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Be a good AI ancestor: Cybersecurity already gave us the playbook AI has brought us to a familiar inflection point in the story of privacy, cybersecurity, and online safety. We have an opportunity to apply decades of cybersecurity experience before the next generation of technology creates consequences we cannot easily reverse. I learned the importance of that responsibility through a three-year-old child I’ll call Adia. Her name is a protective pseudonym.

Cloudflare bets you’re overpaying an LLM to read your invoices Cloudflare released a preview of Clairic, an extraction model that pulls typed values out of messy text and images in one pass without generating tokens. In Cloudflare’s test on a damaged-product support claim, a pipeline built around Clairic finished in 19.3 seconds, against 61.7 seconds for a version that used an LLM at every step, and cost 49% less. Clairic goes after a job developers routin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Everything is getting stuffed with AI these days, no matter how pointless its inclusion may seem. Your spell-checker, your local drive-thru, your fridge — nothing is safe. So you can understand why we were alarmed when Merriam-Webster, the dictionary company, announced that it was releasing its own large language model, too. “It is the dawn of the AI era,” says a narrator in a video share

There’s been a big push among AI developers in recent years towards the development of more “agentic” systems—that is, algorithms that can autonomously make decisions and interact with digital tools without constant hand-holding from humans. This has been especially true within software development, the field that’s arguably become the most ripe for automation in the ongoing AI boom. But one of the upshots of building highly agentic AI systems is that they

Working from low-resolution global precipitation data, the spateGAN-ERA5 AI model generates high-resolution fields for the analysis of heavy rainfall events. Credit: Christian Chwala, KIT Severe weather events, such as heavy rainfall, are on the rise worldwide. Reliable assessments of these events can save lives and protect property. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new method that uses artificial intelligence (AI

In a blog post from Thursday of last week, the AI software repository Hugging Face announced a bizarre cyberattack on the systems that run its services. “This one was different from anything we had handled before,” the post said, because “it was driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system.” In its own blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI said its own models were the culprits in the attack, and it’s coordinating with Hugging Face to address the situation.

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler figured out the laws of motion that made it possible to accurately predict where our solar system's planets would appear in the sky as they orbit the sun. But it wasn't until decades later, when Isaac Newton formulated the universal laws of gravitation, that the underlying principles were understood. Although they were inspired by Kepler's laws, they went much further,

Google opens its cloud to rival OpenAI, promises business data won’t train models Google Cloud is adding OpenAI models to its platform, initially through a private preview for selected business customers. The launch includes GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Google positions them as options for demanding work, lower-cost professional tasks and everyday use that requires fast responses. More choice, one bill Businesses will purchase access through Go

Hackers hijack exposed AI models to launch cyberattacks at victims’ expense An attack tool built around AI goes looking for AI models that anyone on the internet can reach, then uses them to plan break-ins while the model’s owner pays for the computing power. Symantec captured the agent’s instruction set this summer through a honeypot posing as an unprotected AI service, researchers Priti More and Susmit Yenkar wrote. Its operators sent their entire workin

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Earlier this year, when OpenAI released GPT-5, it made a strident announcement: that it was shutting down all previous models. There was immense backlash, because users had become emotionally attached to the more “sycophantic” and war

To hear OpenAI tell it, instances of its most powerful AI models, including an unreleased one purportedly of immense power, recently got so focused on getting good scores on their evals that they escaped OpenAI’s testing sandbox, and hacked the AI resource repository Hugging Face in an elaborate effort to cheat their way to the top. AI skeptics have questions—this story is, after all, a big public relations coup for any AI company, since all AI companies b

Using autonomous drones, researchers are able to create a 3D reconstruction of the smoke plume and improve analysis of flow patterns. Credit: Jiarong Hong Lab Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have developed aerial robots equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect, track and analyze wildfire smoke plumes. This innovation could lead to more accurate computer models that will improve air quality predictions for a wide range of

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Getty / Futurism As dark clouds continue to gather over the stock market, and with fears of a ready-to-burst AI bubble growing, some investors are furious that anybody would even question the industry’s enormous valuations, astronomical spending sprees, and severely lacking financial model. Many industry leaders have acknowledged that there’s likely a bubble. But as Axios reports, die-hard AI investors are furious at the suggestion. “The reality is, the wo

Hierarchical representation of semantic roles in the metaphor network. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Metaphors are a fundamental aspect of human language and cognition, allowing us to understand complex concepts and relationships by mapping them onto more familiar and concrete domains. However, the nature of metaphors and how they work is still not well understood. In a new paper published in PLOS Complex Systems, Max-Planck-