Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Your pet dog or cat might soon be a chubby little munchkin no more. Welcome to the burgeoning era of — we swear we’re not making this up — “ozempets,” in which your servile critters might shed some extra pounds by taking animal-focused diabetes and weight… Continue reading Scientists Testing GLP-1s for Overweight Dogs and Cats
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OpenAI Is Suddenly in Major Trouble
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The alarm bells are going off at OpenAI. What was once a healthy lead over its competition thanks to its blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT has turned into a razor-thin edge, motivating OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to declare a “code red.” The financial stakes are almost comical in their magnitude: The company is… Continue reading OpenAI Is Suddenly in Major Trouble
Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images The AI surveillance platform provider Palantir is no stranger to controversy. It brings in billions each year from controversial partnerships with groups like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Israeli Defense Forces, something CEO Alex Karp isn’t keen on changing anytime… Continue reading Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business
IBM CEO Says the Math Just Doesn’t Add Up on Its Competitors’ AI Spending
SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images AI companies are continuing to pour ungodly amounts of money into building out data centers, in an enormous bet that both analysts and tech leaders warn may not pay off for many years to come — if it ever does. OpenAI most recently committed to spending well over a trillion… Continue reading IBM CEO Says the Math Just Doesn’t Add Up on Its Competitors’ AI Spending
JD Vance Sent Bizarre Lonely Text to His Bombing Group Chat: “This Chat’s Kind of Dead. Anything Going On?”
Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images As the nation reels over Pete Hegseth allegedly giving direct orders to carry out heinous war crimes, we are now being reminded of the defense secretary’s other big scandal from earlier in the year: when he was caught texting secret war plans about launching airstrikes in Yemen in an unsecured… Continue reading JD Vance Sent Bizarre Lonely Text to His Bombing Group Chat: “This Chat’s Kind of Dead. Anything Going On?”
AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Budget-wise, there have certainly been better times to be a PC gamer in search of higher framerates. For the past few months, RAM prices have been shooting through the roof, as the rapid buildout of AI datacenters causes an ever tightening shortage of memory chips. What… Continue reading AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs
Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Besides convenience, one of the main benefits of self-driving cars is supposed to be safety. Yet in a bizarre move, Waymo — whose self-driving cabs had been enjoying extraordinary safety metrics — has just taken steps to make its robotaxis more human-like, eroding the safety narrative… Continue reading Waymo Just Reprogrammed Its Robotaxis to Drive Less Safely
Trump Announces Plan to Make Cars Pollute More
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The year of the gas guzzler, it seems, will soon be upon us. On Wednesday, president Trump announced plans to drastically lower fuel efficiency standards for new cars and pick-up trucks, the New York Times reports, claiming the move will save over $100 billion over the… Continue reading Trump Announces Plan to Make Cars Pollute More
New Photos Show That Epstein’s Island Contained the Creepiest Dentist’s Facility We’ve Ever Seen
Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands via House Oversight Committee We can only guess at why Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex trafficker and billionaire financier, would have a creepy-looking dentist office on his infamous private island — but apparently he did. New photos of the compound, located on Little Saint James in the US Virgin… Continue reading New Photos Show That Epstein’s Island Contained the Creepiest Dentist’s Facility We’ve Ever Seen
Cops Stunned as Waymo Cruises Through Active Police Standoff
Need to get somewhere quick, caution be damned? Take a Waymo. Early on Tuesday morning, a self-driving car driven by Waymo took its rider’s lives into its hands when it drove through a red light and directly into a violent police standoff. The incident occurred at an intersection in downtown Los Angeles, where police had… Continue reading Cops Stunned as Waymo Cruises Through Active Police Standoff