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The multibillion dollar investment deals that are driving the AI industry having a worrying quirk: they're "circular."
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Say They’re Seeing a Blinking Warning Sign That We’re in an AI Bubble

Uh oh.

A dazzling video shows a quadcopter drone gently shooing unwanted critters away from poultry farms with a laser light show.
Future Society

Japanese Farmers Send Out Automated Laser Drones to Defend Chickens

Shoo, shoo. Go away.

A horribly mangled AI rendition of a rental house on Zillow shows a two-story building in a far-too-flattering light.
Ethics

This Listing for a Rental House Is Mangled With AI So Badly That You’ll Cackle Out Loud

"We live in an era of house catfishing."

The 17 year veteran of the company, ironically, had actually grown to really like using AI tools to help his job.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Embraces AI at Work, Gets Rewarded by Boss Replacing Him With It

"I considered the LLM as a collaborator."

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

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

Rightsholders are apparently worried their characters won't be put in "enough" Sora videos.

The consequences to his neighbors will be devastating, but it's a small price to pay if it means making a tech billionaire happy.
Ethics

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

"They think this area is a sacrifice zone and that people here don’t matter."

Many experts are concerned that an AI bubble could wreak havoc on the economy — but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can't wait for it to burst.
Ethics

Jeff Bezos Says AI Bubble Is Good Because It Will Eliminate the Weak

"This is real, the benefits to society from AI are going to be gigantic."

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
Artificial Intelligence

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

"The risk of a sharp market correction has increased."

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.
SpaceX

Elon Musk’s Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Look out!

The stunning photos of the interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, were taken by the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters last week.
Astronomy

Two Spacecraft Orbiting Mars Just Spotted the Mysterious Interstellar Visitor

It can run behind the Sun, but it can't hide.

Without AI spending, the US economy would lose one of the last industries actually bringing in any healthy revenue.
Finance

The Entire Economy Now Depends on the AI Industry Not Fumbling

"AI better deliver."

Friend's 22-year-old CEO Avi Schiffmann posed for a photoshoot in front of his startup's defaced ads, relishing in the attention.
Artificial Intelligence

Cocky AI CEO Does Photoshoot in Front of His Subway Ads That Got Relentlessly Vandalized

"The picture of the billboard is the billboard."

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.
Ethics

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That’s So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

What level of meta is this?

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

Sora 2 Has a Huge Financial Problem

"People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences."

Robin Williams during "One Hour Photo" Press Conference with Robin Williams and Michael Vartan at Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City, California, United States. (Photo by Vera Anderson/WireImage)
Art

Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by AI Slop of Her Father

"You are taking in the 'Human Centipede' of content."

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

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

Beyond poor taste.

As it turns out, corporate contractors like SpaceX aren't anymore efficient at building spacecraft than the government.
Future Society

A New Paper Studied Whether NASA Actually Saves Money by Hiring Corporations to Build New Spacecraft, and the Results Are Embarrassing

Ouch.

British conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall called for billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to be blasted into space.
Elon Musk

Jane Goodall Recorded a Message About Elon Musk Before Her Death

"Bruh, if Jane Goodall roasts you in her final farewell, you done goofed."

According to proponents, humanity should create AI lifeforms at all cost — and so be it if they surpass and eliminate us.
Ethics

Top AI Industry Figures Secretly Hoping AI Will Wipe Out Humankind

"It's not something one can ignore."

Deloitte was forced to reissue the Australian government $291,000 after getting caught including AI hallucinations in its report.
Future Society

Consultants Forced to Pay Money Back After Getting Caught Using AI for Expensive “Report”

"Deloitte has a human intelligence problem."