Understandable. The US Air Force wants to buy two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can blow them up with missiles. As our sister site The War Zone reports, the military is trying to get a better sense of what to do in case an adversary driving a Cybertruck were to ever pose a threat. The publication dug… Continue reading The Air Force Says It Needs to Buy Some Cybertrucks So It Can Blow Them Up With Missiles
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5, Says It’s Shutting Down All Previous Models
OpenAI has released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, making it free to use for anybody as of today. The Sam Altman-led company calls it “our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet,” making it “more useful responses across math, science, finance, law, and more.” “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like you’re… Continue reading OpenAI Releases GPT-5, Says It’s Shutting Down All Previous Models
The Creator of Ozempic Is in Terrible Trouble
Image by Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP via Getty / Futurism While its customer are shedding pounds, Novo Nordisk, creator of the mega-hit drug Ozempic, is shedding loads of market value amid collapsing sales. One year ago, the Danish pharmaceutical giant’s market cap exceeded the size of its entire home country’s economy.… Continue reading The Creator of Ozempic Is in Terrible Trouble
Lawyer Who Defeated Tesla in Court Posts “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta” by Geto Boys
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent over a decade making misleading promises about his carmaker’s so-called “self-driving” software. The company’s Autopilot and erroneously-named “Full Self-Driving” driver assistance features have been linked to hundreds of collisions and dozens of deaths since then. But instead of being held responsible for its CEO’s misleading claims in court, Tesla… Continue reading Lawyer Who Defeated Tesla in Court Posts “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta” by Geto Boys
Tesla Patents Bizarre Sucking Device
Late last month, Tesla’s executives spun up the rumor mill amidst plummeting sales and financial hardship that the Elon Musk-led company was “gearing up for a super cool demo” of the company’s long-awaited next-generation Roadster. Two weeks earlier, the billionaire CEO had teased a “most epic demo ever by end of year,” without elaborating any… Continue reading Tesla Patents Bizarre Sucking Device
There Is a 100 Percent Chance That Your Body Is Deeply Contaminated With Dangerous Substances
Image by Getty / Futurism The start of this year marked more than a quarter of the way through the 21st century. And though 2025 might not be full of flying cars and robot servants, there are a few sci-fi tropes that ended up panning out: novels like George Orwell’s “1984,” and Phillip K Dick’s… Continue reading There Is a 100 Percent Chance That Your Body Is Deeply Contaminated With Dangerous Substances
Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious
Image by Getty / Futurism Eventually, aging comes for us all — but new evidence suggests that in key ways, it may be a contagious condition. In a provocative new study published in the journal Metabolism, scientists from South Korea and the United States found, while doing studies on human cells and with mice, that injecting… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious
Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities
A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math’s most mysterious problems — and in doing so, become a rising star. As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling mathematician Hannah Cairo was just 17 when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a decades-old proposition — in higher math, it’s common for the suggestion that… Continue reading Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities
The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit research institute, dedicated to realizing an “artificial general intelligence” that benefits all of humanity. In a December 2015 blog post introducing the company, its founders, including current CEO Sam Altman and his now bitterly-departed rival Elon Musk, said that to accomplish its goal, it would have to be “unconstrained… Continue reading The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene
New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin
The mysterious Shroud of Turin, which is believed by many Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ’s body after his crucifixion, may be even stranger than we previously thought. In a new study published in the journal Archaeometry, Brazilian 3D designer Cicero Moraes lends credence to the theory that the shroud was a work of… Continue reading New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin