Archive: February 2025

A new lawsuit is just the latest example of why AI probably shouldn’t be used for everything. A Pizza Hut franchisee claims the chain’s AI-powered delivery system, meant to optimize orders and speed up deliveries, instead backfired and cost it more than $100 million. Earlier this month, in the Texas Business Court, Chaac Pizza Northeast sued Pizza Hut after its restaurants were forced to use an AI delivery management platform known as Dragontail. Pizza Hut

Semantic watermark forgery. The attacker can transfer the watermark from a watermarked reference image requested by Alice (here: the diving cat) into any cover image (here: the moon landing). The obtained image will be detected as watermarked and attributed to Alice by the service provider, eroding the trust in watermark-based detection and attribution of AI-generated content. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.03283 Images generated by artific

Mathematicians are setting some boundaries. Today, 16 mathematicians in consultation with peers and relevant organizations published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. The declaration, which had attracted more than 130 signatories by the time of publication, outlines key challenges that widespread AI use poses to mathematics research, as well as recommendations for individual researchers, organizations, governments, and comm

Create a watch on this subject Receive upcoming developments, with an AI watch configured from this article. Create my free watch The Linux Foundation has unveiled DNS-AID (AI Agent Discovery Agent), an open-source project that proposes using DNS, the historical directory of the Internet, as a layer for AI agent discovery, reports Computerworld. The mechanism relies on a standardized DNS entry that serves as an entry point for an agent to publish its capab

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As more and more sectors experiment with artificial intelligence, one of the areas that has most quickly adopted this new technology is law enforcement. It's led to some problematic growing pains, from false arrests to concerns around facial recognition. However, a new training tool is now being used by law enforcement agencies across the globe to ensure that officers understand this technology and use it more ethically. B

For years now, Amazon has been in Anthropic’s corner in the artificial intelligence war, putting $4 billion into the AI startup in 2023. Since then, it’s poured in more and more cash at every turn, including another $25 billion just this past April to Anthropic’s growing infrastructure needs. So you’d imagine, then, that Amazon would be thrilled that Anthropic is on its way to becoming a publicly traded company with a highly touted model that has lapped so

Anthropic's Claude for Manufacturing plugs AI directly into factory software to automate industrial workflows Nov 13, 2026 Anthropic has released Claude for Manufacturing, a plugin giving the AI direct access to industrial software to automate factory workflows. The new solution connects via four universal interfaces to Autodesk Fusion, Oracle NetSuite, Microsoft 365, and Infor. Other systems can be integrated through file exports to Microsoft 365. With 17

Credit: CC0 Public Domain More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person's health, mental states, emotions, and cognitive functioning. Colorado, California, and Montana are among the states that have recently required safeguarding brain data collected by devices outside of medical settings. That includes headphones, earbuds,

Schematic of the AI methodology developed by the research team. Credit: Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) Researchers in Korea have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that predicts molecular properties by learning electron-level information without requiring costly quantum mechanical calculations. The research was presented at ICLR 2025. A joint research team led by Senior Researcher Gyoung S. Na from the Korea Resea

Getty / Futurism Earlier this month, OpenAI launched Sora 2, a text-to-video generating app designed to churn out AI-generated videos. The app has become ground zero of copyright-infringing clips, from SpongeBob SquarePants taking a bong rip and sipping codeine to Scooby-Doo getting caught speeding on a highway. OpenAI responded with some sloppily-implemented guardrails, which were initially met with exasperation — until, that is, mischief-makers realized

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Artificial intelligence is here, and it’s wreaking havoc on court rooms throughout the US. The latest AI law blunder comes from the Maryland appellate court, where a family lawyer representing a mother in a custody battle was caught filing court briefs cooked up with ChatGPT. The Daily Record, which publishes summaries of Maryland court opinions, reported that the mother’s lawyer submitte

Global composites of Sentinel-3 OLCI canopy chlorophyll content at 8-day intervals. Credit: Remote Sensing of Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2025.114845 A common data basis is the prerequisite for efficient and informed action. Up to now, this has, however, been lacking for plant health, which is of great importance for global agriculture and climate research. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a method to record

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 09: Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks during a keynote address by Walmart Inc. President and CEO Doug McMillon during CES 2024 at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas on January 9, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 12 and features about 4,000 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 130,000 attendees. (Photo by Etha

Getty / Futurism Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to their coding questions — and resulting in a vast online repository of coding knowledge. But as Dev Class reports, the advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for the platform, with the number of monthly questions plummeting significantly since around the time ChatGPT burst onto the scene

Published on February 18, 2026 at 09:15 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic has just unveiled Claude Sonnet 4.6, the latest iteration of the Sonnet AI model from the startup. The range consists of general-purpose language models designed to balance power, speed, and reasonable pricing. This major update to Claude is positioned between Sonnet 4.5 and the top-of-the-line model, Claude Opus. As explained by Anthropic in its statement, Sonnet 4.6 is prog

Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images/Futurism Microsoft’s commitment to shoving its Copilot AI chatbot into every imaginable facet of its widely-used Windows operating system hasn’t gone over well with users. Copilot feels like it’s infiltrated everything, from a dedicated keyboard key to a thick coat of AI weighing down its otherwise lightweight text editor, Notepad. And that’s not to mention years of annoying ads for its in-house services, like OneDrive

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images In January 2025, just one day after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, AI tech leaders convened in the Oval Office as part of the announcement of a flashy $500 billion AI infrastructure deal, dubbed “Stargate.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gushed over his newfound adoration for Trump, telling him during the event that “for AGI to get built here, we wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. President.” The company said it was commi