Archive: May 2024

Create a watch on this topic Receive upcoming developments if any, with an AI watch configured from this article. Create my free watch Anthropic announced on June 12, 2026, that it must suspend access to its models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, following an export control directive issued by the U.S. government on the same day. Officially, the order prohibits access to these two models for any foreign national - regardless of whether they are on American soil, inc

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It can take years for humans to solve complex scientific problems. With AI, it can take a fraction of the time. Dr. Shuiwang Ji, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and a leading expert in the emerging field of AI for science and engineering—commonly referred to as AI4Science—is at the forefront of using AI to accelerate scientific problem solving. Ji, along with other

Security tools can now scan Claude Enterprise chats and uploads for sensitive data More than 100 security and compliance vendors have integrations with the Claude Compliance API, which lets a company send Claude activity into the monitoring tools it already uses. CrowdStrike, Microsoft Purview, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare and Zscaler are among them. For a Claude Enterprise customer, the feed includes the conversations themselves, the files peopl

In an effort to save tech bloggers from a lot of annoying typing, xAI has finally been rebranded: We are now @SpaceXAI. pic.twitter.com/ema66xDWC9 — SpaceXAI (@SpaceXAI) July 6, 2026 I’m elated. Do you have any idea how much I’ve dreaded writing about “xAI,” with its leading lowercase letter? How much I loathed explaining that the Elon Musk-owned operator of the Grok chatbot was acquired by Elon Musk-owned SpaceX back in February, before SpaceX became publ

Andrew Harnik / Getty Images Yesterday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI revealed what it calls Grokipedia: a competitor to Wikipedia, which Musk has criticized for being too “woke.” Except, as The Verge reports, Grokipedia seems to be largely cribbed from Wikipedia, with many entries copied almost word for word from the online encyclopedia that Musk supposedly despises. Grokipedia’s reliance on Wikipedia runs deep. Some pages even admit that their “content is a

Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard’s “Country Digital Song Sales” chart in the United States — once again highlighting how ubiquitous algorithmically generated music is becoming. The song, titled “Walk My Walk,” by a fictional group called Breaking Rust, tells an incredibly generic story about a man who has “been beat down” and got “mud on my jeans,” yet perseveres through it all. The song was accompanied by an AI slo

Back in 2024, former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner captured everyone’s attention with a 135-page essay/manifesto mapping out the future of artificial intelligence. Then he put his money where his mouth was, starting an investment firm specifically to bet on where he saw the world moving. Now he’s pretty much just got his mouth left. Situational Awareness, Aschenbrenner’s firm with the same name as his essay, was forced to sell off the majority of i

Publicly, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are urging other companies to prepare for the AI labor apocalypse, promising productivity boosts so big that businesses will be able to shift to four-day—or even three-day—workweeks. These same companies are the earliest of early adopters, openly bragging about how their workforce uses AI tools to tackle upwards of 100% of their normal work tasks. So why, according to a report from the BBC, do former employees of

Futurism Generative AI relies on a massive body of training material, primarily made up of human-authored content haphazardly scraped from the internet. Scientists are still trying to better understand what will happen when these AI models run out of that content and have to rely on synthetic, AI-generated data instead, closing a potentially dangerous loop. Studies have found that AI models start cannibalizing this AI-generated data, which can eventually t

If you prefer talking over typing, the new ‘Vocal’ mode is for you.Powered by Mistral AI’s powerful new voice model called Voxtral, the Vocal mode allows for natural, low-latency conversations—meaning you can talk to Le Chat without awkward pauses. Mistral says it’s perfect for brainstorming ideas while on a walk, getting quick answers when your hands are full, or transcribing a meeting. For those really complex Le Chat questions, ‘Think’ mode taps into Mi

Published on March 17, 2026 at 08:31 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI is still far from being free of accusations of copyright infringement. The creator of ChatGPT is the target of a new lawsuit from the Encyclopedia Britannica publisher, which accuses them of exploiting their articles without authorization. OpenAI can add a new lawsuit to the long list that has occupied its lawyers for years. This time, it is the publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica and i

RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images) The AI industry’s obsession with building out enormous data centers to house power-hungry chips has put a major strain on the electronics market. First, the price of graphical processing units (GPUs) started shooting through the roof. Then the price of RAM skyrocketed, followed by both solid-state and mechanical hard drives. While that’s a nightmare scenario for anyone looking to build a desktop computer, the economi

OpenAI just handed one of its biggest rivals a massive PR victory, in a blunder that even CEO Sam Altman admitted had optics that “don’t look good.” On Friday, Altman announced that OpenAI had reached a new agreement with the Department of Defense over how its AI systems would be deployed across the military, an act that many saw as the company crossing the picket line. That’s because Anthropic, a company founded by former OpenAI employees, had refused to

Getty / Futurism In 2025 alone, OpenAI released a controversial text-to-video generator, dubbed Sora, and an abysmally slow web browser called Atlas. It also announced top-secret hardware alongside former Apple exec Jony Ive, and signed a $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense. Meanwhile, the company continues to burn through billions of dollars a month, astronomical losses that have executives there feeling agitated. The company recently

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you think it’s hard to find a job now, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott says just wait until AI really gets going. Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” panel, the AI software executive laid out an apocalyptic employment future for Gen Z in which nearly one in every three people will soon be unemployed. “I think it’s very natural to be concerned about jobs. I think young people coming

Hurricane Beryl hovers over the Caribbean Sea on 2 July 2024. The WSINDy (Weak form Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics) algorithm could help improve forecasts of such phenomena and provide new insights into the underlying physics of weather. Credit: ABI imagery from NOAA GOES-16 Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical equations can approximate the underlying phys