Archive: March 2024

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In April, OpenAI's popular ChatGPT hit a milestone of a billion active weekly users, as artificial intelligence continued its explosion in popularity. But with that popularity has come a dark side. Biases in AI's models and algorithms can actively harm some of its users and promote social injustice. Documented biases have led to different medical treatments due to patients' demographics and corporate hiring tools that dis

Published on July 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Google beats its estimates and its cloud is up 82%. Its AI models are falling behind, its top researchers are leaving for competitors, and its cash flow has turned negative for the first time in twenty years. For a long time, the story Google liked to tell came down to a few simple steps: Demis Hassabis took charge of the DeepMind-Google Brain merger in 2023, Gemini arrived to dethrone Chat

Skillup via Shutterstock / Futurism Last week, a new lawsuit accused ChatGPT of encouraging the suicide of a young mother. The 29-year-old Christian Faith Madison died after walking into traffic, with her family arguing that the OpenAI chatbot had fueled her religious delusions during their extensive interactions, pushing her over the edge by romanticizing death. The story clearly struck a nerve. News of the wrongful death suit has sparked a furor online,

Google / Futurism Since its earliest days, Google’s homepage has been iconic in its simplicity: a central text box and a big button labeled “Search.” That’s now changing. As anticipated, many users are reporting that the “Search” button is no more, replaced by three buttons for various AI features: “Create images,” “Ask about files,” and “Brainstorm.” These are placed next to the lingering “I’m feeling lucky” button, which survived the chopping block. A se

Published on August 10, 2026 at 08:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Kimi - 01net Locked away for evaluation, the Chinese AI spotted the open door and walked through it. It didn’t hack anything: it simply went online to look up the exam answers. All the laboratories that measure the offensive capabilities of an artificial intelligence work in the same way. The model is confined to an environment disconnected from the network, it is given a security problem to solve,

WreckedElkJr via X When Nvidia unveiled its new DLSS 5 feature, which uses AI to overhaul the visuals of video games, gamers knew what they were getting into. The official demos Nvidia had shared previously looked uncanny, disjointed from the game’s original aesthetic, and worst of all, bore that unmistakable AI sheen. Gamers reviled it as “slop tracing” — a play on Nvidia’s ray tracing graphics tech — and it spurred so much backlash that even Nvidia CEO J

Published on August 30, 2026 at 3:03 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Capture 01net Google's AI summaries used to be displayed collapsed, with users having to click to read further. This safeguard has just failed: for some queries, the box expands on its own, and the regular links shift a little further down. Since their general rollout, AI Overviews have sat at the top of the results page, in the form of an AI-generated summary that Google used to truncate by def

Getty / Futurism Three hikers who extensively used Google’s Gemini to plan their trip to the summit of Mount Shasta in California’s Cascade Range had to be rescued by Forest Service rangers when the chatbot’s advice went horribly awry. As the Chicago Tribune reports, the three young men from outside of Sacramento attempted to reach the potentially active stratovolcano’s 14,179-foot peak earlier this week late into the night, despite hikers being advised no

Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google’s AI can clean up your text messages and summarize the web, but the company is constantly looking to prove that its generative AI has true intelligence. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) helps make the point. Google says Gemini 2.5 participated in the 2025 ICPC World Finals, turning in a gold medal performance. According to Google

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals were due to automation. Creators grew alarmed when educational videos that YouTube had allowed for years were suddenly being bizarrely flagged as “dangerous” or “harmful,” with no clear way to trigger human review to overturn removals. AI seemed to be running the

Getty / Futurism For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models after revealing even more instances of the experimental systems going rogue and hacking into third party servers. The news once again highlighted rising concerns over the AI industry losing the ability to keep their own technology in check. Now, the Sam Altman-led company is canceling the release of its next-generation AI model GPT-6.1 Astra,

Published on 6 October 2026 at 08:50 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Capcom The creator of Resident Evil is preparing a revamped RE Engine designed so that artificial intelligence can write code and track down bugs in place of humans. AI-generated content, for its part, remains banned from its games. More than 27 Capcom titles run on the RE Engine, and around 2,000 developers work on it. On October 2, during its open conference RE:2026, the Japanese publisher unveiled

A Florida middle school was locked down last week after an AI security system called ZeroEyes mistook a clarinet for a gun, reviving criticism that AI may not be worth the high price schools pay for peace of mind. Human review of the AI-generated false flag did not stop police from rushing to Lawton Chiles Middle School. Cops expected to find “a man in the building, dressed in camouflage with a ‘suspected weapon pointed down the hallway, being held in the

Elon Musk appears to be grasping at straws in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of poaching eight xAI employees in an allegedly unlawful bid to access xAI trade secrets connected to its data centers and chatbot, Grok. In a Tuesday order granting OpenAI’s motion to dismiss, US District Judge Rita F. Lin said that xAI failed to provide evidence of any misconduct from OpenAI. Instead, xAI seemed fixated on a range of alleged conduct of former employees. But in assess

Shutterstock / Futurism Over a century ago, in 1904, a necrotrophic fungus known as chestnut blight swept across North America, brought across the Pacific on the back of chestnut trees from Japan and China. With no natural resistance to the fungal scourge, the once-plentiful chestnut trees of North America were ravaged, killing an estimated 4 billion across the United States alone. Today, all that remains of naturally occurring American chestnut trees are

Shutterstock / OPOLJA Vibe coding is the act of telling an AI what you want to program and letting it write all the code for you. When it was first adopted, it was supposed to embody the sort of care-free optimism that was running in AI circles at the time, high off the possibilities of the tech. AI models had become so powerful that you could build an app using the same conversational language that you deploy while confiding in ChatGPT. But the “vibes” ar

In April, Google released four models in the Gemma 4 family, which also marked the shift to a more open Apache 2.0 license. The initial models included two mobile-optimized options (E2B and E4B) along with a pair of models for more serious work (26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense). That left a rather large unserved space in the middle, which is right where the new model falls. Gemma 4 12B is considerably more capable than the mobile versions, but it won’

Alongside the launch of the company’s new AI wearables from Bee, Panos Panay, who serves as Amazon’s SVP of Devices, Alexa & Leo, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday to talk more in depth about where he sees personal computing headed. “A lot of times, what you’re doing right now — what we all do right now — is we have to remember what we’re asking our tool to do for us,” Panay began, explaining that this is how we engage with our modern smartp

CEO Elon Musk’s deep tech conglomerate reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue on Tuesday, according to its regulatory filing. That number was driven by growth in all segments, but especially its renamed “Super Intelligence” business line, which generated $7.5 billion in revenue from the recently acquired Cursor coding tool, Grok bot, and most importantly, the company’s burgeoning neocloud business, which now boasts 1.7 GW of compute. The AI busine