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OpenAI confirmed that it had suspended FoloToy's access to its AI models after a damning report about the toymaker's AI teddy bear.

OpenAI Blocks Toymaker After Its AI Teddy Bear Is Caught Telling Children Terrible Things

By Frank Landymore

Busy parents are increasingly turning to OpenAI's ChatGPT for child rearing advice, medical information, and to entertain their kids.

Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children

By Sharon Adarlo

AI companies like Mercor are scrapping thousands of worker contracts in order restart operations while paying much lower rates.

AI Companies Are Treating Their Workers Like Human Garbage, Which May Be a Sign of Things to Come for the Rest of Us

Disgruntled spouses are divorcing their bot-enamored partners that they say cheated on them with an AI companion.

People Are Starting to Get Divorced Because of Affairs With AI

By Frank Landymore

There's still far too much we don't understand about how AI-powered toys can affect a child's development, an expert warns.

Child Development Researcher Issues Warning About AI-Powered Teddy Bears Flooding Market Before Christmas

By Frank Landymore

A new Y Combinator-backed startup called "Chad" is revolutionizing the way software engineers waste time at work.

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New Development Environment for Programmers Rewards Them With Brainrot When They Prompt the AI

New research shows roleplaying romantic relationships with chatbots like Replika can include marriage, homemaking, and even pregnancies.

People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners

An economist argues that President Donald Trump's investments in Big Tech will ruin the country's economy and its technological edge.

Economist Warns That Trump’s Investments in the Tech Industry Could Crash the Whole Economy

By Sharon Adarlo

FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.

AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children

By Frank Landymore

Journalist Evan Ratliff populated a fictional tech startup, dubbed HurumoAI, exclusively with AI agents to see what would happen.

Company Run Almost Entirely by AI-Generated Employees Descends Into Chaos

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese hackers were "pretending to work for legitimate security-testing organizations" to sidestep Anthropic's AI guardrails.

Hackers Told Claude They Were Just Conducting a Test to Trick It Into Conducting Real Cybercrimes

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese government is implementing phase two of its comprehensive safety crackdown on AI misinformation.

China Is Cracking Down on AI Slop

Twitter co-founder and blockchain evangelist Jack Dorsey has revived the six-second video platform, Vine — well, sort of.

Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned

By Victor Tangermann

A YouTuber's attempt to create an animatronic Aristotle-bot went slightly off the rails when it called for the elimination of humanity.

Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a “Resource” to Be “Manipulated or Eliminated”

"The Big Short" asset manager Michael Burry's attempts to short AI have taken several wild turns, leading to far more questions than answers.

After Attempting to Short the AI Bubble, the “Big Short” Guy Suddenly Closes Up Shop

By Victor Tangermann

Disney announced a service that allows users to generate AI content on Disney+, effectively opening up the floodgates to AI slop.

Disney+ Will Allow Users to Generate Their Own “Frozen 3” Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's Sora 2 is helping users flood the internet with dehumanizing content of fat people in impossible scenarios.

Sora Is Being Used to Brutally Mock Fat People

Fireflies CTO and co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted that his AI transcription startup charged $100 an hour for notes taken by a human.

Founder Admits His “AI Transcription” Startup Was Just Him Joining People’s Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

A major tech selloff is shaking up Wall Street as the gulf between AI company valuations and their lagging revenues continues to grow.

Dark Clouds Suddenly Gathering Over AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

By Frank Landymore

An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard's "Country Digital Song Sales" chart in the United States.

Billboard’s Top Country Song Is Currently AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Yann LeCun, Meta's top AI scientist, is reportedly leaving the company amid Mark Zuckerberg overhauling its AI strategy.

Meta’s Top AI Scientist Is Quitting as Zuckerberg’s Spending Spree Sputters

By Frank Landymore

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas is using the troubling rise in AI companionship apps to hawk his company's AI web browser.

Perplexity CEO Warns That AI Girlfriends Can Melt Your Brain

If there's any job artificial intelligence should be good at, it's spamming the internet with algorithmic comments.

AI Is Failing at the Most Hilarious Task Imaginable

OpenAI's AI video-generating app, Sora, is likely costing the company an astronomical amount of money to run, as Forbes reports.

OpenAI Is Reportedly Burning a Ludicrous Amount of Cash on Sora

By Victor Tangermann

The tech giant's stocks tumbled after SoftBank pulled nearly $6 billion in funding, though the AI bubble isn't bursting yet.

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Nvidia Stock Lurches Down as SoftBank Pulls Entire Investment

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Publishing magnate Keith Riegert recently told a crowded room that there are only two possible AI futures, and neither of them are good.

Genius Exec Says There Are Only Two Possibilities for AI: It’ll Collapse the Economy, or Make Everyone’s Job Obsolete

Researchers at Google have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of AI during its execution.

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was unexpectedly served a subpoena while giving a live talk in San Francisco on Tuesday.

Sam Altman Gets Served Subpoena Live Onstage

By Frank Landymore

A Maryland appellate court judge issued a scathing opinion after a family attorney was caught using ChatGPT to write legal briefs.

Judge Blasts Lawyer Caught Using ChatGPT in Divorce Court, Orders Him to Take Remedial Law Classes

A new report found that tech worker layoffs are rising astronomically thanks to AI narratives, over hiring, and a dismal economy.

Tech Workers Are in Deep, Deep Trouble

Schools around the world are banning phones, and the results can be unexpected. For instance, schools are getting loud again.

