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No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya siteScientists are getting tired of amateurs parachuting into their fields and making ‘discoveries’ with AI.Scientists are getting tired of amateurs parachuting into their fields and making ‘discoveries’ with AI.“I woke up and checked the agents’ reports. ‘DAMN!’ They had found lots of villages and other regular shapes that looked like structures or houses,“ Pietro Miotti wrote on his blog. Image:

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other. This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO Sam Altman, which documents his alarming pattern of lying and manipulating to build his AI empire, a behavior that some insiders likened to that o

Getty / Futurism On Thursday, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier announced his office was investigating OpenAI over a deadly school shooting last year that victims claim was at least partially inspired by conversations with ChatGPT. The shooting, which took place at Florida State University almost exactly a year ago, resulted in the death of two students and seven injuries. “AI should advance mankind, not destroy it,” Uthmeier said in a statement. “

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Workers across the US have had it with the prognostications of AI taking over the world. And their unions — or what’s left of them, anyway — are taking notice. Last week, the leaders of some of the largest trade unions in the US came together for a conference with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Axios reports. Together, they presented a united opposition against tech companies pushing AI

Insiders are claiming that OpenAI may soon receive a funding round valuing it at $1.2 trillion, according to the Financial Times. The intriguingly timed round could give OpenAI a higher valuation than its rival Anthropic once again, though it could also come around the same time as Anthropic’s IPO. The decision to give OpenAI this capital injection “will hinge on exactly when OpenAI decides to go public,” the Financial Times writes. In an interview publish

Getty / Futurism A planned University of Washington study would’ve had preschool teachers wear cameras to record first-person footage of everything in the classroom, including the young children they were instructing, and use that footage to train AI models. “With your permission, your child’s lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher’s approximate first-person perspective, and/or we may place a fixed video camera in the c

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Earlier this year, a 23-year-old without any formal mathematics training made headlines by claiming he’d used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to solve one of the “Erdős problems” — a database of challenging conjectures left behind by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. Then, last month, scholars were taken aback when OpenAI claimed its AI had disproved an 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture, also dev

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no surprise that tech companies are spending gobs of cash on the upcoming US midterm elections. What is surprising is the scale of electoral financing, as certain newly-founded AI super PACs are now spending more on candidates than the candidates are spending on themselves. According to reporting by the Los Angeles Times, political

After withdrawing his lawsuit in June for unknown reasons, Elon Musk has revived a complaint accusing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman of fraudulently inducing Musk to contribute $44 million in seed funding by promising that OpenAI would always open-source its technology and prioritize serving the public good over profits as a permanent nonprofit. Instead, Musk alleged that Altman and his co-conspirators—“preying on Musk’s humanitarian concern about the exist

All about Artificial Intelligence see more All about OpenAI see more OpenAI began training its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models without access to the open internet after identifying flaws that allowed AI agents to bypass security barriers and access external systems. The measure aims to prevent models under development from exploiting vulnerabilities during training and causing harm outside the environments controlled by the company.In a p

OpenAI has finally shared details about its plans to shake up its core business by shifting to a for-profit corporate structure. On Thursday, OpenAI posted on its blog, confirming that in 2025, the existing for-profit arm will be transformed into a Delaware-based public benefit corporation (PBC). As a PBC, OpenAI would be required to balance its shareholders’ and stakeholders’ interests with the public benefit. To achieve that, OpenAI would offer “ordinary

Shutterstock / Futurism Companies continue to pour untold sums into adopting AI tools, in a generational industry capital allocation that has yet to meaningfully pay off. Despite being sold as a way to supercharge productivity, theoretically allowing business leaders to boost earnings while cutting expenses, reality is telling a dramatically different story. Analysts continue to find that AI is failing to boost productivity much at all, rendering the tools

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Dec. 11, 2025, that aims to supersede state-level artificial intelligence laws that the administration views as a hindrance to innovation in AI. State laws regulating AI are increasing in number, particularly in response to the rise of generative AI systems such as ChatGPT that produce text and images. Thirty-eight states enacted laws in 2025 regulating AI in one way or

While OpenAI does not expect to be profitable before 2029, the startup's valuation keeps climbing in funding rounds baffling some financial analysts. Three years after ChatGPT made OpenAI the leader in artificial intelligence and a household name, rivals have closed the gap and some investors are wondering if the sensation has the wherewithal to stay dominant. Investor Michael Burry, made famous in the film "The Big Short," recently likened OpenAI to Netsc

The CEOs of every major artificial intelligence company received letters Wednesday urging them to fight Donald Trump’s anti-woke AI order. Trump’s executive order requires any AI company hoping to contract with the federal government to jump through two hoops to win funding. First, they must prove their AI systems are “truth-seeking”—with outputs based on “historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity” or else acknowledge when facts are uncertai

Zhidx (WeChat public account: zhidxcom) Compiled by | Sun Xiaowen Edited by | Cheng Qian Zhidx reported on November 11 that today, The Information, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported that OpenAI disclosed during an investor conference call that its third-quarter revenue reached US$10 billion (approximately RMB 67.2 billion), 2.6 times that of the same period last year, with quarter-over-quarter growth accelerating from 17% in the second quar

Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its boldest new technologies. Musk—who filed the lawsuit alleging that OpenAI under its current leadership has abandoned its nonprofit mission to build AI that benefits humanity and instead serves to enrich people like Altman—spent three grueling days o

Elon Musk took too long to file his lawsuit that accused OpenAI of stealing a charity, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday. Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kick-start OpenAI as a nonprofit, only to later be blindsided when OpenAI created a for-profit arm that he felt gutted funding for the charity while enriching executives like Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. But the jury found that Musk wa

jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock / Futurism Anthropic officially filed to go public to the tune of up to $2 trillion dollars last week. The news served as the latest litmus test of how far investors are willing to go as fears of a major financial market reckoning continue to haunt chipmakers and hyperscalers. Sam Altman’s OpenAI, on the other hand, announced over the summer that it was putting off its own IPO until next year at the earliest, with managers tell

OpenAI asks outside experts, including a Nobel laureate, to check proofs its AI produced in math, computer science, and physics Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 27, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to