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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

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

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

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

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

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

The AI billboard asks you to visit a website called Replacement.AI, which brags that humans are "no longer necessary."

Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard

By Frank Landymore

The University of North Carolina School of Law held a mock trial in which the "jury" was made up of the AIs ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude.

Law School Tests Trial With Jury Made Up of ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's outstanding debts now exceed $1 trillion, which could lead to drastic consequences for the rest of the US economy if it fails.

Sam Altman Now Has the Power to “Crash the Global Economy,” Financial Analyst Warns

Legal experts are now growing incensed not just about what's going into the chatbots, but what's coming out.

OpenAI’s Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger

The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

Experts confirmed almost immediately that OpenAI's latest AI browser, dubbed Atlas, is "definitely vulnerable to prompt injection."

OpenAI’s New AI Browser Is Already Falling Victim to Prompt Injection Attacks

By Victor Tangermann

Tech entrepreneurs and insiders agree that the extreme AI hype is getting in the way of making the most out of the tech.

What Tech Insiders Actually Think of AI Is Extremely Revealing

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has its work cut out to justify the existence of its newfangled ChatGPT Atlas browser. It's extremely slow and vulnerable to exploits.

OpenAI’s New AI Web Browser Is a Bit of a Mess

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is reportedly pushing the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine to provide information about his funeral, including a list of attendees.

OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI twice relaxed ChatGPT restrictions around self-harm and suicide discussions, an amended lawsuit over a minor's suicide alleges.

OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI safety analyst Steven Adler began to doubt his own expertise after reading a lengthy conversation a man had with ChatGPT.

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown

OpenAI coined a new, cringe-inducing term during its announcement of its new browser, Atlas: "life vibing."

OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk first teased then proclaimed that Grok will achieve AGI, and an OpenAI researcher wasn't having it.

OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face

By Frank Landymore

Third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia found that ChatGPT mobile app growth and time spent on the app slowed down significantly.

ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds

By Victor Tangermann

Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI, claimed that ChatGPT had found the answers to "previously unsolved" math problems.

OpenAI Researcher Forced to Delete “Embarrassing” Tweet Claiming Huge Breakthrough

By Frank Landymore

Even former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term "vibe coding," has seemingly fallen out of love with his own creation.

Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project

By Victor Tangermann

A woman successfully used ChatGPT to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties.

Woman Wins Court Case by Using ChatGPT as a Lawyer

By Victor Tangermann

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

By Victor Tangermann

It's clearer than ever than OpenAI doesn't have anything close to a handle on its disastrous copyright situation.

It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI announced that it was working with the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to put an end to his likeness appearing in Sora videos.

OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank says "European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May," suggesting its struggling to recruit new subscribers.

ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends his flip-flopping on erotica by saying the company is not the "moral police."

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut

Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.

If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora 2, it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities.

People Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Mock the Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Major talent agencies told the Hollywood Reporter that OpenAI had been "purposely misleading" them in behind-the-scenes communications.

It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's GPT-5 model is giving more dangerous responses than its predecessor GPT-4o, new research has found.

Study Finds GPT-5 Is Actually Worse Than GPT-4o, New Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Even the biggest players in AI are losing billions — "brutal" economics that highlight growing concerns of an enormous AI bubble.

The Economics of Running an AI Company Are Disastrous

By Victor Tangermann

Two Months Ago, Sam Altman Was Boasting That OpenAI Didn’t Have to Do Sexbots. Now It’s Doing Sexbots

By Victor Tangermann

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

By Victor Tangermann

A jealous wife tries to get her husband's smartphone because she suspects him of infidelity.

ChatGPT Is Giving Men Such Bad Advice on Dating That It May Actually Be Trying to Keep Them Single

Eight months after relaxing its policy guidelines around naughty content, ChatGPT is finally loosening its guidelines.

OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut

A consumer research firm said the new ChatGPT ads scored very low for long term growth and immediate sales impact.

OpenAI’s Marketing Efforts Are Embarrassingly Ineffective, New Consumer Research Finds

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

By Frank Landymore

After rolling out an AI tool to generate cheap thumbnails for his videos, Jimmy Donaldson says the tech is creating "scary times."

MrBeast Concerned That AI Slop Will Put Him Out of Business

The 29-year-old man arrested for allegedly starting the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles used ChatGPT while he was at the scene.

Suspect Fantasized About Arson on ChatGPT Before Setting Deadly Fire That Killed 12, Prosecutors Say

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's Sora 2 app quickly turned into a rocky road. Copyright guardrails have frustrated many users and driven them away.

OpenAI’s Sora Is in Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Sora 2 users started sharing clips of influencer Jake Paul coming out of the closet and giving makeup tutorials.

Jake Paul Invites Users to Fake Him on Sora, So They Immediately Use It to Make Him Gay and Obsessed With Makeup

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has remained adamant that rightsholders are already lining up to have their IP featured on Sora 2.

Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

By Victor Tangermann

How will OpenAI stop Sora 2 from burning through cash as users generate countless resource-intensive AI videos?

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

By Victor Tangermann

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

By Jon Christian, Victor Tangermann

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI’s Sora 2 to Harass Victim

By Frank Landymore

Hot off the heels of the release of her new album, pop star Taylor Swift has been accused of using AI slop to promote the record.

Taylor Swift Caught Using Sloppy AI in Video for New Album

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is gambling on a new AI device by former Apple designer Jony Ive -- but behind the scenes, it's beset by issues.

OpenAI’s Huge New Project Is Running Into Trouble Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore

It's becoming clear that OpenAI put staggeringly little thought into the rollout of Sora 2, a "move fast and break things" approach.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Already Melting Down Into Outrageous Drama

By Victor Tangermann

A 13-year-old Florida teen was arrested for asking OpenAI's ChatGPT how to kill a friend during class in what he claimed to be a prank.

13-Year-Old Arrested for Asking ChatGPT How to Kill His Friend

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is once again forecasting what sounds awfully like the catastrophic burst of the AI bubble.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Industry Is Due for a Spectacular Implosion

By Frank Landymore

In a video that went viral, a clip shows Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth, raising copyright concerns.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

Mourning Women Say OpenAI Killed Their AI Boyfriends

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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Horrific Sora 2 Video Shows Sam Altman Grilling a Dead Pikachu

By Frank Landymore

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

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

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

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