The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents
It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations. Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that their respective...
Trump Handlers Cut Event When He Gets Asked an Extremely Awkward AI Question
On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump hosted a discussion with some of the richest and most powerful tech billionaires who’ve...
That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Earlier this month, Futurism published an exposé about a company called Brown Brothers Media. In the story, we investigated how...
We Are Alarmed to Learn That People Are Installing DIY Self-Driving “Mods” on Their Cars
The software that powers self-driving cars is no longer the domain of proprietary systems built by billion-dollar companies. Open source...
Scientists Alarmed by “Kelvin Wave” That Could Raise California Ocean Level by a Whole Foot
There’s a massive wave heading across the ocean straight for the California coast — not a freak tsunami, but a...
SpaceX’s Troubled Starship Test Yesterday Is Looking Ominous for NASA’s Moon Landing
On its 14th flight test Monday, SpaceX’s Starship successfully flew into orbit for the first time, marking a huge milestone...
OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil
For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models after revealing...
Scientists Unveil Underwater Solar Panels
China’s green energy boom has seen solar panels plastered on the side of rainy mountains, on floating coastal platforms, and...
SpaceX Investors Are Losing Their Minds Trying to Figure Out Why the Company’s Stock Failed to Go Up Yesterday
By most accounts, SpaceX’s 14th Starship test flight on Monday was an overwhelming success. Sure there were problems. A vacuum...
Horrifying Research Finds What Happens to 12-Year-Olds Who Get Smart Phones
New research suggests a grim consequence of giving smartphones to minors before they even hit their teen years. By analyzing...
Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season
For hunters trying to follow the law, it’s arguably never been harder to find a clear answer to the question,...
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows
If you work in a creative industry or media, you probably don’t need anybody to tell you how bad things...
Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its “Good Neighbor” Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups
As tempers flared around AI data centers back in January, Microsoft’s president Brad Smith issued a warm and fuzzy blog...
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts
It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatbots for is cranking out smut. These...
It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees
At times this year, it’s almost felt as though OpenAI and Anthropic were in a race to the bottom, one-upping...
