1363 Results From "automation"

Months after reversing course on its AI automation scheme, personal finance company Klarna is struggling to re-fill its ranks.
Artificial Intelligence

Company Replaces Customer Support With AI, Then Panics and Forces Engineers to Work the Phones as the AI Fails

After moving to publish misinformation-laden AI slop, G/O Media sold Quartz and fired its editorial staff. Sadly, this has been a pattern.
Artificial Intelligence

Quartz Fires All Writers After Move to AI Slop

Mike Cannon-Brookes, the billionaire CEO of Atlassian, announced that 150 people would be laid off, with some jobs being replaced by AI.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They’ll Largely Be Replaced With AI

The CEO of an AI company was caught by a Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert in Boston while romantically embracing one of his employees.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO of AI Company Caught Having Affair on Jumbotron at Coldplay Concert

An AI-enhanced robot has autonomously completed a gallbladder removal on a lifelike patient with "100 percent accuracy."
Treatments

Doctors Let AI Control Surgery Robot and Perform Gallbladder Removal on Its Own

A YouTuber got a strange call from Tesla mid-robotaxi-ride, asking her to leave the vehicle due to incoming weather.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Robotaxi Rider Gets Bizarre Call Saying She Has to Exit Vehicle Immediately

A smiling Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was seen with a strange white thing in his mouth during a recent Congressional hearing.
Developments

What the Heck Is That Thing Inside RFK’s Mouth?

AI has done something amazing: it's caused the job application process -- which was already a nightmare -- to become even worse.
Artificial Intelligence

Applying to Jobs Has Become an AI-Powered Wasteland

A CEO who advises other CEOs on how to use AI to replace human jobs doesn't seem to be possessing a whole lotta guilt — or self-awareness.
Artificial Intelligence

CEO Brags That He Gets “Extremely Excited” Firing People and Replacing Them With AI

Humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system to sort packages.
Robotics

Watching This Humanoid Robot Sort Packages Is Quite Something

Horrifying footage shows the moment a "full self-driving" Tesla plows into a 71 year old woman who had stopped to assist in a crash.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Terrifying Footage Shows Self-Driving Tesla Get Confused by the Sun, Mow Down Innocent Grandmother

Billionaire tech tycoon Elad Gil is rolling out the private equity playbook, complete with a heaping dose of artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence

A Billionaire Is Buying Entire Businesses and Converting Them to Run With AI

One of Elon Musk's DOGE operatives discovered that the government has less glut than he'd banked on — and admitting so publicly got him fired. 
Future Society

DOGE Fires Operative After He Admits the Government Was Already Pretty Efficient

A new video appears to show a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot stumbling backwards after its teleoperator tried to take off their headset.
Robotics

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

No Solicitors: Two salesmen, one a human and the other a robot, walk merrily in parallel with each other.
Artificial Intelligence

Horrendous New Startup Uses AI Agents to Flood Reddit With Posts Shilling Clients’ Products

After catching dozens of their students cheating, two professors realized that their apologizes all sounded incredibly similar.
Artificial Intelligence

Professors Aghast as Class Caught Cheating “Sincerely” Apologizes in the Worst Possible Way

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is spending untold billions on infrastructure and top talent for its AI ambitions. Investors are rattled.
Meta

Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spending on Misfired AI

Federal immigration officers are busting out their phones to scan people's faces and confirm their residency.
Ethics

ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People’s Faces to Check If They’re Citizens

As Tesla prepares the slated June launch of its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, there's a pretty big elephant in the room.
Tesla

Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch Is Already an Enormous Mess

On Saturday, Boeing had to scrub the launch of its much-maligned astronaut shuttle once more, adding to years of technical mishaps and delays.
Boeing

Boeing Keeps Making Excuses to Push Back First Astronaut Launch