Archive: November 2025

Scans of the painting during various stages in its restoration. At left is the damaged piece, with the middle panel showing a map of the different kinds of damage present; green lines show full splits in the underlying panel support, thin red lines depict major paint craquelure, blue areas correspond to large paint losses, while pink regions show smaller defects like scratches. At right is the restored painting with the applied laminate mask. Credit: Alex

Create monitoring on this topic Receive upcoming developments, with an AI monitoring set up from this article. Create my free monitoring European digital directions that have deployed Qwen or DeepSeek in their pipelines since 2025 now face, since Monday, June 1st, 2026, an unprecedented dual legal constraint. At this date, the Provisions on the Protection of Trade Secrets issued on February 24th, 2026 by the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR

Named "Velvet Sundown", the AI-generated band have racked up millions of listeners on Spotify. An indie rock band with more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify has owned up to being an AI-generated music project following days of speculation about whether the group was real. Named Velvet Sundown—seemingly a nod to Lou Reed's band The Velvet Underground—the digital group has become a viral hit, generating ferocious online discussion after racking up

Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, and their evolution now extends to performing actions beyond text comprehension. This marks a significant shift in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence. Evaluating the gaming prowess of LLMs, particularly in the context of Pokemon battles, serves as an effective benchmark for assessing their game-playing capabilities. In a n

Create a watch on this topic Receive the next developments if any, with an AI watch configured from this article. Create my free watch Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on June 9, 2026, two products that, according to Anthropic, are based on the same underlying model and differ only in their safeguards: Fable 5 for general use with active security classifiers, and Mythos 5 reserved for a restricted circle of cyber defenders via Project

“Drunk” AI is terrible at keeping secrets AI models taught to write like drunk people became easier to jailbreak and more likely to leak secrets shared in confidence. That is the finding of UNSW Sydney researchers Anudeex Shetty, Aditya Joshi and Salil Kanhere, published in their paper “In Vino Veritas and Vulnerabilities.” “The key research question from the natural language processing (NLP) side for me was, how do we get LLMs drunk?” said Aditya Joshi, a

Anthropic’s new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commands Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 model, designed for quick, repetitive workloads and speed-sensitive tasks, is now better at finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits than its predecessor. The company has given it stricter cybersecurity safeguards than Haiku 4.5, though lighter ones than its more advanced models, whose offensive skills remain well ahead. Cybersecurity capabilities and

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images More products, more problems. Behind the scenes, OpenAI is working on a new AI device in collaboration with the legendary former Apple designer Jony Ive. But according to the Financial Times, it’s running into some major technical issues that could delay its release — along with some more philosophical ones, too. The goal, per the reporting, is to make a palm-sized device

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images OpenAI raised eyebrows this month at its annual DevDay event when it announced that it will move to allow “mature apps” on its platforms. “To maximize freedom for our users, only sexual content involving minors is considered prohibited,” reads an updated company document about what will be allowed, suggesting wide latitude for developers to use the company’s platform to

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s no secret that generative AI has been an amazing weapon for spammers, but the scale of some of these operations may make you wince. A new piece from The Telegraph explores the bizarre new world of AI-generated podcasts — and specifically, a single podcast network called “Quiet Please” that has dreams of online domination. It boasts nearly one hundred separate podcast series, with ove

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In the weeks leading up to his tragic suicide, ChatGPT encouraged 23-year-old Zane Shamblin to cut himself off from his family and friends, according to a lawsuit filed this month, even though his mental health was clearly spiraling. One interaction recently spotlighted by TechCrunch illustrates how overt the OpenAI chatbot’s interventions were. Shamblin, according to the suit, had alread

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images On Thursday, officials in the UK pledged to roll out a country-wide facial recognition system to help police track down criminals. The country’s ministers have launched a 10-week consultation to analyze the regulatory and privacy framework of their AI-powered surveillance panopticon — but one way or another, the all-seeing eye is on its way. There’s just one tiny wrinkle: the AI facial re

Digital sovereignty leaves enterprises chasing their own audit trails 94% of surveyed enterprises experienced at least one digital sovereignty challenge in the past three years, according to IBM’s Digital Sovereignty Index. Of those affected, 91% were required to demonstrate that they retained control during their most challenging event, and 81% had to provide formal evidence to regulators, auditors, customers or internal stakeholders. The report defines d

Reddit via Facebook For years now, Facebook’s feeds have been drowned out by an unrelenting tidal wave of AI slop, turning the platform — which feels like it’s long been abandoned by practically anybody under the age of 65 — into an unrecognizable digital hellscape. It’s already been two years since we came across a picture of “shrimp Jesus” for the first time, an early form of AI-generated junk that foreshadowed an even more nonsensical future, culminatin

Getty / Futurism For decades, tech companies have relied immensely on India’s vast workforce, from entry-level call center jobs to software engineers and high-ranking managerial positions. But with the advent of advanced AI, which has been accompanied by employers greatly cutting back on hiring with the hopes of eventually automating tasks entirely, India’s tech workers are having to cope with a vastly different reality in 2026. As Rest of World reports, r

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images In need of a little confidence boost before a face-to-face with your boss? That urge seems to be driving employees at rideshare giant Uber to strange places. According to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, some of his underlings have created an AI clone of him so they can prepare for meetings with him, ensuring everything is fine-tuned for his wants and needs. “One of my team membe

Layers are a successful model in software architecture, or at least they are commonly used. But in reality, this approach often has its own challenges. Read more after the ad In this episode, we discuss the basic ideas behind the layer model and various uses: for example, the three-layer architecture or the Anticorruption Layer from Domain-driven Design. The focus is particularly on the question of when layers actually decouple and when they merely cause a