Archive: April 2025

Colin Balfour, a sophomore studying robotics engineering, flies a small drone at a laboratory at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, in Worcester, Mass. Credit: AP Photo/Charles Krupa Don't be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute lab isn't hosting a Halloween party. Instead, it's a testing ground for tiny drones that can be deployed in search and rescue missions

Everything about ChatGPT view more Everything about OpenAI view more OpenAI announced a new advertising format for ChatGPT, which will allow the display of visual ads next to images generated by the chatbot.The new format will start being tested in the United States as early as October, with an initial group of advertisers. According to the company, sponsored content will be identified and will not influence the responses of the artificial intelligence (AI

Habr, hello, my name is Nikita, I'm a Rust developer.Recently, I read an article on Habr titled «Go made boring — and after neural networks, it took off». In it, Go's intentional simplicity is presented as a successful solution that also proved useful when working with neural networks. And I started thinking: some features that Go doesn't have, I actually really like in Rust.I'm willing to spend time learning the language if it makes understanding the code

■ MBZUAI, Physical Intelligence Predicting Open-Weight Model 'PAN 2' Released The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) under the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in the UAE released the world model 'PAN 2' with 290 billion parameters. By inputting an initial scene and action instructions, it can predict the movement of objects and physical changes to generate video. It has a structure combining a language model and a video d

Image for electron spins acting on the antiferromagnetically-coupled artificial magnetic structures with domain wall. Credit: Takeshi Seki A research team has taken a major step forward in the field of spintronics, a technology that uses not only the charge but also the spin of electrons to create faster, smarter, and more energy-efficient electronic devices. Their discovery could pave the way for the next generation of memory chips that combine high speed

Matthias Balk / picture alliance via Getty Images; Futurism On the surface, companies across nearly every industry seem to be gobbling up AI contracts. Yet under the hood, employees increasingly complain that AI results in more stress while saving no time whatsoever on productive tasks. Many employers, in turn, have begun mandating AI use on the job, some even going so far as to fire those who don’t hop on board in order to justify their big-time spending

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely and totally flunked the assignment. As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: I-Hwa Cheng / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock We’ve long had our doubts about tech leaders making boisterous claims about automating jobs with AI. For a while now, executives have raised eyebrows by justifying sweeping layoffs by arguing that AI had made thousands of roles redundant. But as reality settles in and the tech’s real-world capabilities are coming into focus, some in the industry are sta

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Gabe Ginsberg / Getty Images Stan Lee, an icon of the comic books world, died in 2018. But tell that to ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesizing firm. On Wednesday, the company announced that it signed a new deal with the famed Marvel writer’s social media brand, Stan Lee Universe, allowing it to replicate his appearance and voice using AI — meaning that Lee will still be giving cameos beyond the grave,

Two CubeSats orbiting around Earth after being deployed from the ISS. Google is looking at ways satellites can be used for data centres of the future. Credit: NASA The sun produces more power than 100 trillion times humanity's entire electricity generation. In orbit, solar panels can be eight times more productive than their Earth-bound counterparts, generating energy almost continuously without the need for heavy battery storage. These facts have led a te

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images; Futurism Over four months after the deadly US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Southern Iran, which killed 120 children and dozens of teachers and parents, questions still remain over how the horror unfolded. All available evidence suggests that the US military was behind the bloodbath. Images that show fragments of US Tomahawk missiles on the site, leaked commentary from military analysts, and operational pro

Schematic of the experimental setup used to combine polarization microscopy with dark-field microscopy. Credit: IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy technique capable of improving the observation of living cells. The study, published in Optics Letters, paves the way for a more in-depth analysis of numerous biological processes without

Shutterstock / Futurism The advent of powerful AI coding tools has quickly made programmers heavily reliant on the tech, with experts warning that they’re slowly but surely losing the ability to write code by hand. It’s a growing existential crisis that’s significantly raising the chance of errors or security issues in AI code that hasn’t been properly vetted. Experts are warning of a “class divide” between those, who are over relying on AI tools and more

The companies seeking to build larger AI models have been increasingly stymied by a lack of high-quality training data. As tech firms scour the web for more data to feed their models, they could increasingly rely on potentially sensitive user data. A team at Google Research is exploring new techniques to make the resulting large language models (LLMs) less likely to “memorize” any of that content. LLMs have non-deterministic outputs, meaning you can’t exac

©Nintendo Nintendo announced that the global cumulative sales of the Nintendo Switch 2 software The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which was released worldwide simultaneously on Thursday, November 5, 2026, surpassed 5.2 million units within four days of release. Of these, 810,000 units were sold in Japan, making it the highest global cumulative sales total ever recorded in the first four days after release for Nintendo-published Nintendo Switch 2 softwa

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s no secret that living near a data center can be hell on Earth. The widely-loathed facilities are known to emit constant screeching noises that could drive anybody crazy, while causing electricity prices to surge, and spiking greenhouse gas emissions. As the backlash to the massive buildout of AI data centers continues to grow into a major bipartisan issue affecting the imminent midterm elections, tech companies are racing to wa