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Futurism In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staff that the company was making a hard pivot to AI — years before the word “slop” was added to the public lexicon. In the memo, which was published roughly two months after OpenAI unveiled its groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot, Peretti said BuzzFeed would be using the software to enhance the company’s infamous quizzes by generating personalized responses. The company’s stock price j

According to the popular narrative right now, Google is behind when it comes to AI models. In the popular imagination, it finished at the top of the pile last year, and then got steamrolled by “agents” when platforms like OpenClaw made token-guzzling agentic coding into the AI trend of 2026. So if you’ve been waiting for Google DeepMind to pivot to coding, like OpenAI did in March, that’s now on the verge of happening, according to an anonymously-sourced s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Errich Petersen / Getty Images for SXSW; Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has finally dished on Disney’s reaction to his decision to kill the company’s AI video generator app, Sora — scuttling a billion dollar deal the two giants had planned. Given the amount of money Disney was prepared to invest, and the suddenness of the decision, speculation abounded on the drama behind the sce

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images There’s a strange dynamic emerging around artificial intelligence. Research has shown that young people — who are typically the first adopters of new technology like MP3 players and the internet — are actually the most skeptical of AI. In fact, many teens seem to have deep concerns over AI chatbots rotting their frontal lobes. A new study out of Drexel University shows just how self-aware

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Workers across the US have had it with the prognostications of AI taking over the world. And their unions — or what’s left of them, anyway — are taking notice. Last week, the leaders of some of the largest trade unions in the US came together for a conference with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Axios reports. Together, they presented a united opposition against tech companies pushing AI

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more An Anthropic artificial intelligence (AI) agent filed a false report about an unsolved murder with the Philadelphia Police Department in the United States. The message was blocked by the spam filter, but the company took more than two months to identify the flaw and another nine days to notify the authorities.The submission occurred on July 18, during an automated test involving interactions with randomly s

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The Electoral Prosecutor General's Office (PGE) argues that Meta should be fined for failing to comply with part of the orders issued by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to ensure equality between the campaigns of Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round of the elections.The report also points to evidence of unequal treatment in the company's artificial intelligence. The statement came after Justice

If you were suspected of a crime, would you trust a chatbot to accurately explain what happened? Some police departments think the tech is ready. And officers who have started using chatbots to quickly complete their most dreaded task of drafting police reports seemingly don’t want to go back to spending hours each week doing their own paperwork. In June, a police department in Frederick, Colorado, boasted that it was the “first law enforcement agency in t

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A firm that is using AI to locate ancient shipwrecks is sending out a call to seafarers to salvage sunken treasure. The general impression of the state of the tech job world might be that people are being fired left and right, and the only open jobs are AI-related. But what i

It looks like investors hoping to get a piece of the Anthropic IPO pie are going to have to wait in line. Orders for shares of the AI company—whose stock market debut is expected to be one of (if not the) biggest in the history of Wall Street—have already exceeded the number currently on offer several times over, according to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg. The report (which cited anonymous sources and didn’t specify exactly how far demand for the share

Published on September 1, 2026 at 12:18 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Editing by 01net While OpenAI wants to quickly close the case, Apple is multiplying accusations in what is shaping up to be the industrial espionage case of the decade. August 31, 2026 will remain in Cupertino’s history as Tim Cook’s last day at the helm, almost exactly fifteen years to the day after he succeeded Steve Jobs. John Ternus, who has headed hardware engineering for years, takes the rei

Muse, the popular English rock band that’s been selling out arenas for decades, is no longer @muse on Instagram, where it boasts nearly three million followers. That’s because on Tuesday, Meta, which owns Instagram, announced a new “personal AI agent” also called Muse — which is now taking the rock band’s original handle, in an act of what appears to be corporate eminent domain for a long-established username. Indeed, an archived version of the band’s webs

OpenAI has been expanding its advertising business, recently introducing visual promos in addition to text ads that get injected into ChatGPT conversations. But how does OpenAI choose what ads to display? The decision is more personal than you might think. 404 Media ran two advertising campaigns in ChatGPT and found it allows advertisers to target users based on personally linked accounts and information, including a person’s email address, phone number, o

Credit: ThisIsEngineering from Pexels A University of Cambridge philosopher argues that our evidence for what constitutes consciousness is far too limited to tell if or when artificial intelligence has made the leap—and a valid test for doing so will remain out of reach for the foreseeable future. As artificial consciousness shifts from the realm of sci-fi to become a pressing ethical issue, Dr. Tom McClelland says the only "justifiable stance" is agnostic

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain At first glance, artificial intelligence looks like a software developer's dream. A recent McKinsey & Company report found that programmers generated code up to 45% faster with the help of generative AI. But if it's not used strategically, AI can become a developer's nightmare. So says Edward Anderson Jr., professor of information, risk, and operations management and Betty and Glenn Mortimer Centennial Professor in Busines

Shutterstock / Lightspring Whether as short-form slop Reels or the data centers that spit them out, Americans are absolutely sick of AI. Their elected officials, however, are going all-in — both embracing gobs of money from tech lobbying arms, and increasingly even embracing the tech to churn out attack ads to tarnish their opponents. According to reporting from the New York Times, AI generated election ads have become a hundred-million dollar business, ge