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The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
Future Society

Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage

It's even worse than we thought.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's plans for its robotaxi service are so convoluted that it's not clear the company understands them itself.
Future Society

Tesla’s Robotaxi Plans Are So Jumbled That Officials Are Begging It To Clarify What the Heck It’s Actually Doing

We'd also like to know.

By Frank Landymore

It turns out that it doesn't take a lot to fool the lidar sensors used on robotaxis, if you go out of your way to do it.
Future Society

Putting Mirrors on Traffic Cones Causes Self-Driving Cars to Melt Down, Confounding Lidar

Is that Elon Musk we hear laughing in the distance?

By Frank Landymore

A robotics technician is suing Tesla, alleging he was struck and knocked unconscious by a robotic arm at the company's Fremont plant.
Elon Musk

Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims

He's suing the company for $51 million.

By Victor Tangermann

Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers or 30 percent of its workforce in a pivot to AI, after the CEO told workers to use AI.
Ethics

Fiverr Told Its Employees to Embrace AI, Then Stabbed Them in the Back

Where are fired Fiverr employees going to get work? On Fiverr?

By Sharon Adarlo

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
Robot Dogs

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

"We built a robot brain that nothing can stop."

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.
Mars

Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper

It's absolutely enormous.

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese EV maker BYD's YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar has absolutely obliterated the top speed record for a production car.
Electric Vehicles

Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car

Yowzers.

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian satellite came back to Earth while carrying organisms, as part of a mission to test the theory that life was seeded from space.
Exobiology

Russia Tests Whether Life Could Spread Between Planets With Spacecraft Filled With Critters

This out-of-this-world experiment may affirm wild theory.

By Sharon Adarlo

The mass adoption of AI chatbots is resulting in a marked increase in psychiatric patients arriving to mental health facilities.
Future Society

Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users

"We are witnessing the emergence of an entirely new frontier of mental health crises."

By Joe Wilkins

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.
Future Society

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

It's giving "bugged" a whole new meaning.

By Joe Wilkins

An analysis from the Financial Times makes a damning case of mindless AI band-wagoning among the US's top companies.
Future Society

Big Businesses Have a Major Problem With AI

They may not have thought things through.

By Frank Landymore

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.
Robotics

Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

"This guy is the first one to die in the robot uprising."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that almost half of the most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving.
Ethics

Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

It's highly effective.

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.
Anthropic

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

"AI machines — in quite a literal sense — appear to be saving the US economy right now."

By Victor Tangermann

Christians on TikTok are scrambling for explanations after some predicted that the Rapture would happen yesterday.
Future Society

Christians Sheepish After Boasting They Were Going to Get Raptured to Heaven Today

"My intention was not to deceive anyone."

By Sharon Adarlo

A research team says that for the first time in history, it's successfully treated Huntington's disease, a devastating, inherited disorder.
Treatments

In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Successfully Treat Devastating Brain Disease Huntington’s for the First Time

"The actual magnitude of the effect is breathtaking."

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of a company that's pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much.
Ethics

CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are “Luddites”

"We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI."

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview, Julie Zhuo explained that AI companies putting the pedal to the metal can't even see over the steering wheel.
Investing

Former Facebook Exec Warns AI Industry Is Entirely Built on “Vibes”

"Things just don't grow that fast."

By Joe Wilkins

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is making drastic changes following severe budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It’s Gutted by Trump

It's a tragedy.

By Victor Tangermann