Archive: June 2024

Anthropic was founded by OpenAI exiles. It’s adding one more. On Tuesday, former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announced on X that he will be joining Anthropic, seemingly to work on the lab’s research and development team. “Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative,” he wrote. “I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about educa

Model overview of DiffSMol. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01030-w Using advanced artificial intelligence, researchers have developed a novel method to make drug development faster and more efficient. In a new paper, Xia Ning, lead author of the study and a professor of biomedical informatics and computer science and engineering at The Ohio State University, introduces DiffSMol, a generative AI model capable of generati

When Anthropic first disclosed Mythos in April, it sent an anxious shockwave through much of the cybersecurity sector. The new AI model was allegedly so ruthlessly effective at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities in existing software that the company said it was holding off on a public release and would only grant access to a small group of early testers, including the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Another wave of fear reverberated this

Electric vehicle maker Tesla reported a drop in profits for the second quarter of 2025, down 16 percent from the same period the previous year. Tesla reported another drop in quarterly profits Wednesday as CEO Elon Musk warned the company could face a few "rough" quarters following the elimination of federal tax credits for electric vehicles under President Donald Trump's big fiscal package. Musk, on an earnings conference call with analysts and investors,

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AI agents handle increasingly complex and recurring tasks, such as planning supply chains and ordering equipment. As organisations deploy more agents developed by different vendors on different frameworks, agents can end up siloed, unable to coordinate or communicate. Lack of interoperability remains a challenge for organisations, with different agents making conflicting recommendations. It’s difficult to create standardised AI workflows, and agent integra

Seems like the founders of AI labs are ready to hear Peter Thiel’s pitch for a private bunker in New Zealand. According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, executives across Silicon Valley are growing increasingly paranoid and afraid of the ongoing public backlash against their technology—they were probably not comforted by the sight of body bags outside of their offices. The body bags weren’t a threat, but rather part of a protest. According

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you thought AI’s endgame was a fully automated utopia where everyone finally lives in harmony, think again. According to Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton — often called “the godfather of AI” for his contributions to the tech — the future for AI in its current form is likely to be an economic dystopia. “I think the big companies are betting on it causing massive job replacement by AI, bec

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Rob Kim / Getty Images; Rick Friedman / Rick Friedman Photography / Corbis via Getty Images Following the release of thousands of deceased sex criminal Jefferey Epstein’s emails by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, it came to light that Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary and Harvard Economist, was deeply involved in the arch-pedophile’s affairs. But Summers isn’t just a

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scams are nothing new—fraud has existed as long as human greed, but what changes are the tools. Scammers thrive on exploiting vulnerable, uninformed users, and they adapt to whatever technologies or trends dominate the moment. In 2025, that means AI, cryptocurrencies and stolen personal data are their weapons of choice. And, as always, the duty, fear and hope of their targets provide openings. Today, duty often means follo

X / Futurism Monkeys are incredible escape artists, known to break out of research labs and even trucks that crashed on the highway. Private enclosures are also no match for the dexterous and scheming simians. Last week, multiple Vervet monkeys, which are native to sub-Saharan Africa, were spotted roaming the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, alarming officials. Nobody knows how many of them there are, or where they even came from. It’s also illegal to own V

Samuel Boivin / NurPhoto via Getty Images / Futurism OpenAI fired a top safety executive after she opposed the company’s decision to allow adult and sexual content in ChatGPT, The Wall Street Journal reports. The executive, Ryan Beiermeister, was fired following a leave of absence in early January because she allegedly sexually discriminated against a male employee, OpenAI maintains — something that Beiermeister denies ever happened. “The allegation that I

Getty / Futurism The military and intelligence contractor Palantir has been embroiled in nonstop controversy during Trump’s second term. It’s been directly involved in the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, an effort that’s been implicated in numerous deaths. The company has even been linked to US airstrikes that leveled a school in Iran, killing over 120 schoolchildren. Last week, the Peter Thiel-cofounded company poured fuel on the fi

Welles Crowther became known as the Man in the Red Bandana after stories spread about his heroism on September 11, 2001. Now, an AI-generated image purporting to show Crowther rescuing people from the World Trade Center is going viral—the latest example of how fabricated images could distort our collective memory of 9/11 for generations. The 24-year-old Crowther was working on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when a plane struck

OpenAI has found itself in a “leopards ate my face” situation, except in this case, it’s a leopard of its own design. According to a new report from 404 Media, the frontier AI lab had to fire a handful of its contractors who were tasked with reviewing ChatGPT outputs to ensure their accuracy because those workers found it easier to complete their tasks by just feeding them into an AI. Per the report, OpenAI employs thousands of contractors who it tasks wit