The new CEO of Character.AI — the controversial AI chatbot startup currently fighting a high-profile child welfare lawsuit over the suicide of a 14-year-old user — says the company has abandoned its founding mission of realizing artificial general intelligence, or AGI. In an interview with Wired, recently crowned Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand declared that the company “gave… Continue reading Billion-Dollar AI Company Gives Up on AGI While Desperately Fighting to Stop Bleeding Money
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The AI Industry Just Got Some Horrible News
For years now, big tech and its financial backers have been blowing past the warning signs that human-level AI — the theoretical technology with hundreds of billions of dollars riding on it — could turn out to be a pipe-dream, at best. Now, however, Wall Street appears to be yanking its money out of one… Continue reading The AI Industry Just Got Some Horrible News
Elon Musk’s DOGE Was Far More of a Dismal Failure Than We Thought
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency originally promised to save the government $2 trillion in waste. That target quickly dropped to $1 trillion. Then in April, Musk started intimating that the savings would only be in the region of $150 billion, making it clear to all but his most diehard supporters that DOGE was failing… Continue reading Elon Musk’s DOGE Was Far More of a Dismal Failure Than We Thought
Scientists Are Getting Seriously Worried That We’ve Already Hit Peak AI
The long-awaited release of OpenAI’s GPT-5 has gone over with a wet thud. Though the private sector continues to dump billions into artificial intelligence development, hoping for exponential gains, the research community isn’t convinced. Speaking to The New Yorker, Gary Marcus, a neural scientist and longtime critic of OpenAI, said what many have been coming to suspect:… Continue reading Scientists Are Getting Seriously Worried That We’ve Already Hit Peak AI
Rabbits With Horrifying Tentacles Growing Out of Their Faces Spotted in Colorado
No, this is not AI. Hell Bunnies Rise Is it real, or is it the nightmare-inducing hallucination of a demented AI? Terrifying bunnies with spiny black tentacles on their faces have been spotted in Colorado. And, yes, they are real. As local news station 9News reports, rabbits bearing bizarre, spike-like growths on their faces have… Continue reading Rabbits With Horrifying Tentacles Growing Out of Their Faces Spotted in Colorado
Sam Altman Calls His Own AI Model “Annoying” After Being Forced to Raise It From the Dead
As OpenAI continues to try to tamp down on the chaos of GPT-5’s disastrous release, CEO Sam Altman is throwing digs at the company’s now-deprecated and controversial model. Late last week, OpenAI finally rolled out GPT-5, the latest version of its flagship large language model. Without warning, the company replaced all previous versions with the… Continue reading Sam Altman Calls His Own AI Model “Annoying” After Being Forced to Raise It From the Dead
Humanoid Robots Are Beating Each Other to Pulp in an Underground Fight Club
In a tucked-away San Francisco warehouse, four humanoid robots hang out — quite literally, from standalone frames — as they wait for their flesh-and-blood overlords to train them to kill. As reporter and writer Ashlee Vance writes on his Substack Core Memory, this entirely robotic fight club is known as REK, and is operated by… Continue reading Humanoid Robots Are Beating Each Other to Pulp in an Underground Fight Club
OpenAI Has a Major Problem on Its Hands With GPT-5
This is getting kind of embarrassing. GPT-Whiff It has only been five days since OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model was released — and in those five days, we’ve been given countless reasons to conclude that it’s a bit of a dud. From Axios‘ review announcing that the new large language model (LLM) has “landed with a thud”… Continue reading OpenAI Has a Major Problem on Its Hands With GPT-5
Amazon’s New Alexa AI Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare
In the age of the AI boom, it seems that everything’s getting a makeover. The ill-defined software has totally revamped perfectly good products, from workout apps to creative programs like Adobe’s Photoshop to search engines like Google — unless you’re totally unplugged from the internet, the stuff is nearly unavoidable. So it shouldn’t come as… Continue reading Amazon’s New Alexa AI Sounds Like a Dystopian Nightmare
Sam Altman Allegedly Has a Very Specific Tell Every Time He Lies
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is no stranger to accusations of lying — but according to one of the company’s most vociferous critics, he has a tick when he does it on camera. In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, AI researcher and skeptic Gary Marcus put forth a compelling theory: that viewers can tell when Altman is… Continue reading Sam Altman Allegedly Has a Very Specific Tell Every Time He Lies