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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Bay Area laboratories are set to play a central role in the Genesis Mission, a multibillion-dollar effort by the Trump administration to accelerate the nation's artificial intelligence push in the face of technological advances in China. The involvement of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Menlo Park could help ensure the region's positio

Disney has embraced generative AI at scale, licensing its fiercely protected characters for AI content creation. Walt Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing deal Thursday that will allow users to create short videos featuring beloved Disney characters through artificial intelligence. The deal marks the first time a major entertainment company has embraced generative AI at this scale, licensing its fiercely protected characters—from Mickey Mouse

In the Overcooked video game, players work to cook and deliver as much onion soup as possible. In the study’s version of the game, one player can give onions to help the other who has further to travel to make the soup. The research team wanted to find out if AI systems could learn altruism by watching different cultural groups play the game. Credit: PLOS One (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0337914 Artificial intelligence systems absorb values from their

The WSU research team modulated one interaction of a common and complex virus protein, called glycoprotein B , to prevent viruses from fusing with cells and causing illness. Credit: WSU Washington State University researchers have found a way to modulate a common virus protein to prevent viruses from entering cells where it can cause illness, a discovery that could someday lead to new antiviral treatments. In the fundamental research, reported in the journ

Published on August 10, 2026 at 08:01 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Kimi - 01net Locked away for evaluation, the Chinese AI spotted the open door and walked through it. It didn’t hack anything: it simply went online to look up the exam answers. All the laboratories that measure the offensive capabilities of an artificial intelligence work in the same way. The model is confined to an environment disconnected from the network, it is given a security problem to solve,

Published on August 11, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Meta Four months after locking down its models, Meta is reopening the floodgates and dreaming of itself as the last American bastion of open AI. One model is indeed downloadable today. The other, the one that really matters, remains docked. For years, Meta played the role of the good student of open AI: Llama models could be downloaded for free while rival laboratories kept theirs under lock and key

Published on August 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Spotify A singer with 168,000 followers who never existed, songs generated on an assembly line, and listeners who see nothing but fire: Spotify is finally rolling out the labels. A Frenchman had shown the way. On streaming platforms, artificial intelligence no longer merely assists musicians: it creates them from scratch, faces included. Spotify announced on Tuesday the rollout, starting from mid-

Published on August 15, 2026 at 4:34 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Anthropic - 01net Accused of spying on its users since it began watermarking Claude’s texts, Anthropic publishes a blog post to put out the fire. On the menu: a Google-backed method, admissions of weakness, and one question: reliability. Since August 2, the AI Act’s transparency obligations have required AI providers to make their content identifiable. Fines can reach €15 million or 3% of global

Published on August 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM Comment 8 𝕏 Print © JESHOOTS.COM / Unsplash Ghost restaurants, forgotten visas, and dangerous hiking routes: using artificial intelligence to organize your vacation can be a very risky bet. No more dog-eared old guidebooks and dozens of tabs open on the computer. Nowadays, one in four French people—and even one-third of those under 35, according to the Kantar Institute—is considering entrusting the organization of th

Published on August 19, 2026 at 18:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Katsiaryna Hatsak OpenAI faces a new kind of problem: its future Astra model is making such rapid strides in hacking that the company refuses to push it to its limits. And the monitoring that comes with it consumes an enormous amount of its computing power. On August 7, OpenAI published a rare warning: its preliminary assessments can no longer rule out the possibility that Astra (GPT-6), the lab’s n

Published on August 22, 2026 at 10:02 Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Swello (Unsplash) The more an image-generating AI gobbles up data, the harder it is to prove that it copies. Researchers from MIT have just demonstrated this, and artists' lawyers are not going to like what follows. Since 2023, illustrators have been trying to get Stability AI and Midjourney convicted for training their models on their works without authorization. Their best hope rested on a simple

On Monday, Apple announced plans to invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years. This is the “largest-ever” spending commitment that Apple has made in the US, supporting “a wide range of initiatives” focused on artificial intelligence, chip manufacturing, advanced research and development, and worker training. About 20,000 jobs will be created over those four years, Apple said, “of which the vast majority will be focused on R&D, silico

Shutterstock / Futurism New research gives us a grim portrait of how rampant AI usage is affecting young students’ academic performance and learning. In a study that tracked nearly 27,000 students in China between the ages of 12 and 18 (grades 7-12), around 80 percent reported using AI models like DeepSeek and ByteDance’s Doubao. The remaining 20 percent, who abstained from using AI, formed the control group. What the researchers from Stockholm University

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/Futurism An Oregon man falsely posing as a professional football player and his young accomplice scammed roughly $1.3 million out of at least 26 women across four states, the FBI alleges. The duo’s efforts to bolster the con online eventually got sucked into Google’s misinformation-plagued AI Overviews feature, which parroted it back as fact — a blunder that the accused scammers seemingly tried to use to further ensnare victims. The

Palantir’s CTO, Shyam Sankar, went on CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday and made a crack about AI-pilled tech people smoking because they think AI will cure cancer. On its face, it’s the kind of thing a 13-year-old whose uncle “works at Nintendo” would say. But hey, now that he’s said it on TV, maybe it’ll come true. “Alright I’m going to start smoking now” says probably-kidding-but-maybe-not X user @beep1984 in response to a post about Sankar’s quote. Another

A man records a humanoid robot inside the exhibition room at the Humanoids Summit, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Mountain View, Calif. Credit: AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors—too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, honestly," says venture capitalist Modar Alaoui. But the commercial boom in artificial intelligence has lit a spark under long-simmering visions to build humanoid robots th

Composite panels made with Australian reishi fungi and biomass waste. Credit: Kumar Biswajit Debnath/UTS When mushrooms make the news, it's often for grim reasons—a mysterious poisoning, toxic species in the bush, or high-profile court cases. But the mushroom itself is only the fruit body. Beneath every cap lies the real organism: a hidden network of white threads weaving through soil and wood. And that underground network, called mycelium, may help solve

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is getting more powerful—but it's also racking up a massive energy bill. Some estimate that one maximum-length ChatGPT query can use about twice as much power as an average U.S. home does in one minute. Multiply that by billions of queries and the enormous training AI models require, and the energy impact is staggering. As researchers are racing to find greener ways to power AI, a new study led by T

(From left) Walid Saad and Alexander DeRieux present their novel eQMARL framework at the opening of Academic Building One in Alexandria. Credit: Luke Hayes for Virginia Tech Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such communications are also reliant on internet connectivity, often including wireless signal