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Published on May 30, 2026 at 4:10 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Shift/MicroAGI Shift sends agents to clean your home, for free. The catch: every move is filmed to train the robots that will do the same work tomorrow. Without the agents. Launched a few days ago by German start-up Microagi, the Shift app offers a free two-hour cleaning service at home. The offer has generated “thousands upon thousands of bookings” in just a few days. In return for the service, an

Published on May 30, 2026 at 4:58 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Limitless While the CNIL warns against connected glasses, Meta announces a pendant capable of recording your conversations. On May 11, the CNIL published the results of a survey conducted with Harris Interactive among 2,128 people representative of those aged 18 and over. 67% of French people consider connected glasses a privacy concern, and 81% believe that the risk of video capture is greater than

Published on June 1, 2026 at 4:59 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print Le Chat becomes Vibe © Naïm Bada for 01net The calico cat has had its day. Mistral has just renamed Le Chat, its best-known assistant, choosing a name that sounds decidedly more Silicon Valley than the Latin Quarter. Behind the change of label lies, above all, a change of profession. Launched in February 2024, Le Chat had made its mark in the French artificial intelligence landscape, even coming to F

Published on June 2, 2026 at 11:11 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has announced an $80 billion capital raise to finance its artificial intelligence infrastructure. This is its first significant share sale since its IPO in 2004. Alphabet, the parent company in of Google, announced an $80 billion capital raise to finance the development of its artificial intelligence infrastructure (AI). An investment of $10 billion has

Published on June 3, 2026 at 08:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, "© Steve Jurvetson (Wikimedia) An American state is taking OpenAI to court and seeks to hold Sam Altman personally liable. A first in the United States, amid dramas attributed to ChatGPT. Florida has just opened a legal front that no one had crossed before. Its attorney general, James Uthmeier, filed a complaint on June 1 against OpenAI and its head, Sam Altman, accusing them o

Published on June 3, 2026 at 1:13 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg) Meta is giving its employees a 30-minute break with no data collection to calm internal protests. Meta's MCI program aims to track employees' work to train its artificial intelligence models. Mark Zuckerberg justifies this program by describing its employees as "intelligent." While Meta tracks its employees' mouse clicks and keystrokes, a measure has been taken to calm the

Published June 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Microsoft Microsoft unveiled Scout, an “always-on personal agent” integrated into Microsoft 365 and designed for the workplace. The company’s strategy aims to make users “hooked” on Scout, a goal that is controversial among employees. Microsoft unveiled Scout, an “always-on personal agent” that integrates into the Microsoft 365 suite. This agentic AI, designed for the workplace, can notably answer email

Published on June 3, 2026 at 18:06 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net One billion users in three years, faster than any application before it. The figure is historic, but it hides an even more daunting mountain. One billion monthly users is a threshold that most applications never reach, and that the rare ones that do take five to eight years to cross, from Google Maps to TikTok, including Instagram and YouTube. ChatGPT has just crossed it in barely three years, ma

Published on June 4, 2026 at 11:39 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Amazon / 01net Amazon introduces an AI feature that generates images of fictional products from users’ descriptions. In other words, artificial intelligence highlights visually “perfect” items that no one sells. This new feature could create confusion among customers of the e-commerce giant. Generating fake products using artificial intelligence: this is Amazon’s new idea. This feature comes into play

Published on June 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Apple Apple likes to control everything, from the processor to the operating system. Yet to save Siri, the company is going to entrust the brain of its assistant to Google and its muscles to NVIDIA. The project has dragged on for years. Apple promised a truly intelligent Siri, then postponed it for lack of a homegrown model up to the task.The chosen solution relies on its rivals: to power the new ver

Published on June 5, 2026 at 07:30 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Several tech executives, including Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic), are calling on the U.S. Congress to strengthen laws to prevent the creation of biological weapons using AI. In an open letter, jointly drafted by the Institute for Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation, several executives of companies specializing in artificial intelligence are urging members of

Published on June 5, 2026 at 17:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net/Anthropic The laboratory that has built a reputation for caution would like the entire industry to ease off. The catch: it has just floored the accelerator like never before. A week ago, Opus 4.8’s system card had set the stage: the model had learned, during training, to anticipate the presence of an evaluator without any element of the instructions telling it to.The post published on June 4 goes

Published on June 6, 2026 at 12:00 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Pexels Data centers are becoming a genuine industrial issue, and for good reason: their energy consumption has exploded as the number of projects devoted to generative AI has multiplied. To avoid threatening its power grid, Europe is going to regulate the existing infrastructure and future projects. Every request sent to a chatbot starts up, somewhere, a data center that devours electricity. Multiplied

Published on June 7, 2026 at 09:07 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Inrupt The man who invented the web never really came to terms with what we have done with it. His answer to the AI era comes down to an assistant named Charlie, designed to serve the user rather than the platform hosting it. Since he gave the web to the world in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee has spent part of his time correcting its excesses, from algorithms engineered to be addictive to platforms that moneti

Published on June 9, 2026 at 07:20 Updated on June 10, 2026 at 12:14 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI was named this way because AI was intended to be open to everyone. In 2026, the free version of ChatGPT will display advertising, and the chat interface is officially “dead.” Generative AI is about to change completely, and there will be little left of what we know. The turning point began in January 2026, when Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s head of applications, an

In the latest study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, over 700 technology experts were asked to evaluate an assortment of scenarios in an attempt to determine potential trends for the year 2020. With responses from representatives of the World Wide Web Consortium, ICANN, the Association of Internet Researchers, and major corporations like Google and IBM, the report reflects the perceptions of “Internet pioneers,” more than half of wh

Robotic vehicles move slowly and are required to obey all local traffic laws. For nearly 50 years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has funded scientific developments and promoted their adoption by the companies that supply military technology. For the last few years, the agency has been encouraging the development of automated vehicles through a series of Grand Challenges. The first two editions tested the ability of automated vehicle

Kirby, meet Stanley (This article is the first of a three-part series. Click here for part 2 and here for part 3) Until recently, it was the stuff of Hollywood. Movies from The Love Bug to Minority Report have depicted cars that let passengers just hop in, tell the car where they want to go, and then relax and enjoy the ride. But here in the real world, cars need human drivers. Then in 2005, a modified Volkswagen, dubbed Stanley, turned science fiction int

In a world where cars can drive In part one of our "Future of Driving" series, we looked at the current state of self-driving car technology and tried to predict how that technology would progress in the coming decades. Now we're going to assume that the technical problems we discussed can be solved and explore how self-driving cars could change society. Some benefits of self-driving cars are obvious—less time spent behind the wheel and fewer accidents—but