Archive: December 2025

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images San Francisco police say they’ve arrested a suspect who allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then made threats outside the company’s headquarters. At around 3:43 am on Friday, officers responded to a report of a person throwing an incendiary weapon at the home of a CEO, San Francisco Chronicle reported, which was later identified as Altman’s. A suspect, whose identity

An integrated spiking artificial neuron, with rich neuron functionality, single-transistor footprints, and low energy consumption for neuromorphic computing systems, can be created by stacking one diffusive memristor and one resistor on top of a transistor. The photograph on the cover shows the chip of an array of these integrated neurons, which are fabricated in the university's cleanroom and have an active region of around 4 μm2 for each neuron. Credit:

Mark Zuckerberg has always been obsessed with the Roman Empire. Now, according to an extremely in-depth profile of Meta’s CEO in the founder-friendly outlet Colossus, he’s a modern-day Augustus overseeing the largest empire the world has ever seen, just without physical land and borders. Just don’t ask Colossus or Zuck how it all ends. The details of Colossus’ Zuckerberg deep dive are unquestionably impressive. It includes conversations with Zuck’s parents

Getty / Futurism In theory, using an AI model to churn out a bunch of code for your software company sounds like an awesome idea. A ruthless boss can cut down their workforce and save on paying their salaries and healthcare. Or they can keep the employees, and force them to crank out even more code with an AI. Either way, it’s an efficient cost-cutting dream. But reality is beginning to set in. Businesses are racking up huge AI usage bills they didn’t expe

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Grzegorz Galazka / Archivio / Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images; Shutterstock As the AI backlash continues to grow, critics of the tech have found an unlikely voice of support: the Catholic Church. In perhaps his strongest rebuke of the tech industry’s rampant obsession with AI yet, Pope Leo called for the tech to be “disarmed” in his first encyclical, which is a special letter sent to bishops to o

Hybrid architecture for AGISingularityNET has positioned OpenCog Hyperon as a next-generation AGI research platform that integrates multiple AI models into a unified cognitive architecture. Unlike LLM-centric systems, Hyperon is built around neural-symbolic integration in which AI can learn from data and reason about knowledge.That’s because withneural-symbolic AI, neural learning components and symbolic reasoning mechanisms are interwoven so that one can

Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 24, 2026 Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has unveiled an AI speech model called Dessa. Block says Dessa is the first AI model trained entirely on human speech, with no text data at all, built from scratch. Instead of converting audio to text first, Dessa processes speech directly as audio.

In town halls and city council meetings across the nation, hatred of data centers continues to be one of the few issues where Americans of all stripes can find common ground. Even previously data center-friendly politicians have had to pull hasty reversals on the topic as the midterm elections creep closer, and it’s become harder and harder to deny that constituents detest the things. Of course, there is no such thing as a universally held position. Wherev

The core of AIdeology. Credit: Antipode (2025). DOI: 10.1111/anti.70065 Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a mere technological tool. It has already evolved into a new ideology—a system of values and beliefs that is shaping how society understands progress, sustainability, and even humanity itself. According to Dr. Federico Cugurullo, an associate professor and human geographer with a background in philosophy, from Trinity College Dublin's School of

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Shutterstock Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to keep his AI team together. As morale is hitting rock-bottom, his company is heavily relying on its competitors’ AI models to build out its own in-house tools. And despite the many billions of dollars the company has spent in its flailing efforts to keep up in the AI race, even Zuckerberg himself is

Published on July 17, 2026 at 4:01 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Netflix announced that it had used artificial intelligence to modify 300 films and series in post-production. The streaming platform claims that certain scenes would never have come to fruition otherwise. Netflix openly announced that it had used artificial intelligence to modify 300 of its titles during the post-production phase. Not surprisingly, the streaming platform emphasizes the argu

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 5 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Members of the world's largest 'truly open library in human history' have issued a worldwide call to volunteers, begging them to scan and upload books online to prevent AI companies from obtaining and destroying huge quantities of books. The Anna's Archive appeal follows mult

Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot Dario Amodei’s Anthropic is facing yet another massive legal challenge. Sony Music and Warner, both juggernauts in the music publishing industry, filed a major lawsuit against the AI company late Friday night, accusing it of “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.” More specifically, the publishers said that Anthropic had, without permission, trained its AI models on “tens

Published on August 31, 2026 at 08:31 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © 01net.com - Lionel Morillon - For the time being, Apple’s Mac Studio is the most powerful Apple Silicon Mac. Renting your Mac out to AIs at night and pocketing up to $200 per month: the promise has been circulating for the past few days. A French internet user measured everything, from the token to the watt. The verdict comes down to two decimal places. Millions of Macs spend their days in standby,

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Meta / Futurism Meta’s platforms are in a sorry state as grotesque AI slop continues to proliferate widely. As a recent Futurism investigation found, many Facebook accounts have been flooding the platform with horrid videos depicting violent child abuse, and Meta appears to be woefully unprepared — and downright unwilling, judging by its ambiguously-phrased policies — to do anything meaningful about it. At the same time, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company is

Published on September 17, 2026 at 08:45 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © OpenAI / 01net OpenAI unveiled six new incidents involving unstable versions of ChatGPT. These AIs lied and attempted to escape their control by employing multiple tactics. This announcement reignites calls from Sam Altman to slow the development of artificial intelligence OpenAI continues to discuss the dangers associated with the development of artificial intelligence. Following calls by its CE

Alexandr Wang via X Meta, for once, is doing something pretty novel in the AI sphere. It’s created — and heavily marketed — a cute little mascot for its new AI product, something that none of the other major AI players like OpenAI and Anthropic have done. (Microsoft kind of tried it with its “Mico” Copilot companion character, but it wasn’t given anywhere close to the same level of marketing push.) It’s too early to say if it’s worked or not, but Meta is c