“Tesla branded vehicles have become strong political symbols and now appear to be veritable extreme-right ‘totems.’” The Implications Tesla drivers in France are suing Elon Musk’s EV maker for turning their vehicles into what they characterize as “extreme-right” symbols. As news agency France 24 reports, the owners are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated… Continue reading Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into “Extreme” Right-Wing Symbols
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Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop
In case you haven’t noticed, generative AI is creeping into our lives at an alarming rate. The perfidious tech and its algorithmically-generated slop is becoming a fact of life as unscrupulous tech companies set it loose into the world, consequences be damned. Unless you live in a hut, AI video slop is pretty much unavoidable.… Continue reading Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop
Apple Execs Get Seriously Flustered Trying to Explain the Company’s Dismal AI Failure
Apple is facing some intense scrutiny after yet again flubbing its AI tech. During the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Tuesday, the company showed off its latest vision for “Apple Intelligence,” a suite of tools that use machine learning to scan images for objects or smush emojis together to form custom Franken-reacts — cutesy ideas… Continue reading Apple Execs Get Seriously Flustered Trying to Explain the Company’s Dismal AI Failure
Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds
A Boeing Dreamliner 787 plane crashed into a residential neighborhood with 242 people aboard mere moments after taking off from Ahmedabad in western India, exploding in an immense fireball. The cause of the immensely tragic loss of life remains unknown. As CNBC reports, it could take months to find out. The top-selling wide-body aircraft was delivered… Continue reading Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds
CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession
The CEO of layaway startup Klarna is claiming that AI is coming for your white-collar jobs — even though his own experiments with replacing human workers with AI were a bust. Speaking to The Times Tech podcast, the Sweden-based CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski admitted that adoption of the technology will result in “implication[s] for white-collar jobs” that… Continue reading CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession
Government Website Caught Hosting “Gay Impregnation” Content
Portions of the US government’s official “Vaccine Hub” website, Vaccines.gov, seem to have been taken over by an AI sloperation that hosts “gay impregnation” content — and pages featuring lots of other NSFW topics, too. As flagged by 404 Media, this same spam marketing scheme seems to have also targeted websites for AI chipmaker Nvidia, National… Continue reading Government Website Caught Hosting “Gay Impregnation” Content
Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic
In the artificial intelligence world, there are two streams. One is the cool, analytical current of AI scholarship, flowing with genuine curiosity and drive to verify. The other is the boiling-hot torrent of commercial AI — excited, frenetic, gushing with utopian promises. As AI hype blasts off into the heavens, one notable tech critic asks an… Continue reading Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic
Elon Musk Apologizes for Accurately Pointing Out That Trump Was Extremely Close Friends With Jeffrey Epstein
Billionaire Elon Musk appears to have some major regrets about losing his composure during his blowout verbal brawl with former bestie president Donald Trump last week. Musk and Trump have been at each other’s throats for well over a week. Their on-and-off-again bromance collapsed in spectacular fashion when Musk excoriated Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” as… Continue reading Elon Musk Apologizes for Accurately Pointing Out That Trump Was Extremely Close Friends With Jeffrey Epstein
People Pretty Much Lost Their Minds When ChatGPT Went Down
Like all websites, ChatGPT is fallible — and when it went down this week, people lost their godforsaken minds. According to OpenAI’s status page, the company has experienced major issues this week, leading to breathless coverage from sites like TechRadar and The Independent — and, unsurprisingly, some massive freakouts on social media. “F*ck I can’t code… Continue reading People Pretty Much Lost Their Minds When ChatGPT Went Down
“Piracy Is Piracy”: Disney Sues Midjourney for Massive Copyright Violation
Disney and NBCUniversal — a pair of media behemoths behind franchises ranging from “Star Wars” and “Toy Story” to “Minions” and “Shrek” — are suing AI company Midjourney, accusing it of enabling copyright infringement on a massive scale through its AI image generator tech. In the lawsuit, which was filed in a California district court… Continue reading “Piracy Is Piracy”: Disney Sues Midjourney for Massive Copyright Violation