Archive: August 2026

3D photonic chip module. Credit: Keren Bergman Artificial intelligence (AI) systems promise transformative advancements, yet their growth has been limited by energy inefficiencies and bottlenecks in data transfer. Researchers at Columbia Engineering have unveiled a groundbreaking solution: a 3D photonic-electronic platform that achieves unprecedented energy efficiency and bandwidth density, paving the way for next-generation AI hardware. The study, "3D Pho

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In aerospace applications, high-temperature shape memory alloys (HTSMAs)—materials capable of remembering and returning to their original shapes after heating—are often constrained by high costs since they rely on expensive elements to function at elevated temperatures. Fighter jets like the F/A-18 need to fold their wings to fit on crowded aircraft carriers. The system that folds the wings relies on heavy mechanical parts

Published on August 21, 2025 at 09:17 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net avec Photoshop OpenAI is already working on GPT-6, the next version of ChatGPT. According to the startup, the AI model will arrive faster than you think, and it will be very different from its predecessor. At the start of the month, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5, a new version of the AI model that powers ChatGPT. The deployment of GPT-5 proved to be more laborious than expected. The startup was forced

Product showcase: A photo can fool your eyes, Verdict checks the evidence Verdict is an AI image and video detector designed for iPhone. It works offline and requires no account. Choose a photo or video, run a scan, and the app returns a 0–100 score with a verdict and supporting evidence. It requires iOS 16 or later. How it works For photos, Verdict examines signals from an AI-detection model, camera metadata, and sensor noise. It shows a compression check

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, defended her staff on Wednesday after a screenshot of legislative text went viral for including the words “Claude responded.” The natural assumption online was that the bill was written using AI, but Luna denied it. Kind of. The text in question turned out to be a bill summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, and it seems pretty clear that Anthropic’s Claude was used, with everything just copied

Kendall Mehling, left, and Catie LeDesma, right, with a new kind of atom "interferometer" on the CU Boulder campus. Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a feat that many scientists didn't think was possible. The device, a new type of atom "interferometer," could one d

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images; Lester Cohen/Getty Images for Breakthrough As you’re probably well aware by now, Elon Musk and Sam Altman have a long history. The two cofounded OpenAI back in 2015 as a nonprofit with an ostensibly altruist mission. But then Musk stormed out of the company three years later. Reportedly, it was because he beefed with Altman’s leadership. There’s been bad blood between t

On Thursday, Google released a new AI feature that allowed anyone to create fake images in Google Earth. Naturally, people used the AI to put a fake nuclear plant in Iran and show a plane crashing into One World Trade Center in New York. After massive online backlash, the tech giant killed the feature on Friday. “We know that people uniquely trust Google Earth for a reliable view of the world. We’ve seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a ra

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Yuichi Yamazaki / AFP via Getty Images; Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty Images; Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Are AI companies incentivized to put the public’s health and well-being first? According to a pair of physicians, the current answer is a resounding “no.” In a new paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, physicians from Harvard Medical School and Baylor College of Medicine

Bilibili In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right in the groin, forcing him into a groaning heap while painfully and visually embodying the promise and perils of advanced robotics. “Yep, let’s go ahead and train our future AI overlords how to kick ass,” one X user quipped upon viewing the clip, which was originally posted on Christmas Day to the Chinese video sharing website Bilibili. “Maybe we d

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For farmers, every planting decision carries risks, and many of those risks are increasing with climate change. One of the most consequential is weather, which can damage crop yields and livelihoods. A delayed monsoon, for example, can force a rice farmer in South Asia to replant or switch crops altogether, losing both time and income. Access to reliable, timely weather forecasts can help farmers prepare for the weeks ahea

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism; Getty Images A new report from the US PIRG Education Fund suggests that leading AI companies are doing little to police how developers who pay for access to their AI models are using them. One consequence, the group warns, is that AI toymakers can ship products to children that are powered by AI models that are only intended for adults. PIRG’s previous research has demonstrated how combining children’s toys w

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Depending on who you ask, AI was the financial growth story of 2025. In the first nine months of 2025, spending related to AI accounted for around 38 percent of real GDP growth across the United States, according to analysis by the St. Louis Fed. Not every economist agrees with that math, but the Trump administration has evidently seen enough to know where they stand. With AI just about o

Published on March 23, 2026 at 11:45 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Unsplash So, while the tech world is laying off extensively, OpenAI has decided to recruit. The AI champion plans to hire 4500 employees by the end of 2026. By almost doubling its workforce, the company is doing everything to ensure that ChatGPT can stand up to Claude from Anthropic. The technology world is reducing its workforce. At HP, up to 6000 layoffs are planned until 2028. Amazon has just cu

Getty / Futurism As fears over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continue to grow, researchers are trying to get a better sense of which occupations will be most — and least — affected. Tech leaders continue to cite AI as the reason behind widespread layoffs, with economists warning that the changing dynamics could be devastating in the longer run. Now, researchers at Tufts University have released what they claim to be the “first-of-its-kind data-driven framew

The Jensen Huang scandal is hardly overA second affair has hit the news cycle, but that’s not what matters here. Image: The Verge; Getty Images; AdobeThe Jensen Huang scandal is hardly overA second affair has hit the news cycle, but that’s not what matters here. is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.I was certain, until the story of Jensen

@Daisosha(Daisosha)Balancing LLM API costs and quality - AI router and consensus-based reviewPythonAILLMdesignarchitecture1Posted at 2026-11-12 TL;DR Use an "AI router" that selects models based on task difficulty to reduce API costs Include a consensus-based review by multiple AI agents before implementing improvement proposals Track the success rate of each strategy using Bayesian estimation and automatically switch strategies when performance declines I

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images You don’t build a trillion dollar AI empire by being a saint. In a seeping new investigative piece from The New Yorker, numerous tech insiders paint a picture of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as a relentless liar who wants everyone to like him while manipulating even the people closest to him to get what he wants. AI safety, in this slippery portrait of Altman, is merely a barga

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other. This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO Sam Altman, which documents his alarming pattern of lying and manipulating to build his AI empire, a behavior that some insiders likened to that o