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Producers of "Stranger Things" had to resort to some visual trickery to wind back the clock for the show's rapidly aging cast.

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The New “Stranger Things” Is Using Digital De-Aging Tech After Its Child Actors Kept Growing

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has argued that the 16-year-old, who took his own life, used ChatGPT incorrectly and that his tragic death was his own fault.

OpenAI Says Boy’s Death Was His Own Fault for Using ChatGPT Wrong

By Victor Tangermann

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said it was "insane" to suggest his employees not use AI to do everything possible.

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Nvidia CEO Says You’re “Insane” If You Don’t Use AI to Do Literally Everything

By Frank Landymore

Food bloggers are warning home cooks to be wary of AI-generated recipes that could turn this year's Thanksgiving dinner into a tragedy.

Thanksgiving Dinner Headed for Tragedy as Disastrous AI Recipes Devour Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's $27 billion hyperion data center is already making life a living hell for the residents of Holly Ridge, Louisiana.

Meta’s $27 Billion Datacenter Is Wreaking Havoc on a Louisiana Town

Three major insurance companies have requested permission to exclude AI from their policies as anxiety grows throughout the industry.

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Insurance Companies Are Terrified to Cover AI, Which Should Probably Tell You Something

British computer scientist and AI "godfather" Geoffrey Hinton predicts the disastrous effects AI will have on our fragile society.

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Godfather of AI Predicts Total Breakdown of Society

By Frank Landymore

A former activist with the group StopAI has reportedly gone missing after making violent threats against OpenAI employees.

OpenAI Locks Down Office After Violent Threat

According to a lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg allegedly directed his company to prioritize the metaverse over youth safety, among other violations.

Mark Zuckerberg Allegedly Said Child Safety Was Less Important Than “Building the Metaverse”

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has been quietly rifling through users' personal Gmail accounts to train its AI models on their emails and even attachments.

Google Denies Reading Your Gmail to Train Its AI

By Victor Tangermann

A survey found that a shockingly large proportion of UK teens would rather talk to a chatbot than a person, and many are using AI for advice.

A Startling Proportion of Teens Now Prefer Talking to AI Over a Real Person

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Students at the University of Staffordshire have spent the past two years learning to code from AI-generated course material.

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

A simple trick involving poetry is enough to jailbreak the tech industry's leading AI models, researchers found.

Scientists Discover “Universal” Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is hellbent on transforming Windows 11 into a "canvas for AI," and users aren't left feeling impressed.

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Windows Users Furious at Microsoft’s Plan to Turn It Into an “Agentic OS”

By Frank Landymore

A video game executive has sparked a fierce debate surrounding the use of AI in the industry by claiming that "Gen Z loves AI slop."

Gaming Exec Says That “Gen Z Loves AI Slop”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers discovered a disturbing trend among people who learned about a topic with ChatGPT, instead of using a regular web search.

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Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

A person died in a Tesla vehicle in Arizona Tuesday after the vehicle crashed and burst into hot flames which required hazmat control.

Driver Dies After Tesla Crashes and Bursts into Flames

By Sharon Adarlo

Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki says his game's longstanding issues with child predators are an opportunity for growth.

CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an “Opportunity”

financial holdings company JPMorgan asked 111 billionaire clients how they use AI. Their answers range from down-to-earth to absurd.

The Way Billionaires Are Using AI May Cause Concern They Have Actual Brain Damage

By Victor Tangermann

A new analysis of AI-generated ripoff of Wikipedia, "Grokipedia," found that it cites the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront 42 times.

Elon Musk Is Not Beating the Allegations: Grokipedia Cites a Hardcore Nazi Website 42 Times

By Frank Landymore

economist and author David McWilliams told Fortune that AI hardware investments are "digital lettuce" that are going to go "off."

Top Economist Warns That AI Data Center Investments Are “Digital Lettuce” That’s Already Starting to Wilt

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk sought to dispel suspicion that he manipulated his chatbot Grok to lavish him with praise by sharing a bizarre admission.

Elon Musk Clarifies That He Is a “Fat R*****”

By Frank Landymore

Two dubious Christmas murals that appear to have been AI generated proved controversial enough to be torn down days later.

Giant AI-Generated Christmas Decoration Being Torn Down After Residents Noticed Grotesque Horrors Hidden in It

By Victor Tangermann

After dazzling Wall Street with a "blowout" earnings report which saw its stock rise, Nvidia's stock is already declining.

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Oops! Nvidia’s Stock Is Falling Again After Its “Blowout” Earnings Report

By Frank Landymore

Grok has quite literally only unbelievable things to say about its creator Elon Musk, praising him to a preposterous degree.

Grok Insists That Elon Musk Is More Physically Fit Than LeBron James

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT maker OpenAI was dealt a one-two punch on Tuesday, two separate developments that could undermine the firm's dominance.

OpenAI Is Suddenly in Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

A report found that leading chatbots are "fundamentally unsafe" for teens looking for mental health support, and failed to catch red flags.

Report Finds That Leading Chatbots Are a Disaster for Teens Facing Mental Health Struggles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Larry Summers, a prominent OpenAI board member, just resigned from his post after emails showed Jeffery Epstein was his "wing man."

OpenAI Board Member Resigns After Deep Connections to Epstein Exposed

Many industry leaders have acknowledged that there's likely a bubble. But die-hard AI investors are furious at the suggestion.

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AI Investors Furious at Suggestion That There’s an AI Bubble

By Victor Tangermann

The plaintiff lawyers ill-advisedly submitted an obvious AI-generated deepfake as evidence in the form of witness testimony.

Judge Horrified as Lawyers Submit Evidence in Court That Was Faked With AI

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI pulled access to a GPT-4o powered toy caught giving inappropriate responses, but it apparently still thinks these ones are okay.

Amazon Still Selling Multiple OpenAI-Powered Teddy Bears, Even After They Were Pulled Off the Market

By Frank Landymore

An enormous new mural near London, depicting a crowded Christmas scene, has drawn outrage and mockery from passersby.

Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors

By Victor Tangermann

A Reddit user said that a Tesla robotaxi safety driver fell asleep behind the wheel at least three times while using the service.

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Passenger Alarmed When Tesla Robotaxi “Safety” Driver Falls Completely Asleep at the Wheel

By Sharon Adarlo

Google pulled the Gemma model from its AI Hub after the AI falsely claimed that a Republican senator had been accused of heinous crimes.

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Google Pulls Down AI Chatbot After It Accuses Senator of Terrible Crime

By Frank Landymore

AI chipmaker Nvidia's Wednesday earnings call is putting investors on edge, results that could send ripples through already rattled markets.

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The Whole Financial World Is Terrified of Nvidia’s Earnings Call

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of a video game publisher has been accused of asking ChatGPT how to wriggle out of paying out a massive $250 million bonus.

CEO Accused of Asking ChatGPT About Something Absolutely Wild

By Victor Tangermann

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