Archive: May 2026

All about Artificial Intelligence See more Satya Nadella, chairman of the board and CEO of Microsoft, argued in a post on X on Saturday (10) that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems should have containment mechanisms and an emergency button controlled by humans. The proposal suggests that authorized personnel should be able to interrupt or shut down an AI model while it is performing a task, as part of a security framework for technologies that c

Shutterstock / Futurism AI agents used to be all the rage, the supposed next hit product category after generative AI failed to generate productive returns. Now, the bill on all that hype is coming due. According to some estimates, up to 79 percent of US corporate execs have some type of AI agent in the making — but one Gartner prediction found 40 percent of these projects will implode due to poor risk controls. In a nutshell, AI agents are capable of infl

Credit: CC0 Public Domain AI's superior ability to formulate thoughts and statements for us weakens our judgment and ability to think critically, says media professor Petter Bae Brandtzæg. No one knew about Chat GPT just three years ago. Today, 800 million people use the technology. The speed at which AI is rolling out breaks all records and has become the new normal. Many AI researchers, like Brandtzæg, are skeptical. AI is a technology that interferes wi

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Everything about OpenAI see more OpenAI and Anthropic are negotiating with independent evaluators over what information can be disclosed after safety testing of their artificial intelligence models. The standoff involves protecting trade secrets and ensuring transparency about possible risks of the technology.According to Reuters, the companies sought to control publication of the reports, raising questions

Google DeepMind announced “AlphaGenome 2,” an AI model that predicts how differences in DNA base sequences affect individual cells, on November 11, 2026. Trained on more than 100 million cellular data points spanning 68 tissue types, AlphaGenome 2 can identify approximately twice as many mutations affecting gene expression as previous models. AlphaGenome Documentation — AlphaGenome https://www.alphagenomedocs.com/ AlphaGenome Documentation — AlphaGenome ht

Three major features in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia will not be available to European users this fall, Apple says. They include iPhone screen mirroring on the Mac, SharePlay screen sharing, and the entire Apple Intelligence suite of generative AI features. In a statement sent to Financial Times, The Verge, and others, Apple says this decision is related to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Here’s the full statement, which was attributed to Apple

A Spanish youth court has sentenced 15 minors to one year of probation after spreading AI-generated nude images of female classmates in two WhatsApp groups. The minors were charged with 20 counts of creating child sex abuse images and 20 counts of offenses against their victims’ moral integrity. In addition to probation, the teens will also be required to attend classes on gender and equality, as well as on the “responsible use of information and communica

Shutterstock / Futurism Using AI to crank out everything imaginable, from your homework to emails to code, is great and all — until you have to own up to it. Fearless embracers of AI are suddenly clutching at their pearls, after Anthropic announced that its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, potentially exposing anyone who wants to get away with using the tech without detection. The announcement has caused a meltdown in AI circles. “This

Marco Calo, left, a geophysicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), take a break on the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater. For five y

Pushing to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its chatbots caused a teen’s suicide, Character Technologies is arguing that chatbot outputs should be considered “pure speech” deserving of the highest degree of protection under the First Amendment. In their motion to dismiss, the developers of Character.AI (C.AI) argued that it doesn’t matter who the speaker is—whether it’s a video game character spouting scripted dialogue, a foreign propagandist circulating mi

In some ways, Getty Images has emerged as one of the most steadfast defenders of artists’ rights in AI copyright fights. Starting in 2022, when some of the most sophisticated image generators today first started testing new models offering better compositions, Getty banned AI-generated uploads to its service. And by the next year, Getty released a “socially responsible” image generator to prove it was possible to build a tool while rewarding artists, while

AI companies keep pushing their models as useful tools that can boost productivity at work or even serve as personal assistants that book appointments or shop on behalf of users. But it seems like every week there’s a new story of AI screwing something up. This time, the producers of the Swedish version of MTV’s reality competition show The Challenge are dealing with a major technical blunder that some sources are blaming on AI. Swedish newspaper Aftonblad

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Stanford software engineering degree used to be a golden ticket. Artificial intelligence has devalued it to bronze, recent graduates say. The elite students are shocked by the lack of job offers as they finish studies at what is often ranked as the top university in America. When they were freshmen, ChatGPT hadn't yet been released upon the world. Today, AI can code better than most humans. Top tech companies just don't

Shutterstock / YASTAJ Earlier this month, Futurism published an exposé about a company called Brown Brothers Media. In the story, we investigated how the company buys struggling news sites and turns them into high-traffic AI-powered content mills rife with plagiarism, fabulism, and the use of fake authors identified as journalists and subject matter experts with fraudulent credentials. (In a follow-up piece, we explored how one of the company’s founders ha

A 2008 simulation of wool gabardine. Credit: Cornell University The sheen of satin, the subtle glints of twill, the translucence of sheer silk: Fabric has long been difficult to render digitally because of the myriad ways different yarns can be woven or knitted together. Now, Cornell researchers, in partnership with the technology company NVIDIA, have developed a method for creating digital images of cloth that more accurately captures the texture of texti

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without getting fleeced. Google Research recently revealed TurboQuant, a compression algorithm that reduces the memory footprint of large language models (LLMs) while also boosting speed and maintaining accuracy. TurboQuant is aimed at reducing the size of the key-va

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Anthropic announced on Monday (9) two new versions of its artificial intelligence (AI) models: Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2. The tools arrive with advances in programming, reasoning, and visual interpretation, but the launch comes amid an important debate about AI's ability to accelerate its own development.According to the company, the new models can communicate more clearly and provide faster re

Published on October 24, 2026 at 1:06 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Flickr Sam Altman outlined three possible outcomes of the global race in artificial intelligence for his teams. He himself judges the third to be “terrible.” Yet it closely resembles the trajectory of his own company. The head of OpenAI reportedly presented his employees with three scenarios for the end of the AI race during an internal meeting held in the week of October 12. Details of these dis