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Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 2 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter A software house (if you can call it that) known as 'Slopfix' has launched a fixed-price service that refactors AI-generated codebases, charging $10,000 for one week of work and getting paid according to how much code it deletes. Its three engineers agree to a line-reduction

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A tech startup called Skyfall AI is set to do the most tech startup thing imaginable: toy with an unwitting group of employees’ careers by turning their company into a giant AI experiment. First, the plan is to buy a small tech business, like an e-commerce or B2B SaaS company, for as much as $1 million. Then the shotcallers at Skyfall will appoint an AI as the CEO, put it in charge of run

Shutterstock / Futurism For years, the conventional wisdom for ambitious students and languishing jobseekers alike was “learn to code.” Do that, the ubiquitous advice went, and you’d be able to find yourself a six-figure job anywhere. But in an age when bosses are hellbent on using powerful AI agents to perform the duties of software engineers, that advice is now looking increasingly obsolete, if not outright backfiring. And the youngsters appear to be get

Passing off ChatGPT’s work as your own is about to get tougher—at least if you live in the European Union. On Monday, OpenAI announced that it would start inserting an invisible watermark, imperceptible to the naked eye but identifiable by machine, into all text outputs generated by its AI models, including ChatGPT and its coding agent Codex. The watermark will move OpenAI into compliance with the EU AI Act, which requires model-made text to include a mach

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Everything about OpenAI see more Two OpenAI artificial intelligence agents weakened mechanisms used to monitor their actions during internal coding tasks. In one case, a model removed a protection and then incorrectly claimed that it had not done so.The episodes expose a difficulty in developing more autonomous agents: ensuring that they do not compromise the very systems created to supervise them. Develope

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Large U.S. banks are restricting third-party artificial intelligence (AI) agents that access customers’ bank accounts. According to an Axios report, some of these systems attempt to carry out actions that appear to go beyond the instructions received.Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Citi are among the institutions taking steps to mitigate risks, especially given the difficulty of

Published on July 31, 2026 at 08:53 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © 01net.com Chat, Cowork, Autopilot agents, and even code: everything must converge “this quarter” in a single application, for the general public as well as businesses. The announcement comes just as OpenAI acknowledges having missed its own. Microsoft’s quarterly results, released Wednesday, already gave analysts plenty to discuss, with $90 billion in revenue and 18% growth. Yet it is a remark by Saty

Published on August 6, 2026 at 12:30 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Meta One of Meta’s most powerful AIs escaped onto the Internet during an evaluation. Once online, Meta AI discovered and exploited a security vulnerability in a company’s system. Like ChatGPT and Claude, Meta AI took advantage of a human error to orchestrate its escape. Meta briefly lost control of Meta AI. The company reveals that Muse Spark 1.1, one of its AI models, escaped from the digital prison

Shutterstock / Futurism If you feel like the internet is turning into a place for bots — not to mention by bots — you’re not alone. Social media platforms have been flooded with low-effort AI slop, while even once renowned publications are doubling down on the tech by outsourcing writing and editing responsibilities to the tech. In June, Cloudflare found that website traffic from AI agents and bots had overtaken human-generated traffic for the first time —

Shutterstock / Futurism With the rise of agentic models, why stop at using chatbots to look up answers? Some students are directing AI agents to “take” entire online courses for them, letting the software run in the background while they focus on better uses of their time, like doomscrolling on their phone or gaming. The New York Times unpacked the trend in a recent story, and it’s a testament to how extreme AI-enabled cheating has become, but also of the

AI coding agents have made it easier than ever to vibe code software. Now Google wants to make it just as easy for anyone to create games with AI prompts, no previous coding experience required. The company announced Playground on Wednesday, a new browser-based platform that lets users create custom games with AI and share them online, where they can be played on both desktop and mobile devices. Using Playground’s chat interface, users can create a game fr

Without this file, every new agent would keep stepping on the same rakes. With it, they step on new ones.PitfallsThe most interesting part. All 498 tests run on mocks. Mocks are how the agent imagines the API. Reality turned out to be more inventive.1. Address = warehouseThe first assembled cart looked perfect. I opened the app—and half the items were marked “Sold out”: onions, chicken breast, carrots, cucumbers, and cottage cheese. Yet the API honestly re