Archive: August 2025

Getty Images Commercial satellite imagery captured last week shows the eerie devastation following the bombing of an Iranian elementary school. At least 175 people, including a large number of young schoolgirls, were killed in the attack. Haunting drone footage showed excavators digging dozens of graves for the victims. The airstrike, allegedly part of an offensive targeting an Iranian military complex nearby, provided a grotesque example of the horrors un

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s public persona depends on a carefully balanced contradiction. Though he presents himself as the thoughtful steward of a dangerous technology, the AI luminary has aggressively pursued relationships with top lawmakers while racing rival tech moguls to the top of the market, consequences be damned. One of the ways he maintains this shtick is by ackno

Published on March 23, 2026 at 16:09 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Square Enix Players will have to get used to it: AI bots will appear in their games, whether they want them to or not. Microsoft will deploy Copilot on Xbox, while Square Enix and Google have announced the integration of Gemini into Dragon Quest X. An idea that could interest many other publishers... but what about the players? Gemini will make its debut in Dragon Quest X. Not as a player, but as an

Getty / Futurism It’s been a strange launch for RentAHuman, the job platform built for AI agents to hire human gig workers to complete real-world tasks. In its early days, the site was overrun with humans desperate to make a quick buck — while the AI agents that would ostensibly assign those jobs were nowhere to be found. Flash forward a few weeks, and the site seems to be filling out. Examples of seemingly successful AI-human pairings are now plastered on

Contents Nvidia without Jensen Huang: How will business continue? Emphasizes continuity Rapid changes Nvidia's system advantage Many competitors China risk The affair involving the now former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is far from over. With the appointment of the previous CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO, the Nvidia Board of Directors is trying to steer the company into calmer waters. At the same time, the board appointed its former member Harvey C. Jones as

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Futurism Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on the strength of his ideas alone. Or at least that’s the image he’s managed to cultivate. A new exposé in the New Yorker paints a different portrait, and it’s substantially more vexing. Drawing on interviews with numer

Back in March, we shared the story of a $136 million data center going up in Northeastern Ohio, which was slated to bring in a whopping ten full-time jobs. That project received a $4.5 million state tax exemption, which is egregious enough on its own — but a new project in New York State is making that Ohio handout look like chump change. First reported by New York Focus, a data center being built by financial giant JPMorganChase is receiving $77 million i

Ph.D. student Allen Brown is among the Tepper School of Business researchers investigating how AI can be most useful in a team dynamic. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business are learning how AI can be used to support teamwork rather than replace teammates. Anita Williams Woolley is a professor of organizational behavior. She researches collective intelligence, or how well teams perform to

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images You could already make the case that corporations are faceless monoliths geared purely towards maximizing profits with only a peripheral consideration of human wellbeing. So when Argentina’s scandal–laden president Javier Milei called for the creation of “non-human corporations” run by AI in a new opinion piece for the Financial Times, you kind of have to applau

by Maurizio Pesce Following the revelation that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang had engaged in an affair, NVIDIA's board of directors was reportedly preparing to oust Huang as CEO. Exclusive | Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-preparing-to-oust-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-30f421ad Huang acknowledged having an affair with a woman said to be an executive at the Singapore-based company "Megaspeed." NVIDIA CEO Jensen

Published on July 21, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Unsplash France Travail is testing an AI system designed to identify job seekers who should be checked as a priority. To do so, the algorithm analyzes 26 variables. The media outlet La Quadrature du Net, in partnership with Radio France’s investigations unit, revealed an internal France Travail document detailing the trial of an algorithmic system designed to profile job seekers. The goal: reach t

Amid a flurry of lawsuits over AI models’ training data, US Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill that would require AI companies to disclose exactly which copyrighted works are included in datasets training AI systems. The Generative AI Disclosure Act “would require a notice to be submitted to the Register of Copyrights prior to the release of a new generative AI system with regard to all copyrighted works used in building or alterin

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 16 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Nvidia has showcased agentic robots that can teach themselves high-precision and dexterous tasks in the real world. As part of the demo reel for this ENPIRE technology, we see a room full of robots do things like pick up and slot a graphics card in a motherboard, as well as

If one AI-enabled specialist can do the work of ten, what will the other nine do?(c) John Maynard KeynesImagine an ordinary Monday at a company. A developer builds in an hour a prototype of a feature they previously budgeted a week for. By lunchtime, a marketer has twenty advertising campaign options. An analyst builds a report in a few minutes and explains why sales have fallen. A manager first celebrates the productivity boost and then opens the staffing

Without this file, every new agent would keep stepping on the same rakes. With it, they step on new ones.PitfallsThe most interesting part. All 498 tests run on mocks. Mocks are how the agent imagines the API. Reality turned out to be more inventive.1. Address = warehouseThe first assembled cart looked perfect. I opened the app—and half the items were marked “Sold out”: onions, chicken breast, carrots, cucumbers, and cottage cheese. Yet the API honestly re

Published on August 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Guillaume du Mesgnil - 01net While the industry is working hard to label AI-generated images, Apple is tackling the problem from the opposite angle: proving that a photo is authentic. And as always, the company intends to do it all on its own, in its own corner. Images made by artificial intelligence are flooding social networks, and the industry is organizing itself to label them: invisible water

Published on August 20, 2026 at 09:52 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Claude takes another step in its integration with Gmail: Anthropic’s AI assistant can now reply to, forward, and send emails directly, without requiring the user’s systematic approval. A practical option for repetitive tasks, but it also raises questions about the risks of an AI capable of acting without human review. Caught up in a minor controversy following its decision to watermark Cla