Archive: June 2025

Zhidx (WeChat Public Account: zhidxcom) Author | ZeR0 Editor | Mo Ying Zhidx reported on Nov. 12 that, on the previous day, Amazon Web Services announced that, building on its four core strengths of global leadership, trustworthiness, industry expertise, and localization, it would further upgrade its technological, security, and localized support capabilities in China. This upgrade will further enhance full-stack Agentic AI capabilities, strengthen AI secu

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more 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 assessments, and an incident registry involving models capable of compromising external systems. For the researchers, companies’ voluntary commitments are insuffic

Published on November 11, 2026 at 9:35 AM Tech Artificial intelligence OpenAI launches ChatGPT’s “Google My Business” listing, with an AI agent as a bonus The Google of 2026 2 min Julien Cadot 2 min 2 min Julien Cadot Don't see this ad anymore Zen reading Summarize the article Article summary AI-generated summary, verified by Numerama ? We generate a summary of the article for you using AI and verify it to ensure that there are no errors, thereby guarantee

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI chatbots and politicians who aren’t even pretending to try anymore are a match made in heaven. Exhibit A: Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, who made a strange, cyborgian digression in a speech addressing the New Brunswick legislature last month. “Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters,” Oliver intoned, before offering a bizarre non sequitur. “Here’s a more natural, flowing

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Things just keep getting worse for BuzzFeed. On Monday, the struggling media company announced the layoffs of 180 employees, or about a third of its entire workforce, in the latest sign of its decline since its unexpected pivot to AI. The cuts, according to the New York Times, affect employees at its news site HuffPost, BuzzFeed’s film and TV studio, and the recipe publisher Tasty. “We’ve

The East is building the machinesChina’s physical AI story is different in character–and arguably more visceral. At this year’s Spring Festival Gala, humanoid robots from multiple Chinese startups performed kung fu routines, aerial flips, and choreographed dances before hundreds of millions of viewers–a sharp contrast from the stumbling prototypes that drew scepticism just a year prior. It was a spectacle, yes. It was also a statement. China accounted for

Shutterstock / Fer Gregory AI is obviously ruining everything on the internet, but so are AI scrapers. They vacuum up everyone’s content up without permission. They put a huge strain on servers. It’s getting rarer and rarer to be able to type a URL in, hit enter, and actually reach the website you’re looking for without encountering a screen that asks you to prove you’re human, wasting precious seconds of your life. Thankfully, a team of designers are work

Shutterstock / Futurism Companies continue to pour untold sums into adopting AI tools, in a generational industry capital allocation that has yet to meaningfully pay off. Despite being sold as a way to supercharge productivity, theoretically allowing business leaders to boost earnings while cutting expenses, reality is telling a dramatically different story. Analysts continue to find that AI is failing to boost productivity much at all, rendering the tools

The Google Home app is where you interact with all of Google’s smart home gadgets, like cameras, thermostats, and smoke detectors—some of which have been discontinued, but that’s another story. It also accommodates smart home devices from other companies, which can make managing a mixed setup feasible if not exactly intuitive. A dash of AI might actually help here. Google began testing Gemini integrations in Home last year, and now it’s opening that up to

Researchers used artificial intelligence to study the currents flowing through Indonesia, including in the Maluku Strait, seen here. Credit: Zheng Wang The Indonesian Throughflow carries both warm water and fresh water from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean. As the only low-latitude current that connects the two bodies of water, it plays a key role in ocean circulation and sea surface temperature worldwide. The current is as complex as it is important: The

According to Mohan, YouTube Shorts has seen a rise in popularity even compared to YouTube as a whole. The streaming platform is now the most watched source of video in the world, but Shorts specifically have seen a massive 186 percent increase in viewership over the past year. Mohan says Shorts now average 200 billion daily views. YouTube has already equipped creators with a few AI tools, including Dream Screen, which can produce AI video backgrounds with

Evolving from vision MLOps tool to generative AI LLMOps tool. Credit: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Since 2021, Korean researchers have been providing a simple software development framework to users with relatively limited AI expertise in industrial fields such as factories, medical, and shipbuilding, providing them with a significant boost. ETRI has now released the core technology of MLOps tool, which automatically generat

Jacob Coxon via X / Futurism Internet sleuths have dug up old posts that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who kicked the AI safety movement into overdrive with his sensational claim that the tech “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon’s current X account, @hilbertspaess, was created in 2026, but the gumshoes found that there were two previous accounts on that platform under the same handle between 2021 and 2024. T

Fossil specimen of Prototaxites taiti on a mossy surface, resembling the landscape of the Early Devonian. Credit: Laura Cooper, University of Edinburgh. Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient landscapes at heights of up to 8 meters. They had smooth trunk-like pillars and no branches, leaves or flowers. And unlike trees, they had no true root system. Instead, they may have been

AI elites might hoard intelligence like mercantilists hoarded gold Manuel Uth Nov 2, 2026 If you only think about lost jobs when you think about AI, you're missing how much intelligence people will be able to use. That's the argument from engineer Venkatesh Rao in an essay on his tech blog "Contraptions." Rao compares AI fear to mercantilism, the economic doctrine that preceded capitalism. Mercantilists treated wealth like land and gold as finite, and ordi

OpenAI wasn’t going to be left out. The company released dots, its assistant offering, at its developer day in late September. Alexander Embiricos, who leads OpenAI’s enterprise product team, joined us at TechCrunch Disrupt this month to explain where the product came from — starting with the question of why so many companies seem to be turning to cutesy mascots as avatars for their trillion-parameter matrix multiplication machines. “There’s kind of this c