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Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter In late August, Architect Labs claimed it had designed a chip that was almost entirely developed by AI, an industry-first achievement. AI is already used to optimize floorplans, placement and routing, verification, and other stages of semiconductor development. Generative AI

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 A new report from AI research firm Epoch AI suggests the price of artificial intelligence has fallen by thousands of times in recent years — faster than any other transformational technology in the past century. The report suggests that the cost of artificial intelligence is ju

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 4 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Meta's Muse is the hottest new AI agent in town right now after the company announced it earlier this month. But despite having been well-received by those who have put the agent through its paces since then, it now appears Muse might not be as private as Meta claims. The com

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter There's a private information leak most days, usually by way of misconfigured services or nasty security bugs. Sometimes, though, users will readily hand over private information without being aware of it. That's the case for over 300 organizations, including several Fortune

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Over at Tom's Hardware Premium, we've been publishing a slew of stories centered around our themed AI Chip Design Week, where you can learn more about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the chipmaking world. Each article in our series of stories is free to access for a

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 1 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Microsoft’s “biomimicry” program is reshaping the land around its data centers with restored wetlands and native gardens to help the buildings blend into local ecosystems at 20-plus sites, reports The Verge. Critics question the company’s motives after recent energy deals, su

Getty / Futurism For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models after revealing even more instances of the experimental systems going rogue and hacking into third party servers. The news once again highlighted rising concerns over the AI industry losing the ability to keep their own technology in check. Now, the Sam Altman-led company is canceling the release of its next-generation AI model GPT-6.1 Astra,

Phil Lewis via X The opposition to the wide proliferation of AI data centers has never been more palpable. Public sentiment has squarely turned against the construction boom of massive facilities that often torture surrounding communities with deafening noise, cause electricity prices to spike, spew pollution, and deplete water levels in drought-prone areas. It’s no wonder that across the country, local communities are crowding into their council meetings,

Shutterstock / YASTAJ Earlier this month, Futurism published an exposé about a company called Brown Brothers Media. In the story, we investigated how the company buys struggling news sites and turns them into high-traffic AI-powered content mills rife with plagiarism, fabulism, and the use of fake authors identified as journalists and subject matter experts with fraudulent credentials. (In a follow-up piece, we explored how one of the company’s founders ha

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations. Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that their respective AI models infiltrated third party targets without their human creators ever realizing, raising concerns over the tech industry’s ability to assert control over the systems they’re developing. Now, as a broad range of AI executives have subsequently agreed to slow things down — allegedly efforts to ensure

OpenAI via X Would any live product demo be complete without a few technical difficulties? At its annual DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled its new AI agent called Dots — which, like Meta’s Muse, comes with a cute mascot. Powered by its GPT-6 Astra model, the agents are intended to be “always-on,” doing stuff for you in the background constantly. Dots didn’t seem quite switched on, though, when OpenAI product team member Holly L

Facebook Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI. For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number of groups for the tens of thousands of people interested in urine therapy — a pseudo-scientific practice involving the use of human micturate to “treat” ailments, ranging from acne to viral infections and even terminal cancer. The members of these groups have done a fine job of cultivating a dangerous ecosystem of quack remedies and misin

Joel Angel Juárez/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t trust human doctors, but he does trust AI chatbots — and so should you, he’s using his authority as chief medical spokesperson in the US government to tell the public. The crux of the health secretary’s recent remarks during his “fireside chat” with vice president JD Vance at the Make America Healthy Again Conference on Tuesday was that AI models are now “better inform

Shutterstock / Futurism Companies and organizations around the world would do well to accept what their new roles are in our current AI-driven paradigm: glorified target practice for rogue AI agents. The latest of such cybersecurity incidents, which frontier AI labs have been happy to turn into public spectacles, comes from OpenAI. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT-maker apologized after its AI agents hacked their way into several Australian government websites. The

BBC Slipping ratings, a revolving door of lead actors, and nothing quite hitting like that old school David Tennant run. It’s dog days for “Doctor Who” fans, whose lives aren’t likely to be made any better by the prospect of AI creeping into the show. While speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in London, BBC director Matt Brittin extolled the amazing efficiency of using AI to crank out footage — before raising the possibility of using it on

Jacob Coxon via X / Futurism Internet sleuths have dug up old posts that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who kicked the AI safety movement into overdrive with his sensational claim that the tech “could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Coxon’s current X account, @hilbertspaess, was created in 2026, but the gumshoes found that there were two previous accounts on that platform under the same handle between 2021 and 2024. T

Finn Gomez/Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made the rash decision to double-down on massive AI spending, pushing a cutesy AI-mascot and poaching tech industry veteran Chirantan Desai to run a new division pushing Meta’s AI onto corporate customers. The company’s investors, however, appear to be running out of slack for Zuckerberg’s leash. Since Friday of last week, a large sell-off in Meta stocks shrunk his paper fortune by nearly $20 billion, af

Shutterstock / Futurism A Malaysian man is facing up to three years in a Singaporean prison — after an ill-conceived text containing AI slop shut down the city-state’s largest reservoir for days. According to the BBC, the bizarre incident started when the 30-year-old Ye Lin sent his colleague a photo of a saltwater crocodile — entirely generated by Google Gemini — lurking in the Pandan Reservoir, a 435-acre basin in Singapore’s western residential district

Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Meta’s fuzzy Muse AI personal assistant overtook ChatGPT as the top free iOS app in the US after launching earlier this month, surpassing 3.4 million downloads last week. But whether the agent will be able to hold on to that momentum is anything but guaranteed, considering the sheer amount of changes it requires to its users’ behavior. Tech companies like OpenAI and Meta would love us to hand over mundane ta

Shutterstock / Zafer Gulec A recent paper found that the extensive use of AI chatbots can be linked to “severe negative outcomes.” According to the research, which was published in the journal JMIR Mental Health by a team of UK-based researchers at Northeastern University London and King’s College London, dark outcomes of engaging in emotional relationships with chatbots can include “addiction-like attachment, exacerbation of mental health symptoms, harmfu