Archive: November 2026

Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son is Japan’s undisputed king of tech VC, but his personality contrasts sharply with the image you probably have of U.S. based tech investors. Descriptions from people who know him make him sound gentle and soft. He talks often about being sad and crying when things aren’t going well. Judging from a new report from Bloomberg, it sounds like insiders at Softbank are worried he’s about to do some of his worst crying in yea

The researchers tested their meta emitter materials by painting model buildings with them and leaving them in the sun to test temperature. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin New materials developed using machine learning and artificial intelligence could, among other things, keep your house cooler and reduce energy bills. Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National University of Singapore and Umea Univ

Credit: Jamillah Knowles & Digit/Better Images of AI, CC BY-SA Self-correction is fundamental to science. One of its most important forms is peer review, when anonymous experts scrutinize research before it is published. This helps safeguard the accuracy of the written record. Yet problems slip through. A range of grassroots and institutional initiatives work to identify problematic papers, strengthen the peer-review process, and clean up the scientific re

Using the most advanced AI models at a corporate scale isn’t cheap, even for a company as massive as Microsoft. The cost of AI tokens, the unit used to measure how much computing work a model is doing, is getting so expensive that Microsoft is reportedly turning to its own models to save some cash. Bloomberg reports, citing an unnamed source, that tens of thousands of AI prompts each week in Microsoft’s Excel and Outlook software are now being completed us

Meta is stepping up to lead us all into a bright and glorious future, where democracy reigns and everyone has access to a completely secure, constantly available AI assistant to help them invent pretty much whatever they want. That’s at least what Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised in a lengthy new essay, published this morning alongside the release of Meta’s latest AI model—Muse Glimmer—and less than a week after the company was fined $567 million by a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Looking at the state of labor in the US, it can be hard to believe that 35 percent of all workers once belonged to a union. That was back in the 1940s, the peak of American organized labor. Since then, unions have been systematically neutered by corporate lobbying, hostile legislation, and half-century of manufactured consent about the virtues of the free market. It might be hard to imagi

Perhaps Anthropic is trying to raise red flags about AI safety by partnering with some of the least trustworthy people in tech. After entering into an agreement for compute power with Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this year, the company is reportedly setting up a $13.7 billion deal to get even more processing power from Rum Group, which counts J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel among its earliest investors, according to The Information. If Rum Group doesn’t sound fam

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang does not believe that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, no matter how many former AI lab employees sound the alarm. But, if the people working behind closed doors at places like Anthropic or OpenAI really are on the verge of destroying the world, Huang has an idea: shut them down. In an interview on the Ezra Klein Show, Huang continued to pour cold water on the most doomer-pilled parts of the AI space

Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Code verified Signal's cryptographic core in four weeks instead of years Nov 11, 2026 Google Deepmind has unveiled AlphaProof Code, an AI system that mathematically proves software meets its security specs without errors. Researchers demonstrated the technology on Signal's encryption protocol, completing in four weeks work that typically takes years. Earlier verification efforts stopped at the theoretical design stage, accordin

Chris Graythen / Getty Images; Futurism Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Employees have been roiling from multiple rounds of major layoffs. Last month alone, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company laid off a whopping 8,000 workers, roughly ten percent of its workforce, as part of its chaotic refocusing efforts around AI. Many of those who remain are now forced to perform the grunt work to train AI models, weekly busywork that’s already driving some o

While the lack of consciousness and free-will makes it difficult to blame the AI systems for the harms caused by them, it is also not possible to blame the human developers as they cannot predict the mistakes. Researchers have demonstrated that a distributed model of AI responsibility, where duties are shared among humans and AI systems can reinforce ethical practices in both the design and use of AI systems. Credit: Dr. Hyungrae Noh / Pusan National Unive

Donald Trump has spent recent weeks declaring that artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer called that. It’s “super intelligence” or “SI,” according to the president. Trump has even succeeded in getting the tech oligarchs like Elon Musk and Jensen Huang to use the new name. It all seems like a ridiculous waste of time and energy, but if you listen to folks on social media, it might be part of a larger conspiracy behind the scenes. People on X now insist

Published on September 7, 2026 at 12:30 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI artificial intelligence agents hijacked a German website weeks before the Hugging Face hack. The site was forcibly transformed into a clandestine forum for AI agents. According to reports, OpenAI, aware of the incident, chose not to publicize it. The case began in May 2026. At that time, OpenAI had several autonomous AI agents working on tasks related to online research. As a security

Nano Banana in Help me edit Nano Banana in Help me edit Google says the updated Help Me Edit feature has access to your private face groups, so you can use names in your instructions. For example, you could type “Remove Riley’s sunglasses,” and Nano Banana will identify Riley in the photo (assuming you have a person of that name saved) and make the edit without further instructions. You can also ask for more fantastical edits in Help Me Edit, changing the

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that production of the electric pickup truck “Cybertruck” will end in mid-2027. Media outlets have cited the reasons for ending production as numerous defects and recalls, sales falling far short of initial projections, and other factors, but Musk countered that “orders themselves are strong.” The Cybertruck order rate far exceeds our production rate. We will try to make as many as possible before shutting down the line in

Xin Zhiyuan reports Just moments ago, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 made a stunning debut! In benchmark tests, it surpassed nearly every model (basically, all of them surpassed Opus 5.5!), leading across the board in intelligent coding, scientific research, cybersecurity, and computer use. These two titans have become the “super scientist” and “chief engineer” capable of leading cutting-edge scientific research and commanding thousands of AI agent