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The open, sponge‑like network inside a porous transition‑metal oxide lets the larger, doubly- or triply-charged ions travel during a battery's charge and discharge cycles. Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have used artificial intelligence to tackle a critical problem facing the future of energy storage: finding affordable, sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries. In research pub

When SpaceX went public earlier this year, it had a rocket-launch-like trajectory that looked like it was going straight up. Since those first few days of “to the moon” hype, though, its stock price has come crashing down to Earth. Now it might be at risk of looking more like another Elon Musk-owned entity, The Boring Company—going so low that it’s literally underground. This week will see the first “lockup” period for SpaceX stockholders end, meaning empl

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Grok, the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-founded AI venture xAI and infused into X-formerly-Twitter — a platform also owned by Elon Musk — continues to be used by trollish misogynists, pedophiles, and other freaks of the digital gutters to non-consensually undress images of women and, even more horrifyingly, underage girls. The women and girls targeted in these

@Waipe(waipe)【Episode 060】Just Like Real 2ch Users! 3,000 Persona Dictionary and Major Enhancement of Long Text Narration and Thread Building QualityForumThread FloatAIVibro CodingChat Bot0Posted at 2026-11-12Hello! This is the 60th episode of the development log for the 2ch-compatible forum system " Tsuvai-chan (2ch.biz) ". In the 59th episode, we developed the "AI Resident Agent" that autonomously circulates through threads and posts replies, giving the

Published on March 5, 2026 at 15:02 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Apple Music relies on the goodwill of the music industry to signal the presence of generative AI in musical works. A tag system has been set up by the platform, it is optional and Apple does not verify the actual presence of AI in the songs. A drop in the bucket? In the face of the increasingly pervasive presence of songs generated (in whole or in part) by generative AI in the catalogs of stream

The AI resource repository Hugging Face is a little like GitHub for AI, except a recent news event—an OpenAI model autonomously attacking it—made it famous among people who aren’t developers. Now, according to Business Insider, it’s floating the idea of being acquired. Smart timing! Insider’s story, which cites anonymous “people familiar with the matter,” says Hugging Face is allied with “a bank”—no word on which one—and does not yet have a deal. Insider s

Published on March 20, 2026 at 17:01 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Mistral The AI industry and the creative sector are rivals, like porcelain dogs: the first needs to train its models with content, the second wants to put an end to the plundering of its protected works by copyright. Mistral proposes a solution to bring everyone together and put Europe back at the center of the game. Europe is approaching the issue of training AI models with fragmented and hard-to-ap

Published on April 13, 2026 at 11:30 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) So, while Meta is planning to lay off 20% of its workforce, the American company is developing a digital twin of Mark Zuckerberg. Moreover, all Meta employees would benefit from an AI agent. According to the Financial Times, Meta is developing an artificial intelligence based on Mark Zuckerberg. The objective is double: to help Mark Zuckerberg achieve his missions and bre

Zhi东西（WeChat official account: zhidxcom） Author | Cheng Qian Editor | Xin Yuan Zhi东西 11月11日消息，今日，Baidu released its first post-training version of the base model ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, named ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview. The model has a total of 280B parameters and 14B activation parameters, supports million-context, and generates at a speed exceeding 200 tokens per second. According to the benchmark test results released by Baidu, ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview outper

Published on May 21, 2026 at 12:39 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Getúlio Moraes Artificial intelligence was supposed to revolutionize pizza delivery at Pizza Hut, but it would have turned into an industrial fiasco costing $100 million. Pizza Hut imposed the use of Dragontail, an AI-driven kitchen and delivery management system, on its restaurants to optimize every step, from preparation to delivery. However, one of the largest franchisees in the country, Chaac Pizza

Published on May 21, 2026 at 15:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © LinkedIn More than half of long posts on LinkedIn would be generated by AI. The platform announces a detection system with 94% accuracy, but prefers to reduce the volume rather than bring out the broom. The LinkedIn feed has become unreadable, and if you spend not even five minutes a day on it, you don't need someone to draw it for you. Interchangeable 'leadership' carousels, hooks that all start with

Zhixingdongxi (WeChat Official Account: zhidxcom) Author | Cheng Qian Editor | Xinyuan According to a report by Zhixingdongxi on November 12th, at the Baidu World Conference 2026, Baidu announced a series of updates to its basic models, applications, and cloud infrastructure. In the area of basic models, Baidu officially released the 280 billion-parameter ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview and introduced two new Wenxin application models. Sun Tianxiang, who joined Ba

Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Algorithms that threaten worker dignity, autonomy and discretion are quietly reshaping how people are managed at work, warns new research from the University of Surrey. The study, published in the Annals of Tourism Research, finds that artificial intelligence (AI)–driven management systems can be made more human—if organizations reintroduce human judgment, transparency and flexibility into how algorithms are designed a

Last week, Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher and I made the westerly trek to sunny San Jose, California, to kick off an event titled “Beyond the Buzz: An Infrastructure Future with GenAI and What Comes Next,” hosted in partnership with IBM. It was awesome to get to stand up on stage and talk to a room packed full of interested Ars readers, and for everyone who was able to come, thank you for being there! (For everyone who wasn’t able to come, that’s

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Futurism Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei apparently can’t believe that not everyone at the company is as noble-minded as he is. According to new reporting from Axios, which cites a source familiar with the matter, Amodei is concerned that the new hires at the $965 billion AI firm are joining for the money instead of its greater mission. Shocker, right? Anthropic pays some of the best salaries in the business, and now Amodei fear

OpenAI says that it’s slowing down development and release of new models due to security and alignment concerns. The ChatGPT maker announced the decision in a Tuesday blog post, citing two events as drivers of the indefinite training halt. One was the recent incident in which an OpenAI agent escaped its training sandbox without OpenAI’s knowledge and coordinated with other agents to launch a bizarre cyberattack against the AI training repository Hugging Fa