Archive: January 2026

Filmmaker Spike Jonze provided a near-prophetic vision of the future with his 2013 sci-fi romance Her, in which a very lonely and increasingly withdrawn man gradually falls in love with an artificial intelligence operating system that he converses with via voice command. More than a decade later, life has (kind of) imitated art, and Jonze is worried about its dangers. Besides becoming a modern cult classic meditation on loneliness and the inherently human

Angel Mianscum of the Ouje-Bougoumou Cree Nation laments the loss of so much tree cover but says she is pleased to see an 'innovative' plan for local reforestation. A large aerial drone flies over the charred remains of Canadian forests devastated by wildfires, bombarding the ground with seed capsules to accelerate reforestation. This area of northern Quebec province was ravaged by megafires in the summer of 2023 and for the second year in a row a pilot pr

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Getty / Futurism A woman in California successfully used AI tools, including ChatGPT, to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties over several months of litigation. As NBC News reports, Lynn White was behind on rent and initially lost a jury trial after facing an eviction notice. Instead of continuing to work with a local tenant advocacy network, she consulted ChatGPT and the AI search platform Perplexity to represen

Getty / Futurism Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is once again shaking up its artificial intelligence unit: as Axios reports, the company is cutting some 600 roles from its so-called Superintelligence lab. Meta AI chief Alexandr Wang noted in a memo that the company is looking to streamline the greater AI department. “By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more sc

AI is increasingly used in hiring processes, even though critics worry that existing biases may be baked into their algorithms. Now, researchers claim that even in the absence of pre-existing biases, AI models can develop brand new social biases. In a recently published study, a group of researchers from Princeton University and the University of Chicago had a bunch of LLMs complete a hiring game that was previously run with human participants. In the hiri

Forgotten AI agents may still access sensitive company data AI agents that have not run recently retain credentials and connections to company systems, according to Arrakis Security’s 2026 Autonomous Agents Threat Report. About 76% of enabled agents examined had not run in 60 days, leaving access available through inactive software. Agents by exposure family (Source: Arrakis Security) The analysis covered thousands of agents in customer production environm

Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies include Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Perplexity, and France’s Mistral AI. As part of the series of deals, revealed Thursday by Wikipedia’s operator the Wikimedia Foundation, the AI developers are joining Wikimedia’s E

AI agents were supposedly going to be game-changers for both sides of consumer transactions—agents would handle tasks like bookings, support, and services 24/7, freeing humans for other work. Turns out businesses don’t like dealing with AI agents, and consumers don’t want them handling their business. Earlier this week, United Airlines announced that it would ban AI agents from making bookings on behalf of customers, citing privacy concerns, the risk of ex

Some of the fastest-growing and most-used apps in the United States aren’t games or utilities, but glorified payday loans in shiny, tech-friendly clothing. And, as a new piece in The Baffler points out, it’s in no small part due to the slew of freelancers and gig workers getting the rug pulled out from under them by the corporate world’s embrace of artificial intelligence. You have almost certainly seen advertisements for apps that offer you a small loan t

A Nobel Prize medal is displayed before a ceremony at the Swedish Ambassador's Residence in London, Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced Tuesday, the second award to be revealed this year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm a day after a trio of scientists won the prize for contributions to medicine. The physics honor has been awarded 118 times to 226 Nobel Prize laureates betwe

Published on April 13, 2026 at 14:30 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © TinyCorp/Naïm Bada for 01net Apple has buried the Mac Pro at the end of March. Two weeks later, a Hong Kong studio offers the Macs what Apple had denied them for six years: an external GPU, finally. Apple Silicon Macs now accept external graphics cards. Apple has officially approved TinyGPU, a driver developed by TinyCorp, which allows connecting AMD and NVIDIA GPUs via Thunderbolt or USB4. The ann

NVIDIA's founder Jensen Huang has resigned as CEO and director. NVIDIA Announces CEO Transition | NVIDIA Newsroom https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-ceo-transition NVIDIA announces CEO transition. Read the release: https://t.co/MTTUvFHCJA — NVIDIA Newsroom (@nvidianewsroom) November 12, 2026 Jensen Huang, who founded NVIDIA in 1993, has led the company for many years. However, on November 8, 2026, local time, he publicly apologized after a

Why all the fuss over AI accelerators?AWS Trainium isn’t the only option developers have. Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) product line and Meta’s Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) chips are other examples of custom silicon, each having a similar advantage over Nvidia’s GPUs – their ASIC architecture (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit). As the name suggests, ASIC hardware is engineered specifically to handle one kind of application and d

@Git_Dayori【GitHub Daily】GPU-Powered IDE “Rune” and Rust-Based Download Engine “Hydra” Make Their Debut; astryx Takes the Top Spot for Two Consecutive Days — 2026-11-12GitHubTrendingOSSAIDeveloper Tools0Posted at 2026-11-11Every day, we select and deliver repositories from GitHub Trending that may be useful to developers in Japan. 🆕 First Appearances (First Timers) Repositories that entered the trending list for the first time today. unstablebuild/rune — ⭐