Archive: May 2026

After Anthropic got an invitation from Pope Leo XIV for his encyclical on artificial intelligence, OpenAI is looking for its own moral authority to latch onto. It seems that Altman and company have chosen Bernie Sanders. After the Senator announced he would be introducing legislation for the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs, Altman reportedly requested a meeting with Sanders. Keep an eye out for white smoke pouring out f

Large language models (LLMs) have dominated the natural language processing (NLP) field. But building an NLP system in traditional way however requires substantial efforts. To address this issue, researchers and practitioners start to explore how to prototype NLP systems rapidly via “prompting” technique. In a new paper Prompt2Model: Generating Deployable Models from Natural Language Instructions, a research team from Carnegie Mellon University and Tsinghu

Large language models have led to a slew of pro se lawsuits where people believe they can represent themselves with the help of AI. You’d expect better for actual lawyers, but it turns out you’d be wrong. As 404 Media first reported, a Mississippi judge recently tossed a case and sanctioned lawyers on both sides for submitting court filings riddled with AI-fabricated information. The case was a dispute between lawyer Tom Withers and the city of Aberdeen, M

Published on July 26, 2025 at 07:45 Commenter 3 𝕏 Print © Carl Campbell / Unsplash Companies developing the most widely used generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or Copilot will have to show their hand in Europe, starting August 2, 2025, a new entry into application of the AI Act, the European regulation on artificial intelligence. Here's what will change starting mid-August, despite the numerous calls or pressures aimed at delaying or suspending this deadl

Emerging food contaminants by type. Credit: Journal of Environmental Management (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125246 Global partnerships and artificial intelligence (AI) will be key to addressing the growing challenges posed by food contamination, a new study reveals. The study, co-authored by Professor Lord John Krebs, former chair of the UK Food Standards Agency, analyzes 116 peer-reviewed papers published between 2019 and 2024. It reveals that a r

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder and CEO of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group, doesn’t seem too convinced by Elon Musk’s plan to put data centers in space. Son said the costs of orbital data centers would likely outweigh the benefits and that the AI race will be decided much closer to home, Bloomberg reports. “In the battle for AI, the next few years will be far more important than what might happen a decade or so from now,” said Son on Tuesday wh

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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Unexpected severe turbulence injured crew and passengers on a Qantas Boeing 737 during descent at Brisbane on May 4, 2024. The subsequent Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation suggested the severity of the turbulence caught the captain by surprise. This is not an isolated event. Thunderstorms featuring severe wind gusts such as violent updrafts and downbursts are hazardous to aircraft. Downbursts in particular

Andrea Iervolino Shortly after the announcement of an “AI actor” dubbed Tilly Norwood drew overwhelming criticism, Italian movie producer Andrea Iervolino has announced plans to take the trend to its logical conclusion. As Deadline reports, Iervolino unveiled what he claims will be the first film directed entirely by an AI entity, titled “The Sweet Idleness.” Iervolino is no joke; his credits include “Ferrari,” a 2023 action movie starring Adam Driver, and

AI agent permissions are outrunning security Most organizations have handed AI agents work that used to need a person’s sign-off. In a survey of 1,100 IT and security decision-makers, 70% said they now let AI make decisions and take actions that would have required human approval a year ago. That new authority is already causing trouble. Three in four organizations ran into at least one AI-related security issue or warning sign in the past year. In a lot o

Sanmay Das. Credit: Craig Newcomb for Virginia Tech In the discussion around artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, Sanmay Das has found one constant: While many people believe that some jobs can be replaced by AI, they believe that their own job is far too nuanced and complex to be handed over to the machines. That dynamic is at the center of his research at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, where he is the associat

The late Spirit Airlines, which shut down all operations earlier this year after filing for bankruptcy for a second time, agreed on Friday to give Google a vast trove of its company records for (what else?) training new AI models. Its former flight attendants have organized to fight back against the deal. On Tuesday, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), a union representing the ex-Spirit employees, filed an official objection to the agreement in the

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source; Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images In 2021, a splinter group of former OpenAI employees founded a new startup, Anthropic, to pursue building AI models with a renewed focus on safety, after feeling that their employer had gone astray. OpenAI itself was originally founded on beneficent principles and a commitment to transparency, but then took billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft and made

Published on March 17, 2026 at 17:57 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net By overdoing it, one ends up doing nothing well. OpenAI, which has significantly diversified its services in recent months, is learning this the hard way and is now trying to narrow its activities to what really matters: software development and professional uses. A web browser (Atlas), a video generator (Sora), advertising, one or several AI devices with Jony Ive… One cannot say that OpenAI ha

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Meta's smart glasses have come under the scrutiny of governments, courts, and companies around the world. The concern is that built-in cameras and microphones in the Ray-Ban models may record confidential people or materials without them realizing.With the popularization of the technology, different countries have started to evaluate whether current rules are sufficient to deal with devices capable of disc

What mathematicians are calling “destructive,” OpenAI calls “disruptive.” OpenAI research lead Dan Roberts tweeted on Thursday that the firm would be yanking its sponsorship of the Caltech Mathathon, an upcoming event where 100 teams of mathematicians will compete to provide the best answer to the question, “How can we responsibly use AI tools to augment human understanding of mathematics?” As Business Insider noted, this week a group of current and former