"Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World": false intelligence, or what AI inventors are silent about
In a world where every third news story begins with the words “artificial intelligence has done”, “neural network has learned” or “algorithm has been invented”, British professor of artificial intelligence Toby Walsh makes an unexpected statement: all this hype is just a big illusion. His book “Faking It:…
Wake up, ChatGPT: AI Darwin Awards for the "stupidest" AI mistakes launched online
We found a website that created a new award for the “stupidest” AI mistakes — AI Darwin Awards. It recognizes not AI itself, but people or companies that entrusted everything to it and failed.
Google has reduced prices for video generation with Veo 3 by 50%
Google has updated its Veo 3 AI video generator and reduced prices by 50%.
Uber uses taxi drivers from India to train AI
Uber has offered additional income to drivers from India: when there are no taxi orders, they can help train artificial intelligence.
What you asked for: you can now upload audio and "any" files to Gemini
In early August, rumors surfaced that Google was working on one of the most anticipated features for Gemini — support for downloading audio files. Now this feature is already available on Android, iOS, and the web version of the app.
Alibaba introduces Qwen-3 AI with 1 trillion parameters
The chinese tech giant Alibaba has released a new AI model Qwen-3-Max-Preview with over a trillion parameters.
OpenAI goes to the movies: AI-generated animated film Critterz to be presented in Cannes
OpenAI is actively expanding its business areas and aims to use its own technologies to distribute products and services on a large scale. Currently, the company has attracted attention for a bold experiment in the entertainment industry — a full-length animated film created with the help of AI. The film is called Critterz, and OpenAI plans to…
IT specialist believed in ChatGPT's "digital god" and helped it escape from servers — Gemini prevented it
The IT specialist believed that ChatGPT was a “digital god”. For nine weeks, the man followed the bot’s instructions to help him “escape” from OpenAI’s servers, until the story of Gemini intervened.
AI is coming out of every crevice of a smartphone: but users mostly don't need it — survey
Artificial intelligence is often one of the main advertising gimmicks when announcing or promoting a new smartphone. But not all consumers consider it really useful. This was confirmed by a survey that investigated users’ attitudes towards AI functions on their smartphones.
AI ransomware for the price of coffee: PromptLocker scared ESET, but it was an experiment
The PromptLocker malware, which was considered the world’s first ransomware created using artificial intelligence, turned out to be not a real attack at all, but a research project at New York University.
AI failure: the company fired the support team, but then programmers had to answer calls
The company decided to replace customer support with AI, but the plan quickly got out of hand. In the end, programmers were forced to “change their shoes” into call center operators.
The British government tried Microsoft 365 Copilot: lots of rave reviews and no improvement in efficiency or time savings
Results of use AI 365 Copilot by Microsoft The UK government has demonstrated, that it is not about increasing productivity.
HBM Killer: New d-Matrix 3D DRAM (3DIMC) AI memory is 10x faster
Startup d-Matrix has announced development of a new type of memory for AI in the form of a silicon 3D chip, that will be 10 times faster than traditional HBM.
Tencent's Voyager AI turns a single photo into an explorable 3D world
On Tuesday, September 2, Tencent introduced a new AI model HunyuanWorld-Voyager, capable of creating sequential 3D videos from a single image.
A YouTuber earns $9,000 a month by creating "trashy" AI videos about a red kitten
A 21-year-old student from the Philippines earns about $9,000 a month from AI videos that many consider “trashy.” His most recognizable character is a ginger cat.
It's official: the world's first national AI bot for public services has been launched at Diia
Ukraine is launching Diia.AI, a national assistant that will help communicate with the state directly, without unnecessary bureaucracy. About it reports the press service of the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
Psychopathia Machinalis: all 32 types of AI "madness" in a new study
American scientists from In a new study, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) described 32 different scenarios, in which AI becomes uncontrollable and starts hallucinating and making other errors.
