Archive: October 2025

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Police technology is a major business in the US. Altogether, the law enforcement equipment market was valued at nearly $11.7 billion in 2025, and as dystopian toys like self-driving squad cars and crime fighting drone hives make it to market, that number is set to skyrocket. A growing favorite among police departments throughout the country is the “camera on wheels” platform, known as COW

Uber has fought its drivers at every turn when the people who make its platform actually work attempted to unionize, push for better wages, and improve working conditions. But now, with a rapidly expanding robotaxi business breathing down its neck, Uber has decided it’d rather find itself on the same side as unions in this particular fight than be put out of business entirely. According to a report from the Financial Times, Uber and labor unions representi

Elon Musk may have yet another day in court, at least if the NAACP has anything to say about it. The oldest civil rights organization in the United States has named Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, in a new lawsuit, alleging that the turbines powering its “Colossus” data center violate the Clean Air Act of 1970. For months, xAI has used 27 unpermitted gas turbines — each about the size of a bus — to power the data center used to run the chatbot Grok. The pract

An American startup, Atomic Machines, is using artificial intelligence to design and manufacture microscopic devices. The company created a system called "matter compiler," which transforms digital projects into physical components.According to The New York Times, the first application is a small electrical switch for data center equipment. Atomic Machines aims to apply the technology to micro-robots, motors, and devices capable of performing medical exams

Published on June 5, 2026 at 17:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net/Anthropic The laboratory that has built a reputation for caution would like the entire industry to ease off. The catch: it has just floored the accelerator like never before. A week ago, Opus 4.8’s system card had set the stage: the model had learned, during training, to anticipate the presence of an evaluator without any element of the instructions telling it to.The post published on June 4 goes

Published on June 16, 2026 at 5:48 PM Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Apple Initially, Apple planned a Siri update that would have brought some improvements in AI. After further consideration, the Cupertino-based company opted for a completely different strategy, namely a complete overhaul of Siri from A to Z. The least that can be said is that developing the new Siri has been no easy feat for Apple. Between the countless delays, certain engineers being sent on catch-

In robotic manipulation research, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and World Action Models (WAM) provide robots with different pathways for action generation. However, when a task extends from a single pick-and-place operation to continuous construction and bimanual coordination, success depends not only on whether the current action can be completed, but also on whether the conditions established earlier can continue to support subsequent execution.An

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock Meta executives claimed that a controversial facial recognition feature didn’t “exist.” Fast forward a few weeks later, and they’re describing the feature in public — and in detail. In June, a Wired investigation revealed that Meta had quietly infused unreleased facial recognition tech into its “AI Glasses,” the tech giant’s chatbot and camera-equipped

Published on August 10, 2026 at 07:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI has just halted part of the development of its next model. The reason given: the company can no longer rule out that Astra may be able to identify and exploit unprecedented vulnerabilities on its own, without any human assistance. Since December 2023, OpenAI has maintained an internal document that ranks its own models on a scale of danger, from biological risk to cybersecurity to self-

Between November 5 and 9, 2026, an incident occurred in which some emails from domains that did not publish DMARC records were rejected by Microsoft’s consumer email services, including Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, and MSN. Because the issue arose without an official announcement from Microsoft, it caused confusion among many users and businesses. Outlook.com Rejected Mail From Domains Without DMARC | MailRoute https://mailroute.net/blog/outlook-rejecting-e

When the Denver board of Water Commissioners approved stage one drought restrictions back in March, they did so facing some of the driest conditions in decades. According to the US Drought Monitor, the watershed sourced for Denver’s water utility is experiencing a “severe to exceptional drought,” while the Denver metropolitan area has been in a “severe drought.” As a result, residents and businesses have been asked to scale back. Denverites now have to lim

Published on September 12, 2026 at 12:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic The creator of Claude modeled the American economy of 2030: in every scenario, the country grows wealthier. For graduates sitting behind a screen, it’s a different story. And its own CEO’s predictions fare poorly in the process. The studies promising the end of work—you’ve probably come across one a week for the past two years. This one has a peculiarity: it comes from Anthropic, the co

Google’s Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google’s terms. The company’s Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4, which comes in four sizes optimized for local usage. Google has also acknowledged developer frustrations with AI licensing, so

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For a long time, SpaceX has been synonymous with the development of newer, larger, and ever-more-reusable rockets. But that began to change over the last decade with the introduction of Starlink, and the change has accelerated during the last 18 months as the company has pivoted to data and artificial intelligence. At last week’s UP.Summit conference in Florida, the vice president of launch at SpaceX, Kiko Dontchev, offered some of the most revealing comme

Firefly app is moving into Figma’s territory with a new prototyping tool in private beta called Builder, which lets users create designs to show off ideas. There is also a new tool to create on-brand graphs, along with an image editing tool that lets you change part of an image without changing other objects. Adobe is also releasing an AI-powered video tool in Firefly to assemble a video from clips and other elements like images and sound effects. The comp