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’...
AI Is a Burnout Machine
Some software engineers are finding that AI is speeding up their work, but at a cost: it’s also accelerating them...
OpenAI Fires Top Safety Exec Who Opposed ChatGPT’s “Adult Mode”
OpenAI fired a top safety executive after she opposed the company’s decision to allow adult and sexual content in ChatGPT,...
Economist Warns That the Poor Will Bear the Brunt of AI’s Effects on the Job Market
While tech executives wax poetic about AI ushering in four-day workweeks and liberation from labor, economics guru Robert Reich is...
Cofounders Fleeing Elon Musk’s xAI
On paper, Elon Musk’s xAI is gearing up for a big year. After being folded into Musk’s SpaceX, the Grok...
The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What’s Going to Happen Next
When the Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard published his ominous warning about AI’s effects on mental health back in 2023,...
You Are Not Prepared for What Actually Shut Down the El Paso Airport This Morning, But Let’s Just Say It Involves a Military Mega-Laser Shooting Something Down
When the Federal Aviation Administration announced it was shutting down El Paso Airport this morning, social media lit up with...
It Seems Almost Statistically Impossible That This Polymarket Bettor Didn’t Profit Off Inside Knowledge About the Super Bowl Half Time Show
Earlier this year, an anonymous bettor on Polymarket perfectly predicted the US invasion of Venezuela mere hours before over 150...
