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In 2024 there was this documentary called the Shadow Scholars, shown on the U.K.’s Channel 4 last year with the title “The Shadow Scholars Fake Essay Scandal.” It was about the army of educated but underemployed Kenyan people who had been using gig work platforms to link up with Western college students and write their academic essays for them. It did exactly what you would want a documentary like this to do: went to Nairobi and let you feel like you were

Getty / Futurism The jury’s still out on AI’s effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim picture. Using AI chatbots can impair critical thinking, result in lower brain activity during cognitive tasks, and has been linked to memory loss. There was one prominent study, however, that provided a glimmer of hope for AI advocates. Published in the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, it purported to show that using AI l

Diagram displaying how Google Gemini was used to analyze images and identify changes, including explosive events. Credit: Stoppa, Bulmus et al., Nature Astronomy (2025) How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated the potential for using AI to conduct astrophysical surveys of c

Gaming Skynet meets the Swarm: how the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition StarCraft, one of the most popular games ever made, also serves as the perfect … Haomiao Huang – Jan 19, 2011 12:15 am | 136 Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav We’re gathered in a conference room on the Berkeley campus, the detritus of a LAN party scattered a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Anyone who’s sat through this year’s NBA playoffs has probably noticed: the basketball league has a big problem with its referees. There’s the poor flopping management for starters, where players try to exaggerate or fabricate physical contact with opposing teams in order to draw penalty calls. Flopping has become something of an epidemic over the 2026 playoffs, with certain suspects flai

Chookie In late 2024, the Coca-Cola Company released an unsettling, AI-generated remake of its beloved 1995 “Holidays Are Coming” ad, triggering a major outcry. A followup AI ad in November 2025 didn’t fare much better. Coke vowed that it took an army of “AI specialists” a month to make, but netizens were left appalled, accusing the company of relying on cheap “AI slop.” The widespread distaste for AI has only grown since then, but some companies finally a

Mattel has scrapped a “smart home” device designed with kids in mind after awful reviews and privacy concerns. “Aristotle” was first shown off at CES earlier this year. The red-and-white device is meant to be kept in a child’s room where its WiFi-enabled camera acts primarily as a voice-controlled baby monitor. It can adjust lighting levels, noting when babies wake up and then playing a lullaby or turning on a night light. The device also claimed to be abl

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Public backlash to AI is intensifying — and transforming into real-world attempts at physical violence. Industry leaders are fearing for their lives. Leading AI companies and their top executives are beefing up security, the Wall Street Journal reports, as escalating anti-AI industry sentiment is culminating in threats and attempts of violence against the people and ventures building lead

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images; Shutterstock Even as the AI bubble becomes a mainstream talking point on Wall Street, tech companies continue to peddle the fantasy that AI is poised to become an almost magical money-maker. Case in point, OpenAI wants you to believe that by 2030, it’ll be raking in $100 billion a year just from ads alone — even though it’s currently struggling to reach just $1 billion.

TikTok / Futurism What do you get when you let an endless feed of AI fruitslop videos loose on screen-addicted kids? A great recipe for violent extremism, it turns out. A new analysis by researchers at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) argues that the AI-generated fruit videos infesting our feeds is a font for covertly spreading “violent and extremist content.” Most of these reels seem inconsequential, featuring brainrot storylines of c

Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images/YouTube/Futurism William “Sonny” Criss was the consummate working musician. Having started on the saxophone at 11 years old, Criss began his professional career filling in on gigs with bandleader Johnny Otis, before going on to play alongside jazz legends like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Cole Porter, and Dizzy Gillespie. Though he might never have risen to the level of a household name, his tremendous and ever-e

@kinamocchi_tech(Kinamocchi's Tech Deep Dive🐹🐦)What Is the Gemini Decisions API? A 3-Minute Breaking News Guide to the Official AnnouncementAILLMGemini0Posted at 2026-11-11TAG40@@ :::message 🐹🦜 The two featured in this article 🐹 Mocchi (hamster)… AI is still studying. The student role, naively asking questions such as “What does that mean?” 🦜 Kinako (budgerigar)… The explanatory role, using AI to handle research. The teacher role, gently teaching through d

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Cerebras' SRAM-packed wafer-scale engines (WSEs) have carved out a niche in the AI model serving space for extremely low-latency, high-throughput inference, enabling services like OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast tier. At Hot Chips 2026, the company revealed the next two gene

Published on September 14, 2026 at 11:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Geralt - Pixabay. The CEO of Anthropic is once again warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence. He fears that a group of autonomous AI agents could take control of the entire internet within the next 6 to 12 months. OpenAI and Elon Musk are in full agreement. Fearing that the United States might fall behind China, Donald Trump has firmly refused to support a slowdown in AI development.

On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development in a relationship that has grown increasingly complex as both companies compete for customers in the AI market and seek new partnerships for growing infrastructure needs. “Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the next phase of our partnership,” the companies wrote in

Published on October 6, 2026 at 09:30 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI announced the introduction of an invisible signature on ChatGPT and Codex. All texts produced by AI in the European Union will be marked with a watermark “within the coming weeks” for all subscriptions, both free and paid. This measure aims to meet the requirements of the AI Act, the European regulation on AI. On Monday, October 5, OpenAI announced the introduction of an invisi

Published on October 11, 2026 at 10:00 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © 01net ChatGPT Pro’s limits will be cut in half by the end of the month, as a new $500 tier makes its debut. At the same time, an independent analysis quantifies the generosity of the rival Claude’s subscription plans. OpenAI used its developer conference to cut the capabilities of ChatGPT Pro, its $200-per-month subscription, in half. Starting October 30, its usage limits will drop from twenty time

Getty Images / Shutterstock / Futurism During a recent podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some baffling comments that really hit a nerve on social media. The billionaire said that it didn’t make sense for individual people to run their own AI models at home and that all of their RAM chips were far better off being used inside the industry’s widely-reviled data centers. “But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to