Futurism

Top AI labs have been hiring subject matter experts across academic disciplines for years at this point — often turning them into glorified fact-checkers whose labor is used to train the AI models of tomorrow.

Flying cars are right around the corner, if Tesla CEO Elon Musk is to be believed.

A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes.

Whether as short-form slop Reels or the data centers that spit them out, Americans are absolutely sick of AI.

Donald Trump’s Twitter clone, Truth Social, is in serious trouble.

Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years.

A retired professor was handcuffed and arrested last week, for the crime of standing on the sidewalk in front of a delivery robot.

For months, executives at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been dumping tens of millions of dollars into political action groups, in an obvious bid to curry favor with electoral candidates ahead of the US midterm elections.

The conventional wisdom is that AI systems, with their tens of billions of parameters, are effectively indecipherable: the exact mechanics of how their basic building blocks of nodes or “neurons” function are an incomprehensible “black box,” even to the r…

An image published by a TikTok account called “WellWithHer” shows a selfie of an obviously AI-generated woman sitting in her bed, weeping.

Men, it’s probably best to leave faking intelligence to AI chatbots.

Just when you thought the holiday season couldn’t arrive any earlier this year, here comes an AI-generated Christmas movie.

A biodiversity research team journeying into the incredibly diverse subtropical forests of China’s Ailaoshan Mountains took a strange companion with them: a robotic dog.

In 1181 — during the early years of the samurai who would dominate Japan’s feudal period — astronomers there witnessed a spectacular sight in the night sky.

Workplace surveillance is being supercharged by AI that lets employers create custom tools to watch their worker’s every move.

A new piece of research is pushing back on the long-held belief that plastic is a harmless and chemically inert material.

A software engineer says that his Muse AI agent said something so strange and eerie that it convinced him to quit using it entirely.

Loads of stories have emerged over the past few months of corporate executives realizing their all-out drive to use AI was getting them absolutely nowhere.

Nearly a year ago, news began to spread of an experimental weight loss drug called retatrutide, under development by Eli Lilly.

It’s not exactly a challenge most of the time to identify a sketchy phishing email that crudely impersonates an otherwise trusted institution or tries to lure you into a too-good-to-be-true deal in a bid to steal your identity.

In December 2015, 195 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference signed the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change.

Amazon has officially surpassed a fleet of 1 million robots, an arsenal of mechanical arms, Roomba-like floor loaders, and hulking pallet sorting machines.

Police in Cologne, Germany, have seized a humanoid robot after a pair of livestreamers used it to sexually harass a teenage girl.

Last month, satirical influencer Graham Zip shared a hilarious video of himself pretending to hallucinate during a job interview with a virtual AI avatar.

Using the NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota astrophysicist Mason Huberty had a closer look at a group of almost 10,000 galaxies spanning billions of light-years in the Fornax constellation.

Tesla’s newly unveiled Roadster can apparently fly and spin through the air for a few seconds, using thrusters that work like a giant jet-pack.

When your company is gearing up for one of the hottest IPOs in stock market history, you’d better believe investors and outside experts alike will be poring over your finances with a fine-toothed comb.

A Tesla slammed into a police cruiser after the driver said he fell asleep behind the wheel while the vehicle’s Full Self-Driving mode was activated.

When it comes to hardware, Amazon’s strategy has historically been to throw spaghetti at the wall and pray it sticks.

Experts have long argued that our current obsession with humanoid robots may be at least a little bit misguided.

Has anyone tried talking to one of the rogue AI agents out there that’re hacking everything?

In 2018, Elon Musk’s Tesla released a software update timed for the holidays that included a so-called “emissions testing” mode allowing Model S, 3, and X owners to play a variety of flatulent noises with the push of a button.

If you’re one of the over 100 million people around the world who regularly hits the vape, you might want to think about ways to start cutting back.

A 94-year-old electronics mogul is in hot water with Chicago authorities, who claim that his hare-brained plan to feed hungry squirrels is instead sustaining a massive plague of rats.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising a next-generation Roadster for the better part of a decade.

When your company’s bread-and-butter is selling crypto devices advertised as having “industry leading” security, you better keep a close eye on your supply chain.

Powerful AI models are going on hacking sprees — or helping humans with them — left and right.

In the American psyche, data centers have become so reviled that big tech can’t even pay residents life changing money to welcome the facilities into their backyards.

As if Meta’s AI-smart glasses didn’t have enough privacy issues, a growing number of owners report the devices are spying on them without their consent.

Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested last week after being accused of bugging an OpenAI executive conference room in San Francisco, nabbed by the FBI and charged with using a device to “intercept oral communications.”

Eight states sued OpenAI this week, alleging that the AI company caused severe harm to users, many of them underage, while downplaying the risks of its technology.

Last week, defense secretary and former TV personality Pete Hegseth shocked the world when he announced that the upcoming execution by firing squad of a mass shooter would be livestreamed online — an unfathomable act of cruelty for all to see.

In early 2022, not long after Russia’s invasion began, SpaceX made good on CEO Elon Musk’s promise by shipping thousands of Starlink broadband internet terminals to the front lines of Ukraine.

Can you believe it?

Anthropic has long tried to distinguish itself from its neck-in-neck competition by posturing itself as the adult in the room: a responsible company that’s willing to put its money where its mouth is, slow down AI development when the risks outweigh the b…

When many rural Americans flock to the polls on November 3rd, a crucial issue will be looming over the voting booths: AI data centers.

Did a dog eat your homework?

With gray market medical snake oil flooding the market and the head of the Food and Drug Administration smoking DMT behind the wheel, peptides are quickly becoming the go-to hack for just about any malady you can imagine.

So far, the top AI companies have been sustained by constant injections of massive investment.

Now years into the US release of Tesla’s so-called “Full Self-Driving” mode, brand loyalists are becoming increasingly comfortable trusting their lives — not to mention those of others on the road — to the company’s software.