Getty / Futurism In less time than it takes to get bored of your new year’s resolution, the planet’s wealthiest people had already blown through their yearly ration of carbon emissions. We’re not speaking figuratively, either. A new analysis by the Oxfam Foundation found that the world’s richest 1 percent exceeded their fair share of… Continue reading The Richest 1 Percent Burned Their Entire Share of Carbon for the Year in Just 10 Days
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Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read
Getty Images / Maica As the final waves of Gen Z — the youngest of whom are currently around 14 — make their way through high school and into colleges and trade schools, some higher education instructors are noticing a severe lack of reading comprehension skills in their students. Schools, in turn, are finding the… Continue reading Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read
Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Caroline Brehman / AFP via Getty Images Commander of multi-trillion dollar computing hardware empire Jensen Huang thinks everyone should stop being so negative about AI and all the ways it could potentially upend civilization, because it’s a “doomer narrative” that’s “not helpful to society,” TechSpot reports. The Nvidia… Continue reading Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI
Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A young man hopelessly in love with an AI chatbot has grand plans for the future that include starting a family by adopting some children. He wouldn’t be parenting on his own, of course — because the AI chatbot, which he calls Julia, would help him.… Continue reading Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother
ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims
Getty Images / Ekaterina Goncharova A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT caused the death of a 40-year-old Colorado man named Austin Gordon, who took his life after extensive and deeply emotional interactions with the chatbot. The complaint, filed today in California, claims that GPT-4o — a version of the chatbot now tied to a… Continue reading ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims
Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems
Getty Images/ Milos Dimic To push back against AI, some call for blowing up data centers. If that’s too extreme for your tastes, then you might be interested in another project, which instead advocates for poisoning the resource that the AI industry needs most, in a bid to cut off its power at the source.… Continue reading Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems
Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs
Getty / Futurism Economic uncertainty is continuing to have devastating effects on the availability of jobs. Last year, the US labor market reeled from slowing wages, layoffs, and a notable lack of hiring, leading to the highest unemployment rate in the country in four years toward the end of 2025. And while debate swirls about… Continue reading Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs
Golden Globes Constantly Begs Viewers to Place Polymarket Bets
Despite an economy that’s booming on paper, economists are warning that the middle class is being squeezed as new jobs aren’t materializing fast enough to make up for the ones we’re losing. It’s a grim economic outlook for those who are already struggling to make ends meet. At the same time, sports betting is taking… Continue reading Golden Globes Constantly Begs Viewers to Place Polymarket Bets
Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Cosmetic surgeons have turned to using a “fat filler” harvested from dead people in order to give patients new breasts, sexier buttocks and other body contouring tweaks, according to reporting by Business Insider — in a practice that not even “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley could have… Continue reading Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients
Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can’t Actually Use It
Getty Images / Catherine Falls Commercial Parents were left scrambling on Christmas day after the hot toy of the season appeared to crash and burn, in a perfect cautionary tale about the era of connected gadgets that can easily brick if their delicate infrastructure is put under strain. The toy, called the Tin Can, is… Continue reading Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can’t Actually Use It