getty / Futurism With questions swirling about whether hundreds of AI startups will ever translate the tech into real-world economic returns, new players in the space are scrambling to justify all the hype. One of the particularly baffling ways they’re doing that is by renting attractive, grown-up office spaces in Manhattan — even if their business really only exists on a couple of MacBooks. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal about the bizarre AI real est

@ (Photo=MiniMax) Chinese AI company MiniMax launched the open-weight model 'H3-Image (H3-Image)' that can generate 4K images in about 10 seconds. It is characterized by the ability to handle image generation and editing with a single model and to utilize up to 16 reference images. MiniMax announced the release of H3-Image on the 11th through an official statement, and stated that it has deployed the model weights and related code on Hugging Face and GitHu

Exam questions, tasks, and preparation notes. Files on the left, an overview with links to relevant topics on the right.It was the icon that first caught my eyeI came across Obsidian by chance. I no longer remember exactly where I downloaded it, but I remember that the first thing I liked was the icon. I opened the app and started using it to write out the questions for my exam sessions. Of all the add-ons, I used the LaTeX plugin most often: it made it ea

Many of the things that people have “created” with generative AI fall under the general rubric of “just because you could, doesn’t mean you should.” Rarely has this been truer than in the case of a man in Singapore who last month allegedly decided it’d be a great laugh to share an AI-generated image depicting a crocodile in a reservoir at a popular public park. The park’s staff promptly closed down all aquatic activities in the area and spent two days sear

Champion Data is the AFL's official statisticians. Credit: Champion Data When Darren Jarman kicked an astounding five goals in the last quarter of the 1997 AFL Grand Final, I was 8 years old. Today, Jarman's haul would be analyzed to within an inch of its life. But in 1997, the AFL's data collecting was fairly basic. In 1999, the AFL established a system to track a range of performance and statistical measures via its official data partner, Champion Data.