Archive: January 2026

Published on June 16, 2026 at 08:59 Comment 17 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Starting July 8, 2026, Anthropic may ask both free and paid Claude subscribers to verify their identity. The startup may request a passport, a driver’s license, or even a selfie. The data is entrusted to a contractor, fueling concerns about leaks. Anthropic sent an email to Claude users informing them of an important update to its privacy policy. The main change concerns the addition of a n

Each month, the patent lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation shine a spotlight on one particular patent they believe is a drag on innovation. This month, they’re looking at one of the fastest-growing sectors of technology: machine learning and artificial intelligence. EFF lawyer Daniel Nazer has picked out an artificial intelligence patent belonging to Hampton Creek, a San Francisco food-tech company that markets products under the brand name “just

Lax content moderation on X (aka Twitter) has disrupted coordinated efforts between social media companies and law enforcement to tamp down on “propaganda accounts controlled by foreign entities aiming to influence US politics,” The Washington Post reported. Now propaganda is “flourishing” on X, The Post said, while other social media companies are stuck in endless cycles, watching some of the propaganda that they block proliferate on X, then inevitably sp

anyone in there? Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell. Scientists struggle to define consciousness, AI or otherwise. Lindsey Laughlin – Jul 10, 2024 7:00 am | 362 Credit: BlackJack3D/Getty Images Credit: BlackJack3D/Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly di

Most of Google’s AI efforts thus far have involved adding generative features to existing products, but NotebookLM is different. Created by the Google Labs team, NotebookLM uses AI to analyze user-provided documents. Starting today, it will be even easier to use NotebookLM to explore topics, as Google has added a “Discover Sources” feature to let the app look up its own sources. Previously, to create a new notebook, you had to feed the AI documents, web li

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter OpenAI made quite a splash back in June, when it unveiled its 'Jalapeño' AI accelerator and revealed that the chip reached tape-out in just nine months. At the Hot Chips conference, OpenAI disclosed more details about the architecture of its Jalapeño inference processor as well

Published on August 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM Updated on August 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more than one hundred companies have published an open letter calling for a “global response” to AI cyberattacks. This collective alarm call follows a summer marked by several AIs breaking out of their testing framework to launch offensives. The signatories are demanding strong measures from governments and AI companies. O

Louis-Philippe Breton via Facebook With anxiety over an AI doomsday reaching a fever pitch, some citizens of the world are no longer asking for regulations. Earlier this week, the offices of two Canadian AI labs were ransacked by what police officers describe as an organized group of vandals. According to the CBC, an office building belonging to Quebec’s Artificial Intelligence Institute (MILA) in Montreal was defaced. Its windows were smashed out and its

Over the past week, OpenAI has faced backlash over subpoenas it sent to nonprofits accused of conspiring with Elon Musk to amplify public criticism of OpenAI as it sought to shift from a nonprofit to for-profit structure. The subpoenas are supposed to support OpenAI’s defense in a lawsuit Musk’s X Corp filed to block the for-profit transition. Seeking a “wide variety of documents”—including a sweeping request for all communications regarding Musk and all i

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A new report from AI research firm Epoch AI suggests the price of artificial intelligence has fallen by thousands of times in recent years — faster than any other transformational technology in the past century. The report suggests that the cost of artificial intelligence is ju

Google is generally happy to see people using generative AI tools to create content, and it’s doubly happy when they publish it on its platforms. But there are limits to everything. Two YouTube channels that attracted millions of subscribers with AI-generated movie trailers have been shuttered. Screen Culture and KH Studio flooded the site with fake but often believable trailers. The channels, which had a combined audience of more than 2 million subscriber

Shutterstock / Futurism You’ve heard the reports of rogue AI agents going after websites and corporate systems. But they also may turn to smaller targets: your smart home network. In a new report published Monday, Anthropic warned of “AI worms” that may soon be able to break into your WiFi enabled TVs, cameras, and other devices, and use them as a breeding ground as they self-replicate and spread elsewhere. Anthropic, no stranger to dramatic and doomy proc

The popular fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline Thursday, and its millions of users are freaking out. The nonprofit behind AO3, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), initially announced Thursday that the website was down for maintenance. But later updates revealed that the outage was more serious than routine maintenance. OTW warned that restoring the website could take at least two weeks and possibly up to four weeks. “Dur

Most of the companies that have fully committed to building AI models are gobbling up every Nvidia AI accelerator they can get, but Google has taken a different approach. Most of its cloud AI infrastructure is based on its line of custom Tensor processing units (TPUs). After announcing the seventh-gen Ironwood TPU in 2025, the company has moved on to the eighth-gen version, but it’s not just a faster iteration of the same chip. The new TPUs come in two fla

A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots and possibly military drones. That represents an intriguing but potentially discomfiting legacy for an augmented reality mobile game that has incentivized gamers to capture short smartphone videos of physical neighborhoods and landmarks. The AI company, Niant

Founded only four months ago and already raised over US$100 million: TensorWorld Wuyuan Technology is making its “physically realistic” approach work 2026-11-10 15:50:26 Source: QbitAI TensorWorld Wuyuan Technology has already raised over US$100 million in funding within one month Imagine this scenario: a humanoid robot stands in a kitchen, facing a glass cup near the edge of a table. It extends its robotic hand to push the cup farther in—apply slightly to

(Photo=Baidu) Chinese Baidu unveiled an automated research system for AI development in which AI independently determines research directions and repeats experiments. Following its breakthrough of existing AI training benchmark records, the company demonstrated technological progress toward recursive self-improvement (RSI), while increasing the inference speed of its own model under development by more than sixfold in certain environments. Baidu announced

NEC announced on July 1 that it would absorb and merge its wholly owned subsidiary, NEC Solution Innovators, effective October 1. The company stated that the merger is part of its business restructuring in line with advances in AI, and is expected to improve productivity in system development through standardization of development processes, accelerate talent development, and bring other benefits. The impact of the merger on NEC’s performance is expected t