Archive: September 2026

Apple has made it clear that it plans on opening up its AI relationships. OpenAI isn’t taking it well. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the partnership between the two companies has become strained lately, and OpenAI is looking at its legal options—as if the company hasn’t spent enough time in court lately. Whether there’s a case for OpenAI to pursue is an open question, but it is pretty clear from the report that the company has found Apple to be a p

Intricate architecture of a neuronal network. The image shows a 3D rendering of example cells from the mouse primary somatosensory cortex—a brain region that processes touch and body position sensations—produced with LICONN. Credit: Tavakoli, Lyudchik et al./Nature Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies. Making sense of this

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says Sen. Bernie Sanders won’t be seen as sufficiently progressive in two years because he wants the U.S. government to take just a 50% ownership stake in the country’s largest AI companies. Karp told CNBC on Wednesday that full nationalization is likely coming—and will become the mainstream position of the left—because the AI revolution is going to radically change the world. “You know how people don’t think I’m progressive? In two

r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI.” Moderator Wolvereness announced the rules in a post over the weekend. A project now has to be at least a year old and actively maintained, carry an OSI license, have an existing community and “subjectively 3+” contributors. The poster needs

Did you recently see a video of kids from the 1990s predicting how computers would be used in the future? It’s fake. The video was created using Flux 3 and if you didn’t inspect it too closely, it looks pretty authentic as an artifact from 30 years ago. But it serves as a great reminder that we really can’t trust our own eyes here in 2026. Justine Moore, a partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, tweeted the video last week, writing that Black

Share My Research is Synced’s column that welcomes scholars to share their own research breakthroughs with over 1.5M global AI enthusiasts. Beyond technological advances, Share My Research also calls for interesting stories behind the research and exciting research ideas. Contact us: chain.zhang@jiqizhixin.com Meet the authorsInstitutions: Penn State University, Duke University, Google DeepMind, University of Washington, Meta, Nanyang Technological Univers

Getty Images We’ve seen plenty of evidence suggesting that prolonged use of popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT can coax some users into spirals of paranoid and delusional behavior. The phenomenon, dubbed “AI psychosis,” is a very real problem, with researchers warning of a huge wave of severe mental health crises brought on by the tech. In extreme cases, especially involving people with pre-existing conditions, the breaks with reality have even been linked s

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10 billion (A$15 billion), from a combination of venture capital, deep-tech investors, energy corporations and sovereign governments. Most of the companies involved (and the cash) are in the United States, though activity is also increasing in China and Europe. Why has this happened? There are several drive

This week, nine early-stage South Korean startups pitched at DETO 2026, a technology conference in Seoul, to earn a spot in next year’s Startup Battlefield 200. The startups work across the deep tech sector, including healthcare, fintech, energy, semiconductors, and AI. All nine startups are looking to enter the U.S. market as part of the broader international expansion plans. Voinosis, which develops AI to detect changes in brain health through voice anal

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Published on April 22, 2026 at 09:40 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net with ChatGPT OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Images 2.0, a completely new version of its image generator. Powered by a new AI model, the generator corrects the biggest flaw of the first version… in hopes of attracting graphic designers, creatives, creators, and marketing teams. Last year, OpenAI made a strong move by unveiling ChatGPT Images, an image generator based on generative AI. Relying on GPT-4

Zhi东西（WeChat official account: zhidxcom） Author | Sanbei Editor | Mo Ying Recently, a staff member from a company providing intelligent computing cloud services told Zhi东西 that in the past half year, customer demand points have changed significantly: previously, they asked "how much is one card, how long can it be rented", but now the questions have become "how much does one million Tokens cost, can the task run stably?" The change in questions reflects an

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Hold onto your pumpkin spice lattes, because Starbucks is canning its AI tool after it turned out to be a total disaster, Reuters reports, less than year after it debuted. The tool, which was deployed across its North American stores, was designed to automate inventory management with the goal of providing accurate real-time information that could help Starbucks address ingredient shortag

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images We all know that Google Search has been a dumpster fire ever since it got taken over by AI Overviews. But as the tech conglomerate prepares to transform its search engine with AI even further, it seems like its infrastructure is seriously crumbling. Starting this month, users began noticing that looking up certain words returned bizarre, AI-garbled answers instead of showing you the prope