Ring’s “Orwellian” Ad Was the Worst Super Bowl Disaster Since Kendall Jenner Handed the Cops a Pepsi
In a now-infamous 2017 commercial that aired during that year’s Super Bowl, Kendall Jenner handed a police officer confronting furious...
Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust
A mere two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of stuffing his company’s blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT with...
Man Lets AI Rent His Body
Last week, we brought you the story of RentAHuman, a platform brokering connections between AI agents and humans they need...
NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars
Last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a fascinating discovery after boring into a suspected ancient lake bed on Mars: long-chain...
Anthropic CEO Says Company No Longer Sure Whether Claude Is Conscious
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s not sure whether his Claude AI chatbot is conscious — a rhetorical framing, of...
X Is In Such Dire Straits That Its Head of Product Says It Can’t Afford to Display the Color Blue
When Elon Musk’s social media platform X, recently rolled into xAI, got bought by Musk’s space company SpaceX, it was...
As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone
OpenAI is finally sunsetting GPT-4o, a controversial version of ChatGPT known for its sycophantic style and its central role in...
Crypto Has Finally Found Its Killer App: Human Trafficking
Cryptocurrencies have long been lauded for being a borderless, decentralized way to transfer cash — and while they’ve emerged as...
Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The company, alongside...
Microsoft AI CEO: Virtually All White Collar Tasks Will Be Automated Within a Year and a Half
Congratulations, office workers. Most of what you do at your cozy desk jobs will soon be automated with AI, according...
All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a “Surveillance Nightmare,” Critics Say
What if the biggest threat to your safety and privacy isn’t a person, but a device millions of Americans have...
Israel Arrests Members of Military for Placing Polymarket Bets Using Inside Information on Upcoming Strikes
For months, experts have warned that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket were ripe for abuse. Now, some Israeli soldiers...
Scientists Intrigued as Prominent Star Suddenly Winks Out of Existence
The end of a star’s life can be an extremely violent event. Once it runs out of fuel, its core...
Creeps Are Using Grok to Unblur Children’s Faces in the Epstein Files
Some of the worst freaks to walk planet Earth are using Elon Musk’s Grok to “unblur” the faces of women...
Vending Machine Run by Claude More of a Disaster Than Previously Known
Maybe we don’t need the Turing test, because there’s a mighty obstacle that’s proving far more challenging to AI models’...
