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Published on July 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Suno We knew Suno had a voracious appetite for other people’s music. A hack has just turned suspicions into a detailed inventory: millions of tracks scraped from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius to train the AI. A decisive verdict in Germany is just fifteen days away. Music-generating AIs, like LLMs, feed on data, and nobody really overlooks where the fuel comes from. Suno, one of the sector’s most promi

Published July 21, 2026 at 2:48 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net Google is testing Gemini-powered autofill, capable of drawing from Gmail and Photos to complete your forms. The feature carefully sidesteps Europe, and the regulation that has Google miffed is no coincidence. Chrome has been able to autofill an address or card number for years. The new feature spotted in Chrome Canary, the browser’s experimental version, takes things further. A feature called “

Published on July 21, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Unsplash France Travail is testing an AI system designed to identify job seekers who should be checked as a priority. To do so, the algorithm analyzes 26 variables. The media outlet La Quadrature du Net, in partnership with Radio France’s investigations unit, revealed an internal France Travail document detailing the trial of an algorithmic system designed to profile job seekers. The goal: reach t

Published July 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Anthropic A connected folder, a message sent, and Anthropic’s agent roamed throughout the entire drive. No permission prompt, no alert. All agents that write code rely on the same promise: they are confined to an enclosed space, given access to a specific folder, and allowed to work with peace of mind. Security researchers have just demonstrated that, with Anthropic’s desktop agent, this enclosed space

Japanese company Preferred Networks (PFN) provides “PLaMo,” a homegrown generative AI foundation model developed from scratch that is distinguished by its specialization in Japanese. “PLaMo Translation,” developed on the basis of PLaMo, delivers exceptionally high-quality translation and is offered not only as text translation but also as an extension for Firefox and Chrome. In October 2026, plamo-3-translate, based on PLaMo 3 NICT, was also released, brin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Veroniksha / Shutterstock Publishers have watched in horror as Google continues to double down on AI features that discourage users from actually clicking on links — a once-steady source of readership that’s causing a crisis in the media now that the search engine is cutting it off. The situation has become so dire that some publications are now debating whether to cut Google off entirely, as the Wall

Igor Kyrlytsya via Shutterstock / Futurism The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run by bots and thinking machines. Most accounts you saw online were really bots masquerading as people — all part of some nefarious scheme to control humankind by keeping us isolated and divided. That last part is far-fetched, but the core of the idea — that bots outnumber humans online — is inexo

Dominic Dudley / Shutterstock / Futurism It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the biggest social media scandals in history. Back in March 2018, journalists at The Observer and The New York Times revealed that the little-known data analytics firm had improperly harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of users without their consent. Owned by billionaire Robert Mercer and operated by Donald T

In many ways, life on Earth feels like a miracle. Had things gone differently, Earth might have looked more like our neighbors in the solar system. Scientists long suspected that plate tectonics was partly responsible for how Earth evolved, but pinning down when it began has proven difficult. Now, researchers have identified a “chemical fingerprint” that points to when plate tectonics likely began. The team studied over 1,200 rocks spanning nearly 4 billio

Color-coded map illustrating where computers took over factory-floor work; the darkest red areas represent the regions with the most intensive automation. Credit: Case Western Reserve University In the early 1970s, a quiet revolution began in American factories. Lathes, drill presses and milling machines—once guided by the steady hands of skilled machinists—started thinking for themselves. Computer numerical control (CNC) technology, as it was called, tran

After launching Slack AI in February, Slack appears to be digging its heels in, defending its vague policy that by default sucks up customers’ data—including messages, content, and files—to train Slack’s global AI models. According to Slack engineer Aaron Maurer, Slack has explained in a blog that the Salesforce-owned chat service does not train its large language models (LLMs) on customer data. But Slack’s policy may need updating “to explain more careful

anyone in there? Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell. Scientists struggle to define consciousness, AI or otherwise. Lindsey Laughlin – Jul 10, 2024 7:00 am | 362 Credit: BlackJack3D/Getty Images Credit: BlackJack3D/Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly di

A controversial facial recognition tech company behind a vast face image search engine widely used by cops has been fined approximately $33 million in the Netherlands for serious data privacy violations. According to the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), Clearview AI “built an illegal database with billions of photos of faces” by crawling the web and without gaining consent, including from people in the Netherlands. Clearview AI’s technology—which has

Matthew G Eddy / Shutterstock / Futurism Google’s notorious AI Overview just handed would-be Flock vandals a perfect excuse to carve into the company’s controversial AI-integrated license plate readers (ALPRs). ALRPs are wildly unpopular, especially online, where privacy-minded communities trade memes and videos cheering on destruction of the surveillance equipment. One of the more popular bits in this space centers on the idea that Flock’s ALPR’s are supp

Google / Futurism Since its earliest days, Google’s homepage has been iconic in its simplicity: a central text box and a big button labeled “Search.” That’s now changing. As anticipated, many users are reporting that the “Search” button is no more, replaced by three buttons for various AI features: “Create images,” “Ask about files,” and “Brainstorm.” These are placed next to the lingering “I’m feeling lucky” button, which survived the chopping block. A se

Shutterstock The impact artificial intelligence has had on the environment has been nothing short of devastating. The data centers powering the boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators. And given the industry’s unrelenting appetite for more infrastructure supporting ever-more-resource-intensive AI models, the trend is only going to get worse from here. It’s reached the point that AI is giving

Meta is reportedly teaming up with Walmart, Stripe, and enterprise AI startup Sierra to publish a set of standards for how AI agents should interact with businesses online. Called a “personal agent protocol,” the standards will reportedly help companies distinguish authorized personal agent purchases from others. “We’re defining rails that we hope personal agents and business agents can run over for the future,” Meta Superintelligence Labs vice president o

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Bay Area laboratories are set to play a central role in the Genesis Mission, a multibillion-dollar effort by the Trump administration to accelerate the nation's artificial intelligence push in the face of technological advances in China. The involvement of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Menlo Park could help ensure the region's positio