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Getty / Futurism The internet is so overrun with AI that anywhere you go, you run the risk of accidentally stepping into a puddle of slop. If only there were a gallant gentleman always at hand to drape their coat over these muddy obstacles so you could avoid ruining your day. It’s not quite on that level, but some netizens are proposing a new term to call out AI slop so other people can avoid wasting their time — or to just make fun of the person peddling

JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went into full damage control mode over the weekend. A day before the United States attacked Iran, the embattled CEO announced that the company had signed a new agreement with the Pentagon over how its AI models could be used — and the blowback is clearly impacting the company’s bottom line, because Altman is sounding deeply defensive. Many users saw the military terms move as an attempt to swoop i

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned Thursday after he admitted to an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, raising concerns about U.S. national security and the motives behind the executive’s support for softer chip export controls on China. Huang has been a staunch supporter of open source AI, framing the ecosystem as good for safety, innovation, diffusion, and sovereignty. And as frontier AI labs increasingly move to reduce their reliance on Nvidia and build

only dig, no bury. Cheng Qian, from Aofeisi Qubit AI | WeChat Official Account QbitAI Recently, the issue of AI finding bugs has become quite fragmented. On one side, AI, once it steps in, reviews everything, first uncovering a major security vulnerability in PHP's core , then exposing 948 Linux kernel vulnerabilities …… On the other side, the open-source community is almost overwhelmed: you found the vulnerabilities, but where's the fix! Yesterday, the cy

Real-time microplastic detection and velocity calculation. Credit: Microplastics (2025). DOI: 10.3390/microplastics4040075 Microplastics have become an invisible but persistent threat in rivers, lakes, oceans, and even in the water we drink. These tiny plastic fragments can drift for miles, settle on the seafloor, or remain suspended for years, harming ecosystems and human health. Scientists still lack a standard way to measure how microplastics move throu

The three issues mentioned in must be resolved; otherwise, data will ultimately become the biggest bottleneck in the implementation of these technologies. This is the conclusion drawn by a former Microsoft researcher from Asia. As for the other , they are not directly related to the main topic but provide additional context. Author: Deng Zheming, Editor: Qi Chengyong, Earlier this autumn, technologies such as Skild S1, Generalist GEN-1.5, and RoboTTT made

TAG224@@Key feature: Explainable AI. The trader sees not just “BUY,” but why the model decided that way. This reduces mistrust and makes it possible to quickly verify the context.TAG230@@6. The problem of mixed signals (and why we did not resort to a quick fix)During testing, we noticed that VKCO received a BUY signal (64%), even though its news was neutral (market_pressure=0). The model had simply learned that the market rises 55% of the time.We considere

Credit: CC0 Public Domain AI's superior ability to formulate thoughts and statements for us weakens our judgment and ability to think critically, says media professor Petter Bae Brandtzæg. No one knew about Chat GPT just three years ago. Today, 800 million people use the technology. The speed at which AI is rolling out breaks all records and has become the new normal. Many AI researchers, like Brandtzæg, are skeptical. AI is a technology that interferes wi

Shall we play a game? Elon Musk-funded Dota 2 bots spank top-tier humans, and they know how to trash talk The only way humans won? When they stacked the deck in their favor. Ars Staff – Aug 6, 2018 1:40 pm | 131 Shadow Fiend, looking shadowy and fiendish. Credit: Valve Shadow Fiend, looking shadowy and fiendish. Credit: Valve Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimiz

When 90 batches arrived for reviewLLMs are increasingly being integrated into existing business processes: information search and collection, data structuring, verification, and publishing. At the same time, the cost of a single mistake can be high: lost money, time, and reputation.The Human-in-the-Loop principle helps reduce this risk: a person who validates the data is added to the process. This article brings together our findings from two real-world bu

Shutterstock / Futurism There are a litany of reasons to take the output of generative AI with a heavy dose of salt. Its answers are known to sound authoritative, convincing, and elaborate — while simultaneously being completely and utterly wrong. It’s a lesson astrophysicist and science communicator Paul Sutter learned the hard way, and was brave enough to share with the world. In a article for the publication Nautilus earlier this month, Sutter retold a

Researchers and artificial intelligence work together to collect experimental materials science data from papers worldwide and build a database. Credit: Kenji Tashiro. Instagram: ripplemarkmaker. CC-BY-4.0 Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional materials. Materials scientists are therefore working to develop and improve new materials, but predicting material properties is no sim

Zhidx (WeChat public account: zhidxcom) Author | Chen Junda Editor | Mo Ying Zhidx reported on November 11. Late last night, MiniMax officially released its new-generation image generation model, H3-Image, and made the model weights available simultaneously. According to feedback from numerous users’ hands-on tests, H3-Image is already capable of competing head-to-head with the world’s top image generation models and hasreached state-of-the-art (SOTA) leve

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 Over 3,400 “victim servers” were hit by cryptomining malware PoeLLM during a campaign named Canto Incognito, tracked since April 2026, Lumen’s cybersecurity research team Black Lotus Labs reports. The malware’s “command-and-control (C2) mechanism” used address encoding throug

Table of Contents Open-Source Low-Code: Budibase 4.0 Simplifies Business Processes Track agent actions and automation runs Transfer projects with their dependencies Manage requests and approvals in the portal The Budibase team has released version 4.0.0 of its low-code platform. The main new features are an activity view for agents and automations, enhanced project exports, and a portal for requests and approvals. Continue reading after the advertisement T

©Nintendo Nintendo announced that the global cumulative sales of the Nintendo Switch 2 software The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which was released worldwide simultaneously on Thursday, November 5, 2026, surpassed 5.2 million units within four days of release. Of these, 810,000 units were sold in Japan, making it the highest global cumulative sales total ever recorded in the first four days after release for Nintendo-published Nintendo Switch 2 softwa

There are many things you may want to check by reading reviews before actually buying a product, such as how hot a smartphone gets during extended gameplay and how frozen foods turn out when cooked. GIGAZINE has published numerous sponsored articles in which the editorial team actually tries and reviews products and services, so we asked readers, in a survey conducted in summer 2026, what kinds of products and services they would like to see featured in su

Step 5 Preview Returns to the Global Top Tier Author | Wu Haiming Editor | Li Na TAG62@@Cen Feng Two years ago, when StepFun first made its public debut in the foundation-model community, it took the stage by storm with Step 1. Later that same year, it released Step 1V and the trillion-parameter foundation model Step 2 in succession. At the time, the industry still believed that the bigger the model, the more capable it was. Whoever pushed the Scaling Law

Zhidx (WeChat public account: zhidxcom) Author | Sun Xiaowen Editor | Cheng Qian Zhidx reported on November 10 that Meituan's LongCat team open-sourced the native multimodal model LongCat-2.5 last night. According to OpenCode's public data, as of noon today, LongCat-2.5'scumulative token usage on the platform had reached approximately 109 billion, with around 4,700 unique users and about 50,000 sessions completed. ▲LongCat-2.5's public data on OpenCode (Im

The inventor of the bitter lesson has a bitter lesson for LLM scaling enthusiasts Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 8, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Turing Award winner Richard Sutton, author of the influential 2019 essay "The Bitter Lesson," writes in a new post that raw compute alone isn't enough for intelligence. AI science needs clever new methods and is "far from finished." Sutton had already