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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

After being booted out of Intel, Patrick Gelsinger immediately threw himself into doing God's work: spreading Christian-aligned AI.

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Former CEO of Intel Building Special AI to Bring About Second Coming of Christ

By Frank Landymore

AI-powered dinosaurs are coming, pumped out by robotics companies looking to shave off a piece of the edu-tainment market.

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China Unleashing AI-Powered Robot Dinosaurs

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI’s Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Out of the 80 analysts covering Nvidia stock for Bloomberg's enterprise terminals, only one of them is saying "sell."

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Wall Street Analyst Warns That Nvidia Is Facing Serious Trouble

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is spending untold billions on infrastructure and top talent for its AI ambitions. Investors are rattled.

Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spending on Misfired AI

By Victor Tangermann

Days after announcing its conversion into a for-profit corporation, OpenAI is reportedly preparing for a mammoth initial public offering.

Immediately After Ditching Its Nonprofit Roots, OpenAI Is Already Preparing to Go Public

By Frank Landymore

Federal immigration officers are busting out their phones to scan people's faces and confirm their residency.

ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People’s Faces to Check If They’re Citizens

A new benchmark shows that AI agents are embarrassingly terrible at doing remote work tasks -- which is bad news for the AI economy.

A New Paper Tested AI’s Ability to Do Actual Online Freelance Work, and the Results Are Damning

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is accused of controlling workers through a surveillance dragnet, while skirting responsibility for their wellbeing.

Amazon Tells Driver to Keep Delivering Packages Amid Raging Wildfire

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

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AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

A bipartisan bill wants to keep kids under 18 away from AI companion bots, seeking penalties for AI companies that don't comply.

New Law Would Prevent Minors From Using AI Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chatbot maker Character.AI, accused of driving teens to suicide, says it will move to largely ban minors from talking with its chatbots.

Character.AI, Accused of Driving Teens to Suicide, Says It Will Ban Minors From Using Its Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler argued that OpenAI isn't doing enough to mitigate users' severe mental health issues.

Former OpenAI Insider Says It’s Failed Its Users

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI completed its restructuring into a for-profit public benefit corporation, untangling billions of dollars of investment.

OpenAI Successfully Sheds Its Roots as an Ethical Non-Profit

By Frank Landymore

Starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services began receiving texts and emails baring the bad news.

After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History

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Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

Researchers found that OpenAI's browser, Atlas's omnibox, is extremely vulnerable to serious prompt injection attacks.

Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser

By Victor Tangermann

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated version of Wikipedia, has a lot of questionably glowing things to say about the Cybertruck.

Grokipedia’s Article on the Cybertruck Clearly Shows Why the Whole Project Is Doomed

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's Grokipedia appears to be heavily relying on Wikipedia, copying many pages almost word for word.

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia

By Victor Tangermann

Diella will soon be sharing her "children" with government officials loyal to Edi Rama's party, the center-left Partia Socialiste.

World’s First AI Minister is “Pregnant” With 83 Offspring Government Announces

New research shows that several top AI models are actively ignoring explicit instructions to shut themselves down.

Research Paper Finds That Top AI Systems Are Developing a “Survival Drive”

By Frank Landymore

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.

AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is calling on the government to break up OpenAI in an effort to stop the firm from wiping out jobs.

Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Staffers at major video game developer Electronic Arts told Business Insider, their employer's attempts to use AI are backfiring.

EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman has reportedly tapped a Caltech engineer known for researching ultrasound to read the brain to lead his Neuralink competitor.

Sam Altman Funding Biomedical Startup to Read Human Brain Using Sound Waves

By Frank Landymore

AI investor Matt Shumer posted AI-generated, first-person-shooter video game footage, claiming it's the future of video games.

We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game

By Victor Tangermann

Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro told NPR that he's not a fan of generative AI, saying he'd "rather die" than use it.

Guillermo del Toro on Using AI: “I’d Rather Die”

By Victor Tangermann