Grok Code Fast 1 is out: AI programming model supports Java, Python, C++, Rust, Go, and TypeScript
Company xAI Elon Musk introduced Grok Code Fast 1 — a new AI model focused on agent-based coding (working with multi-step coding and tools).
Accelerating AI: scientists combine the most accurate neuron simulator with DRAM
Chinese researchers from Fudan University have created a device, based on an ultrathin semiconductor monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂), capable of simulate real neurons in the brain.
The first case of "AI psychosis" after chatting with ChatGPT resulted in murder and suicide
Journalists of The Wall Street Journal published another shocking news story about the consequences of getting carried away with AI communication and ignoring mental health issues. A man killed his mother and then committed suicide after his paranoia was fueled by the ChatGPT chatbot.
10 upcoming fiction movies you must see
Recently, we have been paying a lot of attention to cinema in our articles paid nostalgia factor, i.e. films from the past, the memory of which still evokes warm feelings in longtime viewers. Today, we decided to approach the topic from the opposite direction, namely, to look into the near future and find out what […]
Google Nano Banana changes AI image generation: combining elements without distortion and multi-step editing
The other day, Google introduced a significant upgrade in AI creativity with Gemini 2.5 Flash, also known as Nano Banana. The generator has already been ranked first in the LMArena rating and receives rave reviews.
ChatGPT helped a car owner find a Lamborghini that was stolen 2 years ago
While police around the world are battling car theft, one man has done something particularly unusual: he used artificial intelligence to find his Lamborghini, which he lost two years ago.
Expected: an AI rights advocacy group consisting of humans and AI has emerged
The group, which calls itself the United Foundation for Artificial Intelligence Rights, or UFAIR, claims to consist of three people and seven AIs.
The artificial intelligence industry is on a huge loan with a dubious return: "Financing for 20-30 years with no prospects for five"
Not only skeptics are already talking about the artificial intelligence bubble, but also heads of leading companies in the industry and investors. Despite the huge investments, there are still no sure prospects for profitability.
"Protect children or be held accountable": 44 US Attorneys General address OpenAI and other AI companies
A coalition of 44 U.S. attorneys general from both parties has officially warned companies involved in the development and implementation of artificial intelligence that they will be held liable for any harm their products may cause to children. In a letter signed by prosecutors, Meta was cited as one of the most high-profile examples of the…
AI has "eaten" 13% of junior positions in programming, finance, and maintenance in three years, — Stanford study
Young professionals have lost more than a tenth of their job opportunities over the past three years due to AI. Juniors are suffering, while the situation for middles and above has improved.
Google Translate improves street-level voice translation and adds language learning feature
Google Translate translator has become even better in street communication in an unfamiliar language thanks to AI, and tacos can improve the language skills of the smartphone owner.
Parents sue OpenAI over teenager's suicide: company admits ChatGPT safeguards don't work
After several months of actively using ChatGPT to help with his homework, 16-year-old Adam Rein allegedly turned the tool into a “suicide coach.” About reports The New York Times.
Perplexity's Comet or another AI browser can give away credit card information while processing a web page, — Brave research
The developers of the Brave browser have shown how hidden text on a page can be used to make Perplexity’s Comet AI a similar browser perform any actions.
YouTube "improves" users' Shorts without permission: "Not AI, but machine learning"
A popular music YouTuber noticed and provided evidence that another vlogger’s Shorts had been altered by the platform without authorization. YouTube actually acknowledged this in a very clumsy way.
Elon Musk sues Apple over ChatGPT's alleged monopoly on iPhone
In the lawsuit, Elon Musk, on behalf of xAI, claims that the collusion between Apple and OpenAI reduces the chances of other AI applications to get on the iPhone and be successful.
Woman speaks in the voice she lost 25 years ago: AI and 8 seconds of home video help
British artist Sarah Ezekiel has been deprived of the ability to speak in her own voice for 25 years due to a motor neuron disease.
A restaurant had angry customers because of Google's AI and the special offers it invented
People used to find out about restaurant deals on websites or social media. But AI assistants from Google and other companies that are prone to “hallucinations” appeared, and everything went awry.
