The Moon Astronauts Brought Along USB Stick-Sized Living Samples of Their Own Tissue
Beyond their snazzy flight suits and mango peach smoothies, the crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission is packing something unusual:...
AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees in Epic Implosion
The world simply wasn’t ready for AI powered tractors. Or perhaps it was Monarch Tractor, the much-hyped company that promised...
Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code
The AI industry largely acts as if it’s above lowly copyright laws — unless, of course, those laws happen to...
Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before
No one who’s dealt with one would ever accuse an insurance claims adjuster of being too generous, but now they...
There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry
It’s plain to see that Elon Musk’s ambition of putting data centers in space is a daring and risky undertaking....
JONATHAN THE 193-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE IS STILL ALIVE, REPEAT HE HAS NOT DIED
On Wednesday, sorrow swept through the Futurism newsroom as we heard that Jonathan, a 193-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise believed to...
Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes
Some countries pump out aircraft carriers to project power across the globe; others build research megastructures to plumb the ocean...
Conspiracy Theorists Are Going to Have a Field Day as NASA Gears Up to Launch Historic Moon Mission on April Fools’ Day
Conspiracy theories have run rampant over the decades following NASA’s historic Apollo missions to the surface of the Moon. Based...
Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious “Tamagotchi” Feature Into It
After Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to its blockbuster Claude chatbot, netizens swiftly pounced to start plowing through its...
Here’s Why Google Searches for “Bimbofication” Are Surging
Searches for “bimbofication” began surging Tuesday, from an average index score of zero to 100 in a single day. Why...
The Iran War Has Cut Off Supply of a Gas the AI Industry Desperately Needs
Forget gas prices and fertilizer. One of the biggest casualties of the US war on Iran could be your favorite...
The Fact That Anthropic Has Been Boasting About How Much Its Development Now Relies on Claude Makes It Very Interesting That It Just Suffered a Catastrophic Leak of Its Source Code
Earlier this year, the head of Anthropic’s blockbuster Claude Code AI agent Boris Cherny boasted that “pretty much 100 percent”...
NYT Cuts Ties With Writer as Scrutiny of AI Content Grows
Amid mounting scrutiny into AI usage creeping into the newspaper of record, the New York Times has cut ties with...
Data Centers Causing Huge Temperature Spikes for Miles Around Them, Study Suggests
The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they’re spiking land temperatures...
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been obsessed with cloning animals. Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal to be...
