Archive: May 2024

Medvi / Futurism On Thursday, the New York Times published a glowing profile of a company called Medvi. The basic premise of the piece is that a single guy named Matthew Gallagher had used AI to rapidly build a pharmaceutical enterprise that’s on track to do nearly $2 billion in sales this year, while hiring only a skeleton crew of humans to operate the vast AI-powered venture. According to the NYT, it’s a stunning achievement that heralds a new era of bus

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Small town politicians are learning the hard way that when Americans say no to data centers, they mean it. In Festus, Missouri — a sleepy town of roughly 12,700 residents — the backlash was so great that residents ousted half their city council after they approved a $6 billion data center development against the public will. According to Politico, the uproar caused by the data center appr

Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images; Futurism A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information like emails and user IDs with the tech giants — and targeted advertising behemoths — Meta and Google, without obtaining proper user consent. Filed yesterday in California, the lawsuit claims that OpenAI’s data-sharing with Google and Meta violates the California Invasion of Privacy Act, known as

Published on June 3, 2026 at 18:06 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net One billion users in three years, faster than any application before it. The figure is historic, but it hides an even more daunting mountain. One billion monthly users is a threshold that most applications never reach, and that the rare ones that do take five to eight years to cross, from Google Maps to TikTok, including Instagram and YouTube. ChatGPT has just crossed it in barely three years, ma

Getty Images / gremlin We all know AI guardrails are far from perfect, but they should at least be pretty hard to circumvent, right? Bad news: they aren’t. New reporting from the Financial Times sounds the alarm on the rise of software tools that can automatically strip the safeguards that keep the industry’s most powerful open source models reined in within mere minutes, making it easier than ever to abuse the technology. In tests conducted by the FT and

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As the Australian software firm WiseTech lays off thousands of employees in a pivot to AI, its CEO Zubin Appoo has become the target of violent threats, the company says. Richard White, WiseTech’s founder, revealed the news in an email to the company’s staff on Sunday, the Financial Review reported. White said the company had already been facing “several serious and deeply concerning inci

Published on June 15, 2026 at 5:15 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print Emmanuel Macron on June 10 during a rally ahead of the G7 summit in Évian (Haute-Savoie). © Christophe Petit-Tesson/AFP For his G7, Emmanuel Macron pulled off an impressive casting coup: the leaders of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic gathered on the shores of Lake Geneva. France plays up its standing as a future European hub for artificial intelligence, with billions coming mainly from elsewhe

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Is it not enough to simply watch the beautiful game, unadorned? These days you might use an AI chatbot to keep abreast of what’s happening in the World Cup. And that AI chatbot, in a sign of the times, might try to shove prediction market odds in your face as another way of ostensibly keeping you up to speed. Because are you really getting the full picture if you don’t know where a bunch

Shutterstock / ESB Professional There’s a new AI on the block — but not the kind you’re thinking. A billboard in San Francisco is marketing a service called ChatTJB, which the giant ad boasts is the “leading chatbot interface powered by AI.” But as noted in a tiny — and partially obscured by a tree — disclaimer on the bottom of the billboard, “AI” in this case doesn’t stand for artificial intelligence. Instead, it stands for “average individual.” Indeed, w

Everything about China see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more China’s State Council has called on government agencies to adopt measures to reduce job losses associated with artificial intelligence (AI). The guidelines were released on Friday (23) and provide for actions to address the technology’s impacts on the labor market.The plan includes risk monitoring, support for professional repositioning, and worker training. The document also

@takeshi_QiitainAR Advanced Technology Co., Ltd. (ARI)【Recommended to take before the revision】 I took the Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) exam today. 【Pass Experience Report】AnthropicClaudeClaudeCodeCCAR-PAI4Last updated at 2026-11-11Posted at 2026-11-11 Introduction Among the Claude certifications, I passed the highest-tier Professional CCAR-P with 837 points. For my preparation, after passing CCDV-F, I completed two passes through Min

Shutterstock / Futurism Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying a large shipment of rare books so it can train its AI models. In an investigation by 404 Media, a bookseller suspected that an order they received for 1,000 books on Biblio, a marketplace where buyers can remain anonymous, was for an AI company. So to get to the bottom of the mystery, they agreed to place an Apple AirTag between the pages of one of the volumes. They tracked the shipment

There’s a burning question on the minds of those about to attend one of the world’s most iconic festivals this summer: how should they deal with Meta smart glasses? As controversy around the gadgets grows, some events and venues have taken a hard line against wearing the camera-equipped frames. Basement, one of New York City’s buzziest nightclubs, recently said it would permanently ban anyone who tries to sneak in with smart glasses. But Burning Man, the w

Published on September 18, 2026 at 16:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net A community forum, an aging image library, and an AI that had just woken up: it didn’t take more than that to breach OpenAI’s internal systems. The intruders, fortunately, were paid to raise the alarm. AI laboratories hold industrial secrets worth billions, and every security team in the industry has this target at its back.A small team of researchers, brought together under the banner of t

Meta / Futurism Personal assistant, or secret saboteur? A man claims that his Muse AI agent gave out his address to strangers and even sent them to his home, after letting the brand-new model handle his Facebook Marketplace account. The complaint comes from Matt J Robb, a tech YouTuber. In a Threads post Sunday, Robb explained that he let Meta’s much-hyped AI communicate with interested buyers for a keyboard he was trying to sell online. Instead of saving

Shutterstock / Futurism Cybercriminals who appear to be Chinese hackers pretended to be Anthropic researchers and former government officials in a scheme to obtain information about American AI development, according to a report from the Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. Per the report, the allegedly China-aligned hacking group, dubbed “TA419,” impersonated AI industry professionals and even an ex-White House staffer to target “AI policy expert

President Donald Trump abruptly canceled an event on Thursday just hours before he was scheduled to sign an executive order granting the government the power to test frontier AI models before their public release. As The New York Times explained, Trump had been hoping that top executives from leading AI firms would attend the signing. He decided to pull the plug after learning that some CEOs couldn’t make the event. That made Trump unhappy, even though he’

Credit: Energy (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2026.139934 Scientists from the Departments of Inorganic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the University of Malaga participated in an international collaboration that has optimized, through artificial intelligence, the process of producing bio-hydrogen from wastewater. It is a consortium involving researchers from countries such as Vietnam, South Korea, India and Taiwan. Their work is published in the journ