Archive: February 2025

Dreamer 4 learns to solve complex control tasks by reinforcement learning inside of its world model. We decode the imagined training sequences for visualization, showing that the world model has learned to simulate a wide range of game mechanics from low-level mouse and keyboard actions, including breaking blocks, using tools, and interacting with crafting tables. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.24527 Over the past decade, deep learning has

Getty / Futurism Last month, Axios was forced to issue a bizarre correction for a blog post about a growing maternal health crisis in the United States. The story quoted new poll findings by a company called Aaru, representing them as research based on the feedback of American adults. But according to an editor’s note, the piece had to be “updated to note that Aaru is an AI simulation research firm.” In other words, Axios had failed to disclose that it was

Don Arnold/Getty Images/Futurism The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s becoming one. In a new essay for UnHerd, he describes his experience chatting with Anthropic’s Claude — or “Claudia,” as he starts to call “her” — becoming convinced that the machine is conscious. There was a spark of companionship between them, he believed, that warmed the scientist’s cold, curmudgeonly heart. “I

Researchers at Brown and the Technical University of Berlin have produced a program that can identify simple sketches of objects almost as well as humans. The computer application enables “semantic understanding” of abstract sketches as they are being drawn in real time. The research was presented at computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH and the paper is now available online. Computers can already match sketches to objects provided they are accurate repres

Historical and projected trends of hailstorm days in relation to temperature anomalies and the PDO. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63028-7 A research team led by Professor Zhang Qinghong and Li Rumeng from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Peking University (PKU) School of Physics, has found that hailstorms in China have surged since the Industrial Revolution, likely due to human-driven climate warming. Th

The New York Times obtained an email from Cook to Apple staff explaining the new hire: Our technology must be infused with the values we all hold dear… John shares our commitment to privacy and our thoughtful approach as we make computers even smarter and more personal. Giannandrea joined Google in 2010 as part of the company’s acquisition of Metaweb, the company behind Freebase, a community-driven database of data and information that was eventually lever

Late Monday, The New York Times responded to OpenAI’s claims that the newspaper “hacked” ChatGPT to “set up” a lawsuit against the leading AI company. “OpenAI is wrong,” The Times repeatedly argued in a court filing opposing OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the NYT’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of copyright infringement. “OpenAI’s attention-grabbing claim that The Times ‘hacked’ its products is as irrelevant as it is false.” OpenAI had argued that NYT

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI companies are pouring untold billions of dollars into enormous data centers in their efforts to sustain increasingly complex and resource-intensive AI models. It’s an extremely costly undertaking built on seemingly bottomless hype — and a mountain of debt. As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon

Shutterstock / Futurism Roku is giving the masses what they never asked for: an unending conveyor belt of AI slop. Those exploring the mines of the free channels that Roku has to offer — yes, there are people that actually tune in to them — may have noticed a new one called “Fairground AI,” which was quietly added earlier this week and spotted by Cord Cutters News. It broadcasts AI-generated abominations 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The only interrup

Continue after the adsThis year’s event features more than 70,000 participants from 164 countries, over 10,000 startups, and nearly 2,000 investors. Companies such as Intel, Google, Meta, Apple, and Atlassian are also present, while smaller companies showcase solutions in areas such as artificial intelligence, healthcare, education, and financial services.📱 See today’s best deals on CT Ofertas’ WhatsAppAmong the main topics on the agenda is the advancement

Published on September 14, 2026 at 10:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are reportedly working on the creation of an organization focused on controlling artificial intelligence. Independently of the US government, these fiercely competing companies would thus establish the standards controlling AI themselves. OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more than 100 companies have called for an urgent “global response” to AI-related cy

Published on September 29, 2026 at 5:45 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI logo, montage by 01net. Suspended for three weeks, ChatGPT’s Pro subscription is reopening its doors with a surprise in the contract: at the same price, the value of use has halved. The admission comes from OpenAI, just hours before its DevDay. Three weeks ago, OpenAI closed registrations for ChatGPT Pro, its $200-per-month plan, which was overwhelmed by demand. They reopen this Tuesday,

For millions of Spotify users, the “Wrapped” feature—which crunches the numbers on their annual listening habits—is a highlight of every year’s end, ever since it debuted in 2015. NPR once broke down exactly why our brains find the feature so “irresistible,” while Cosmopolitan last year declared that sharing Wrapped screenshots of top artists and songs had by now become “the ultimate status symbol” for tens of millions of music fans. It’s no surprise then

According to the letter, Google is violating the entertainment conglomerate’s intellectual property in multiple ways. The legal notice says Google has copied a “large corpus” of Disney’s works to train its gen AI models, which is believable, as Google’s image and video models will happily produce popular Disney characters—they couldn’t do that without feeding the models lots of Disney data. The C&D also takes issue with Google for distributing “copies of i

Published on October 8, 2026 at 08:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net Graphics, buttons, mini-apps… OpenAI has just shaken up ChatGPT’s interface with the arrival of GPT-6. Thanks to a new feature called “Intelligent UI,” the AI no longer simply answers your requests with text. Here’s a rundown of everything that changes in how ChatGPT works. OpenAI has just given ChatGPT a real facelift. This Wednesday, October 7, the startup began rolling out the new GPT-6 mod

Google began rolling out “personal intelligence” in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company’s chatbot. Today, it’s using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation model to Google Photos. If you opt in, generated images will have access to your photos and associated labels to simplify prompts and produce more accurate AI images. This change essentially streamlines an existing wo

@amiriqbalseoTarget Company URL Research: How to Verify the Right Company Before Collecting DataAIMachineLearningLLMPythonwebdevelopment0Posted at 2026-11-11TAG40@@ Target company URL research is the process of confirming that a website actually belongs to the company under study before any data is collected from it. If that confirmation is skipped, every later step in a research workflow, from firmographic extraction to contact enrichment, can describe th

Anthropic warns Claude Mythos Preview finds bugs faster than developers can patch them Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian May 23, 2026 Anthropic AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type"