Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI’s o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI). “In my opinion,” OpenAI employee Vahid Kazemi wrote in a post on X-formerly-Twitter, “we have already achieved AGI and it’s even more clear with O1.” If you were… Continue reading OpenAI Employee Says They’ve “Already Achieved AGI”
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Scientists Issue Warning About Perfumes
Image by Getty / Futurism There’s a price to pay for smelling good. As the Washington Post notes in its medical column, that’s because many perfumes on the market are infused with a potentially harmful chemical known as phthalates, which help their scents last longer. The risks phthalates pose to children are already well documented… Continue reading Scientists Issue Warning About Perfumes
Teen Brutally Rug Pulls Crypto Community, Pleads Them Not to Tell His Parents
“Please delete everything, don’t write to the parents.” Enfant Terrible A kid in his early teens made a small fortune after running a brutal crypto pump-and-dump scheme. As Wired reports, California resident Adam Biesk’s son launched 1 billion memecoins dubbed Gen Z Quant last month. He spent roughly $350 to buy 51 million tokens for… Continue reading Teen Brutally Rug Pulls Crypto Community, Pleads Them Not to Tell His Parents
FBI Baffled by Mysterious “Car-Sized Drones” Circling Over New Jersey
What the hell is going on? Unidentified Frickin’ Objects Residents of several New Jersey counties have been witnessing giant drones flying over their homes at night since at least November 18 — and nobody seems to know where they’re coming from or who they might belong to. As The Verge reports, the FBI’s Newark office… Continue reading FBI Baffled by Mysterious “Car-Sized Drones” Circling Over New Jersey
In Tests, OpenAI’s New Model Lied and Schemed to Avoid Being Shut Down
It pursued survival at all costs. Survival Instinct It sounds like OpenAI’s latest AI is showing signs of a drive for self-preservation. In recent third-party tests of the company’s o1 large language model, the AI resisted evaluators’ efforts to try to shut it down through an oversight protocol, according to a new report published by… Continue reading In Tests, OpenAI’s New Model Lied and Schemed to Avoid Being Shut Down
Health Insurance Companies Pull Down Information About Executives After Assassination of CEO
Image by Getty / Futurism These are scary times to be a multi-millionaire insurance bigwig. The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, the former CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has c-suites across the country quaking in their boots. As 404 Media reports, with the killer still at larger, major health insurance companies are now taking down their leadership… Continue reading Health Insurance Companies Pull Down Information About Executives After Assassination of CEO
Scientists Propose Interesting Explanation for Mysterious Signals From Space
Fast radio bursts (FRBs), hugely powerful discharges of energy emanating from the furthest reaches of outer space, have confounded scientists for well over a decade. They’re so powerful that they can release as much energy in a millisecond as the Sun puts out in three entire days, scientists have found. Over the years, researchers have… Continue reading Scientists Propose Interesting Explanation for Mysterious Signals From Space
The Hawk Tuah Girl Committed a Horrible Crime: Not Calling Her Crypto “Spitcoin”
Haliey “The Hawk Tuah Girl” Welch is making headlines for running what seems like almost certainly some form of cryptocurrency scam. Of course, that’s what happens every day in crypto, so if you lost any money in the fracas, you’re either a complete imbecile, an easy mark, or down so bad that we have no practical… Continue reading The Hawk Tuah Girl Committed a Horrible Crime: Not Calling Her Crypto “Spitcoin”
NYPD Ridiculed for Saying AI Will Find CEO Killer as They Fail to Name Suspect
The manhunt for the mysterious gunman who killed UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson outside of a midtown Manhattan hotel early Wednesday morning rages on — but even days later, the New York Police Department has yet to name a suspect. The NYPD has made a big deal about its investigation so far, which has involved collecting evidence… Continue reading NYPD Ridiculed for Saying AI Will Find CEO Killer as They Fail to Name Suspect
Reddit Mods Delete Doctors Slamming Insurance Industry After CEO’s Murder
Image by Getty / Futurism In the wake of the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, there has been an outpouring of grievances from Americans about the state of healthcare in this country, and the massive insurance companies that gatekeep you from receiving it. Doctors who have witnessed how insurers’ ruthless penny-pinching has endangered… Continue reading Reddit Mods Delete Doctors Slamming Insurance Industry After CEO’s Murder