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The Industrialists

Trump Says No Need to Regulate AI, Since That Strategy Is Working Fine for Climate Change

"Welcome to the new world of super intelligence."

Advanced Transport

Former Air Traffic Controller Terrified New AI System Will Hallucinate and Cause Catastrophe

"One word: hallucination."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Instructs Firefighters to Call Two Separate Support Hotlines in the Event of a Robotaxi Accident

The Cybercab is giving firefighters plenty of homework.

Ethics

Robin Williams’ Daughter Horrified by People Creating AI Conspiracy Videos of Her Dad Long After His Death

"Just because he’s gone does not mean he’s now your puppet. Have some shame."

Ethics

DraftKings Is Using AI to Identify Problem Gamblers and Get Them Hooked

"The best investment would be a problem gambler."

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Addresses United Nations to Declare That the United States Is Now Calling Artificial Intelligence “Super Intelligence” in “All Official Documents”

"Many people think that the words 'Artificial Intelligence' are inaccurate," Trump mused.

Anthropic

Is There a Secret Reason for the Industry-Wide AI Slowdown?

Genuine concern or safety theater?

Meta

Meta’s New Muse AI Agent May Be the Creepiest Ever Released

Careful what you share with Muse.

Artificial Intelligence

Wild New Website Lets You Shoot “Less Lethal” Ammunition From Gun Turrets in a Firing Range

What could possibly go wrong?

Meta

Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism

"We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is."

Advanced Transport

Hundreds of Flights Grounded Across the Eastern Seaboard as Government Rolls Out AI Air Traffic Control System

You're right to push back — there was a Boeing 787 taxiing on that runway.

Ethics

It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children

Killer AI is already here.

Robotics

Behold: Video of “First-Ever” Human Versus Robot MMA Fight

"Dude, I'm scared for you man."

Ethics

Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll

"When you see enough of the vandalism, you know the writing is on the wall."

Ethics

Bloomberg Finds That the AI Industry’s Finances Are a “Wobbly House of Cards”

"There are just so many things to unravel if it starts."

Ethics

Nvidia CEO Promises Not to Kill Everybody Before 2030

"There is zero chance chance that's going to be the end of the world."

ESA

A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop

The company deleted huge swathes of the site after we noticed. It's still publishing complete AI-generated sludge.

Solar Power

Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It’s Almost Unbelievable

"Offensively cheap."

Privacy

Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them

Smart glasses begone.

Mental Health

Scientists Claim That Three Minutes With a “Donkey or Small Horse” Can Save Teenagers From Depression

"You can't stand in a pasture watching a child and a donkey interact and pretend only one of them is having an experience."