Archive: November 2024

Hot AIGC Track and High Cost AIGC has recently risen to be one of the hottest topics in AI. With the emergence of cross-model applications that allow textually-generated images (Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, NovelAI, DALL-E, etc.), AIGC has attracted the attention of computer scientists and the public. AIGC Generated Using Stable Diffusion AIGC is in high industry demand and has been labeled as one of the most prospective paths for the future of AI. The AI

Elon Musk’s xAI recently offered employees payments of $420 to hand over their completed tax returns for use in training Grok, according to a new report from Bloomberg. But that same report notes employees haven’t seen a penny of that promised cash. And it’s not clear when it’s coming. Grok has been lagging in the AI chatbot race, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s CoPilot, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini leading in widespread adoption in the U.S.

Fe-based amorphous alloys with high saturated magnetization developed via artificial intelligence. Credit: NIMTE Researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) to design a novel series of Fe-based amorphous alloys. These materials exhibit both ultra-high saturation magnetization (Bs) and ultra-low coercivity (Hc), offering the potential to improve

The morphology changes as stem cells progress to cancer cells. Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c14837 The powerful potential of nanotechnologies and AI to detect oral cancer earlier and more accurately has been revealed by a University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study published in ACS Nano. Researchers from the Faculty of Dentistry combined atomic force microscopy (AFM) with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect changes in cancer cells a

BiaPy environment and scope. Credit: Nature Methods (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02699-y An international team of researchers has developed BiaPy, an open-code artificial intelligence platform that facilitates the analysis of biomedical images using deep learning techniques. The work has been published in Nature Methods. The team was led by Ignacio Arganda (University of the Basque Country—UPV/EHU, Ikerbasque, Donostia International Physics Center, and

Earlier this week, DeepSeek stated it was facing “large-scale malicious attacks” against its systems. A banner on its website informed users of a temporary sign-up restriction.The growing competition between the US and China in particular in the AI sector has underscored wider concerns regarding technological ownership, ethical governance, and national security. Experts warn that as AI systems advance and become increasingly integral to global economic and

Deepfakes become a board priority once an executive falls for one Nearly three-quarters of security leaders have encountered or suspect a deepfake attack in the past year, while just 10% say their organizations have purpose-built defenses, according to Pindrop’s 2026 Deepfake Readiness Index. Real-time communications have become a target for deepfake and AI impersonation attacks. Phone calls to IT help desks, remote job interviews, and video meetings give

Many expect AI in the SOC to make entry jobs harder to get A junior analyst in a security operations center, or SOC, has usually learned the job the slow way. You work the same phishing lure dozens of times, chase the same familiar malware pattern and write up the same case note at the end of the shift. Eventually you know what normal looks like, which is how you notice when something isn’t. AI tools handle a lot of that repetitive work, and the people doi

Maggie Harrison Dupré New York City’s expansive subway system is currently plastered with advertisements for an AI startup called Friend, which has spent more than a million dollars on over 11,000 subway cars ads, 1,000 platform posters, and 130 urban panels. Judging by the response, the campaign is earning the company very few friends among New Yorkers. Subway riders have been vandalizing and peeling the ads down since the campaign started last week. And

Chat GPT app icon is seen on a smartphone screen, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Chicago. Credit: AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato OpenAI on Thursday released the fifth generation of the artificial intelligence technology that powers ChatGPT, a product update that's being closely watched as a measure of whether generative AI is advancing rapidly or hitting a plateau. GPT-5 arrives more than two years after the March 2023 release of GPT-4, bookending a period of intense co

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There is a glaring lack of tracking for global recycling. Poor waste management is deeply connected to climate change, plastic pollution and global nutrient imbalances globally. Economies also suffer from the lack of tracking. We extract, process and then landfill and incinerate trillions of dollars of materials per year. Instead, these could be recirculating, creating new jobs and reducing reliance on global trade. To shi

Brazilian ex-president Jair Bolsonaro has been in political exile since September, after he was convicted of plotting a military coup against the government. But thanks to the use of AI, the voice of the 71-year-old right-wing populist and former army captain is once again being heard by the masses. On Saturday, a giant, AI-generated video recreation of Bolsonaro was projected in front of a crowd who had assembled for the presidential campaign launch of hi

Published on March 5, 2026 at 13:12 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Pablo Varela (Unsplash) Artificial intelligence keeps pushing the boundaries of the corporate world. At the ride-hailing giant, developers have even created a virtual version of their CEO to train before official presentations. The public generally perceives Uber as a simple transportation and meal delivery app. The internal reality is quite different. For the CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the company is abo

If there’s one line the tech giants of the world have been incessantly trying to drill into our skulls for the past few years—in product release events, media appearances, and one terrible ad after another—it’s that AI is going to change pretty much everything about our lives, very, very quickly. But in the face of heated, widespread public backlash against the data centers powering the AI boom, steep costs for customers, and other hurdles, OpenAI CEO Sam

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop writing their own essays? According to new research from the Pew Research Center, the number of kids automating school assignments is now staggering. At this point, 57 percent of kids are using chatbots to search for information, while 54 percent say they use AI for “help with h

Jonathan Raa / NurPhoto via Getty Images / Futuism A top OpenAI executive has quit the company over its agreement with the Department of Defense that allows its tech to be deployed across the military. The employee, Caitlin Kalinowski, who led OpenAI’s hardware and robotics efforts, announced her resignation on social media Saturday. “This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security,” wrote Kalinowski in a tweet. “But surveillance of