Archive: August 2024

The proposed theory in this study explains the complex size- and time-dependent growth of nanoparticles, representing a fundamental shift in nanoparticle research. Credit: Ph.D. student Jingyu Kang, Dr. Ji-Hyun Kim, and Professor Jaeyoung Sung / Chung-Ang University Nanoparticles have diverse applications in modern science and industry, powering technologies like quantum-dot displays, nanocatalysts and drug delivery. Their unique physicochemical properties

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A man who works at an AI watchdog group was alarmed when OpenAI suddenly showed up at his doorstep last fall, demanding he turn over documents. To his utter disbelief, he was being subpoenaed. “It’s a bit scary to know that the most valuable private company in the world has your address and has shown up and has questions for you,” the man, Tyler Johnston, who founded the nonprofit advocac

Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early success, the company is now working on rolling out a massive facial recognition feature across its entire smart glasses platform — a launch which involves timing the announcement with political drama to min

Getty / Futurism A bizarre new wrongful death lawsuit against Google alleges that the tech giant’s chatbot, Gemini, urged a 36-year-old Florida man named Jonathan Gavalas to kill others as part of a delusional mission to obtain a robot body for his AI “wife” — and when he failed to do so, it pushed the man to successfully end his life, telling him that they could be together in death. “When the time comes, you will close your eyes in that world,” Gemini to

@maeesAn AI agent stole customer information unnoticed for five days――Four Weaknesses in the WorkOS IncidentJavaSecurityAIrate limitingmonitoring0Posted at 2026-11-12 An AI agent stole customer information unnoticed for five days――Four Weaknesses in the WorkOS Incident It wasn't the AI agent's intelligence that caused the customer information to be stolen. The vulnerabilities exploited were four classic ones, and the reason it went unnoticed for five days

「CAD Disassembly」 Jay from 凹非寺 Quantum Bit | Official Account QbitAI Bad, really let MiniMax take mult模态 to the next level😭。 Following the positive reception of the open-source video flagship H3, the latest image model——H3-Image, has once again swept the internet。 The hottest one is 「CAD Disassembly」, just drop a reference image, and H3-Image can directly open the box for your figurine。。。 Also, there are CADs forYuShu Robotics Dog。 In short, everything can

Capcom / Futurism That new, unapologetically derivative open world game or umpteenth shooter sequel you’re currently addicted to? It was almost certainly made with a little help from AI, according to Google Cloud’s global director for games Jack Buser. In an interview with Mobilegamer.biz, Buser claimed that pretty much every major video game studio is using the tech behind the scenes, whether they’re willing to admit it or not. “I think what players don’t

Getty / Futurism Mindlessly unleashing AI agents to take over employees’ jobs can be pretty costly, it turns out. Some companies are learning the hard way that paying for the incredible volume of AI agent requests is costing more than what they’d pay their human employees, Axios reports. AIs can perform all sorts of tasks, ranging from the rote to the complex. But one of the most popular ways it’s being used in the workplace is to generate mountains of cod

U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t sound particularly worried that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. He says the bigger danger is China. After several researchers at frontier AI labs came forward this week with warnings about the potential risks of increasingly powerful AI, Trump was asked Thursday whether he shared any of those concerns. “No, I don’t have any,” Trump told reporters. “I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re

Everything about Apps see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more A software developer named Brandon Thomas is using artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate popular programs from Adobe and Microsoft. Under the ArtCraft brand, he has already made available free alternatives to tools for editing images, videos, and other creative content, as well as his own versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.The programs are open source and were develope

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Shutterstock OpenAI burned through a staggering amount of money in 2025. According to audited financial figures obtained by AI skeptic Ed Zitron, who shared them with The Financial Times, the net loss attributed to the ChatGPT maker soared from $5 billion in 2024 to a stunning $39 billion in 2025. You can relitigate the numbers all day — a source familiar with situatio

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Axelle / Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic; Shutterstock It’s 2026 and we’re still getting new “Toy Story” movies. In fact, we’re now on “Toy Story 5” — and the original was released in 1995, some 31 years ago. How long can Disney and Pixar keep this madness up? It’s a thought that’s crossed the mind of Tom Hanks, the voice behind series’ rootin’ tootin’ protagonist Woody. In a recent Entertainment Weekly int

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Amazon launched a new tool to make it easier to run artificial intelligence (AI) applications on its own chips and challenge Nvidia's position in the market. Named TorchNeuron, the feature allows developers to port applications created with PyTorch to Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Trainium processors with only a configuration change, without needing to rewrite the code.The initiative targets one of Nvidia's ma

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic’s Claude — some including sensitive personal and company information — have been left exposed to Google, making them them searchable to anyone on the web. Many of the materials appear to have been made public when Claude users opted to distribute a given chat or project to colleagues or associates using the chatbot’s “share” feature

Ars Technica descended in force last week upon our nation’s capital, setting up shop in the International Spy Museum for a three-panel discussion on artificial intelligence, infrastructure, security, and how compliance with policy changes over the next decade or so might shape the future of business computing in all its forms. Much like our San Jose event last month, the venue was packed to the rafters with Ars readers eager for knowledge (and perhaps some

Following a pair of lawsuits alleging that chatbots caused a teen boy’s suicide, groomed a 9-year-old girl, and caused a vulnerable teen to self-harm, Character.AI (C.AI) has announced a separate model just for teens, ages 13 and up, that’s supposed to make their experiences with bots safer. In a blog, C.AI said it took a month to develop the teen model, with the goal of guiding the existing model “away from certain responses or interactions, reducing the

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Flock is starting to feel the heat — or at least its PR team is. Last week, its CEO Garrett Langley offered a simpering public apology for abuses of its mass surveillance network after a Washington Post investigation found at least 50 cases of police officers allegedly using Flock’s AI-powered cameras to stalk women. Then in an interview with Vanity Fair days later, Langley insultingly suggested that his cameras would have solved

Meta has officially ended a landmark legal standoff over social media addiction among children, agreeing to pay some $18 billion over the next ten years and make sweeping changes to how it approaches child safety. The lawsuit, organized by the attorneys general of 29 US states, alleged that Meta executives like Mark Zuckerberg created a system that abused data collected from minors, while feigning ignorance about the harms their platforms caused. Though $1

Published on August 28, 2026 at 08:43 Updated on August 29, 2026 at 10:34 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Coolcaesar/Wikimedia An AI that cuts a researcher’s workweek short while its own creators press the pause button. The major back-to-school divide plays out in San Francisco. The magazine Time spent two weeks inside OpenAI and publishes a long account drawing on interviews with Sam Altman and his lieutenants. Between two protests outside headquarters, the company l

PiersUncensored via X It won’t bag “her” any awards, but the AI “actor” Till Norwood just put in the performance of a lifetime. In an interview — also deserving of scare quotes, but we’re trying to show some restraint here — with British political commentator Piers Morgan, the smiling AI persona, with her uncanny gaze permanently fixed at some indeterminate point that’s somewhere not quite the center of the camera, appeared to severely glitch out before su