Archive: July 2026

Decart would have been kind of a funny company for Anthropic to buy, which is why it was newsworthy when Bloomberg reported that Anthropic was looking to do so. Last month, I wrote that Bloomberg’s initial reporting on this story was “one of those anonymously-sourced Bloomberg articles you can’t help but suspect might exist solely to help out one or another side in an ongoing negotiation,” and I finished by saying, “the deal could still crumble.” So what h

When most of us think about a machine composing musical pieces, we think of primitive songs coming out of a HAL 9000 that could be suitable for a child’s toy, but nothing that music lovers would actually enjoy. That’s because most of us haven’t heard of Emily Howell. No, that’s not a person—it’s the name of a computer program written by University of California, Santa Cruz professor David Cope that, after nearly three decades of work, is about to release,

Full-parallax autostereoscopic demonstrations of EyeReal. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09752-y Watching 3D movies and TV shows is a fun and exciting experience, where images leap out of the screen. To get this effect, you usually have to wear a special pair of glasses. But that could soon be a thing of the past as scientists have developed a new display system that delivers a realistic 3D experience without the need for any eyewear. The m

Published on July 29, 2026 at 4:56 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net More than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta signed the same statement on Tuesday. Their request: that someone build the brake pedal that none of them is allowed to operate. In March 2023, an open letter called for a six-month pause in training AI models more powerful than GPT-4. It had gathered tens of thousands of signatures (including Elon Musk’s, between two

A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation case admitted using artificial intelligence in a brief that has nearly 30 defective citations, including misquotes and citations to fictional cases, a federal judge said. “[T]he Court identified nearly thirty defective citations in the Opposition. These defects include but are not limited to misquotes of cited cases; misrepresentations of principles of law associated with cited cases,

kontheinside via Instagram / Futurism Last week, a mother in Utah named Kalie Robins took to Instagram to post what she felt was an “innocent” video of herself and one of her two young daughters singing in the car. Her daughter’s face was visible, but Robins hadn’t said her name. None of her existing Instagram and Facebook posts on the account, she told Futurism, publicized the names of her children. When she returned to the same video later, which had bee

Shutterstock / Futurism So far, the long-fear AI job-apocalypse has been little more than smoke and mirrors, with one gigantic exception: entry-level tech workers. According to a new report on New York City jobs data compiled by the nonprofit Center for an Urban Future — first reported by the City — job postings for entry-level roles in “computer and mathematical” occupations has plummeted by 49 percent since 2022, the latest indication that tech firms are

While no one has figured out how to make money from generative artificial intelligence, that hasn’t stopped Google DeepMind from pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with a big pile of inference. The capabilities (and costs) of these models have been on an impressive upward trajectory, a trend exemplified by the reveal of Genie 3. A mere seven months after showing off the Genie 2 “foundational world model,” which was itself a significant improvement o

After the new model was released, developer Riley Brown posted a 3D short film titled “The Edge” on X. https://x.com/rileybrown/status/2119902109709537708The scene unfolds around a work desk. A MacBook on the desk lights up, Claude’s lobster mascot Clawd moves around the scene, and keyboard presses, screen content, and ambient lighting work together. The camera cuts back and forth as the sky outside changes from dusk to night, finally giving way to sunrise

Hearing researchers require detailed images of stereocilia, the bundles of protrusions that detect sound and movement. The red hairs featured on the right were rescued to full length due to gene therapy, while green-intermediate hairs received partial treatment and blue received no treatment. Credit: University of California San Diego The cochlea is the spiral-shaped structure within the inner ear responsible for our sense of hearing. To fully understand h

Shutterstock / Loredana Sangiuliano In case there was any doubt over the powerful tide of anti-AI sentiment, a new poll shows that most Americans are incredibly pessimistic about the technology. The poll, conducted in a collaboration between the Washington Post, ABC News, and the research and consulting firm IPSOS, showed that 57 percent of Americans now believe AI is outright bad for society, while just 42 percent say it’s good. And the ardent pessimists

Nate Soares via Facebook In the troubling view of machine learning researcher Nate Soares, AI is more likely than not to wipe out humanity within the next decade. At least, that’s what Soares said during a recent episode of the Atlantic’s podcast “The Most Interesting Thing in AI.” During the taping, the AI researcher and president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute even said that he’s so confident in the coming AI apocalypse that he’s stopped

@Martina_1230The Generation Route Belongs in Your 3D Asset RecordImageGeneration3D printer3D3DCGAITAG280TAG33@@Posted at 2026-11-11TAG38TAG40@@An image-to-3D request may return no recoverable model, while a later modeling approach may still produce a useful asset. The two routes need separate records—even when they use the same reference. That distinction is part of asset provenance: the asset’s origin and processing history. A useful record connects each

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Last week, Google released its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, topping intelligence rankings charts. The model has landed with a grander splash than most. As Artificial Analysis highlights, Gemini 4 Carbon is now the highest-ranked AI model on its latest Intelligence Index V5

Published on November 6, 2026 at 15:08 Comment 5 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic is launching a new feature that enables Claude to analyze its users’ bank accounts and help them better manage their budgets. The American company assures that Claude will not be able to access their money. Initially rolled out in the United States, Claude’s new “Personal Finance” feature will in some sense turn the AI assistant into a banking advisor. This new feature should en

A new app, Sundrop, aims to make those pictures more useful by turning them into weekly recaps, highlights, time lapses of the child growing up, and other cute scenes, like putting the child’s photo on a magazine cover or a rookie card. While Google Photos and Apple Photos already provide extensive tools to organize and manage photos, Sundrop is taking aim at a particular niche: parents with a new baby (usually their first!) who take an overwhelming number

Trump Accounts is a program that supports long-term wealth building for children born in the United States. In addition to introducing a contribution-matching program that supplements contributions for children of its U.S. employees, Micron will provide a one-time contribution of $250 per eligible child in the seven states where it operates. U.S. President Donald Trump also referenced the announcement on his own social networking service, “Truth Social,” a

Shueisha’s Comic Fair “Natsukomi 2026” bonus “Metakira Cards” are being resold at high prices on domestic flea-market websites, while “ONE PIECE” cards are also being traded in large quantities at high prices of around 10,000 yen on the U.S. auction site “eBay.” When the editorial department checked on July 3, it found that one listing alone had sold 962 cards. Although prices are gradually declining, demand from overseas collectors may also be behind the