Elon Musk Concerned That Reality Has Infiltrated His “Grok” AI

Elon Musk is once again fuming against his own AI model, Grok, because he doesn’t like that its answers don’t line up with his personal politics. When a user on X, Musk’s social media platform, suggested that Grok has been “manipulated by leftist indoctrination,” the world’s richest man wholeheartedly agreed without even a hint of… Continue reading Elon Musk Concerned That Reality Has Infiltrated His “Grok” AI

Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine

A newly-developed dating app matches potential lovers based on their entire internet browsing histories — and we’re not quite sure how we feel about it. As Wired reports, the new service is straightforwardly-named “Browser Dating,” and is the brainchild of Belgian artiste provocateur Dries Depoorter. After years creating one-off projects like “Shirt,” a top that… Continue reading Cursed New Dating App Matches You Based on the Most Deranged Thing We Can Imagine

Scientists Scanned the Brains of Hardcore Gooners and Found Something Ominous

Image by Getty / Futurism Watching a whole bunch of smut has some major side effects — and no, we’re not just talking about stained bedsheets. In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, researchers at the Chengdu Medical College in China found that people who watch a lot of pornography had… Continue reading Scientists Scanned the Brains of Hardcore Gooners and Found Something Ominous

Solar Company Sues Google for Giving Damaging Information in AI Overviews

A solar firm in Minnesota is suing Google for defamation after the tech giant’s shoddy AI Overviews feature allegedly made up wild lies about the company — and significantly hurt its business as a result. “This lawsuit is not just about defending our company’s reputation; it’s about standing up for fairness, truth, and accountability in… Continue reading Solar Company Sues Google for Giving Damaging Information in AI Overviews

Once You Notice ChatGPT’s Weird Way of Talking, You Start to See It Everywhere

It’s not written by humans, it’s written by AI. It’s not useful, it’s slop. It’s not hard to find, it’s everywhere you look. As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge — maybe more so than anything else, that pattern of negating statements typified by “it’s… Continue reading Once You Notice ChatGPT’s Weird Way of Talking, You Start to See It Everywhere

Something Comically Bad Just Happened to the Inventor of Ozempic

Image by Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Futurism Novo Nordisk, the Danish company behind Ozempic and Wegovy, made one very dumb decision a few years ago that’s now poised to massively eat into its profits — a wild twist in the pharma company’s saga, and an all-time cautionary tale for its… Continue reading Something Comically Bad Just Happened to the Inventor of Ozempic

Risk Expert Says “Learn to Code” Is Now Worse Advice Than “Get a Face Tattoo”

During a recent exchange on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” risk analyst Ian Bremmer argued that artificial intelligence has basically eviscerated the “learn to code” cottage industry. When discussing the way AI has swept the world and taken many white collar jobs with it, Bremmer referenced how rapidly the technology has overtaken the traditional career… Continue reading Risk Expert Says “Learn to Code” Is Now Worse Advice Than “Get a Face Tattoo”

Department of Homeland Security Head Visited Biohazard Lab One Day Before Hospitalization

Image by Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times via Getty / Futurism Kristi Noem, the gun-loving former South Dakota governor who now runs Homeland Security, was rushed to the hospital this week for a severe allergic reaction — and she just so happened to have visited a biohazard lab run by our nation’s top allergy… Continue reading Department of Homeland Security Head Visited Biohazard Lab One Day Before Hospitalization

Cybertruck Burned So Severely That Its Driver’s Bones Disintegrated

A Cybertruck owner in Texas was burned to death after crashing his vehicle in a ditch and becoming trapped inside. According to a lawsuit filed by his widow and parents against the Elon Musk-led EV maker, the fire burned so hot that his bones literally disintegrated. The 47-year-old, named Michael Sheehan, “burned to death at 5,000°F… Continue reading Cybertruck Burned So Severely That Its Driver’s Bones Disintegrated

Sam Altman Heaps Praise on Donald Trump

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is gushing over president Donald Trump’s mammoth $500 billion AI infrastructure project, dubbed Stargate. The buzzy initiative made headlines in January, with the likes of OpenAI, Japanese investment group SoftBank, and the software giant Oracle pledging a combined $100 billion to build enormous data centers to run extremely power-hungry AI models.… Continue reading Sam Altman Heaps Praise on Donald Trump