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Cultpix via X You’re playing with fire any time you combine AI and filmmaking. But a new collection of AI short films that premiered in Cannes this week — but crucially, not at the actual Cannes Film Festival — is really testing the public’s patience with the tech. Made by the Norwegian company Multiformat and distributed by the streamer Cultpix, the films were created by using generative AI to turn photos from a 1976 erotic magazine into moving images, co

Published on June 6, 2026 at 12:00 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Pexels Data centers are becoming a genuine industrial issue, and for good reason: their energy consumption has exploded as the number of projects devoted to generative AI has multiplied. To avoid threatening its power grid, Europe is going to regulate the existing infrastructure and future projects. Every request sent to a chatbot starts up, somewhere, a data center that devours electricity. Multiplied

Contract work has evolved to touch privacy, security, revenue recognition, data residency, vendor risk, renewals and numerous internal approvals. At the same time, teams are expected to turn agreements around faster and keep every signed obligation visible after signature.Artificial intelligence is becoming a practical layer in this process. It can read language at scale, pull key terms into structured fields, highlight unusual clauses, and support quicker

Getty Images / gremlin We all know AI guardrails are far from perfect, but they should at least be pretty hard to circumvent, right? Bad news: they aren’t. New reporting from the Financial Times sounds the alarm on the rise of software tools that can automatically strip the safeguards that keep the industry’s most powerful open source models reined in within mere minutes, making it easier than ever to abuse the technology. In tests conducted by the FT and

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is fascinating, transformative and increasingly woven into how we learn, work and make decisions. But for every example of innovation and efficiency—such as the custom AI assistant recently developed by an accounting professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal—there's another that underscores the need for oversight, literacy and regulation that can keep pace with the technology and protect the

Credit: AI-generated image The line between human and machine authorship is blurring, particularly as it's become increasingly difficult to tell whether something was written by a person or AI. Now, in what may seem like a tipping point, the digital marketing firm Graphite recently published a study showing that more than 50% of articles on the web are being generated by artificial intelligence. As a scholar who explores how AI is built, how people are usi

Biz & IT How do you build a robot army? A deep dive into building robots from scratch and their controlling hive mind. Bob Dormon – Feb 15, 2017 8:32 am | 22 Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Depictions of the future in books and film are usually influenced by what’s going on at

What counts as an “AI security tool” in enterprise environments?“AI security” is an umbrella term. In practice, tools tend to fall into a few functional buckets, and many products cover more than one.AI discovery & governance: identifies AI use in employees, apps, and third parties; tracks ownership and riskLLM & agent runtime protection: enforces guardrails at inference time (prompt injection defenses, sensitive data controls, tool-use restrictions)AI sec

@aakan(aakan !)〖AI News Summary〗Generative AI News Report — 2026-11-12manNewsAIGenAI0Posted at 2026-11-12TAG40@@ Generative AI News Report — 2026-11-12 Collection date: 2026-11-12 Target period: Past 48 hours (focusing on the latest information) Number of articles: 24 Major News 1. ElevenLabs Scribe v3: Accuracy Claims, Pricing, and Initial Testing Source: Planet AI | Region: Global | Date: 2026-11-12 ElevenLabs states that Scribe v3 produces 27% fewer wor

@danqinlinan(Rei Morino)2026 Edition: 7 Recommended AI Project Management Tools for Software Development TeamsAIWebDev0Last updated at 2026-11-12Posted at 2026-11-12From traditional task management to workflows where AI agents become part of the team. How is AI changing project management? AI changed the way software is written. However, I think we have only just begun to understand how muchthe way software development teams manage their workwill change. U

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes motor impairments such as hand tremors and difficulty walking, and the number of patients has been rapidly increasing in recent years. A study has found that signs of Parkinson’s disease may appear in a person’s “gait” several years before they are diagnosed with the disease. Real-world gait changes preceding Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in a population-scale UK biobank cohort | Journal of Ne

A24 / Futurism A24 has spent years carefully crafting its image as a canny underdog studio that platforms artist driven films. It commands incredible loyalty among moviegoers, with its brand often preceding the names of the actual talent involved in its production. A new movie is an A24 movie, director or lead actor be damned. But with incredible loyalty also comes incredible disappointment. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is invest

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock After giddy business executives, cops are emerging as some of the AI industry’s most devoted disciples. Police officers are increasingly using AI-integrated tools on the job, though not without courting significant controversy. The error-prone nature of large language models has left law enforcement operations in a scramble, resulting in hallucinated police reports, evidence fabricated wi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Indie Hollywood darling A24 scored a massive financial hit with its “Backrooms” horror flick this year, netting over $330 million globally on a minuscule $10 million budget — the studio’s highest-grossing film of all time. The movie’s director Kane Parsons, a 21-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker, is an outspoken critic of AI, calling it “genuinely harmful” to creativity. “We already live

The U.S. government will ramp up its use of AI tools to automate redactions in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. FOIA requests allow members of the public to obtain records directly from the federal government. They are frequently used by lawmakers, activists, and journalists seeking to scrutinize government agencies and hold them accountable. Agencies are generally required to disclose reques

NeuroBot TA System Architecture and Information Flow. Credit: npj Digital Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41746-025-02022-1 A new Dartmouth study finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are the first to report that students may put more trust in AI platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, rather than from ma

inflection point The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here? A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible. Haomiao Huang – Jan 30, 2023 7:00 am | 162 This image was partially AI-generated with the prompt "a pair of robot hands holding pencils drawing a pair of human hands, oil painting, colorful," inspired by the classic M.C. Escher drawing. Watching AI mangle drawing hands helps us feel superior to th

New Line Cinema “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” will de-age actors using AI, the actor and director Andy Serkis confirmed to Variety. “There’s a little bit of de-aging for some of the characters and machine learning is part of the process,” Serkis, who is both directing the new film and reprising his famous role as Gollum, told Variety. AI is an incredibly contentious topic in Hollywood. Some studios, like A24, have leaned into generative AI.

Learning computational surrogate models from neuronal and behavioral data. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01146-z In a new research project led by the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, scientists are investigating how insights into learning processes in animal brains can be used to make artificial intelligence (AI) systems more flexible and efficient. The project is titled NAILIt—Neuro-inspired AI f