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
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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
Engineer: With AI, “Anybody Whose Job Is Done on a Computer All Day Is Over… It’s Just a Matter of Time”
You hear two wildly diverging narratives about AI lately. One, emanating mainly from the tech sector, is that AI is not only poised to supersede human intelligence, but is already radically changing the world and workforce. The other is that the tech’s mostly a nothingburger, with the boosters from the first narrative forcing its slop… Continue reading Engineer: With AI, “Anybody Whose Job Is Done on a Computer All Day Is Over… It’s Just a Matter of Time”
“Mansplaining Audacity”: President of Signal Watches in Bemusement as Random Man Explains Her Company’s AI Strategy to Her
The act of mansplaining is alive and well on social media. Since what feels like the dawn of time, overconfident men have condescendingly explained how things work, even when they’re woefully wrong and unqualified. Look no further than a baffling exchange on Bluesky after Meredith Whittaker, the president of encrypted chat platform Signal and chief… Continue reading “Mansplaining Audacity”: President of Signal Watches in Bemusement as Random Man Explains Her Company’s AI Strategy to Her
Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake
According to tech billionaire and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 2025 was supposed to be the year “when AI agents will work.” Despite widespread hype, so-called “AI agents” — a software product that’s supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent… Continue reading Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake
Trump Is Apparently Raging About His Embarrassing Birthday Parade
“He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this.” President Donald Trump spent $45 million in taxpayer dollars to throw himself a huge birthday parade — and now, he’s apparently mad at everyone involved for not making it more fabulous. In an interview with the Daily Beast, Trump biographer Michael Wolff revealed that the president was none… Continue reading Trump Is Apparently Raging About His Embarrassing Birthday Parade
Tesla Stock Plummets as Company Abruptly Halts Production of Cybertruck and Model Y
Tesla is pausing production of the Cybertruck and its newly-retooled Model Y, and the stock market is already responding. On the heels of a new Business Insider report about the production shutdown, which is purportedly slated for the week of June 30 based on insider interviews, the company’s stock fell to about $316, which was almost… Continue reading Tesla Stock Plummets as Company Abruptly Halts Production of Cybertruck and Model Y