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Create an AI watch on this topic Receive upcoming developments with an AI watch configured from this article. Create my free AI watch Facing the acceleration of announcements, models, uses, regulations, and market movements, ActuIA launches a free personalized AI watch service. Objective: to help professionals track the topics, actors, and sectors that really concern them, without getting lost in the daily noise of AI news. Each week, hundreds of AI-relate

Facetune is one of the most popular selfie-editing apps among young people. Credit: Facetune Like many of her peers, Abigail (21) takes a lot of selfies, tweaks them with purpose-made apps, and posts them on social media. But, she says, the selfie-editing apps do more than they were designed for: "You look at that idealized version of yourself and you just want it—you just want it to be real […] the more you do it, the better you get at it and the more sub

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study of Chile's workforce finds that AI could "accelerate" nearly half of the tasks performed by the country's 100 most common jobs. Generative AI has been pitched as a great leveler—a way to increase productivity, slash red tape and busy work, and narrow skills gaps. A new study by Gabriel Weintraub, a professor of operations, information, and technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business, quantifies the potentia

Google parent company Alphabet's cloud computing business is on pace to bring in $50 billion over the course of 2025, according to the tech giant. Google-parent Alphabet on Wednesday reported quarterly profits that topped expectations, saying artificial intelligence has boosted every part of its business. Alphabet's second-quarter profit of $28.2 billion—on $96.4 billion in revenue—came with word that the tech giant will spend $10 billion more than it prev

if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> A range of AI trust, guardrail, and red-teaming platforms is emerging to help control and secure the LLMs and agents deployed across your enterprise. Here’s an overview of the most promising tools available today. endif; ?> Credit: Rob Schultz / Shutterstock Artificial IntelligenceApplication SecuritySecurityIT Governance

Good artists borrow, great artists steal, as the adage goes. In the cutthroat and almost completely unregulated modern AI industry, there are many tech developers who would probably agree. Few of them would come right out and admit it, though. Not long after the generative AI boom took the business world and Wall Street by storm, a chorus of complaints started being leveled against companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and Google, whose models were

Nearly 70 percent of US agencies use generative AI, and unions are finally catching up with guardrails Nov 13, 2026 US public-sector unions are winning more protections against AI surveillance and automation-driven job losses. The issue is growing more urgent as nearly 70 percent of US government agencies already use generative AI, according to an Ernst and Young survey. The wins are piling up nationwide. After a strike vote in October, IFPTE Local 21 in O

if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> Microsoft’s unified Copilot could help enterprises standardize how employees interact with AI across productivity, business applications, data and development tools, while giving CIOs greater visibility into AI application sprawl and consumption costs, analysts say. endif; ?> Credit: Microsoft Generative AIMicrosoft 365Collaboration SoftwareProductivity SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceOffice SuitesMicrosoft

A woman walks using her headphones on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File Is it The Velvet Underground or Velvet Sundown? The fictitious rock group, Velvet Sundown, which comes complete with AI-generated music, lyrics and album art, is stoking debate about how the new technology is blurring the line between the real and synthetic in the music industry, and whether creators should be transparent with their audience. Co

The open, sponge‑like network inside a porous transition‑metal oxide lets the larger, doubly- or triply-charged ions travel during a battery's charge and discharge cycles. Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have used artificial intelligence to tackle a critical problem facing the future of energy storage: finding affordable, sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries. In research pub

Understanding AI in financial servicesAI is changing the landscape of the financial services sector, as in other industries. The integration of AI in the financial services industry extends to changes in how companies operate, customer interactions, agentic AI, and risk management.The three core AI-related technologies that play an important role in the finance sector, are:Natural language processing (NLP): The NLP aspect of AI helps companies understand a

Getty / Futurism As he dived into the world of AI, Elon Musk promised that he would harness the tech to create a so-called “anti-woke” and “maximum truth-seeking” alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Instead, his company xAI has turned its in-house AI chatbot Grok into a tool for sexually charged conversations with an eager-to-undress female avatar — while Musk himself warns that the tech is poised to “one-shot the human limbic system.” Now it sounds like xAI

Microdramas have taken the internet by storm, and the previously embattled Character.ai wants a slice of that cake. Microdramas are the telenovelas of the social media age. They are drama-filled and juicy romantic stories often laden with cliches involving forbidden affairs, mafia bosses, and even werewolves. They are filmed vertically and often on a very low budget and short timeline, and posted scene by scene on apps like TikTok or Instagram Reels. This

Music streaming services—like virtually every other corner of the internet—are awash in AI slop, thanks to the rise of cheaply accessible AI tools and a regulatory void. Now, a coalition of organizations representing musicians and record labels is trying to make it easier for listeners to at least know when a song has been generated by an LLM. Led by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic I

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The tech billionaires are still doomsday prepping. And as the BBC reports, it seems that AI is making some of them more paranoid than ever that society as we know it might soon crumble. For years now, reports of the wealthiest bracing for the end of the world have dominated headlines. In 2023, Wired reported that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was breaking ground on a roughly 5,000 square foot

Artificial intelligence labs are after computing power. Kalshi doesn’t have any to offer them but they’ve got something else that might be of some use, according to Bloomberg: a tool that plots the predicted future price of computing power. So, that’s something! There really is some value for companies to know where the cost of compute is going—especially since currently, it’s mostly just going up. Having a sense of just how much compute is going to cost a

TikTok / Futurism AI-powered deepfake tech has come a very long way. Unsurprisingly, teens have been using the tech to prank their friends and family. The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses — prompting widespread alarm and even 911 calls, as NBC News reports. This new AI homeless man trend is fantastic had to get my wee sister to try persuade her not to actually call the

Getty / Futurism Spotify is continuing to grapple with a tidal wave of AI slop that’s frustrating its users. While the company recently promised to address the issue of AI impersonators and content farms that “push ‘slop’ into the ecosystem, and interfere with authentic artists working to build their careers,” the platform’s paying subscribers are increasingly fed up with being recommended slop. A quick search on social media reveals that slop continues to