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Hallucinating AI platforms are spitting out nonexistent landmarks and it's putting tourists in dangerous situations.

AI Endangering Tourists by Sending Them to Nonexistent Landmarks in Hazardous Locations

By Sharon Adarlo

Merriam-Webster teased that it was releasing a large language model in a recent announcement — with a twist.

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You Are Not Prepared for Merriam-Webster’s Announcement of Its New AI Model

By Frank Landymore

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images

Mourning Women Say OpenAI Killed Their AI Boyfriends

By Sharon Adarlo

AI data centers in the US are spiking nearby customers electricity bills and bringing other unexpected costs.

AI Data Centers Are Skyrocketing Regular People’s Energy Bills

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 08: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. Altman and tech leaders from Microsoft, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and CoreWeave testified about the global artificial intelligence race and how the United States can remain competitive. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Former OpenAI Employee Horrified by How ChatGPT Is Driving Users Into Psychosis

By Frank Landymore

New Yorkers appear to have plenty of reasons to ridicule and criticize AI startup Friend's latest offering.

AI “Friend” Startup Overwhelmed With Hatred

By Victor Tangermann

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Horrific Sora 2 Video Shows Sam Altman Grilling a Dead Pikachu

By Frank Landymore

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

Italian movie producer Andrea Iervolino unveiled what he claims will be the first film directed entirely by an AI entity.

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Producer Announces New Movie Will Be Directed by an AI Entity

By Victor Tangermann

The once favored in-home fitness company is putting pedal to the metal to carve out their own lane in the AI race.

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Peloton Announces Pivot to AI, Jacks Up Price

The launch of Sora 2 has mostly been a showcase of its ability to generate caricatures of Sam Altman in bizarre scenarios.

Sora 2 Is Generating Videos That Brutally Mock Sam Altman

By Frank Landymore

Disgraced former Governor and mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo had his AI do various ostensibly New York jobs and everyone is laughing at him.

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Cuomo’s AI-Generated Ad Roasted by Mamdani

The "AI Actress" called Tilly Norwood was slammed by actors across the industry after its creator claimed it was being "signed" by agents.

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Creator of “AI Actress” Responds to Near-Universal Backlash

By Frank Landymore

A viral video made on OpenAI's Sora 2 that looks like a 1990s toy ad makes fun of financier Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump.

Sora 2 Is Creating Ads for “Epstein Island” Children’s Toys

By Sharon Adarlo

California Gov. Newsom says the new law fills the gap left without any federal AI legislation and is a step in the right direction.

Gavin Newsom Signs Law Cracking Down on AI Industry

Anthropic is still struggling to evaluate the AI's alignment, realizing it keeps becoming aware of being tested.

Anthropic Safety Researchers Run Into Trouble When New Model Realizes It’s Being Tested

By Victor Tangermann

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says building machines smarter than us will ultimately lead to the end of humanity.

Godfather of AI Says We’re Barreling Straight Toward Human Extinction

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

OpenAI's new Sora 2-powered TikTok rival will generate a video of the company's CEO Sam Altman shoplifting.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Generates Realistic Videos of People Shoplifting

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI introduced a new shopping feature in ChatGPT but it pissed off people online who think it's a shameless money grab.

OpenAI Ridiculed for Its Latest Cash Grab

By Sharon Adarlo

In an unsettling promotional clip, a synthesized version of OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, announces the company's answer to Meta's Vibes app.

OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is said to be launching a TikTok-like app that recommends an endless stream of swipeable — and purely AI-generated — videos.

OpenAI Launching TikTok Competitor for Short-Form AI Slop Videos

By Victor Tangermann

An AI startup called friend has plastered the New York City subway system in advertisements -- and furious riders are vandalizing them.

New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign

People all over the world now think there are conscious entities within the AI chatbots they use everyday such as OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Across the World, People Say They’re Finding Conscious Entities Within ChatGPT

By Sharon Adarlo

CNBC personality Jim Cramer says there's no bubble coming for the AI sector — which should probably make any AI investors just a bit nervous.

