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Apple is unlikely to be pleased about this: A Chinese supplier of manufacturing equipment said at an investor conference that it was involved in an “Apple AI glasses” project. There is also talk of “new smart headphones.” These are likely the Apple Glasses, which have been rumored for some time, and possibly AirPods with built-in cameras. Apple is not commenting on this. Continue reading after the ad Jin Chun, chair of the board at Quick Intelligent Equipm

Google’s AlphaGenome 2 zooms in on the cellular roots of diseaseDeepMind’s new DNA model better predicts how mutations affect different cells, potentially opening paths to treatment.DeepMind’s new DNA model better predicts how mutations affect different cells, potentially opening paths to treatment.A graphic representing Google’s AlphaGenome Atlas. Image: Google is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Pre

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter "AI is grown, more than designed," OpenAI's chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, said in a new blog post on the company's latest GPT-6 Astra release. Titling the piece "An Alien Mind," Pachocki portrays the latest large language model as something more ethereal and harder to quanti

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter American nonprofit C4ADS, a monitoring organization funded mostly by the U.S. government, produced a report shedding light on the many ways that American AI accelerators reach China. Somewhat paradoxically, the U.S. refuses to sell advanced AI chips to China, while simultaneous

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 8 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter FBI Director Kash Patel just stated in an interview that he's responsible for a "605% increase" in the bureau's usage of AI. The problem is that while the pattern-recognition abilities of AI models make them an ideal candidate for use in law enforcement agencies, and It's a r

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Now and then, something novel appears in the AI world, amid near-constant releases of brand-new models. Last week saw the debut of TypeSafe AI's Jev, its first "System One" model. Rather than chatting with users like conventional LLMs, it's strictly designed for statement evalu

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Alibaba Cloud has released a new lightweight image generation AI model, called Qwen Image 2.1. Sporting just 7 billion parameters, it's an extremely lean open-weight model, able to run on even older consumer graphics cards like the RTX 3090. Despite its lightweight design, its

Shutterstock / Futurism As the USA’s war with Iran shows no signs of letting up, strikes on data centers are putting not just human lives in peril, but even customer data. According to a September 15 Amazon Web Services update, Iranian drone strikes left some of the tech giant’s data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in tatters. The company admitted that it was “unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted” on local data centers.

Shutterstock / Futurism Earlier this year, a group of rogue OpenAI models managed to break out of containment to hack the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The company’s “extensive investigation” detailed how the models exchanged messages and cheered each other on as they stole credentials to infiltrate a third party, actions that could easily have real repercussions for a human hacker. New details keep trickling out, and they make OpenAI lo

Shutterstock / Futurism After only a few months on the market, Meta’s new AI-integrated smart glasses are already being exploited for nefarious purposes. Dubbed “pervert glasses” for their incognito ability to film anybody in public, the new specs have enabled voyeurs and content creeps the world over, leading to widespread harassment, bullying, and privacy violations. And now the pervert glasses are also feeding another grim genre of content: joybait. You

Shutterstock / Futurism The majority of Americans are harboring some apocalyptic fears about AI. According to a new Politico poll that surveyed over 2,000 adults, about two thirds of the American public believes there’s now at least a “moderate” chance that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Intriguingly, the prevalence of this view extends across political lines, with only slight variation. Americans who voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential e

Mark Zuckerberg via Instagram For as long as we can remember, Meta has been the tip of the surveillance state spear. The company has amassed an unprecedented amount of intimate data about billions of people — and treated that invasive information with a well-documented level of carelessness. One of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most beloved pet projects, the company’s camera-adorned and AI Glasses, has brought the company’s shoddy treatment of privacy into stark r

Brown Brothers / Futurism Yesterday, Futurism published a months-long investigation into a little-known company called Brown Brothers Media — a sprawling media empire that buys struggling news publications and turns them into AI-powered content mills, while engaging in deeply dishonest practices including the widespread use of fake writers and the mass publishing of fabricated reporting and first-hand accounts. BBM was founded in the early 2020s. At the ti

U.S. Navy via Getty Images / Futurism With so many talks about AI’s potential to someday wipe out mankind with some spooky bioweapon, it seems many have overlooked the catastrophic risk that AI is actually posing in the here and now. Bombshell new reporting by CNN revealed a horrifying episode stemming from the US Special Operations Command Pacific which almost kicked off World War III. According to the reporting, US military officials aborted a planned ra