Archive: March 2026

OpenAI OpenAI unceremoniously killed off its text-to-video AI app Sora last month, bringing an abrupt end to months of brain-melting AI slop. Even what was supposed to be a groundbreaking $1 billion deal with Disney was caught in the crossfire. And as the Wall Street Journal reports, it wasn’t the massive bills or the legal liabilities arising from rampant copyright infringement that inspired it to kill the app. Instead, the company was desperately looking

Getty / Futurism A news website with apparent links to OpenAI is using AI agents that pose as flesh-and-blood reporters to get quotes from human experts — and many of its articles discuss the AI industry, pushing pro-AI arguments and attacking the tech’s critics. At least, that’s according to a provocative new investigative piece from The Midas Project’s Model Republic. The links to OpenAI are circumstantial yet eyebrow-raising; we reached out to the Sam A

Sample Watson smartphone app. Credit: Forbes It’s been more than two years since IBM’s Watson kicked some human butt on Jeopardy, and now the artificial intelligence system is on the verge of making it onto smartphones. IBM today announced “Watson Engagement Advisor,” software that lets businesses replace their current automated customer service systems with one that is based on Watson and is thus presumably much smarter. Given the sorry state of automated

US corporate AI spending hits a new high in October, but growth slows to 1.65 percent View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 11, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points US corporate AI spending rose just 1.65 percent month over month in October 2026 to a new high, according to the Ramp AI Index, with the top one percent of companies paying a median of $10,200 per employee per month while the typical company spent $16.32. One perc

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The promo image in question was posted in a now-deleted (but still archived) social media post last Thursday, showing five new “retro frame” versions of lands from the upcoming Ravnica Remastered set in a nondescript steampunk-style laboratory. While the image looks unobjectionable at first glance, careful viewers soon zoomed in on specific and incongruous background details in the lab that showed telltale errors common to some AI image generators. (The hu

Passing off ChatGPT’s work as your own is about to get tougher—at least if you live in the European Union. On Monday, OpenAI announced that it would start inserting an invisible watermark, imperceptible to the naked eye but identifiable by machine, into all text outputs generated by its AI models, including ChatGPT and its coding agent Codex. The watermark will move OpenAI into compliance with the EU AI Act, which requires model-made text to include a mach

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world's leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a non-profit with a serious moral mission—and its story demonstrates the difficulty of combining morality with capitalism. The firm recently became a "public benefit corporation," meaning that—in addition to performing some sort of pub

Published on July 31, 2026 at 08:53 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net.com Chat, Cowork, Autopilot agents, and even code: everything must converge “this quarter” in a single application, for the general public as well as businesses. The announcement comes just as OpenAI acknowledges having missed its own. Microsoft’s quarterly results, released Wednesday, already gave analysts plenty to discuss, with $90 billion in revenue and 18% growth. Yet it is a remark by Saty

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 7 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Congressmen Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) today introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, a bill that would require developers of the most powerful AI models to maintain the technical ability to throttle, suspend, or shut them down, and would let the Department of Homel

Shutterstock / Futurism Now that AI models have officially passed the Turing Test, there’s no doubt that they’re capable of imitating human traits — at least in text form — to a degree that would have flabbergasted even an expert just few years back. After all, large language models are built by digesting copious amounts of human-authored content, making them little more than algorithms that mirror our behavior back at us. But the more we use AI tools like

Published on August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Plaud After the Plaud Note and the connected NotePin badge, the American brand unveils the Plaud One, a pair of earbuds capable of listening to your conversations, understanding their meaning, and acting directly in your work tools. The earbuds promise to draft your reports and follow-up emails based on your exchanges, without you having to lift a finger. Last year, Plaud, a San Francisco-based

Ever since a mourning mother, Megan Garcia, filed a lawsuit alleging that Character.AI’s dangerous chatbots caused her son’s suicide, Google has maintained that—so it could dodge claims that it had contributed to the platform’s design and was unjustly enriched—it had nothing to do with C.AI’s development. But Google lost its motion to dismiss the lawsuit on Wednesday after a US district judge, Anne Conway, found that Garcia had plausibly alleged that Googl

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As the world approaches the 2030 deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with fewer than 1 in 5 targets on track, researchers warn that the next global framework risks repeating the same mistakes unless it is built on a clear and explicit theory of change. Their study, titled "A theory of change approach to enhance the post-2030 sustainable development agenda" and published in Science, argues that while the

Shutterstock / Zafer Gulec A recent paper found that the extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to “severe negative outcomes.” According to the research, which was published in the journal JMIR Mental Health by a team of UK-based researchers at Northeastern University London and King’s College London, dark outcomes of engaging in emotional relationships with chatbots can include “addiction-like attachment, exacerbation of mental health symptoms, harmfu

When Anthropic first filed its S-1, the initial registration statement that is required of any company that intends to become publicly traded, it left the most recent quarter of financial figures blank. On Monday, it started filling in those previously missing earnings, and you’ll be shocked to learn that it shows the company spending a lot more than it earns. First, the glass-half-full view for the AI optimists: Anthropic reported about $17 billion in thi

Earlier this year, several feature-length films made by directors who got their start creating video content for YouTube hit theaters, displaying the creativity and ingenuity of the next generation while also flashing real potential for mainstream financial success. Unfortunately, the next wave of this new indie wave feels significantly more cynical and more creatively bankrupt. “Gods Don’t Give Gifts” is the latest production of the YouTube-to-cinema pipe