1461 Results From "automation"

Stalwart journal publisher Springer Nature is asking researchers to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their work.
Artificial Intelligence

The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A clown with a colorful wig, red nose, and a red hat is reacting with surprise or fear as several red tomatoes are flying toward them. The clown is dressed in a multicolored outfit with a large red bow tie, and the background is dark, emphasizing the bright red tomatoes and the clown's vivid costume.
Anthropic

Why Does Every Case of AI Hiring a Human Feel Like a Groveling Publicity Stunt?

By Joe Wilkins

Meta will use tracking software on all of its US-based employees' computers that can track mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models.
Ethics

Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI

By Victor Tangermann

A man is crouched under a desk, covering his ears with his hands and grimacing, suggesting distress or discomfort. The desk surface above him is cluttered with papers, a stapler, a telephone, and a pen on a mouse pad. The image has a color filter with yellow on the desk, red on the background and drawer, and a greenish tint on the man and his clothing.
Ethics

AI Expert Says It’s Time to Stop Freaking Out About AI Taking Our Jobs

By Joe Wilkins

Northwestern Arkansas has a new local news site — and it's entirely AI-generated, complete with "AI reporters" and all.
Artificial Intelligence

This Entirely AI-Generated Local “News” Site Is Incredibly Depressing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Supermarkets in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas are selling bullets by way of AI-powered, facial recognition-embedded vending machines.
Facial recognition

In Fresh Hell, American Vending Machines Are Selling Bullets Using Facial Recognition

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chinese company UBTECH recently showed off its bipedal Walker S2 robot contorting its arms to hot swap one of its battery packs.
Robotics

Wild Video Shows Robot Changing Its Own Battery

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple white Waymo autonomous vehicles with rooftop sensors are arranged in a pattern against a black background, shown from an aerial perspective. The cars have black wheels and visible "WAYMO" branding on the sides. The image has a yellow-green color overlay.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Cars Slated to Clog Roads With Horrendous Congestion

By Joe Wilkins

Even Downdetector, a website that tracks internet outages, was temporarily knocked out by today's Cloudflare outage.
Cybersecurity

The Internet Crashed So Hard This Morning That Downdetector Went Down

By Victor Tangermann

A man sits alone in a room filled with empty chairs, resting his head on his hand with a contemplative or tired expression. In the foreground, a person in a suit extends an open hand toward the seated man. The background is a bold orange with a large yellow circle behind the seated man, creating a dramatic and stylized contrast. The image has a textured, almost halftone effect.
Artificial Intelligence

Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas

By Joe Wilkins

Community members mourn during a candlelight vigil for the victims of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School where a mass shooting took place a day earlier in the small town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on February 11, 2026.
OpenAI

OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter’s Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police

By Jon Christian

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block.
Ethics

Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

By Victor Tangermann

A person wearing a short-sleeve shirt is holding an open, empty wallet with both hands. The image has a stylized, textured effect with a yellowish tint on the person and wallet, set against a dark background with a red circle and a grid pattern.
Ethics

Economist Warns That the Poor Will Bear the Brunt of AI’s Effects on the Job Market

By Joe Wilkins

Black office chair with a box of office supplies on the seat, including scissors, folders, a Rolodex, and a small plant, set against a red background with a subtle grid pattern.
Finance

As AI Surges, Layoffs Hit Worst Moment Since 2009 During Throes of Financial Crisis

By Joe Wilkins

AI-powered dinosaurs are coming, pumped out by robotics companies looking to shave off a piece of the edu-tainment market.
Future Society

China Unleashing AI-Powered Robot Dinosaurs

By Joe Wilkins

One economist explains why it's important for the AI bubble to burst as soon as possible, as the tech wreaks havoc on wages.
Future Society

Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages

By Joe Wilkins

BMW has signed an unprecedented deal with the robotics firm Figure to bring general-purpose humanoid robots into its factories.
Robotics

BMW Putting Humanoid Robots to Work in Its Factory

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Startup Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and motor-actuated limbs to control weeds.
Robotics

This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military

By Victor Tangermann

The Garmin Autoland system took complete control of the aircraft, deciding where to land and communicating with ground control.
Advanced Transport

Autopilot Autonomously Lands Plane After Cabin Loses Pressure, for the First Time Ever

By Frank Landymore

Students at the University of Staffordshire have spent the past two years learning to code from AI-generated course material.
Education

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

By Joe Wilkins

Latest

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry
Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Slitting the Throat of the Journalism Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Tech startup Channel 1 released a 20 minute demo of its news channel presented by uncanny AI news anchors.
Artificial Intelligence

Channel 1 Says It’ll Use AI-Generated News Anchors

By Frank Landymore

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content
Artificial Intelligence

Readers Want Publications to Label AI-Generated Content

By Sharon Adarlo