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Published on May 19, 2026 at 07:51 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © RMD NATO/UE Rennes will host the next NATO excellence center dedicated to artificial intelligence. France becomes the only country to host three, as the United States closes theirs. Comcyber, DGA, AMIAD, and soon NATO. The Rennes metropolitan area already hosts the command of the army's cyber defense (Comcyber) and the "information mastery" pole of the General Directorate of Armaments. It mainly hosts

Published on May 19, 2026 at 14:42 Commenter 3 𝕏 Print © OpenAI/01net 1,305,088.81 dollars billed over 30 days. Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, has just put a concrete number on the real cost of coding by autonomous AI agents. Discussions around 'vibe coding' (letting an AI write the code on its own) generally revolve around promises of efficiency and productivity gains.1,305,088.81 dollars billed over 30 days. Steinberger is the creator of Ope

Published on May 19, 2026 at 17:34 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Meta Meta announced the reallocation of 7,000 of its employees into four new organizations dedicated to the development of AI tools and applications. Two days later, on May 20, the company will implement its layoff plan affecting 10% of its global workforce, which amounts to approximately 8,000 employees. This Monday, May 18, Meta announced the reallocation of 7,000 of its employees into four new organ

Published on May 20, 2026 at 10:11 Comment 0 Print © Google Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash, a lightweight, fast, and cost-effective model, but one that would show similar, if not superior, performance compared to top models. As expected, it's about agentive AI. Gemini 3.5 Flash doesn't just answer questions; it acts on your behalf and executes actions. During the conference Google I/O 2026, Google unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash, a lightweight, fast, and cost-

Published on May 20, 2026 at 12:15 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Sk aman khan Andrej Karpathy, co-founder of OpenAI, has officially joined Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude. He has just joined the team responsible for training large AI models, a key step in shaping artificial intelligence. Karpathy joins the competition as the rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic reaches its peak. Andrej Karpathy, one of the leading names in AI, has announced his arrival at

Published on May 20, 2026 at 15:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google Google structured its entire I/O 2026 conference around agent AI. Behind the term, a paradigm shift: artificial intelligence no longer just generates, it pursues goals. The Google I/O conference on May 19, 2026 had only one theme: the agent era. The term appears in almost every announcement, every demonstration, every slide of Sundar Pichai's keynote, from the performances of Gemini 3.5 Flash un

Published on May 21, 2026 at 12:39 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Getúlio Moraes Artificial intelligence was supposed to revolutionize pizza delivery at Pizza Hut, but it would have turned into an industrial fiasco costing $100 million. Pizza Hut imposed the use of Dragontail, an AI-driven kitchen and delivery management system, on its restaurants to optimize every step, from preparation to delivery. However, one of the largest franchisees in the country, Chaac Pizza

Published on May 21, 2026 at 15:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © LinkedIn More than half of long posts on LinkedIn would be generated by AI. The platform announces a detection system with 94% accuracy, but prefers to reduce the volume rather than bring out the broom. The LinkedIn feed has become unreadable, and if you spend not even five minutes a day on it, you don't need someone to draw it for you. Interchangeable 'leadership' carousels, hooks that all start with

Published on May 21, 2026 at 17:58 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Canva Four major AI assistants, four Canva integrations in five months. At this rate, the Australian platform will soon be integrated into your fridge. A year ago, Canva was a design application. Today, it's a universal plugin that every major AI giant is rushing to adopt. The announcement made during Google I/O 2026 drives the nail: Canva becomes a 'Connected App' within Gemini. Users can generate a

Published on May 23, 2026 at 11:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net/Canva GPT-5.5 would have an IQ of 136, Opus 4.7 of 132. A new site converts AI benchmarks into IQ scores. The problem is that the result measures very little. Paste an IQ score on an AI model, it's the kind of idea that immediately sparks reactions: fascinating on paper, suspect as soon as you scratch the surface. A new site named AI IQ has taken on this task by compiling the results of 12 public

Published on May 26, 2026 at 12:31 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Microsoft cancels most of its Claude Code licenses, four months after strongly encouraging its developers to use daily the agent AI tools of Anthropic. Microsoft explains that it made this change to now prioritize its own tools. However, internal notes mention another reason: Claude Code would cost Microsoft a lot of money. According to information from the media The Verge, Microsoft plans t

Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images/Futurism OpenAI is still committed to a whopping $600 billion in AI infrastructure investments over the next four years, a gargantuan spending spree that requires the ChatGPT maker to make massive strides in attracting new users — and, to put it crassly, make far more money than it currently is. The numbers don’t paint a flattering picture, with OpenAI barely crossing the $20 billion annualized revenue line last year. I

Tony Webster via Wikimedia Commons / Futurism Police officers across the US are using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to stalk personal romantic interests. According to an analysis by the Institute for Justice, there are already 14 cases across the country where cops are alleged to have abused ALPR access to follow spouses, exes, and even complete strangers. The timing is striking, with the majority of the stalking cases coming after 2024 — the yea

Paige Taylor White / AFP via Getty Images Seven families — the first wave of dozens, lawyers say — are suing OpenAI, alleging that the company failed to provide Canadian authorities with information that could’ve prevented a horrific school shooting in the rural mining town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, despite having advance knowledge of the shooter’s disturbing conversations with the chatbot. The lawsuits also claim that OpenAI has misled the publi

HBO John Oliver just did what he did best: demolished a harmful industry piece by piece. On the latest episode of his HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver tore into AI chatbots, those oh-so helpful tools that can sure save us “significant time writing emails,” he opened, with the small cost of “everything else on Earth.” “The more you look at chatbots, the more you realize that they were rushed to market with very little consideration for the consequences,

Getty / Futurism AI companies have swept customers onto the bandwagon by offering cheap and even free access to their AI models. But the bill is finally coming due, and the results could be ugly. Earlier this month, Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot customers were informed that they would have to reduce their usage of the AI coding tool because of the “significant strain” placed on company servers. It also nixed free trials for new accounts, citing abuse of the s

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/Futurism Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that ChatGPT maker OpenAI had missed its internal targets of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year — and that’s on top of falling short of its revenue targets. It was an unfortunate revelation that came at a highly inopportune time. While the AI industry continues to spend tens of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure build ou

Getty / Futurism Yesterday, OpenAI published a balmy blog post on its “commitment to community safety.” Taking a reassuring tone, the post walks readers through a series of unobjectionable commitments. It declares that “mass shootings, threats against public officials, bombing attempts, and attacks on communities and individuals are an unacceptable and grave reality in today’s world,” which is true. It reflects on “how quickly violent intent can move from

Getty / Futurism OpenAI is forbidding its latest AI model from discussing an unlikely topic: goblins. As Wired reports, the company’s developers included strongly-worded instructions for its coding tool, Codex, that specifically proscribe any talk of the troublesome mythological creatures, along with a peculiar grab bag of other entities, both real and fictional. “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or cre

Amazon / Futurism Companies keep forcing AI features to do things that no one ever thought they needed, or indeed ever conceived of. In this unfortunate category, Amazon’s new feature for generating mini-podcast segments that shill for products on its shopping platform really takes the cake. The bizarre feature was spotlighted by Katie Notopoulos at Business Insider, who recorded the Amazon AI’s pathetic attempt of portraying an engaging discussion on just