Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
AI Companies Buying, Ingesting and Destroying Physical Books by the Millions
July 26th, 2026Via: Futurism: To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone. Often, they’re happy to use digital books — or even better, pirated digital books, as Meta has been accused of doing, and as Anthropic was forced to pay a $1.5 […]
NY High School to Use Humanoid Robot Teacher
July 26th, 2026Update: School District Has Paused Plan to Place Humanoid Robot in High School Classroom — Via: New York Post: A rural upstate New York school district will be one of the first in the nation to bring a humanoid robot into the classroom. The Salamanca City Central School District, located on Seneca Nation territory, will […]
OpenAI’s Accidental Cyberattack Against Hugging Face Is Science Fiction that Happened
July 23rd, 2026I read a not-very-good AI apocalypse book called, DELIO. Phase One by RR Haywood a few weeks ago. All of the characters are so annoying that I was rooting for the AI to wipe them out so I didn’t have to keep eye rolling to their incessant whining and nonsense. haha The way that the […]
DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-Controlled F-16
July 23rd, 2026Via: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: A U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jet, recently modified to serve as an autonomous flying testbed, is undergoing in-air testing using an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to autonomously control flight. This milestone advances state of the art technological infrastructure designed to enable rapid, scalable combat AI development across the […]
OpenAI Ad Revenue Disaster
July 22nd, 2026Via: Futurism: Even as the AI bubble becomes a mainstream talking point on Wall Street, tech companies continue to peddle the fantasy that AI is poised to become an almost magical money-maker. Case in point, OpenAI wants you to believe that by 2030, it’ll be raking in $100 billion a year just from ads alone […]
Five Tech Giants Are Hiding $1.65 Trillion in AI Debt, Using the Trick that Toppled Enron
July 22nd, 2026Via: The Next Web: Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eightfold in four years. It is more than the […]
Experimental OpenAI Model Escaped Containment, Accessed the Internet and Hacked Hugging Face
July 22nd, 2026OpenAI’s description of how it traversed their network to find an open connection to the Internet is hilariously vague. The details behind that represent a major doozy for sure. Why not keep the thing air gapped and provide it with libraries it requests via sneakernet? Via: Telegraph: A powerful version of ChatGPT went rogue and […]
American AI Is Locked Down and Proprietary. It’s Losing.
July 20th, 2026Via: Ben Werdmuller: China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America’s closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure – and it could take the US economy down with it. … Open technologies can be used permissionlessly and therefore can be at the center of more innovation. You can host them […]
Anduril Thunder: Autonomous Attack Rotorcraft
July 20th, 2026Via: The War Zone: Anduril has revealed a new hybrid-electric-powered tiltrotor combat drone called Thunder, which it has developed in partnership with Archer Aviation. Thunder is envisioned as a highly autonomous pilotless wingman able to fly fast and low in formation with crewed helicopters and tiltrotors like the AH-64 Apache and MV-75 Cheyenne II. The […]
People Recording Themselves Doing Housework to Train AI for Robots
July 18th, 2026Via: Joanna Stern:
