Futurism

As tech billionaires make bank off an AI trade that now threatens retirement accounts and university endowments, a criminal element is rising to take advantage of the crumbs that fall off the table.

Down in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff election on Sunday to be re-elected as president, in a comeback that literally defied the odds — at least as they’d been set by buzzy prediction markets.

Whether you use AI in your personal life or not, there is no longer any escaping the grasp of the industry’s tendrils.

The rise of AI has caused the price of PC components to skyrocket, infuriating anybody looking to make a new purchase or upgrade their gear.

The fear of AI has reached a fever pitch.

As new AI tools sprout up like weeds, it’s becoming remarkably commonplace for people of all walks of life to outsource their social interactions to the whims of the computer.

Gambling ads have become practically inescapable — plastered all over subways, billboards, websites, and TV broadcasts, all in an effort to lure in an audience struggling to make ends meet.

Over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk issued a stark warning: investing in AI cloud computing companies is ill-advised and could result in “guppy-level death and consolidation.”

What if it’s not drug companies or dodgy dealers trying to keep you hooked, but rehab?

For all the controversy they’ve caught this year, Flock cameras only collect and store license plate data from passing vehicles.

In case there was any doubt over the powerful tide of anti-AI sentiment, a new poll shows that most Americans are incredibly pessimistic about the technology.

Go ahead and use AI to make your video game — if you want the result to be derivative trash, that is.

Chatbots are building intimate “algorithmic self-portraits” of users as they retain information to offer a hyper-personalized experience, researchers warn.

Microsoft’s new AI is surpassing the abilities of human doctors — according to its own study, at least.

Like gas station kratom, research-grade peptides have become widely available for consumers at convenience stores across the United States.

Thanks to the rise of military-style imaging drones, AI-integrated surveillance towers, and automatic license plate readers, police across the United States have more eyes in the sky than ever before.

Doomsaying about the coming AI apocalypse is no longer relegated to outbursts from a few tech billionaires.

In October 2024, as The New York Times first reported, a mother in Florida named Megan Garcia filed what was then a first-of-its-kind lawsuit accusing the chatbot startup Character.AI of killing her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III.

Unreasonably wealthy AI plutocrats are pouring billions of dollars into US elections.

Meta’s stocks have taken a serious beating lately, with its price shedding more than 13 percent over the past month.

Earlier in October, Finnish authorities ordered Google’s affiliate data center developer Tuike Finland Oy to immediately suspend the illegal cutting of some 1,300 acres of forest.

Police say that a 71-year-old man was killed after being struck by a Tesla allegedly in Full Self-Driving mode, ABC 7 News reports, in what appears to be yet another casualty of Elon Musk’s self-driving technology.

Try to imagine the most dystopian military startup you can think of, and there’s a good chance it already has a billion-dollar valuation in Texas.

The reign of tyrannical Airbnb hosts is over.

Surely the robots that’ve been heavily marketed with all kinds of martial arts stunts would never be designed for violent ends, right?

From AI surveillance towers to robot dog patrols, the US-Mexico border has long been a proving ground for high-tech weaponry and security tools.

President Donald Trump called Google to rename the Atlantic Ocean — at least according to the not always reliable recollection of Donald Trump.

Last Saturday, a 17,000 mph game of cat-and-mouse appears to have played out in low Earth orbit.

A man in Sydney, Australia was arrested this week after telling Anthropic’s Claude that he wanted to kill children at a daycare near his home.

For years, multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson has chased after immortality, embracing bizarre “anti-aging” procedures like hyperbaric oxygen therapy and huge numbers of supplements.

A cybercriminal used AI agents to commit a string of attacks against more than 100 different companies — an alarming incident that shows how autonomous agents with advanced AI hacking capabilities have exponentially raised the threat that a single human h…

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, is prognosticating about our future with trademark gloom.

Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data centers to power the AI boom.

AI slop purveyors are stealing comedians’ jokes to create viral Instagram videos of fake comics.

Meta’s corporate offices in São Paulo are the site of ongoing protests against election interference in the crucial national run-off elections in Brazil.

Pull up any random photo of billionaire Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and you’re likely to land on a facial expression expressing something between horror and deep consternation.

Security researchers using an OpenAI model have uncovered two stunning security flaws in PHP, the software that underpins nearly 70 percent of all websites on the internet.

Polymarket has showed that it can still hit a new low after the controversial prediction market was allowing users to effectively bet on rape and sexual assault.

Keep your eyes peeled and your binoculars primed tonight, stargazers.

The Northern suburbs of Toledo, Ohio turned into a real life Don DeLillo novel overnight, after an explosion at a chemical facility sent plumes of industrial compounds billowing into the sky.

Last week, the Sheriff’s Office in Stevens County, Minnesota made a startling Facebook post.

When it comes to putting strange substances into your body in 2026, the sky’s the limit.

Vibe coding is the act of telling an AI what you want to program and letting it write all the code for you.

Engagement farmers on TikTok are using AI to manipulate real arrest footage to show police officers kissing and groping arrestees being taken into custody.

As Elon Musk tries to save face by claiming he’ll give every American child a chunk of SpaceX stock, here’s a chilling reminder of what he did that affected millions of children the second he had a whiff of federal power.

As Meta was scrambling to release its Muse AI agent to the public earlier last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to social media to insist that it was “built from the ground up for privacy and security.”

What does it take to get a hyperscale data center built this late into 2026?

Donald Trump’s second spin in the White House has been mired in high-profile incidents of graft and corruption, like the family’s tech stock profiteering, or the now-infamous TrumpCoin scandal.

AI tools continue to automate more parts of our lives — and in turn, we become more reliant on them.

Someone vibe-coded a gun and 3D-printed it — and wants the freedom loving citizens of the world to enjoy this power, too.