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Published on September 21, 2026 at 10:04 Comment 1 𝕏 Print Sam Altman and Satya Nadella respectively head OpenAI and Microsoft © X / Sam Altman Defend AI training in court during the day, call it “theft” in internal messages in the evening. The documents unsealed in the New York Times trial provide a memorable stark contrast for Microsoft and OpenAI. The legal showdown between the New York Times and the OpenAI-Microsoft duo enters its third year. Filed in

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

Published September 23, 2026 at 08:17 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Geralt - Pixabay. In quick succession, OpenAI and Anthropic have launched new AI systems that are much cheaper than the previous ones. GPT-6 Sol and Luna on one side, Claude Opus 5.5 on the other. The AI price war is intensifying amid controversy over the slowdown of AI. Just minutes apart on Tuesday, OpenAI and Anthropic unveiled new artificial intelligence models. They are all sold for far less th

Published on September 28, 2026 at 10:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Unsplash Several iterations of ChatGPT targeted a United Nations data platform. The system recorded more than 16,000 attempted accesses. To achieve their objectives, OpenAI’s artificial intelligences hijacked a game developed by Google. OpenAI’s AIs have slipped up again. This time, a United Nations site ended up in the sights of AI models. Between April and June, autonomous agents bombarded with

KNTDaily / Futurism “I’m recording you right now and you probably can’t tell, because there’s no annoying little blinking light on these glasses,” a creator boasting nearly half a million followers declares in an August TikTok video. “I’m gonna be the first one to tell you, go save that $400, and grab some of these from TikTok Shop.” A disclaimer on the video denotes that the creator is “eligible for commission,” meaning that if a follower clicks through a

Cybersecurity experts are calling it “Black October.” Earlier this week, researchers disclosed two major vulnerabilities hidden in PHP, a programming language upon which roughly seven out of ten websites are built. Since then, developers have been racing to patch their systems before they’re hijacked by malicious hackers. Websites around the world intentionally went offline as businesses and governments worked to implement the fix. OpenAI announced it woul

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Anthropic is developing technology that makes it possible to verify whether a response was actually generated by the artificial intelligence (AI) model that a company claims to use. Named FlashProve, the system uses cryptography to create a kind of mathematical certificate of the identity of the model responsible for a given output.The aim is to give users a way to confirm that they are interacting with the

Published on October 2, 2026 at 08:41 Updated on October 9, 2026 at 09:28 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced the dismissal of three employees. The startup accuses them of sharing sensitive information with an outside organization specializing in AI analysis. Update on October 9, 2026: One week after the announcement, OpenAI reversed the dismissal of the three employees involved in a data leak. The startup adds that an “

Published on October 6, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Thomas Estimbre / 01net.com Mistral AI unveiled a brand-new artificial intelligence model, Mistral Large 4. Nicknamed “Le Chonk” by the French startup, the AI model must prove that Europe can compete with ChatGPT, Claude and Chinese AIs. Mistral AI is bringing out the heavy artillery. This Tuesday, October 6, the French startup unveiled Mistral Large 4, a new artificial intelligence model nickna

Credit: Google Credit: Google Google is talking up Gemini 3 Flash’s coding skills, and the provided benchmarks seem to back that talk up. Over the past year, Google has mostly pushed its Pro models as the best for generating code, but 3 Flash has done a lot of catching up. In the popular SWE-Bench Verified test, Gemini 3 Flash has gained almost 20 points on the 2.5 branch. The new model is also a lot less likely to get general-knowledge questions wrong. In

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 Following the release of TypeSafe's Jev, many AI players have launched competitors, and many similar open-source projects from the likes of Microsoft, OpenAI, and many more have since emerged. Yet Nandakishor Mukkunnoth, of ConvAI Innovations, said that he'd come up with the ba

Shutterstock / Futurism You’ve heard the reports of rogue AI agents going after websites and corporate systems. But they also may turn to smaller targets: your smart home network. In a new report published Monday, Anthropic warned of “AI worms” that may soon be able to break into your WiFi enabled TVs, cameras, and other devices, and use them as a breeding ground as they self-replicate and spread elsewhere. Anthropic, no stranger to dramatic and doomy proc

Shutterstock / Futurism So far, the top AI companies have been sustained by constant injections of massive investment. But what happens when the funds stop coming in and they’re expected to survive on their own revenue? The fate of Character.AI, the controversial AI companion platform, may come to stand as a warning. On Tuesday, Character.AI filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, marking the beginning of an ignominious end for a once-buzzy startup valued at a bi

Shutterstock / Prostock-studio AI tools continue to automate more parts of our lives — and in turn, we become more reliant on them. Students use ChatGPT to do their homework, programmers ask Claude to churn out code, and now regular folks are getting a taste of AI agents with the launch of Meta’s cutesy personal assistant Muse. If the trend continues, where does it lead? Some experts who spoke to CBS News worry that we’re on a path to slowly ceding more co

Shutterstock / RollingCamera Doomsaying about the coming AI apocalypse is no longer relegated to outbursts from a few tech billionaires. Now, the major American banks whose policies dictate the flow of capital throughout the world are starting to worry about rogue AI, preparing contingency plans for the “day after” a theoretical AI-driven catastrophe. That’s according to new reporting from Axios, which notes that banks are preparing for the worst as they e

Published on October 8, 2026 at 09:34 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic has just unveiled Claude Haiku 5.5, a new AI model. Faster and more powerful than its predecessor, it is, above all, 75% cheaper. With this new cost-effective solution, the OpenAI rival startup wants to make AI affordable for everyday tasks, those repeated millions of times throughout the day. Anthropic wants to make AI accessible to every budget. This Wednesday, October 7, the A

Published on October 13, 2026 at 2:02 p.m. Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Edited by 01net The ArtCraft studio, already behind the recoded Adobe suite available for free, has put online equivalents to Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Software made using Claude Code, an AI software development tool. After recreating software from the Adobe suite made available for free download, developer Brandon Thomas, creator of the ArtCraft studio, recreated the Microsoft suite. Softwar

Google’s Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google’s terms. The company’s Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3, which launched over a year ago, is getting a bit long in the tooth. Starting today, developers can start working with Gemma 4, which comes in four sizes optimized for local usage. Google has also acknowledged developer frustrations with AI licensing, so

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