CHRIS CAMERON/AFP via Getty Images A billionaire mogul patriarch who owns an enormous global media and entertainment conglomerate has several children, who are chomping at the bit to inherit his riches while vying for his attention. No, we’re not talking about HBO’s hit TV series “Succession” — we’re talking about Oracle cofounder and centibillionaire Larry… Continue reading Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards
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Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its AI Products
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In 2026, Google’s AI is embracing that oldest and noblest of internet traditions: sponsored content. Over the weekend, Google released a tiny memo on its Ad & Commerce Blog, announcing a new type of sponsored content marketers can purchase, the Washington Post observed. This new type… Continue reading Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its AI Products
Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Bandcamp, a major music distribution platform favored by indie artists, announced Tuesday that it would be “putting human creativity first” by outright banning AI-generated songs — and music aficionados are rejoicing. According to the company, music and audio generated “wholly or in substantial part by AI”… Continue reading Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music
ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash
Stephen Maturen / Getty Images Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents reportedly stole a teenage boy’s phone — and then seemingly pawned it afterwards for cash. That detail comes from alarming new reporting from ProPublica that documents more than forty cases of ICE agents putting civilians in chokeholds and other moves that can block breathing.… Continue reading ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash
Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images Back in December, Elon Musk’s pet chatbot Grok made headlines for casually distributing the private addresses and phone numbers of everyday people, scraping data from public sources with unsettling ease while other AI models refused. Now, that same model is being welcomed into… Continue reading Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks
AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow
Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to their coding questions — and resulting in a vast online repository of coding knowledge. But as Dev Class reports, the advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for the platform, with the number… Continue reading AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow
Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money
The AI industry continues to pour tens of billions of dollars into resource-intensive models and the infrastructure to run them. In the face of it all, their promises of kickstarting a technological revolution that could one day be immensely profitable remain convincing enough for investors to prop up sky-high valuations — at least for now.… Continue reading Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money
Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating
An enormous iceberg that split off from the Antarctic ice sheet decades ago has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid blue — an alarming indication that it’s about to undergo complete disintegration before the much warmer summer months are over. When it first detached in 1986, the ice giant known as A-23A was twice… Continue reading Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating
Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Netflix Rumors are running rampant online that Matt and Ross Duffer used OpenAI’s ChatGPT when producing the last season of “Stranger Things” after fans zoomed on a still from a behind-the-scenes documentary that appears to show that one of the brothers had… Continue reading Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”
Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows
Color us shocked: pretty much everyone hates that Elon Musk’s Grok has been digitally undressing photos of adults and children. At least that’s the case in the UK, providing the closest thing we’ve currently got to a gauge of the public sentiment on the issue. In a new survey conducted by YouGov amid the latest… Continue reading Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows