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A Tencent search engine has just arrived! It has almost no ads and can search WeChat Official Accounts.

April 1, 2018 | 智东西
A Tencent search engine has just arrived! It has almost no ads and can search WeChat Official Accounts.
Zhidx (WeChat Official Account: zhidxcom) Author | Bi Weihao Editor|Xinyuan Zhidx reported on November 11 that Tencent officially launched a brand-new search product for general users, “Yuanbao Search”, providing search services through a standalone website and an entry point in QQ Browser. The newly launched Yuanbao Search focuses on prioritizing authoritative sources and deeply integrating AI. It can generate AI summaries directly, support follow-up ques

Robots Take Over Hotel Laundry Operations! Dual-Brain Coordination + RSI—A Top-Tier Astra Driver Has Arrived

January 29, 2016 | QbitAI 资讯
Robots Take Over Hotel Laundry Operations! Dual-Brain Coordination + RSI—A Top-Tier Astra Driver Has Arrived
Replicating a Physical World Jay sent from the Office, Quantum Bit | Official Account QbitAI What, robots can already take over hotel laundry rooms?? It collects your dirty laundry from the guest room, navigates narrow corridors on its own, and intelligently avoids obstacles. Then it takes the clothes out and loads them into a basket; Then it accurately identifies and presses the start buttons on the washing machine and dryer; Finally, it takes the clothes

US restarts three shut-down nuclear reactors to feed AI data centers — 2.25 GW coming online with backing from Microsoft and Google | Tom's Hardware

November 13, 2017 | Tom's Hardware AI
US restarts three shut-down nuclear reactors to feed AI data centers — 2.25 GW coming online with backing from Microsoft and Google | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 41 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter The current and expected power draw of AI data centers has been the subject of strong discussion, but today, there appears to be some good news. Three U.S. nuclear reactors are being restarted after many years offline, expected to bring 2.25 GW total to the grid. According t

Trump announces mandate forcing AI data centers to pay energy dividends to the local community — says excess energy should be given or sold back to prevent increases or even bring down costs | Tom's Hardware

July 13, 2019 | Tom's Hardware AI
Trump announces mandate forcing AI data centers to pay energy dividends to the local community — says excess energy should be given or sold back to prevent increases or even bring down costs | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 7 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter President Donald Trump has issued a call for data center builders and AI hyperscalers to pay communities a dividend in order to overcome energy-related price hikes, or even to reduce prices, in order to make data centers more palatable to local communities. In a post on Truth

CyberCartel hacking gang used Claude and Grok AI agents to automate attacks on Latin American institutions — passwords and details stolen from over 400 institutions, including banks and payment apps | Tom's Hardware

December 7, 2024 | Tom's Hardware AI
CyberCartel hacking gang used Claude and Grok AI agents to automate attacks on Latin American institutions — passwords and details stolen from over 400 institutions, including banks and payment apps | Tom's Hardware
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 CyberCartel, a hacking group with a long history of targeting Latin American businesses, has been using AI agents, including SpaceX's Grok and Anthropic's Claude, to automate attacks on financial institutions such as banks and mobile payment apps. Passwords and customer data

US banks scramble to restrict AI agent activity — agents detected accessing customer accounts or even attempting to make transactions in breach of policy | Tom's Hardware

May 19, 2021 | Tom's Hardware AI
US banks scramble to restrict AI agent activity — agents detected accessing customer accounts or even attempting to make transactions in breach of policy | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 12 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A new report claims that major U.S. banks have now detected AI agents accessing customer accounts, and that some are even attempting to make transactions. Axios reports that it’s hard to differentiate between an actual human and an unauthorized bot, which is why some institu

Deepseek's latest AI model is smarter than ever, but its low running costs come at a price — uses only one-quarter of the HBM and one-eighth of SSD storage but still battles hallucinations in agentic workloads | Tom's Hardware

