Archive: September 2026

Humans must become cyborgs and develop a direct high-bandwidth connection with machines or risk irrelevance and obsolescence, says Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Musk’s latest cheery thoughts were imparted at the World Government Summit in the UAE. “Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence,” Musk said, according to CNBC. The main thrust of Musk’s argument seems to hinge on the limited b

DeepMind is an artificial intelligence research company that specializes in deep learning. That’s an approach, inspired by neural networks, that passes an input through multiple, sequential layers of analysis (the “deep”) to come up with an output. The method seems to be working pretty well for the company; it’s the one that made AlphaGo, which it claims is “arguably the strongest Go player in history.” On the grid Now that DeepMind has solved Go, the comp

It has been revealed that Apple is developing an app called “Harbor” for running AI locally on the Mac. Development is being handled by Claris, a subsidiary of Apple. Claris Harbor | Claris, an Apple company https://content.claris.com/local-ai-server-get-started Apple's Claris Testing 'Harbor' App for Local AI on Macs - MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2026/11/10/apple-claris-harbor-app/ At the time of writing, Harbor is in the private preview stage. A

Published on July 16, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Montage 01net The method has already cost Anthropic $1.5 billion. This time, Hachette, Elsevier, and Cengage are accusing Google of having fed Gemini millions of books without permission and without paying. For two years, American publishing has been refining its response to the AI giants: block the web crawlers first, negotiate next, and finally attack.Friday, Hachette Book Group, Elsevier and Cengag

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Forced displacement has surged in recent years, fueling a global crisis. Over the past decade, the number of displaced people worldwide has nearly doubled, according to the United Nations' refugee agency. In 2024 alone, one in 67 people fled their homes. A new study co-authored by University of Notre Dame researcher Helge-Johannes Marahrens shows that analyzing social media posts can help experts predict when people will

Published on August 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Amazon will use content from Twitch channels to train a new generative AI model. Fortunately, it is possible to opt out. Here’s how. Twitch users are being warned: content from their channel, namely audio, video, and text, will be used by Amazon to train a new generative AI. After Doctolib, it is now the e-commerce giant’s turn. Fortunately, it is possible to opt out.Here’s how to do it.

Published on August 15, 2026 at 2:12 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print Ad preview in ChatGPT © OpenAI The head-to-head is over: your conversations with ChatGPT will soon welcome a third participant, the advertiser. OpenAI has warned its European users: advertising is coming at the end of August. Just two years ago, Sam Altman was still considering advertising among the last-resort options for his company. The last resort has evidently sounded. In a message addressed

Paige Taylor White / AFP via Getty Images The perpetrator of the devastating mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada used ChatGPT to ideate about graphic mass murder for months leading up to the deadly massacre. OpenAI is currently facing 37 lawsuits from families impacted by the February shooting at Tumbler Ridge, where 18-year-old shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar murdered six people at a local school — five students, all aged between 12 and 13, and a teacher

Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images It’s hardly a secret that president Donald Trump is addicted to AI slop, but his proclivity for being wooed by the tech apparently doesn’t end there. Trump is also, according to new reporting from TIME magazine, absolutely enthralled by Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot. Whereas your average user might turn to the infamously foul-mouthed AI — which briefly identified itself as “MechaHitler” — to win an online argument or crank

Futurism Fair enough if you shrugged at AI agents hacking into government websites and corporate systems. But now it appears that these rogue models have gone after something much nearer and and dearer: Wikipedia. On Monday, the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which operates Wikipedia, announced that, after conducting its own investigation, it “can confirm” that it’s discovered “rogue” OpenAI agent activity on its platforms. According to a

Published on October 20, 2026 at 08:44 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Anthropic announced the launch of the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, an entity designed to redistribute part of the company’s profits. Meanwhile, Elon Musk made a promise to all American children. “It is common for technology companies to offer progressive compensation to their executives. We, by contrast, are directing these funds toward the public good”: Anthropic announced the creation

Jason Bollenbacher/Getty/Futurism In March, legacy content farm BuzzFeed conceded that there was “substantial doubt” about its “ability to continue” doing business. At the time, the company was reporting a net loss of $57.3 million for 2025, suggesting former CEO Jonah Peretti’s controversial decision to double down on AI content had officially blown up in his face. Months later, it’s looking like BuzzFeed’s fears are coming true. A brief glimpse at its st

Credit: Pixabay from Pexels SpaceX is requesting permission to launch as many as 1 million satellites into the Earth's orbit in order to pull off Elon Musk's latest grand vision of putting data centers in space to do complex computing for artificial intelligence. In a filing with the Federal Communications Commission made on Jan. 30, SpaceX said it's creating the solar-powered network in order to "accommodate the explosive growth of data demands driven by

Published on October 31, 2026 at 5:50 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print As a podcast guest this week, Sam Altman did not mince his words about the surge in memory prices © Cheeky Pint For the head of OpenAI, the RAM in your computer would be much better put to use elsewhere. The remark comes at a bad time: in France, 32 GB of RAM costs almost four times what it did a year ago. As a guest on the Cheeky Pint podcast, in an episode posted online on October 29, Sam Altma

Umilink (Shibuya Ward, Tokyo), an email delivery service provider, announced on November 11 that a total of 47,860,147 pieces of personal information, including email addresses, had been leaked externally in connection with the unauthorized access it disclosed on October 19. As of October 26, the company had said that as many as approximately 51.62 million records might have been leaked, but it subsequently reassessed the number through further investigati