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President Donald Trump shared a bizarre and clearly AI-generated video on Truth Social about a QAnon conspiracy theory.
Future Society

Trump’s Grip on Reality Questioned After He Shares and Then Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Video

Is the president confused?

The AI channel racked up more than 175,000 views with photorealistic depictions of women being shot in the head or chest.
Future Society

YouTube Removes Disturbing AI Slop YouTube Channel Filled With Videos of Women Being Murdered

This is grim.

Second-year Lakers head coach JJ Redick gave fans pause after sharing he's been having long talks with a virtual buddy.
OpenAI

NBA Coach JJ Redick Says He Spends Hours Talking to His “Friend” ChatGPT

"I'm the type of person who, y'know, spends an hour and a half going down a deep, deep rabbit hole on ChatGPT."

A researcher went back over 100 years of brain science that lead him to a radical conclusion about consciousness.
Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Says We’re All Wrong About Root of Consciousness in Our Brains

"This means we may have to review our theories of consciousness."

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.
Google

OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

"Ten gigawatts is more than the peak power demand in Switzerland or Portugal."

A not-jealous-sounding Elon Musk is accusing OpenAI of poaching his former xAI employees to steal company secrets.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Is Fuming That Workers Keep Ditching His Company for OpenAI

His blood feud with Sam Altman rages on.

A planned data center in Indianapolis by Google was shut down after residents protested its possible environmental impacts.
Future Society

Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

Google Fail

The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.
OpenAI

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

"The results haven’t lived up to the hype."

SAP chief finance officer Dominik Asam didn't mince words when asked what the end result of his company's AI usage would be.
Artificial Intelligence

SAP Exec: Get Ready to Be Fired Because of AI

"I will be brutal."

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.
Future Society

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

"We're not a huge fan of the data centers."

Space Force top boss Chance Saltzman says we need to accept that things aren't always going to be perfect, weapons of war included.
Space

Space Force Says It’ll Prioritize Buying Lots of Weapons Over Ones That Work Properly

"Space acquisition is one of the most intricate professions, and it can take years to master."

Detail of a Steam Deck handheld gaming console, taken on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Dabe Alan/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Future Society

4Chan-Obsessed ICE Shooter Was Gaming on Steam Right Up Until the End

Scary Stuff

Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.
Devices

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

"Toilet paper is a public resource. We need to prevent waste."

AI bots sided with users who acted in a way that was "deemed inappropriate by crowdsourced human judgments, researchers found.
Future Society

In Situations Where Most Humans Think You’re Being a Jerk, ChatGPT Will Assure You You’re Behaving Like an Angel

ChatGPT is way less likely to call you the a-hole.

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.
Drones

Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

We would be fuming.

Photo Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael Prince / Fuse / Getty Images
Hacking

Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

Seize the means of computation.

Trump's anti-Tylenol expert received at least $150,000 as an expert witness during several lawsuits aimed at Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol.
Mental Health

Trump’s Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show

"Legitimizing bad science with dangerous policy endangers you when your decisions are based on fear, not facts."

The movie studio partnered with the firm Runway to make a movie generating AI trained on its catalog — and it's currently foundering.
Artificial Intelligence

Lionsgate’s Attempt to Create Movies Using AI Has Crumbled Into Disaster

Turns out that making an AI good enough to churn out entire Hollywood films is pretty hard.

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make bioweapons?
Developments

Experts Alarmed That AI Is Now Producing Functional Viruses

"We're nowhere near ready for a world in which artificial intelligence can create a working virus."

Engineers developed an EV battery ejection system that shoots the offending pack out of the side of the vehicle like a giant piece of toast.
Electric Vehicles

China Unveils EV That Can Violently Eject Its Battery in Case of a Fire

A car that can shoot a giant flaming battery pack — what could possibly go wrong?