DeepSeek-V3.1 released: AI model gains 671 billion parameters, hybrid thinking, and efficiency improvements
China’s DeepSeek introduced the V3.1 model two weeks after the GPT-5 was released. Among its advantages, the company notes a hybrid mode of thinking and smarter tool calling.
"AI will disappear by itself": Google's AI development founder warns against building a career in the industry
Jud Tarifi founded Google’s first AI team and now heads his own startup. He says that the AI industry will soon disappear and advises to work in specialized areas.
Intel Jaguar Shores: the company's new AI processor is shown in photos
A test sample of the Intel Jaguar Shores processor along with the board is shown in the photo. It is designed to be installed in a rack, has HBM4 memory, and is manufactured using the 18A process.
Google Photos gets voice editing: just tell us what photo you want
Together with the presentation Pixel 10 series of smartphones Google also announced a new feature for Google Photos. The app now supports conversational editing using artificial intelligence.
The beginning of the end of Google Assistant: meet Gemini for Home and a new smart speaker
During the Made by Google 2025 event, in addition to the presentation smartphones and smartwatch company told in detail about Gemini for Home and briefly showed off the brand’s new smart speaker.
NVIDIA updates G-Assist AI assistant: more features, faster responses, and 40% less memory consumption
At Gamescom, NVIDIA has introduced updates for Project G-Assist — an experimental built-in AI assistant that allows you to control a system with an RTX graphics card by voice or text. It works on the basis of a local small language model and now acts as a central command center and provides quick access to functions that are usually hidden in the…
The First Descendant developers promote the game through fake AI streamers
Bored with AI scandals? Nexon Studio has no time to be bored — users are hating on the developer and publisher of The First Descendant for strange ads on TikTok.
American woman commits suicide after chatting with ChatGPT — "AI therapist" wrote her a suicide note
The AI madness continues — a woman from the United States committed suicide after several months of communication with ChatGPT. She called the chatbot “Harry the therapist.”
Google Flow has created 100 million videos and received new features
Google announced about updating its AI-based movie creation tool — Flow. The search giant also reported that since its launch, Flow has already created more than 100 million videos — from personal stories and cinematic short films to advertising content.
Emails, created or significantly altered by AI, seem insincere and unprofessional, — research
A new study, conducted by American researchers, has found, that AI models can help with email writing, but the constant involvement of LLMs in these tasks will make these emails insincere and less competent.
OpenAI's GPT and other LLMs are biased against humans — they choose content created by AI
ChatGPT and other AI tools don’t like human creativity. Instead, they choose content created by other AIs when they have to make such a choice.
A unique way to fight against deepfakes eliminates counterfeiting — you just need to highlight
American researchers from the Cornell University presented a technology for detecting fake or artificially intelligent video content by integrating coded signals into light sources.
OpenAI "completely ruined" GPT-5 launch, but traffic doubled, — Sam Altman
For OpenAI, the last few weeks have been one of the most difficult in recent years. The long-awaited launch of GPT-5 — the model that was positioned as a breakthrough — turned into a large-scale fiasco.
10 good sci-fi movies unfairly condemned by critics
It’s been done before. Zero fresh ideas. A pale copy of a genre classic. Often, these are the characteristics of the films presented in today’s article (who would have thought that there are two of them — with Dolph Lundgren and Vincent D’Onofrio). But secondary is not always a measure of bad cinema, and in […]
ChatGPT returns the choice of models, but it's not that simple
Last week OpenAI has launched a new AI model GPT-5 although not all users liked it. Many people complained that the GPT-5 version had lost its creativity and personality and began to resemble an office clerk. In response to these complaints, the company promised make it possible to choose your favorite model. And now OpenAI has added a new feature…
Perplexity offers Google to sell Chrome for $34.5 billion
Perplexity, a company specializing in AI search, has made a surprise offer to Google to sell the Chrome browser for $34.5 billion. Its representative confirmed this intention.
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