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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP; Michael M. Santiago; Thomas Banneyer/picture alliance via Getty Images Hundreds of public figures — including multiple AI “godfathers” and a staggeringly idiosyncratic array of religious, media, and tech figures — just signed a letter calling for a “prohibition” on the race to build AI superintelligence. Simply titled the “Statement on Superintelligence,” the letter, which was

Getty / Futurism The video game industry is hellbent on harnessing the power of generative AI to boost productivity and dream up virtual worlds — while also cutting costs, of course. According to a recent Google Cloud survey, 87 percent of video game developers said they are using AI to automate and streamline tasks, a notable figure considering the industry has seen massive layoffs as costs rise and demand weakens following major COVID-era growth. However

Design of IDR binding proteins.Design pipeline and 12 representative examples of active designs (for each panel, the target name is at left and the target sequence is at the bottom; targets are tan and binders are blue in the structure models. Interface residues are shown as sticks). Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adr8063 Scientists have discovered a new way to advance drug discovery and diagnostics by targeting a part of the proteome (the co

Why developer experience (DevEx) mattersIn the evolving world of software development, providing a seamless and efficient developer experience (DevEx) has become important. DevEx impacts productivity, code quality, and overall project success. A positive DevEx reduces onboarding time, minimises frustration, and fosters innovation by letting developers focus on solving problems rather than battling tools or workflows.Best practices for implementing develope

For teams using Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence, Claude could become a serious helper. Think drafting product specs, summarising long Confluence documents so you don’t have to wade through them, or even creating batches of linked Jira tickets at once. It might even spot potential roadblocks by analysing project data. And if you use Intercom for customer chats, this integration could be a game-changer. Intercom’s own AI assistant, Fin, can now work with Cla

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r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI.” Moderator Wolvereness announced the rules in a post over the weekend. A project now has to be at least a year old and actively maintained, carry an OSI license, have an existing community and “subjectively 3+” contributors. The poster needs

AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running projects with more than 50 contributors estimated that close to a third of the code changes landing in their queue are low quality or AI-generated. Those maintainers now worry more about burning out than about the code

Credit: Yan Krukau from Pexels New research from the University of South Australia has revealed that tertiary students' learning habits are deeply connected to how they engage with generative artificial intelligence tools. The work is published in the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. Surveying 435 students from Australia and Canada, the study investigated how confidence, motivation, and effort regulation influence perceptions of AI-powered t

Getty / Futurism If you had all the money in the world at your disposal, would you still be using ChatGPT? As part of a recent report, first spotted by Inc. Magazine, financial holdings company JPMorgan asked 111 billionaire clients how they make use of artificial intelligence. Their answers range from down-to-earth to absolutely absurd, forcing us to wonder if some of the wealthiest individuals on the planet could be suffering from AI-induced delusions. G

Companies are spending more on AI governance and getting less control Companies are increasing their cybersecurity budgets, with AI security and governance the top priority for additional spending, followed by cloud security, according to DNSFilter’s The Cost of Shadow AI report. Some 74.5% of respondents reported a larger cybersecurity budget than 12 months earlier. Asked where their next incremental security dollar would go, 40.3% named AI security and g

87% say their AI controls need to work better The AI running inside large companies has stopped waiting for permission. Across five categories of AI, from chatbots to process automation, more than half of 3,600 business decision-makers say the systems their teams use can act within defined rules without routine review, or finish whole processes with no human approval. 87% of those same respondents say their organization needs a better way to approve, monit

Generative models aim to replicate realistic outcomes across various contexts, from text generation to visual effects. While much progress has been made in creating real-world simulators, the application of generative models to virtual environments like financial markets remains relatively untapped. In a new paper MarS: a Financial Market Simulation Engine Powered by Generative Foundation Model, a Microsoft Research Asia research team introduces MarS, a fi

YouTube Generative AI has made it easier than ever before to impersonate somebody else, from scammers using cloned voices of targets for phishing scams to deepfakes of deceased celebrities circulating on OpenAI’s Sora app. Even Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has gotten considerable media attention this year for his eyebrow-raising theory that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be an alien spacecraft visiting the solar system, has now fallen vi

Getty / Futurism Earlier this week, Futurism reported that Grok — the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-owned AI venture xAI, perhaps best known for its frequent forays into unbridled antisemitism — was willing to find and compile extensive information about private people, which it gathered from murky databases and other sources from across the web. Since that capability immediately seemed like it could enable dangerous behavior by stalkers, we wa

Illustrative diagram of the processing of a deep research agents response into the eight metrics of the DeepTrace Framework. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.04499 Artificial intelligence may well save us time by finding information faster, but it is not always a reliable researcher. It frequently makes unsupported claims that are not backed up by reliable sources. A study by Pranav Narayanan Venkit at Salesforce AI Research and colleagues fo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Disney / Getty Images Famous copyright tyrant Disney is now bending over for the AI industry and signing away its precious intellectual property. On Thursday, the entertainment conglomerate announced a new licensing agreement with OpenAI that will allow it to use Disney’s iconic characters and properties to generate clips on Sora, OpenAI’s video generating app that lets you deepfake friends and celebr

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images Did Nick Park wake up and put on the wrong trousers this morning? In a recent interview with Radio Times, the creator of the beloved claymation series “Wallace and Gromit” said his animation studio, Aardman, would “embrace” AI — albeit in a “cautious” manner. “When ‘Toy Story’ came out [in 1995], we thought, ‘How long have we got?’ But we’ve managed to survive CGI,