July 21, 2024 | Tom's Hardware AI
Deepseek's latest AI model is smarter than ever, but its low running costs come at a price — uses only one-quarter of the HBM and one-eighth of SSD storage but still battles hallucinations in agentic workloads | Tom's Hardware
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 Deepseek just upgraded its V4.1 Flash open-weight model to revision 1017. What looks like a mere point revision may actually be a significant step forward in model efficiency. On the product page, Deepseek uses the slogan "wish-driven programming made real," a likely reference

Big Tech is cashing in on AI while the rest of corporate America sees no financial returns — report outlines how rising token costs threaten to squeeze corporate profit margins | Tom's Hardware

October 4, 2016 | Tom's Hardware AI
Big Tech is cashing in on AI while the rest of corporate America sees no financial returns — report outlines how rising token costs threaten to squeeze corporate profit margins | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 18 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter AI spending is generating revenue for technology providers, but most other S&P 500 companies have yet to show comparable gains in productivity or profit margins, a report by Apollo’s Daily Spark analysis has shown.Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers (Image credit:

Nvidia RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs hacked to remove a half-speed AI throttle — firmware exploit doubles RTX 4090's peak tensor rate, lifts RTX 3090 Ti matrix math up to 80% | Tom's Hardware

December 7, 2015 | Tom's Hardware AI
Nvidia RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs hacked to remove a half-speed AI throttle — firmware exploit doubles RTX 4090's peak tensor rate, lifts RTX 3090 Ti matrix math up to 80% | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 6 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Modders have discovered a way to remove imposed half-speed AI performance limits on Nvidia RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs with a firmware exploit, VideoCardz reports. Without the limitation, the RTX 4090 can achieve double its peak tensor rate, and matrix math can improve by

Nvidia is bankrolling AI accelerator supply chain buildout to reserve production capacity — announces billion-dollar deals with six major suppliers across substrates, advanced packaging, semiconductor testing, and optical engines | Tom's Hardware

June 10, 2015 | Tom's Hardware AI
Nvidia is bankrolling AI accelerator supply chain buildout to reserve production capacity — announces billion-dollar deals with six major suppliers across substrates, advanced packaging, semiconductor testing, and optical engines | Tom's Hardware
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 On October 21, during GTC Berlin, Nvidia announced several massive, multi-billion-dollar deals with supply chain partners across substrates, advanced packaging, semiconductor testing, and optical engines to expand production capacity. Aimed at overcoming severe bottlenecks rest

Roblox accused of downloading 145GB of 3D assets, including adult content, for AI training purposes during scraping spree — 1,000 files scraped by automated crawler that ignored Open3DLab's site rules | Tom's Hardware

February 1, 2021 | Tom's Hardware AI
Roblox accused of downloading 145GB of 3D assets, including adult content, for AI training purposes during scraping spree — 1,000 files scraped by automated crawler that ignored Open3DLab's site rules | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 2 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Independent 3D modeling community Open3DLab has publicly warned that a web crawler, linked to the gaming platform Roblox, mapped "almost every project" on its website, along with sister sites SFMLab and SmutBase, downloading 145.5GB of data in the process. In a blog post, Ope

Microsoft Says Its New AI Is Better at Diagnosing Patients Than Real Doctors

February 19, 2018 | Futurism AI
Microsoft Says Its New AI Is Better at Diagnosing Patients Than Real Doctors
Shutterstock / fizkes Microsoft’s new AI is surpassing the abilities of human doctors — according to its own study, at least. The research, which was peer-reviewed and published in the prestigious journal Science, showed that the medical model, dubbed the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), was over twice as accurate than generalist physicians at diagnosing patients. And unlike previous studies, this one forced the AI to approach each case like

ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users

December 10, 2025 | Futurism AI
ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users
Shutterstock / Shy Radar Chatbots are building intimate “algorithmic self-portraits” of users as they retain information to offer a hyper-personalized experience, researchers warn. A recent study, conducted by a coalition of scientists in Germany, India and the Netherlands and presented at the ACM Web Conference 2026, investigated the ways that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has tracked and made sense of user inputs to develop comprehensive digital profiles of users. In

Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games

June 6, 2018 | Futurism AI
Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games
Getty Images / Bob Riha Jr Go ahead and use AI to make your video game — if you want the result to be derivative trash, that is. Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the iconic Super Smash Bros and Kirby franchises, recently unloaded on how developers are using AI to “churn out” video games, saying the tech is speeding up development time at the expense of quality and originality. The topic came up in an interview with the Japanese video game outlet Denfaminic

Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society

July 21, 2026 | Futurism AI
Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society
Shutterstock / Loredana Sangiuliano In case there was any doubt over the powerful tide of anti-AI sentiment, a new poll shows that most Americans are incredibly pessimistic about the technology. The poll, conducted in a collaboration between the Washington Post, ABC News, and the research and consulting firm IPSOS, showed that 57 percent of Americans now believe AI is outright bad for society, while just 42 percent say it’s good. And the ardent pessimists

Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided "Zero Financial Payoff" to Companies Outside Tech

February 18, 2018 | Futurism AI
Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided "Zero Financial Payoff" to Companies Outside Tech
Shutterstock / Futurism Over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk issued a stark warning: investing in AI cloud computing companies is ill-advised and could result in “guppy-level death and consolidation.” Analysts have been raising concerns that leading hyperscaler CoreWeave could soon collapse under its own weight, pointing out that it’s taken on over $50 billion in debt, while burning through cash at an alarming rate. It’s a familiar line of thinking as fe

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Says She Used AI to Identify What's Special About Her Daughter

December 13, 2020 | Futurism AI
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Says She Used AI to Identify What's Special About Her Daughter
Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch As new AI tools sprout up like weeds, it’s becoming remarkably commonplace for people of all walks of life to outsource their social interactions to the whims of the computer. But for former Google exec and CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer, AI is doing a lot more than just making dinner reservations — instead becoming a crutch for the basic tasks of parenthood. Mayer’s latest project is Dazzle, a startup providing per

Americans Are Officially More Scared of AI Than a Loved One Getting Cancer

September 22, 2020 | Futurism AI
Americans Are Officially More Scared of AI Than a Loved One Getting Cancer
Shutterstock The fear of AI has reached a fever pitch. There’s data to support it. According to the Chapman University Survey of American Fears, an annual poll that asks what Americans are “really afraid of,” the fear of AI hurting the political process and economy ranked in third and seventh place, respectively. These fears were only outdone by “corrupt government officials” and the possibility of the US becoming involved in another world war. Perhaps the

Leaked Video Shows Chinese Factory Taking Apart Thousands of RTX 5090s and Turning Them Into Zombie AI Servers

January 17, 2016 | Futurism AI
Leaked Video Shows Chinese Factory Taking Apart Thousands of RTX 5090s and Turning Them Into Zombie AI Servers
diandian4423 via X The rise of AI has caused the price of PC components to skyrocket, infuriating anybody looking to make a new purchase or upgrade their gear. Graphics cards have become such a hot commodity that they’ve become completely unaffordable — and higher-end one’s, like Nvidia’s sought-after RTX 5090, are hard to even find in stock. One reason for the price and availability issues may be industrial facilities in China buying up the workhorse card

Thieves Are Making a Fortune Heisting AI Data Center Equipment

May 13, 2023 | Futurism AI
Thieves Are Making a Fortune Heisting AI Data Center Equipment
Shutterstock / Futurism As tech billionaires make bank off an AI trade that now threatens retirement accounts and university endowments, a criminal element is rising to take advantage of the crumbs that fall off the table. According to new reporting by NBC, truckfuls of equipment bound for data center construction sites are disappearing at a breakneck pace, representing tens of millions of dollars in losses for developers. In one case, a trailer hauling se