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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."

By Frank Landymore

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."

By Joe Wilkins

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."

By Joe Wilkins

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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."

By Joe Wilkins

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.

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Frank Landymore

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.

By Joe Wilkins

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."

By Victor Tangermann

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.

By Frank Landymore

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."

By Frank Landymore

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?

By Victor Tangermann

The guy who's spearheading Meta's AI-powered smart glasses is named Rocco Basilico — which matches a internet theory called Roko's basilisk.
Metaverse

Zuckerberg’s AI Glasses Guy Is Named Rocco Basilico

"I grabbed my head in horror."

By Sharon Adarlo

A medical examiner has found that former high school football player Shane Tamura, who shot and killed four people, had CTE.
Neuroscience and Brain

Medical Examiners Found Something Grim About the Brain of the Gunman Who Shot Up the NFL Building

This is awful — and not unexpected.

By Victor Tangermann

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe

Don't mess with colliding black holes.

By Victor Tangermann

A newly released document links Elon Musk to alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his notorious island in the Caribbean.
Elon Musk

New Evidence Links Elon Musk to Epstein’s Island

"Epstein is obviously a creep."

By Sharon Adarlo

A new study links private equity ownership to horrifying outcomes in hospital emergency rooms and ICUs compared to public facilities.
Medical

Something Grisly Happens When Hospitals Become For-Profit

Horrifying.

By Joe Wilkins

Roger McNamee has an ominous warning for the huge tech companies shredding billions in the AI race: it's winner take all.
Artificial Intelligence

Longtime Investor Warns the AI Industry Is Set to Collapse for a Basic Financial Reason

“Each big tech company needs a global monopoly in AI to sustain their success and market value. They are not all going to get one.”

By Joe Wilkins

Following years of being drowned out by AI slop, Spotify has finally officially acknowledged that it's a problem.
Art

Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face

Too little, too late.

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese censors digitally altered a gay couple into a heterosexual couple in the Dave Franco movie Together.
Future Society

Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple

"It’s also disrespectful to the LGBT community.”

By Sharon Adarlo