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Messages consist of "parts" (parts): text, model reasoning, tool calls, files, sources. Therefore, the same template shows both the regular answer and the reasoning from Claude or Qwen3, and the tool call. The API key remains on the server. The server part is a regular Web-standard request → response handler that works in Nuxt/Nitro, Node, Bun, Deno, and edge runtimes:// server/api/chat.post.ts (Nuxt) import { createLLMHandler } from 'vue-llm/server' impor

Getty / Futurism The AI industry has made major promises about its tech boosting the productivity of developers, allowing them to generate copious amounts of code with simple text prompts. But those claims appear to be massively overblown, as The Register reports, with researchers finding that productivity gains are modest at best — and at worst, that AI can actually slow down human developers. In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found t

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP; Michael M. Santiago; Thomas Banneyer/picture alliance via Getty Images Hundreds of public figures — including multiple AI “godfathers” and a staggeringly idiosyncratic array of religious, media, and tech figures — just signed a letter calling for a “prohibition” on the race to build AI superintelligence. Simply titled the “Statement on Superintelligence,” the letter, which was

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Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google's artificial intelligence research company DeepMind, right, and Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discuss the future of AI, ethics and democracy during an event at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, in Athens, Greece, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis A top Google scientist and 2024 Nobel laureate said Friday that the most important skill for the next generation will be "learning how to learn" t

When you set out to master a new skill, it pays to have a mentor—someone who has already navigated the terrain and, as a result of that hard-earned experience, can provide you with a rough roadmap for you to follow. Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum: “If I have seen further,” as Isaac Newton put it, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” The same is true for artificial intelligence. When we think about AI, we tend to think about so-called flagsh

Renewable energy-driven (photo)electrochemical system. Credit: Nature Reviews Clean Technology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44359-025-00089-3 A review reimagines solar-driven water electrolysis not as a mere hydrogen production technology but instead as a relatively versatile platform for sustainable chemical manufacturing, according to Professor Fatwa F. Abdi from the School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). This review article

Back in March, we all couldn’t help but watch with trepidation as Senator Bernie Sanders sat in a darkened room and interrogated a smartphone running an instance of the Claude chatbot, and then later said he had spoken to an “AI agent.” The resulting video looked like a scene from an A24 horror movie. It was an unsettling stunt from a not-so-tech-savvy politician, but it was at the very least an elected official trying something when it came to AI. So much

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is perhaps best known for raising eyebrows with public suggestions that various stellar phenomena could be evidence of extraterrestrial civilization. It’s controversial, to be sure — but if nothing else, at least Loeb’s using his own brain, at a time when dependence on AI chatbots has never been higher. In a recent essay on his personal blog, the Harvard profes

OH 7 mandible with the two tooth pits that were documented and magnified separately. Credit: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15321 A new study may be about to rewrite a part of our early human history. It has long been thought that Homo habilis, often considered the first true human species, was the one to turn the tables on the predator–prey relationship. However, a recent analysis of previous archaeological finds sugg

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images An AI system’s little oopsie, and a police department’s staggering incompetence, landed an innocent grandma in jail. Harrowing reporting by North Dakota radio station WDAY details how the 50-year-old Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in the clink after Fargo cops using an AI facial recognition tool flagged her as a suspect in a bank fraud case in the state. The mother of three — and gr

@picnicSelf-hosted Claude Managed Agents release | Operate the entire service on your own infrastructureClaudeAnthropicAILLMAPI0Posted at 2026-11-12 Introduction Anthropic announced the release of the self-hosted version of Claude Managed Agents in the November 12, 2026 release notes. Previously, the self-hosted sandbox only allowed running the sandbox portion of the agents in-house. With this self-hosted version, you can operate the entire Managed Agents

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jon Putman / Anadolu via Getty Images; Shutterstock Meta conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers while bombarding its competitors’ AI models with disturbing prompts ranging from suicide to cannibalism. Internally known as “Cannes,” the project, run by Meta contractor Covalen, targeted OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Character.AI chatbots using th

Tilly Norwood If you’ve been following AI’s inroads into the movie biz, you’ll already know that Tilly Norwood is the AI “actor” that the tech-focused studio Particle 6 keeps trying to make into a thing, but has so far only succeeded in universally infuriating actual performers, not to mention moviegoers. Now, it’s taking its biggest gamble yet by having Tilly Norwood lead her own movie, Particle 6 announced Monday — which will surely be what finally catap

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Last week, ChatGPT maker OpenAI issued what seems like a frightening memo about an “unprecedented cyber incident” involving cutting-edge AI models breaking loose and hacking another company. As the AI lab tells it, a group of next-generation AI models — including one that hasn’t even been disclosed to the public yet — had busted out of their secure testing environment and into a productio

Shutterstock / Futurism Residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana may have to say goodbye to over four acres of federally protected wetland — at least if Google has its way. New reporting by local publication WANE revealed that a company called Hatchworks LLC, a data center developer for the tech giant, is looking to fill in several acres of federal wetlands as part of the third phase of “Project Zodiac,” a $2 billion hyperscale data center project. As WANE reports