Archive: September 2024

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Railway infrastructure could be made safer and more reliable using AI, artificial intelligence, according to research published in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology. The research outlines a new automated, real-time fault detection system based on deep learning that can identify problems with track, bridges, tunnels, and signaling equipment. The work could address long-standing challenges

Credit: Tom Fisk from Pexels The next era of power system operations is taking shape through digitalization, artificial intelligence, and intelligent automation. To help utilities and navigate this change, Fraunhofer FIT and Accenture have published a white paper titled "Transformation Journey Towards Software-Defined Power System Operations." The white paper provides a comprehensive blueprint for how utilities can transition from legacy, monolithic Operat

AI coding agents have made it easier than ever to vibe code software. Now Google wants to make it just as easy for anyone to create games with AI prompts, no previous coding experience required. The company announced Playground on Wednesday, a new browser-based platform that lets users create custom games with AI and share them online, where they can be played on both desktop and mobile devices. Using Playground’s chat interface, users can create a game fr

Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images/Futurism The tech industry’s standing in the eyes of the US public has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last few years. Where Americans were once excited for new tech products and industry ideas, they’re now exhausted by the sector’s intrusions into their lives, whether with AI-generated slop or the data centers that power it. Pretty much everyone has received that message loud and clear: political strate

Basement Basement, arguably New York City’s best-known contemporary nightclub, has always had a tight, Berghain-esque door policy. That’s part of its allure. You stand before the bouncer and await to receive their vibe check, and you either get let into its dark, crimson-lit halls, or get turned away, feeling the stigma of being uncool. That’s just the way it is. But it’s not being mysterious about its newest criteria for entry. On social media Thursday, B

CNN Last year, a so-called “AI actress,” dubbed Tilly Norwood sparked a near-universal backlash. The algorithmic brunette’s appearance couldn’t have come at a worse time, as the entertainment industry continued to reel from being overrun by cheap AI slop. The drama reignited a heated debate over the tech threatening to put human creatives in the industry out of a job, a nightmare scenario that has enraged some of the most influential minds in Hollywood. Pu

The turning torque is formed by the difference in control inputs to the left and right motors:Here, where 127@@the efficiency of physical actuators. (What’s so hard about that?)And here is the most important point: the neural network no longer does a damn bit of static classification.Now its output changes the position of the body. The change in position affects the receptor readings. New signals enter the network again.A closed loop is formed:Receptors →

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan confirmed earlier this summer that the company planned to add generative AI to the creator tools for YouTube Shorts. There were already tools to generate backgrounds for videos, but the next phase will involve creating new video elements from a text prompt. Starting today, creators will be able to use a photo as the basis for a new generative AI video. YouTube also promises a collection of easily applied generative effects, which wil

Shutterstock / Futurism Smile, peruser of the internet! Your facial features are being codified by algorithms. Starting this week, Google has begun asking users to take a video selfie to sign into their accounts, Search Engine Watch found. The feature remains optional, but it represents an eerie step towards making facial recognition a standard way to navigate the web, which the search engine giant is now heavily promoting. Google first announced the featu

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced the “research preview” of a new agentic platform called Claude Duet. It has its own app on iOS and Android, and apparently at least some influencers are getting access. But for the time being Anthropic says to “join the waitlist“ if you’re interested—that is if you’re a Claude Pro or Max subscriber. Anthropic is decidedly not following the lead of its competitors in the consumer-facing agent space by making Claude Duet cut

Published September 23, 2026 at 08:17 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Geralt - Pixabay. In quick succession, OpenAI and Anthropic have launched new AI systems that are much cheaper than the previous ones. GPT-6 Sol and Luna on one side, Claude Opus 5.5 on the other. The AI price war is intensifying amid controversy over the slowdown of AI. Just minutes apart on Tuesday, OpenAI and Anthropic unveiled new artificial intelligence models. They are all sold for far less th

Published on September 24, 2026 at 07:35 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Meta Meta has just unveiled the Muse Charm. This small device, designed to be worn as a pendant, allows you to converse with Muse, the group’s AI assistant, without a smartphone or connected glasses. The gadget will go on sale towards the end of the year, at a price that is still unknown. Mark Zuckerberg had kept the surprise for the end. As the Meta Connect conference was drawing to a close, the

Friction stir welding machine at MT Aerospace. Credit: MT Aerospace Artificial Intelligence, or AI, promises many benefits in all domains, and rocketry is no different. The European Space Agency's Future Launchers Preparatory Program (FLPP) is investigating the use of AI to develop better processes and even whole new shapes in materials that could be used on rockets or spacecraft of the future. Together with MT Aerospace in Germany the Agency is looking at

The US Department of Transportation apparently thinks it’s a good idea to use artificial intelligence to draft rules impacting the safety of airplanes, cars, and pipelines, a ProPublica investigation revealed Monday. It could be a problem if DOT becomes the first agency to use AI to draft rules, ProPublica pointed out, since AI is known to confidently get things wrong and hallucinate fabricated information. Staffers fear that any failure to catch AI errors

World models are exactly what they sound like—an AI that generates a dynamic environment on the fly. They’re not technically 3D worlds, though. World models like Genie 3 create a video that responds to your control inputs, allowing you to explore the simulation as if it were a real virtual world. Genie 3 was a breakthrough in world models because it could remember details of the world it was creating for a much longer time. But in this context, a “long tim

ByteDance says that it’s rushing to add safeguards to block Seedance 2.0 from generating iconic characters and deepfaking celebrities, after substantial Hollywood backlash after launching the latest version of its AI video tool. The changes come after Disney and Paramount Skydance sent cease-and-desist letters to ByteDance urging the Chinese company to promptly end the allegedly vast and blatant infringement. Studios claimed the infringement was widescale

Shutterstock / cheapbooks Loads of stories have emerged over the past few months of corporate executives realizing their all-out drive to use AI was getting them absolutely nowhere. If anything, it was a net negative, as office workers set about wasting their budgets on costly AI tokens to appear productive. Now, it seems even top tech industry players are cutting back, as they realize their workers are frittering away money and churning out reams of low-e

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 13 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Reverse-engineering games for converting them between systems is currently a hot topic, and it's getting messier by the day. According to multiple user claims, Anthropic's Claude Code and/or Opus 5.5 model are blocking attempts at innocuous reverse-engineering, including but