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With mountains of money on the line, concern is growing that the AI industry could hit a wall and precipitate a financial crash.

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Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall

By Frank Landymore

The inventor of the controversial "Sarco" suicide pod wants to use AI to administer a test before you use the chamber to kill yourself.

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Inventor Building AI-Powered Suicide Chamber

By Frank Landymore

AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.

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AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst

By Frank Landymore

A Denver Broncos beat writer was confused when a popular Facebook page claimed he had passed away due to a "domestic violence incident."

Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He’s Dead

A new survey shows that media executives are all feeling pretty glum about how AI will affect journalism and news.

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Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry

By Frank Landymore

The company has laid off some 1,500 virtual reality developers as part of a broader shift toward AI wearable devices.

Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails

Researchers found that as their prompts for OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model grew ruder, the outputs became more accurate.

Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It

By Victor Tangermann

Ashley St. Clair, an influencer who had a child with Musk, is now suing xAI, accusing it of allowing users to generate lewd pictures of her.

Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

By Victor Tangermann

Ask Google's infamously hallucination-prone AI Overview feature what next year is, and you'll get an extremely puzzling answer.

Google’s AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027

By Frank Landymore

When AI models are used in a school setting, kids become dumber and meaner after using this technology, according to a new study.

New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development

By Sharon Adarlo

AI scientists are starting to study AI models as if they are novel biological organisms in order to understand their inner workings.

Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism

By Sharon Adarlo

A journalism professor spent a month logging seven chatbots for their newsworthiness, with horrendous results.

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey filed eight trademark applications that featured videos and audio clips of him to thwart AI.

Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is gutting its employee library and cutting subscriptions in favor of what it's describing as an "AI-powered learning experience."

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Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI

By Frank Landymore

AI data centers are using up so much energy that grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers.

AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

By Sharon Adarlo

A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was detained after ripping AI "artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest."

Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

By Victor Tangermann

Wikipedia has signed licensing deals with a host of major AI companies in a bid to recoup the costs of being pillaged by data scrapers.

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After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them

By Frank Landymore

After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The internet search giant recently announced new ad spots companies can buy to bombard users with links to sponsored products.

Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its AI Products

The music distribution platform Bandcamp said it would ban all music that is wholly or significantly made with AI.

Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music

By Frank Landymore

Pete Hegseth has chosen to plug Grok into the Pentagon's classified military networks as part of a broader AI push.

Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks

The advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for crowdsourced question-and-answer platform Stack Overflow.

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AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow

By Victor Tangermann

In a new essay, financial expert Sebastian Mallaby predicts that OpenAI could run out of money "over the next 18 months."

Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money

By Victor Tangermann

Rumors are running online that the Duffer Brother used OpenAI's ChatGPT when producing the last final season of "Stranger Things."

Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”

By Sharon Adarlo

A new survey shows that pretty much everyone hates the idea of Elon Musk's Grok generating nudes of real adults and minors.

Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

By Frank Landymore

An indie game developer says he's removing his game from Steam to repent for his sin of using AI-generated assets to make it.

Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

By Frank Landymore

People have been posting fake AI images online, claiming to have spotted escaped monkeys in St. Louis, complicating rescue efforts.

AI Implicated as Escaped Monkeys Rampage Through St. Louis

By Victor Tangermann

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asking us to stop being so negative about AI, since it's simply a "doomer narrative."

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Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI

By Frank Landymore

The man loves his AI girlfriend very, very much, and will one day start a family with her. However that works.

Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother

By Frank Landymore

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Poison Fountain project calls on website owners to feed AI data scrapers a data set designed to sabotage AI models.

Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems

By Frank Landymore

a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to one day do their work.

Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's xAI has reported a staggering net loss over the last three months, bringing the year's total losses to $7.8 billion.

Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children

OpenAI's ChatGPT Health will ingest your medical records to generate more relevant responses that shouldn't be acted upon.

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”

By Victor Tangermann

One of the more bizarre gadgets showing at CES 2026 is the Breakreal R1, an AI cocktail machine with "unlimited recipes."

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New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be

Japanese tech giant Sony is looking to let an AI navigate PlayStation games on the human player's behalf.

Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck

By Victor Tangermann

The National Weather Service was caught posting an AI-generated weather map that hallucinated names for towns in Idaho.

National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

By Victor Tangermann

Windows PC maker Dell admitted at this year's CES that things have really gotten out of hand, agreeing that people don't buy PCs for AI.

Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features

By Victor Tangermann

Investors are already preparing for that type of major tech sell-off amid ongoing fears of a collapse of an AI bubble.

Terrified Investors Are Bracing for an AI Bubble “Reckoning”

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft hard push to stuff AI features into Windows 11 is clogging up an already bloated operating system.

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“Microslop”: Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI

By Frank Landymore

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Alaska court system spent over a year working on the AI virtual assistant, which is apparently almost ready for primetime.

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Court System Says Hallucinating AI System Is Ready to Be Deployed After Dramatically Lowering Expectations

By Frank Landymore

Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.

ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died

A hacker targeted a white supremacist dating website, lured users with an AI chatbot, and deleted the platform entirely live on stage.

Woman Hacks “Tinder for Nazis,” Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-generated video with over 5 million views on social media purports to show Venezuelans celebrating Nicolas Maduro's kidnapping.

That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop

The Guardian found that Google's AI Overviews' summaries are loaded with inaccurate health information that could put people at risk.

Google’s AI Overviews Caught Giving Dangerous “Health” Advice

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's response to his AI chatbot Grok being used to generate sexual depictions of minors doesn't inspire confidence.

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier”

By Frank Landymore

The tech industry is making sure kids will be hooked on AI for generations -- in a huge experiment students never consented to.

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Tech Giants Pushing AI Into Schools Is a Huge, Ethically Bankrupt Experiment on Innocent Children That Will Likely End in Disaster

By Frank Landymore

The Twitch channel currently holding the most active subscribers is run entirely by a large language model.

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The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI-Powered Entity

In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."

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Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”

Yann LeCun, Meta's former chief AI scientists dishes on why he made a shock exit from Mark Zuckerberg's company.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Former Top AI Scientist Reveals Exactly Why He Quit

By Frank Landymore

Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio claimed top AI models are showing signs of self-preservation, and criticized calls for giving AI models rights.

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AI Godfather Warns That It’s Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation

By Frank Landymore

A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.

Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges

By Sharon Adarlo

The average OpenAI employee is earning an astonishing amount in compensation compared to every other startup.

Your Jaw Will Hit the Floor When You Find Out How Much the Average OpenAI Worker Makes

As the Baltimore Sun reports, a couple used OpenAI's ChatGPT to name their firstborn son. Their decision was criticized heavily online.

New Parents Mocked for Letting ChatGPT Name Their Baby

By Victor Tangermann

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.

Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog

By Victor Tangermann

A man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him in the balls, forcing the man into a groaning heap.

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Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack

By Sharon Adarlo

Regulators at the Cyberspace Administration of China have proposed new laws meant to protect AI users' mental health.

China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users

"Godfather" of AI Geoffrey Hinton predicts that AI will continue to improve at a rapid pace, devouring our jobs in the process.

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Godfather of AI Warns That It Will Replace Many More Jobs This Year

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.

OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation