Archive: June 2025

If anonymously sourced reports are any indication, the long-delayed release of the new Siri, Apple’s AI-powered assistant updated for the supposedly AI-centric consumer expectations of the 2020s, is finally imminent. But a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggests that Apple is acting a little sheepish about some privacy compromises it may or may not have recently made as it has prepared Siri for prime time. To back up a bit, back in January, Google

Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why… until now. According to a new preprint research paper first reported by 404 Media, the proliferation of the legend of Elias might be related to guardrails put in place for AI models during safety and alignment training. If you need to catch up on the Elias Thorne of it all, the paper published by rese

It feels like day two billion of casting rumors for the next James Bond. We’ve heard names, we’ve seen short lists, there have been last-minute curveballs, and yet, so far, nothing is official. A new report, however, offers some interesting information suggesting that while no one is necessarily out of the running just yet, Robert Pattinson is the clear frontrunner. The main reason for that is a look at the “test deals” Pattinson and his fellow actors sign

Meta gives small businesses an AI agent that knows their work Meta has introduced Muse for Small Business, adding skills and connectors to its personal AI agent to help business owners get work done using the tools they already use. Muse launched earlier this month in the US and Canada and can complete tasks on a user’s behalf. Business owners can connect Muse to their Instagram professional account analytics, Facebook Pages and Meta ad accounts. These con

Getty / Futurism OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doing what he does best: warning of AI-related doom that he doesn’t sound all that pressed about. Last week, while touring one of OpenAI’s mammoth data centers being built in Abilene, Texas, Altman had a pretty casual outlook when he was asked about a bubble that could financially decimate the entire industry. “Between the ten years we’ve already been operating and the many decades ahead of us, there will be booms

Andon Labs A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum. It didn’t take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight out of a Douglas Adams novel, in what the researchers described as a “doom spiral” including a “catastrophic cascade” and a full-blown “existential crisis.” “EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’

Helical shape of a protein. Credit: IBC - TU Graz In the ERC project HelixMold, a team from TU Graz developed a method for the computer-based design of artificial proteins, with a focus on custom biocatalysts for pharmaceutical applications or the degradation of biopolymers. "Imagine a future in which you can design enzymes—nature's catalysts—for your specific application at the push of a button," says Gustav Oberdorfer, who headed the ERC Starting Grant p

Getty / Futurism Amid a riotous AI hype cycle, companies are promising that their agentic AIs will —eventually, at least — do everything from your grocery shopping to booking your travel plans. And what’ll you do with all that extra leisure time? Kick back and play some video games? Or will you deploy yet another AI to play the games for you, while you passively watch like the slack-jawed humans in “WALL-E”? It might sound like parody, but Japanese tech gi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Move over, Ship of Theseus — there’s a new paradoxical thought experiment in town. Some power users of generative AI have grown so comfortable with their new tools — especially image-generating ones — that they now feel entitled to the specific prompts they use to churn out slop, as if the entire technology wasn’t based on the work of human artists that had been ingested without consent.

Published on February 19, 2026 at 14:20 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Microsoft It's difficult to place full trust in generative AI when it goes snooping through folders that are specifically forbidden to it. Microsoft, despite being expected to address security concerns around its tools, allowed Copilot to summarize emails it should never have accessed. The issue has since been fixed. Oops. Microsoft confirmed that Copilot had been summarizing confidential emails

When language models start to "grow out of mathematics": BriLLM-MetaPred makes the first core primitive derived from AGI theory finally materialize in practiceIs the design paradigm of language models only possible by humans continuously "stacking modules and adjusting structures"? As the entire industry makes increasingly expensive incremental improvements along the line of Transformer, Professor Zhao Hai's team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University has prov

Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images OpenAI made headlines this year after announcing it was giving up on what one exec categorized as distracting “side quests,” including its Sora text-to-video app, to double down on enterprise and coding, which are lucrative revenue drivers that could stop the company from hemorrhaging billions of dollars a quarter. Many saw the moves as an effort to catch up with competitor Anthropic, whose Claude Code and Claud

only dig, no bury. Cheng Qian, from Aofeisi Qubit AI | WeChat Official Account QbitAI Recently, the issue of AI finding bugs has become quite fragmented. On one side, AI, once it steps in, reviews everything, first uncovering a major security vulnerability in PHP's core , then exposing 948 Linux kernel vulnerabilities …… On the other side, the open-source community is almost overwhelmed: you found the vulnerabilities, but where's the fix! Yesterday, the cy

In early 2010, Apple bought a company that made a popular iOS app called Siri. Its “intelligent assistant” features were incorporated into iOS 5 and made an exclusive feature of the iPhone 4S when it launched in 2011. While Siri has become synonymous with Apple thanks to its inclusion in the latest iOS devices, though, it almost became a marquee feature of every Android smartphone sold by Verizon. According to a new Huffington Post report detailing Siri’s