Archive: March 2025

Wearable technology uses everyday gestures to reliably control robotic devices even under excessive motion noise, such as when the user is running, riding in a vehicle or in environments with turbulence. Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a next-generation wearable system that enables people to control machines using everyday gestures—even while running, riding

Credit: Advanced Functional Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202419710 As artificial intelligence (AI) and smart gadgets become more common, our need for reliable power sources grows. Renewable energy options like solar and wind are great, but they depend on specific conditions. A research team led by Professor Dong-Myeong Shin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a novel moisture-activated ele

This is an excerpt from the Primeiro Olhar newsletter, available to Clube Olhar Digital subscribers.About 400 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, argued on Tuesday (13) for the creation of an international body to oversee artificial intelligence (AI) safety.In an open letter, the group proposes safety standards, independent evaluations, and an incident registry for models capable of compromising external systems. For the researchers, c

Credit: Carlos III University of Madrid Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a set of innovative methods and algorithms that improve the performance and precision of vehicle design through topological optimization, a mathematical technique that allows designs to be optimized by distributing materials efficiently. The results of the research, which these scientists have applied to the design of parts for a competition motorc

inflection point The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here? A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. Haomiao Huang – Jan 30, 2023 7:00 am | 162 This image was partially AI-generated with the prompt "a pair of robot hands holding pencils drawing a pair of human hands, oil painting, colorful," inspired by the classic M.C. Escher drawing. Watching AI mangle drawing hands helps us feel superior to th

Donald Trump has spent recent weeks insisting that AI data centers are fantastic and every American should want to have one in their community. The president has even claimed that they make everyone rich, teasing the idea of a “dividend” that could be paid out in communities where they’re built. But Trump seemed to contradict himself in a new interview published Thursday. The aspiring authoritarian leader admitted to Time magazine that he wouldn’t want to

Guidance makes untrainable networks trainable via representational similarity. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.20035 Even networks long considered "untrainable" can learn effectively with a bit of a helping hand. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have shown that a brief period of alignment between neural networks, a method they call guidance, can dramatically improve the performance of archi

Everything about ChatGPT see more Everything about China see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China proposed personality tests for five different chatbots. Each artificial intelligence responded to the tests in at least two different languages; as the language changed, the social content of the responses also changed, including negativity, curiosity, and “culture”.The study

When president Donald Trump, in his latest paroxysm, declared that he would be renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” Google instantly capitulated. So eager was it to realize his will that it actually renamed the lake before official government map makers did, Ars Technica noted. No one really expected a tech monopoly to take a principled stand against the decision, but you might’ve expected it to at least pretend that it was deliberating acting on an or

A day after the US Copyright Office dropped a bombshell pre-publication report challenging artificial intelligence firms’ argument that all AI training should be considered fair use, the Trump administration fired the head of the Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter—sparking speculation that the controversial report hastened her removal. Tensions have apparently only escalated since. Now, as industry advocates decry the report as overstepping the office’s au

Qualitative and quantitative assessment of CELTIC’s contribution to the in silico labeling of rare cell populations. Credit: Nature Methods (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02960-4 To ensure our bodies function correctly, the cells that compose them must operate properly. Imagine a cell as a bustling city where tiny parts called organelles move, reorganize, and respond to external stresses. To understand how our bodies stay healthy, or what goes wrong durin

AliExpress / Futurism You can buy practically anything these days on the internet — especially when it’s being shipped straight from China, the beating heart of global manufacturing. It doesn’t matter how macabre the object in question is. If it has a price, there’s a company willing to sell and even advertise it to you on social media. One Reddit user found that out the hard way after spotting an Instagram ad for a “pet incinerator” on the Meta-owned plat

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The results of the United States' midterm elections, taking place this Tuesday (3), may influence the progress of a bill proposing changes to federal environmental permitting rules for energy infrastructure projects, at a time of growing demand for electricity to supply the data centers that support the expansion of artificial intelligence.What are the midterm elections: Management barometer: They take plac

SerpApi and similar firms do fulfill a need, but they sit in a legal gray area. Google does not provide an API for its search results, which are based on the world’s largest and most comprehensive web index. That makes Google’s SERPs especially valuable in the age of AI. A chatbot can’t summarize web links if it can’t find them, which has led companies like Perplexity to pay for SerpApi’s second-hand Google data. That prompted Reddit to file a lawsuit agai

Shutterstock / Futurism So far, the top AI companies have been sustained by constant injections of massive investment. But what happens when the funds stop coming in and they’re expected to survive on their own revenue? The fate of Character.AI, the controversial AI companion platform, may come to stand as a warning. On Tuesday, Character.AI filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, marking the beginning of an ignominious end for a once-buzzy startup valued at a bi

Credit: Current Biology (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.12.017 A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray species. The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, challenge previous understandings of how severely this mass extinction affected life in the oceans. AI reshapes the story of shark evolution L

One of the first schools to shut down after students were found making AI nudes of female classmates is now asking a court to toss a lawsuit filed by victims who claimed that the school stayed silent for months while the emboldened boys targeted many more girls. In a motion to dismiss this week, Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS)—a private K-12 school in Pennsylvania with fewer than 600 students—argued that it was false to say the school never reported th

Zhidx (WeChat public account: zhidxcom) Compiled by | Sun Xiaowen Edited by | Cheng Qian Zhidx reported on November 10 that, according to technology media outlet 9to5Mac on November 9, Apple had launched AI usage packs for the AI assistant built into its software. The first purchase option was made available in the music production software Logic Pro,with the packs priced at US$49.99 (approximately RMB 334). ▲Logic Pro usage page (Source: 9to5Mac) The AI a

The South Korean government held a national report meeting titled “Republic of Korea Great Leap: Three Major Mega Projects” on June 29 (local time) and announced plans to concentrate investment in three fields: semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers. Samsung and SK of South Korea each simultaneously announced large-scale domestic investment plans.

Complex structures that allow founders like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg to control their public companies without owning most of them are nothing new in Silicon Valley. But Anthropic’s obsession with AI safety has resulted in a truly baroque style of corporate governance that will leave common shareholders with little say over most major decisions at the AI company, including who sits on its board. First, Anthropic is a public benefit company — a for-prof