Archive: May 2025

Camera trapping image during the study. Credit: Department of Wildlife Protection, UT Ladakh, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Most of India's snow leopard population live in a remote region in the north of the country, where they co-exist alongside rural communities, according to a study published in PLOS One by Pankaj Raina at Union Territory of Ladakh's Department of Wildlife Protection, and colleagues. To effectively conserve wild carni

Published on August 6, 2025 at 16:10 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Microsoft Tech giants no longer swear by anything else but this: the 'agent web,' that is, allowing AI like ChatGPT or Gemini to interact directly with the websites and APIs of online services. Microsoft is part of these companies pushing hard in this direction, but the publisher tripped over its own feet. Rather than simply extracting data from web pages, chatbots are evolving into real 'agents' cap

Frans af Malmborg calls for debate about artificial intelligence. The photo is created using the AI tool Midjourney. Credit: UiA In his recent doctoral thesis from the University of Agder, Frans af Malmborg examined how politicians in the Nordic countries and the EU discuss and develop policies on artificial intelligence (AI). "Almost all politicians in the Nordics say yes to artificial intelligence. But the political governance behind developments is weak

A new lawsuit filed on Monday in Sacramento, California, proposed as a class action, accuses BP, 7-Eleven, Walmart, Albertsons, and other gas station chains operating in California—along with a software platform—of using AI to “coordinate high prices and wring more money from the pockets of consumers,” according to Reuters, who reviewed the suit. Reuters says the software in question is Kalibrate, one of the defendants, and a company whose website says it

Unique electric polarization of switchable BO4 tetrahedra in brownmillerite ABO2.5 a, Brownmillerite structure with alternating BO4 tetrahedral (Tet.) and BO6 octahedral (Oct.) layers viewed along the zone axis of [101]O. A site, B site and O ions are represented by white, dark gray and yellow spheres, respectively. Red and blue BO4 tetrahedra correspond to down- and up-polarized layers, respectively. Gray BO6 octahedra show centrosymmetric non-polar layer

Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list Companies are putting more money into AI while naming attacks on AI systems as the threat they are least ready to face. PwC surveyed 3,934 business and technology leaders in 71 countries between May and July 2026. Half of the security and technology executives among them ranked such attacks in their top five preparedness gaps, ahead of every other threat on the list. More than half

Why developer experience (DevEx) mattersIn the evolving world of software development, providing a seamless and efficient developer experience (DevEx) has become important. DevEx impacts productivity, code quality, and overall project success. A positive DevEx reduces onboarding time, minimises frustration, and fosters innovation by letting developers focus on solving problems rather than battling tools or workflows.Best practices for implementing develope

Forget AI coding agents. One startup is now working on an AI CEO that it hopes could automate an entire business from end to end. Skyfall AI came out of stealth this week after spending the past year developing AI systems that are designed to make the long-term decisions typically handled by company executives. Now, the startup wants to put its technology to the test in the real world by buying a small SaaS or e-commerce business for up to $1 million and l

Security teams want to spot unusual AI agent behavior while they’re still defining normal AI agents topped the list of planned investments in behavioral monitoring in Abnormal AI’s 2026 State of Behavioral Security Report. Asked where their organizations would invest most over the next two years, 43% of respondents chose AI agents, more than three times the share who chose API integrations, the next most common answer. Security professionals were divided o

Enterprise artificial intelligence investment is unprecedented, with IDC projecting global spending on AI and GenAI to double to $631 billion by 2028. Yet beneath the impressive budget allocations and boardroom enthusiasm lies a troubling reality: most organisations struggle to translate their AI ambitions into operational success.The sobering statistics behind AI’s promiseModelOp’s 2025 AI Governance Benchmark Report, based on input from 100 senior AI and

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images In 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the possibility that his company would ever have to stuff ads into its chatbots, painting it as a desperate move he called a “last resort for us as a business model.” As it turns out, the billionaire may have overestimated how much people were willing to shell out every month to access ChatGPT. Paid subscriber growth has slowed in key markets as OpenAI continues to bur

Would you believe me if I said the young really, really, really, don’t trust tech CEOs? Well get ready to pick your jaw up off the floor, because a new study from CNBC and the Generation Lab says it’s true. In recent years, CNBC has worked a lot with this guy named Cyrus Beschloss who co-founded the Generation Lab (It’s a DC research company). CNBC hosts will sometimes have Beschloss on as a talking head, and his job, as a fun little interruption of the re

Published on February 19, 2026 at 08:02 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Google After generating images and videos, why not now tackle music? The Gemini app and its web version can now «create» 30-second songs from a simple text query. Including in French. Gemini is now capable of generating 30-second songs from a prompt. Just type what comes to mind, optionally indicate a music style (reggae, opera, electro, metal...), and let the bot do its job, in French, English,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s 2026. AI is everywhere, and frankly, humans have had it too good for far too long. For the world’s corporations — the movers and shakers of the global economy, as it’s currently organized — it’s well past time to leave us flesh bags behind. That, at least, seems to be the contention of Daniel Miessler, an outspoken cybersecurity engineer and AI booster. In a rambling post on his pers

Getty / Futurism More and more research shows that introducing AI in the workplace is actually forcing employees to work harder, instead of making their jobs easier. The latest comes from a new analysis from ActivTrak of over 164,000 workers’ digital work activity. After examining their activity 180 days before and after the employees started using AI at work, the software company found that AI “intensified” their jobs in nearly every category, the Wall St