Bill Pugliano / Getty Images What’s the only thing sadder than a car company giving up on all-electric vehicles in 2025? Try Ford’s new all-electric pickup, powered by a gas generator on the side. According to TechCrunch, that’s exactly the direction Ford has decided to go with its next-generation of pickup trucks. On Monday, the… Continue reading Ford Gives Up, Adds Gas Generator to Its Electric Pickup Truck
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As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year
Warner Bros. Experts have been urgently warning that allowing young kids to play with AI-powered toys could have negative consequences, from stunting childhood development by blurring the boundary between imagination and reality to exposing tots to inappropriate subject matters and AI hallucinations. And as it quickly turned out, their worries were not unfounded. Toy makers… Continue reading As Controversy Grows, Mattel Scraps Plans for OpenAI Reveal This Year
AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images They may be responsible for creating the AI tech that many fear will wipe out jobs — if not the entire human race — but at least they feel just as paranoid and miserable about where this is all going as the rest of us. At… Continue reading AI Industry Insiders Living in Fear of What They’re Creating
The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images New research is pulling back the curtain on how large numbers of kids are using AI companion apps — and what it found is troubling. A new report conducted by the digital security company Aura found that a significant percentage of kids who turn to AI for… Continue reading The Things Young Kids Are Using AI for Are Absolutely Horrifying
Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of “Fallout” Season 1 After It’s Called Out for Being Full of Errors
Earlier this month, Amazon revealed a new feature that aims to use AI to recap its Prime Video shows. The tool, now deployed in beta form, generates everything from narration, dialogue, and music to summarize key plot points, allowing fans to quickly catch up on their favorite shows. At least, that was the idea. Perhaps… Continue reading Amazon Deletes AI-Generated Recap of “Fallout” Season 1 After It’s Called Out for Being Full of Errors
3I/ATLAS Still Showing Strange Protrusion as It Approaches Earth
NASA / Futurism The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest approach to Earth mere days from now, coming within just 167 million miles — a significant gulf, but a mere stone’s throw on the cosmic scale. It’s an exciting moment that’ll give astronomers an unprecedented chance to point both ground- and space-based… Continue reading 3I/ATLAS Still Showing Strange Protrusion as It Approaches Earth
Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner’s Death
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Winter / Getty Images Grok is giving some wildly contradictory takes on the tragic deaths of the legendary film director and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in what’s the latest example of AI models bungling breaking news stories. On Sunday, the Reiner couple… Continue reading Grok Is Making Wildly Contradictory Claims About Rob Reiner’s Death
Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers
Getty / Futurism The Grinch comes in many forms: greedy businessman, bosses that won’t give you the holidays off, and even Fox News hosts. Dagen McDowell, a co-host of the “The Big Money Show” on Fox Business, recently flaunted her zeal for AI — and her distaste for holiday cheer — by declaring that a… Continue reading Fox News Instructs Viewers to Buy Plastic Christmas Trees So the Real Ones Can Be Sacrificed to Feed the Insatiable Hunger of AI Data Centers
The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably
Getty / Futurism Last week, when the Washington Post announced a new service that uses AI to generate podcasts, we immediately warned readers to brace for disaster. Just as expected, the service — dubbed “Your Personal Podcast” — turned out to be an error-laden disaster right from the jump. As Semafor reported on Friday, many staffers… Continue reading The Washington Post Deployed Its Disastrous AI-Generated Podcasts Even After Internal Tests Showed It Was Failing Miserably
Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App
Getty / Futurism These days, startups are trying just about everything. Some of them are wacky, if harmless, like the company turning your loved ones’ remains into stones for you to display. Others fall into the “why did you do that” category — like the startup selling an AI-powered toilet camera to analyze your stool.… Continue reading Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App