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AliExpress / Futurism You can buy practically anything these days on the internet — especially when it’s being shipped straight from China, the beating heart of global manufacturing. It doesn’t matter how macabre the object in question is. If it has a price, there’s a company willing to sell and even advertise it to you on social media. One Reddit user found that out the hard way after spotting an Instagram ad for a “pet incinerator” on the Meta-owned plat

Meta / Futurism With the release of Meta’s buzzy Muse AI agent, there’ve been plenty of concerns over the amount of privacy and control Meta wants you to cede so it can serve as your “personal assistant. It seems that even its own employees are worried. Before launching the AI agent, engineers found a security vulnerability that could’ve allowed Muse users to break into Meta’s own databases and services and access other people’s sensitive information, 404

Shutterstock / Futurism The “fair use” doctrine under the US Copyright Act of 1976 allows for copyrighted materials to be used for purposes like criticism, journalism, and research. Whether something is deemed fair use depends on several factors, including how transformative it is, how much of the work is used, and whether the reproduction alters the market value of the original. It’s the keystone of the AI industry’s legal defense in a litany of ongoing l

The policy note uses the analogy of a 'translational research river' to illustrate the journey from scientific discovery to real-world application. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new report by HEPI and Taylor & Francis explores the potential of AI to advance translational research and accelerate the journey from scientific discovery to real-world application. "Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Advance Translational Research" (HEPI Policy Note 67),

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For an increasing number of Americans, a new kind of co-worker is making their work easier. One in five Americans is now using artificial intelligence in at least part of their work, according to the Pew Research Center. But what does it mean, and what does it take, to collaborate well with AI? Until recently, the answer to that question has been technical literacy skills like prompt engineering, knowing how to get the be

Schematic illustration of (A) the fabrication of the PBC and (B) working principle of the PBC. Credit: Carbon Energy (2025). DOI: 10.1002/cey2.70149 A research team led by Professor Su-Il In of the Department of Energy Science & Engineering at DGIST has achieved a breakthrough improvement in the performance of the radiation absorber, a key component of perovskite-based betavoltaic batteries, by applying additive engineering and antisolvent process control

Everything about ChatGPT see more Everything about Google see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Everything about OpenAI see more ChatGPT is expanding its share of the internet search market. According to OpenAI, the chatbot already processes a volume of queries equivalent to one fifth of that recorded by Google. The statement indicates the tool's progress as an alternative to traditional search mechanisms, although the gap between the

Published on October 5, 2026 at 12:05 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net David Robinson left OpenAI this week. For three and a half years, he was responsible for overseeing the security reports of the startup behind ChatGPT. In a lengthy op-ed, he explains that AI labs are “not careful enough” and points the finger at their culture of constant sprints. According to him, the era of “trial and error” absolutely must end before it is too late. A spectacular new beginn

Published on October 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM Updated on October 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Sarah B / Unsplash Google has paused its rewards program for vulnerabilities in open-source software. The company has indeed been overwhelmed by a surge in reports automatically generated by artificial intelligence. The bounties are suspended until further notice. The company has committed to announcing changes in early 2027. On October 1, 2026, Google paused

Published on October 5, 2026 at 5:31 p.m. Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Mike Bravo (Unsplash) North Korea’s state media said that the military had used artificial intelligence to launch a ballistic missile. The AI would enable the missile to change its trajectory, making it “impossible to avoid.” On Sunday, October 4, North Korea’s official media announced that its leader Kim Jong Un had overseen the launch of a ballistic missile, AFP reported. They added that the m

Gmail made us all rethink how email could work when it debuted more than 20 years ago. Google thinks we’re in the process of another email transformation courtesy of AI. The company has unveiled a new round of AI features that will make Gemini an even more integral part of Gmail. The new Gemini experiences are coming to paying subscribers starting today, and a collection of previously premium-only AI features are rolling out widely. AI Overviews first appe

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is a big business. While some SEO practices are useful, much of the day-to-day SEO wisdom you see online amounts to superstition. An increasingly popular approach geared toward LLMs called “content chunking” may fall into that category. In the latest installment of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller and Danny Sullivan say that breaking content down into bite-sized chunks for LLMs like Gemini is a bad id

ArtCraft / Futurism As the fiery debate surrounding AI and copyright infringement continues to boil, the software world has run into its own controversy head first. Earlier this month, crafty software engineers used Anthropic’s Claude AI model to reverse-engineer Adobe’s expensive and widely-loathed Creative Cloud suite of apps, including Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere. The resulting “ArtCraft” suite was a shot across the bow, highlighting how quickly i

Elena A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes. In the report, Decrypt Ads — a startup that tracks the supply chains of online advertisements — identified more than two thousand websites that strongly appear to be AI slop farms masquerading as blogs run by real chefs and home cooks. These sites, the report found, are pumping fake recipes into search engines like Google as well as social media platforms such

Shutterstock / Design Projects Top AI labs have been hiring subject matter experts across academic disciplines for years at this point — often turning them into glorified fact-checkers whose labor is used to train the AI models of tomorrow. Still, Google’s latest job listing is odd, even by those admittedly strange standards, and may reveal a lot about the future big tech has in mind for humanity. As reported by the tech industry publication Data Center Dy

If your boss asks why you haven’t integrated artificial intelligence tools into your workflow yet, tell them it’s because your faith forbids you from doing so. According to a report from the Religion News Service, a research administrator at the University of Kentucky successfully received a religious exemption from his employer, excusing him from any expectations to use AI for his work. The man, 45-year-old David Durman, identifies as a humanist and told

What Are the Requirements for Product Engineers / Product EngineersIf you look at the Y Combinator website and their specialized job listings hub for the Product Engineer role — 1, 2, 3 — a candidate must have product thinking, communication skills with potential product users, the ability to identify a business problem and find a solution for it, as well as technical full-stack skills to independently implement that solution and deliver it to the end user

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Regulations limit both the intensity and frequency of whip use during horse racing. Nevertheless, compliance is currently verified manually after each race. Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed an innovative system combining high-resolution audio recording with artificial intelligence for automatic detection of whip sounds. The work is published in the journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intellig

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us with an immersive world where we could seamlessly combine digital and physical information. The parent company, renamed Meta along the way, had begun introducing headsets and reimagining everyday computing with its Project Orion augmented-reality glasses. Now, however, Meta is making deep budget cu

Hearing researchers require detailed images of stereocilia, the bundles of protrusions that detect sound and movement. The red hairs featured on the right were rescued to full length due to gene therapy, while green-intermediate hairs received partial treatment and blue received no treatment. Credit: University of California San Diego The cochlea is the spiral-shaped structure within the inner ear responsible for our sense of hearing. To fully understand h