Archive: December 2025

Strong gravitational lenses captured by Euclid. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre On 19 March 2025, the European Space Agency's Euclid mission releases its first batch of survey data, including a preview of its deep fields. Here, hundreds of thousands of galaxies in different shapes and sizes take center stage and show a glimpse of their large-scale organization in the cosmic we

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most people generally are more concerned about the immediate risks of artificial intelligence than they are about a theoretical future in which AI threatens humanity. A new study by the University of Zurich reveals that respondents draw clear distinctions between abstract scenarios and specific tangible problems and particularly take the latter very seriously. There is a broad consensus that artificial intelligence is asso

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If you have always wanted a personal shopping assistant, you may be in luck: The tech industry is creating digital ones that can buy things for you. These agents, powered by artificial intelligence, might purchase groceries, book plane tickets, or get your Aunt Gertrude a birthday present. All you will have to do is hand over your credit card or other payment information and set a budget and preferences. The shopping assis

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Anthropic updated its privacy policy earlier this month, including a new clause stipulating that Claude users would be required to verify their age or identity “in certain circumstances” by uploading an image of a government-issued ID, such as a driver’s license or passport, and it didn’t take long for the outrage machine and rumor mill to start churning. Some people claimed the new age-verification requirement was the harbinger of a dark new era for the i

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement savings to minimize the tax hit.She opens an AI chatbot, types in the details and gets a calm, well-organized and confident answer: Claim now, convert this much, here is the reasoning. The cha

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Scott Olson / Getty Images Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has weighed in with a scorching proposal to confront one of the most existential employment issues of our time: AI automation. A long-time advocate for labor rights, Sanders recently released a report about the impact AI could have on jobs over the next decade. The worst-case scenario outlined by the paper is startling: that “AI and automation

Getty / Futurism The video game industry is hellbent on harnessing the power of generative AI to boost productivity and dream up virtual worlds — while also cutting costs, of course. According to a recent Google Cloud survey, 87 percent of video game developers said they are using AI to automate and streamline tasks, a notable figure considering the industry has seen massive layoffs as costs rise and demand weakens following major COVID-era growth. However

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A year ago, Google faced the prospect of being dismantled. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and a new court judgment has helped it avoid this fate. Part of the reason is that AI poses a grave threat to Google's advertising revenues. "Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include a contingent divestiture of the Android operating system in the final judgment," according to the decision. Google

Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang, left, and Fujitsu Chief Executive Takahito Tokita shake hands during an announcement in Tokyo Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. Credit: Kyodo News via AP U.S. technology company Nvidia and Fujitsu, a Japanese telecommunications and computer maker, agreed Friday to work together on artificial intelligence to deliver smart robots and a variety of other innovations using Nvidia's computer chips. "The AI industrial revolution has alrea

Published on February 19, 2026 at 19:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google If Gemini seems a bit more cunning to you since today, that's normal: Google has indeed deployed Gemini 3.1 Pro for developers and the general public. The model aims to be more performant, particularly on complex problems to solve. AI models follow each other and start to look alike. After updating Gemini 3 Deep Think last week to "solve modern problems in the fields of science, research, a

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@RaketeReconsidering CMS Design: A Free and Flexible CMS 'Birkly' That Treats Humans and AI as the Same UsersPHPCMSOSSDesignAI0Posted at 2026-11-12 Reconsidering CMS Design: A Free and Flexible CMS 'Birkly' That Treats Humans and AI as the Same Users Introduction When developing a CMS, I did not initially focus on how many features I could implement. Rather, I asked myself,What should a CMS fundamentally be?. Many existing CMSs have excellent features and