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Ethics

The AI Industry Has a Major Problem: Most People Aren’t Freaks Who Want an AI Agent Running Their Whole Life

AI companies have done next to nothing to earn their trust.

Ethics

Man Facing Up to Three Years in Prison After Sharing AI Slop That Leads to Mass Panic

Careful about sharing AI slop!

Meta

It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide

"The largest misallocation of capital in history."

Astrophysics

NASA Telescope Careening Down to Earth After Failed Rescue Mission

It's not dead quite yet, but its days are counted.

Ethics

These Strongly Appear to Be the Old Tweets of That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind and They Are… Pretty Bizarre

That's... not what we were expecting.

Privacy

Phoebe Bridgers Banned Phones at Her Concerts and It’s Creating a Beautiful and Mysterious Experience Where People Are Drawing Her Amazing Light Show by Hand

Inspiring.

Artificial Intelligence

Top BBC Director Says He’s Been Reviewing a Fully AI-Generated Episode of “Doctor Who” and It’s “Pretty Good”

Just what the franchise needs: an injection of AI slop.

Finance

Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn

"What the industry needs is a wave of innovation that will dwarf what mobile and cloud unlocked."

OpenAI

Here’s the Email You Get When an OpenAI Model Hacks Your Organization

OpenAI will wish you the "best" after hacking into your company.

Artificial Intelligence

RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions

"If somebody tells you, 'Masks work, trust the experts,' AI may tell you otherwise."

Environment

New Jersey So Flooded That a Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through a Suburban Neighborhood

"It's coming this way!"

Ethics

People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All

The power of AI.

OpenAI

New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo

The AI was "having a slow morning."

Anthropic

The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents

It's forcing AI executives to testify in Washington, DC.

The Industrialists

Trump Handlers Cut Event When He Gets Asked an Extremely Awkward AI Question

We got your deep state right here, pal.

Ethics

That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation

Brown Brothers Media has ceased publication — for now.

Ethics

Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security

"We weren’t totally surprised by it."

Self-Driving Vehicles

We Are Alarmed to Learn That People Are Installing DIY Self-Driving “Mods” on Their Cars

"I do not think we should be letting people run any software they want on their self-driving car."

Environment

Scientists Alarmed by “Kelvin Wave” That Could Raise California Ocean Level by a Whole Foot

"It's a wave unlike the ones you're used to at the beach."

Starship

SpaceX’s Troubled Starship Test Yesterday Is Looking Ominous for NASA’s Moon Landing

"The real pressure is the Moon."