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Published on August 15, 2026 at 09:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google Three weeks after the previous one, Google is releasing a new model and halving its price. Its flagship model, meanwhile, is still being awaited, as it has been since May. Gemini 3.7 Flash arrived Thursday, twenty-three days after Gemini 3.6 Flash. Such a pace is no longer a matter of a product schedule but of a machine gun, and Google is embracing it. The Flash range is for fast, inexpensive

Shutterstock / Futurism Building trade unions have made repeated overtures about their support for data centers in recent months, hailing them — despite their many, many drawbacks — as job creators. Now, leadership as well as the rank-and-file of a number of building trade unions are officially getting involved, by knocking on doors, issuing statements, and ultimately threatening to withhold support from anti-data center politicians. In an internal memo vi

Shutterstock / Futurism MIT is mulling an overhaul of its entire educational system in response to the threat posed by powerful AI models — a striking response to the tech from one of the planet’s most visible and influential research universities. In a new report published by the university’s ad hoc AI committee, which is co-chaired by professors Eric Klopfer and Samuel Madden, the educators describe the “profound challenges” that AI is already causing. O

Composite panels made with Australian reishi fungi and biomass waste. Credit: Kumar Biswajit Debnath/UTS When mushrooms make the news, it's often for grim reasons—a mysterious poisoning, toxic species in the bush, or high-profile court cases. But the mushroom itself is only the fruit body. Beneath every cap lies the real organism: a hidden network of white threads weaving through soil and wood. And that underground network, called mycelium, may help solve

AI giant Anthropic announced earlier this year its decision to drop a splashy initial public offering, and multiple reports have the widely anticipated market debut scheduled for before Thanksgiving. But according to a series of reports this week, the IPO, which would be the first market debut of a frontier lab purely focused on AI, is sparking less excitement and more worry than previously anticipated. First on the list of unsettled parties is the market.

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Mistral AI released the weights of Large 4, an artificial intelligence (AI) model with one trillion parameters that can be downloaded and run by companies and governments on their own systems. Nicknamed “Le Chonk”, the AI was designed for tasks such as identifying vulnerabilities in software, analyzing digital threats, and helping respond to cyberattacks.The launch took place this Thursday (29) and reinforc

After months of hype and anticipation, OpenAI released its new GPT-5 model family this week. Promising massive upgrades across the board, the company is already working to roll out the new AI to everyone. Some dedicated ChatGPT users wish it would stop, though. After becoming accustomed to the vibe of the GPT-4 models, the switch to GPT-5 doesn’t feel right. Around the Internet, chatbot fans are lamenting the loss of the digital “friends” they’ve grown to

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Anthropic is developing technology that makes it possible to verify whether a response was actually generated by the artificial intelligence (AI) model that a company claims to use. Named FlashProve, the system uses cryptography to create a kind of mathematical certificate of the identity of the model responsible for a given output.The aim is to give users a way to confirm that they are interacting with the

Shutterstock / favoritesphoto Meta’s stocks have taken a serious beating lately, with its price shedding more than 13 percent over the past month. That fact isn’t likely to ease pressure in the trillion-dollar megacorp’s board room, as tensions between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his board of directors reach a boiling point. As the Wall Street Journal phrased it in new reporting, the conflict between Zuckerberg and his board have amounted to a “war over power

By decoding the DNA control elements that shape cerebellum development, artificial intelligence help advance our understanding of how the human brain evolved. Credit: Mari Sepp Artificial intelligence allows tracing the evolution of genetic control elements in the developing mammalian cerebellum. An international research team led by biologists from Heidelberg University as well as the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie and KU Leuven (Belgium) has now de

Yasukuni Shrine (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo) announced on November 11 that approximately 14,500 records of personal information had been leaked due to unauthorized access to the mail-order website “Online Amulets and Religious Articles Site,” which is operated by the shrine. The site is currently suspended, and the timing of its resumption has not yet been determined. (Source: Official website) The information leaked included names, email addresses, hashed passwo

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Deepseek just upgraded its V4.1 Flash open-weight model to revision 1017. What looks like a mere point revision may actually be a significant step forward in model efficiency. On the product page, Deepseek uses the slogan "wish-driven programming made real," a likely reference

Windows' standard Task Manager cannot monitor the VRAM usage of each task. “gputaskman” is a GPU task manager developed by Microsoft's vice president Scott Hanselman, and it enables detailed monitoring of GPU usage. It seemed useful, so I tried it. GitHub - shanselman/gputaskman: A GPU task manager for Windows, Linux, and WSL: per-process VRAM, GPU activity, and LLM model/KV-cache insights (Windows AMD and NVIDIA). · GitHub https://github.com/shanselman/gp

Applied Sciences / Futurism The midterms were in no small part a searing repudiation of the AI industry, and in particular data centers. In fact, of 41 ballot proposed measures that would crack down on data center development, Americans voted for all but one. The lone exception: the town of Harwood, North Dakota, population 845. According to reporting by The Washington Post, a lot of residents were hesitant to approve the $3 billion, 1.8 million square foo

Continues after the advertisingTo access the panel, you need to enable two settings: “Keep activity history” and “Memory.” The interface organizes the information into categories, with items about personal history, location, relationships, career, professional projects, travel, equipment, entertainment, physical exercise, and lifestyle.Each categorypresents the data in lists. This way, the user can identify which information Gemini associated with their pr

After just a day with Apple’s Siri Recaps feature on my Apple Watch, I can already see how its value may ultimately outweigh any creepiness factor that comes from the AI-powered audio recording and summarization it provides. However, I also see areas where AI-assisted note-taking can go too far, capturing things that aren’t worth remembering, and where there’s room for improvement. The first two, sound and song detection, don’t represent potential privacy