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Banning Phones in Schools Is Drastically Changing the Behavior of Kids

Meta's arguing that a massive goon stash actually belonged to some worker's dad, and not a secret AI porn lab.

Meta Accuses Employee’s Dad of Downloading Gigantic Illegal Goon Stash

Kim Kardashian admitted that she used ChatGPT for "legal advice," causing her to fail tests in her quest to become an attorney.

Kim Kardashian Says She Screamed at ChatGPT After It “Made” Her Fail Law School Tests

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World

By Victor Tangermann

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

President Donald Trump's "AI czar" David Sacks announced that there will be "no federal bailout for AI" — freaking out investors further.

Trump Admin Says It’s Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Crashes

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar said that the government could "backstop the guarantee that allows the financing to happen."

OpenAI Exec Says It Could Use Some Financial Support From the Government

By Victor Tangermann

Jensen Huang just admitted the People's Republic is outmaneuvering the "cynical" US on electrical costs and regulation.

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Nvidia CEO Says China Is “Going to Win” the AI Race

Elon Musk has been neglecting Tesla and his other responsibilities to work on Grok's hypersexualized AI, Ani. It's weird.

Elon Musk Reportedly Obsessed With AI Girlfriend

Geoffrey Hinton is warning that the AI industry is fundamentally built on the total destruction of human labor.

The AI Industry Can’t Profit Unless It Replaces Human Jobs, Warns Man Who Helped Create It

Content creators using OpenAI's Sora 2 are generating some of the most depraved gender reveal videos you've ever seen.

People Are Using Sora to Create Unbelievably Cursed Gender Reveals

Andrew Cuomo's campaign embraced AI — and it made him a toxic laughingstock, while Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory.

Andrew Cuomo’s Extensive Use of AI Made His Campaign a Toxic Joke

By Frank Landymore

Calgary Flames head coach Ryan Huska told his players he'd been consulting with the AI chatbot to figure out why the team was losing.

Hockey Coach Admits He’s Been Asking ChatGPT for Advice After His Team Became the Worst in the League

After catching dozens of their students cheating, two professors realized that their apologizes all sounded incredibly similar.

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Professors Aghast as Class Caught Cheating “Sincerely” Apologizes in the Worst Possible Way

By Frank Landymore

Joining right wing compatriots Fox News, Newsmax also presented an AI-generated video as real to bash on food stamp recipients.

Newsmax Gets Fooled by AI Video, Broadcasts Entire Segment as If It Was Real

By Frank Landymore

Michael Burry, who shorted the housing market in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the shares of AI companies Nvidia and Palantir will fall.

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The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

By Victor Tangermann

Coke has made yet another series of AI ads to herald the coming of the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year.

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Coke’s New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage

By Frank Landymore

The e-commerce giant sent a nasty cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity, accusing it of "computer fraud" in violation of its policies.

Amazon Demands That AI Browser Stop Automatically Shopping on Behalf of Users

Shares of AI industry stalwarts, including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Amazon, fell on Tuesday, following growing concerns over an AI bubble.

Don’t Panic, But AI Stocks Are Suddenly Lurching Downward

By Victor Tangermann

Though there's plenty of real-life footage to marvel at, dozens of social media accounts have reposted a flagrant piece of AI-generated slop.

Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds “Larger Than Football Fields” Goes Viral

Every day, dozens of human "data collectors" repeat each activity hundreds of times to train Tesla's Optimus robots.

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Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots

By Frank Landymore

The embattled chatbot company Character.AI is banning minors from its platform. Unsurprisingly, the site's users have a lot of thoughts.

Character.AI Users in Full Meltdown After Minors Banned From Chats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During a recent interview with OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lost his cool when asked about the company's tiny revenue.

Sam Altman Loses His Cool When Asked About OpenAI’s Minuscule Revenue

By Victor Tangermann

A group representing Studio Ghibli and other major Japanese publishers is drawing a line in the sand against OpenAI's copyright abuses.

Studio Ghibli Demands That OpenAI Stop Ripping Off Its Work

By Frank Landymore

Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients.

Fox News Falls for AI-Generated Footage of Poor People Raging About Food Stamps Being Shut Down, Runs False Story That Has to Be Updated With Huge Correction

OpenAI's Atlas browser's agent mode completely avoided publications that filed lawsuits against OpenAI, highlighting a fraught relationship.

OpenAI’s Browser Avoids Large Part of the Web Like the Plague

By Victor Tangermann

It's becoming shockingly commonplace to spot real estate listings with glaringly AI-generated images that apply a thick coat of paint.

Landlords Are Using AI to Make Photos of Nasty Apartments Look Clean and Modern

By Victor Tangermann

A recent filing from Microsoft gives us a preview of how much money OpenAI lost last quarter — and it's huge.

The Amount of Money OpenAI Lost Last Quarter Will Make You Choke on Your Slurpee

By Frank Landymore

The federal reserve chair is watching AI's effect on job growth "very carefully" as he decides on tax rates.

Jerome Powell Deeply Concerned About AI’s Effects on Job Market

Massive layoffs among white collar workers are being blamed on AI -- but the evidence of a causal relationship is as thin as ever.

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AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs

Grok, now integrated into newer Tesla vehicles, is continuing to be the edgiest mainstream AI chatbot around.

Mom Says Tesla’s New Built-In AI Asked Her 12-Year-Old Something Deeply Inappropriate

By Frank Landymore

A video shows an AI-generated take on the iconic sitcom "Friends" that's so bizarre that it's uncomfortable to watch.

This AI-Generated Sitcom Is Actually Unsettling to Watch

By Victor Tangermann