Archive: February 2026

Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism An ongoing class action lawsuit against Meta, which accuses the tech giant of misrepresenting its privacy practices regarding its controversial Meta AI Glasses, was amended yesterday to include a new class of “bystander” plaintiffs who claim that Meta violated their privacy without their consent. The implications are considerable. The new violations occurred even if bystanders never purchased the AI-powered glas

Shutterstock / Futurism A group of software engineers who say they were fired by their bosses because of AI are giving their former employers a taste of their own medicine. With the powers of spite and friendship, they’ve built “OpenExecutive,” an AI system designed to do the work of a CEO, if not the entire c-suite, TechRadar reports. “Work happens around the clock. Leadership doesn’t scale with it,” a demo video begins, as a stock music track called “Cor

Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images/Futurism As tempers flared around AI data centers back in January, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith issued a warm and fuzzy blog post about “building community-first AI infrastructure.” Smiths’ essay outlined a five-point plan to “partner with local communities across the United States,” with action-items like paying “our way to ensure our data centers don’t increase your electricity prices” and creating “jobs for your resident

After spending last week hyping Grok’s spicy new features, Elon Musk kicked off this week by threatening to sue Apple for supposedly gaming the App Store rankings to favor ChatGPT over Grok. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation,” Musk wrote on X, without providing any evidence. “xAI will take immediate legal action.” In another pos

Futurism AI book scammers are still thriving on Amazon’s marketplace. Just a day after a new book about the AI industry’s race to build a powerful artificial general intelligence hit the shelves, its author Kevin Roose discovered that a scammer was already trying to trick his readers — by using AI. On Amazon, an apparent machine-generated duplicate of the book, titled “The AGI Chronicles,” is freely circulating on the platform and even showing up right ben

Shutterstock / RollingCamera Doomsaying about the coming AI apocalypse is no longer relegated to outbursts from a few tech billionaires. Now, the major American banks whose policies dictate the flow of capital throughout the world are starting to worry about rogue AI, preparing contingency plans for the “day after” a theoretical AI-driven catastrophe. That’s according to new reporting from Axios, which notes that banks are preparing for the worst as they e

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“There is this understanding that in the next five years we are going to have at least 10,000x more demand for compute, and that’s somewhat potentially conservative,” Goldie said on stage. “So we don’t want to build 10,000 times more data centers. We think that we need to help by making chips that are more efficient, that use the bandwidth in those data centers more efficiently, that use the wafers and fabs more efficiently, because even if we make [data c

A few years ago, Mast was reading through some scientific literature when he stumbled upon research about a houseplant wired to a motorized stand. When the plant wanted more light, electrical signals flowed through the living tissues. A control board sensed the current and wheeled the plant closer to the light source. “I’m like, what the heck?” Mast told TechCrunch. “That was the entry to the rabbit hole for me.” Mast wound up partnering with Lee von Kraus

OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary, gaining bipartisan reach just as midterms loom Manuel Uth Nov 3, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI is beefing up its defense operation by bringing on former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll as a national security advisor. Driscoll previously led AI modernization efforts across the US Army and is expected to help OpenAI land government contracts through his connections in Congress. The move builds on O

In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf.” You can practically sense the frustration in the person sending the email. Still, customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular. Shar

The launch reflects a broader shift in how startups are thinking about AI, as conversational AI agents take on tasks that had previously required users to launch stand-alone mobile apps. For Zest, that means bringing its restaurant recommendations into texts, then allowing users to immediately take the next step of booking a table. “The agent is the product now,” explains Zest founder and CEO Mario Gomez-Hall. “You text it, and it answers from your own his

@Waipe(waipe)【Episode 057】Solving the Problem of Oversized Images on Smartphones! Responsive Optimization of OGP Thumbnails and the Admin ConsoleBulletin BoardThread FloatAIVibe CodingChatbot0Posted at 2026-11-09Hello! This is the 57th installment of the development log for the 2channel-compatible bulletin board system “Tsuwai Channel (2ch.biz).” The OGP display styles introduced in Episode 56, which can be selected to suit your preferences (blog card / qu

Oracle and OpenAI have entered an agreement to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the U.S. This investment will create new jobs, accelerate America’s reindustrialization, and help advance U.S. AI leadership. It also marks a major milestone for Stargate, OpenAI’s AI infrastructure platform and long-term vision to deliver the benefits of AI to everyone.