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A new startup is helping job seekers brute force their way into one of the worst job markets since 2009, consequences be damned.

Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

Now on year seven of his all-meat diet, the pseudo-intellectual is reportedly suffering from a nefarious "spiritual attack."

Strange New Health Issues Put Jordan Peterson in ICU

It's a fascinating look into the effort to drum up consent for an unprecedented crackdown on American cities.

Trump Supporters Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Generate AI Videos of Soldiers Assaulting Protesters

Canada's fisheries minister has stepped in to deny the transfer of 30 white whales to a suitable facility in China.

Canada Considering Doing Something Unforgivable to its Beluga Whales

Instead of learning about loss from the death of a family pet, this lesson comes from an artificially generated voice module.

Little Girl Sobs While Saying Goodbye to Her Broken AI Toy

After rolling out an AI tool to generate cheap thumbnails for his videos, Jimmy Donaldson says the tech is creating "scary times."

MrBeast Concerned That AI Slop Will Put Him Out of Business

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

As of October, there are more than 8,000 active Starlink satellites clogging up the planet's Low Earth Orbit.

Astronaut Captures Footage of SpaceX Junk Cluttering the Atmosphere

The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that Trump thought he was sending a direct message -- but accidentally posted it on main.

Top Official Horrified When Trump Thought He Was Sending Direct Message But Accidentally Posted It on Main Account

Amid an prolonged attack on Wikipedia for perceived "ideological bias," crackshot legal expert Ted Cruz has waded into the fray.

Ted Cruz Baffled by How Wikipedia Works

In a new report, Sanders asserts that AI and automation has the potential to put some 100 million US workers out of the job.

Bernie Sanders Has a Fascinating Idea About How to Prevent AI From Wiping Out the Economy

The investment bubble created by AI hype is already magnitudes bigger than the dot-com and subprime mortgage bubbles, one analyst warns.

AI Investment Is Already So Much Larger Than the Subprime Mortgage Bubble That You’ll Physically Flinch

A dazzling video shows a quadcopter drone gently shooing unwanted critters away from poultry farms with a laser light show.

Japanese Farmers Send Out Automated Laser Drones to Defend Chickens

The consequences to his neighbors will be devastating, but it's a small price to pay if it means making a tech billionaire happy.

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

Without AI spending, the US economy would lose one of the last industries actually bringing in any healthy revenue.

The Entire Economy Now Depends on the AI Industry Not Fumbling

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That’s So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

As it turns out, corporate contractors like SpaceX aren't anymore efficient at building spacecraft than the government.

A New Paper Studied Whether NASA Actually Saves Money by Hiring Corporations to Build New Spacecraft, and the Results Are Embarrassing

Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

The multinational IT firm has laid off 11,000 employees as part of a $865 million plan to "upskill" its "reinventors."

Accenture CEO Says It’s Sacking Employees Who Won’t Embrace AI

The AI spending bubble could have an ominous effect on 401(k)s, given the massive concentration of tech stocks in the S&P500.

AI Poised to Gut Your Retirement Fund, Analysts Warn

The billionaire YouTuber insists his latest stunt was only an illusion, and that his contestant was never in any real danger.

MrBeast Refuses to Apologize After Tying Man Up Inside Burning House

There are dozens of variations on this theme, usually showing an elderly woman smashing a glass bridge with a large rock.

People Are Using Zuckerberg’s AI to Post Videos of Senior Citizens Falling to Their Death

A sociology scholar is cautioning that we are hurtling toward a "systemic digital crisis" caused by the digital economy.

Professor Warns Society Is Veering Toward a Digital Apocalypse

Experts are scrambling to explain a rise in jellyfish blooms in the last place you'd expect: the freshwater lakes of middle America.

Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes

In a recent podcast appearance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agonized that China is now "nanoseconds behind" US chipmakers.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots

Second-year Lakers head coach JJ Redick gave fans pause after sharing he's been having long talks with a virtual buddy.

NBA Coach JJ Redick Says He Spends Hours Talking to His “Friend” ChatGPT

A researcher went back over 100 years of brain science that lead him to a radical conclusion about consciousness.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Says We’re All Wrong About Root of Consciousness in Our Brains

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

Space Force top boss Chance Saltzman says we need to accept that things aren't always going to be perfect, weapons of war included.

Space Force Says It’ll Prioritize Buying Lots of Weapons Over Ones That Work Properly

Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael Prince / Fuse / Getty Images

Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

A new study links private equity ownership to horrifying outcomes in hospital emergency rooms and ICUs compared to public facilities.

Something Grisly Happens When Hospitals Become For-Profit

Roger McNamee has an ominous warning for the huge tech companies shredding billions in the AI race: it's winner take all.

Artificial Intelligence

Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason

The mass adoption of AI chatbots is resulting in a marked increase in psychiatric patients arriving to mental health facilities.

Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

In an interview, Julie Zhuo explained that AI companies putting the pedal to the metal can't even see over the steering wheel.

Former Facebook Exec Warns AI Industry Is Entirely Built on “Vibes”

Anti-immigration protests are being stirred up by AI images showing hoards of Arab immigrants taking over the streets of London.

Racists Are Using AI to Spread Diabolical Anti-Immigrant Slop

Called the "first fully autonomous humanoid-operate store," the kiosk chain is said to be rapidly expanding to 100 locations.

China Opens Bodega Entirely Run by Robot

The virtual assistant Diella's "inaugural address" to the Albanian parliament was met with mixed enthusiasm by officials.

Artificial Intelligence

Leader of Albania Pelted With Trash for Appointing AI-Powered Minister to Cabinet

US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell recently claimed that AI is effecting the labor force, potentially impacting future rate cuts.

Artificial Intelligence

Fed Boss Concerned About AI’s Effect on Job Market

Space Force General Michael Guetlein says the blueprint is complete, but didn't give any details about its scope, timeline, or cost.

Trump’s $175 Billion Golden Dome is Turning Into a Disaster

One economist says that if the AI bubble bursts, it might be just what the economy needs to get back on track.

Artificial Intelligence

The AI Bubble Bursting Would Actually Be Incredible for the Economy, Economist Says

Tim Burchett stayed remarkably cool as he painted a horrifying picture of an HP Lovecraft story come to life.

Congressman Calmly Explains There Are “Entities” Coming From “Five or Six Deepwater Areas”

China's space program is experiencing a meteoric rise, and will soon pose a significant challenge to the US' dominant position in space.

New Report Finds That China’s Space Program Is Rapidly Outstripping NASA

China is calling the United States' bluff by banning its largest tech companies from using Nvidia's red-hot AI chips.

Nvidia Just Suffered a Huge Blow in China

The newest class of young tech founders are eschewing frivolities in favor of what appears to be a minimalist, monkish existence.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s Something Psychologically Bizarre About AI Executives

A $2.8 million Y Combinator startup is using the power of frustrated job seekers to promote its generative AI interview bot.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They’re Trying to Peddle “Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer”

The vendor was one of a many whose code modules were infected by a never before seen strand of malware known as "Shai-Hulud."

CrowdStrike Infested With “Self-Replicating Worms”

Some of Donald Trump's most diehard supporters in office are rallying against the president's embrace of artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Biggest Fans Furious at His Embrace of AI

First theorized in 1963 by a Polish SciFi author, smart dust is now a real life technology with major implications.

Scientists Working on “Smart Dust” That Can Spy on a Room While Drifting Throught the Air

Some of AI's most devoted acolytes are growing increasingly frustrated as the tech fails to deliver as expected.

Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Are Obsessed With AI, But Their Pushes to Use It Keep Ending in Disaster

OpenAI executives are reeling as activist groups and tech rivals organize to stimy their for-profit aspirations.

OpenAI Execs Are Extremely Upset

Exactly six months ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claimed that in six months, AI would be "writing 90 percent of code."

Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code

An activist speaks out on his goals as he enters day nine of a grueling hunger strike in front of Anthropic's San Fran headquarters.

Anti-AGI Protester Now on Day Nine of Hunger Strike in Front of Anthropic Headquarters

If current trends continue, corporate leaders could drag the economy into a self-imposed productivity slowdown to make AI look good.

Artificial Intelligence

If the AI Industry Fails, It Could Take the Rest of Us Down With It

New data shows Tesla's EV sales have fallen below 2017 levels, when it was struggling to sell even 30,000 vehicles.

Tesla’s Market Share Has Fallen So Badly That It’s Back to 2017 Levels

A country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees.

Artificial Intelligence

Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

The CEO and cofounder of Cluely says that by destroying education, he's simply "accelerating the collapse of a doomed industry."

CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education

The People's Republic has already embraced the practical rollout of AI to huge portions of the nation's infrastructure.

Artificial Intelligence

China Is Suddenly Deploying AI Everywhere

Founders of the AI startup Dot has announced they'll be closing their doors amidst an ongoing debate over AI's mental health risks.

AI Companion App Shuts Down Amid Controversy

In just days, the Trump dynasty has amassed a $5 billion crypto fortune, the majority of which comes from foreign exchanges.

A Sitting President Is Making Billions Off Crypto, Which Feels Like a Bit of an Outrage

The harrowing years-long ordeal is a vivid example of the troubling power dynamics involved in commercial surrogacy.

Venture Capitalist Sues Surrogate Mother After Stillbirth

Activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter is protesting the "race to the bottom" of big tech's wreckless push toward AGI.

Anti-AI Activist on Day Three of Hunger Strike Outside Anthropic’s Headquarters

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