You Might Want to Ditch Your AI Investments Now That Jim Cramer Says No Bubble Is Coming

By Victor Tangermann

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Compsci Grads Are Cooked

By Sharon Adarlo

Photoshop and Acrobat developer Adobe could soon be in serious trouble thanks to the emergence of generative AI.

Adobe Is in Serious Trouble Because of AI, Morgan Stanley Warns

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon has infused its famed assistant Alexa with the power of AI — an upgrade that's apparently come with drawbacks and headaches.

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Amazon’s New AI-Powered Alexa Is a Half-Working Mess

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released a new evaluation to figure out how well its AIs perform on "economically valuable, real-world tasks."

OpenAI Releases List of Work Tasks It Says ChatGPT Can Already Replace

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots

President Donald Trump shared a bizarre and clearly AI-generated video on Truth Social about a QAnon conspiracy theory.

Trump’s Grip on Reality Questioned After He Shares and Then Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Video

By Victor Tangermann

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

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

By Victor Tangermann

A not-jealous-sounding Elon Musk is accusing OpenAI of poaching his former xAI employees to steal company secrets.

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Elon Musk Is Fuming That Workers Keep Ditching His Company for OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

A planned data center in Indianapolis by Google was shut down after residents protested its possible environmental impacts.

Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

By Sharon Adarlo

The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

By Victor Tangermann

SAP chief finance officer Dominik Asam didn't mince words when asked what the end result of his company's AI usage would be.

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SAP Exec: Get Ready to Be Fired Because of AI

By Frank Landymore

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

AI bots sided with users who acted in a way that was "deemed inappropriate by crowdsourced human judgments, researchers found.

In Situations Where Most Humans Think You’re Being a Jerk, ChatGPT Will Assure You You’re Behaving Like an Angel

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.

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Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

By Frank Landymore

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

The movie studio partnered with the firm Runway to make a movie generating AI trained on its catalog — and it's currently foundering.

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Lionsgate’s Attempt to Create Movies Using AI Has Crumbled Into Disaster

By Frank Landymore

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make bioweapons?

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Experts Alarmed That AI Is Now Producing Functional Viruses

By Frank Landymore

The guy who's spearheading Meta's AI-powered smart glasses is named Rocco Basilico — which matches a internet theory called Roko's basilisk.

Zuckerberg’s AI Glasses Guy Is Named Rocco Basilico

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

Following years of being drowned out by AI slop, Spotify has finally officially acknowledged that it's a problem.

Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese censors digitally altered a gay couple into a heterosexual couple in the Dave Franco movie Together.

Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple

By Sharon Adarlo

A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.

Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

By Victor Tangermann

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.

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Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage

By Victor Tangermann

Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers or 30 percent of its workforce in a pivot to AI, after the CEO told workers to use AI.

Fiverr Told Its Employees to Embrace AI, Then Stabbed Them in the Back

By Sharon Adarlo

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.

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New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

By Victor Tangermann

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

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.

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Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that almost half of the most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving.

Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of a company that's pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much.

CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are “Luddites”

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

Stan Lee Resuscitated for AI-Powered Hologram at Comic Con

By Sharon Adarlo

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

OpenAI's ChatGPT had an update to protect teenagers and children but it has made the AI bot work not as well like previous versions.

Users Are Saying ChatGPT Has Been Lobotomized by a Secret New Update

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT and its "PhD-level" intelligence can't reliably give you a straight answer to a question involving the letters of the alphabet.

ChatGPT Has a Stroke When You Ask It This Specific Question

By Frank Landymore

AI-generated child sexual abuse material is seemingly flourishing on Elon Musk's xAI, former employees told Business Insider.

xAI Workers Leak Disturbing Information About Grok Users

By Victor Tangermann

Named Robin the Robot, the chirpy AI-powered bot is designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl.

Hospitals Deploying Robot Programmed to Act Like Child to Comfort Pediatric Patients

By Frank Landymore