Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Folotoy; Getty Images After pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” from the market, the children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s now restoring sales of the controversial product, which a safety group found would give inappropriate and potentially dangerous responses, including explaining how to find and light matches, locate pills,… Continue reading AI Teddy Bear Back on the Market After Getting Caught Telling Kids How to Find Pills and Start Fires
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DOGE Operatives Scared They’re in Real Trouble Now That Elon Has Abandoned Them
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Over the weekend, Reuters reported that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, which was once helmed by billionaire Elon Musk before he flamed out with Trump in May, is no more. Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor told Reuters that DOGE “doesn’t exist,” adding that it’s no longer a “centralized… Continue reading DOGE Operatives Scared They’re in Real Trouble Now That Elon Has Abandoned Them
New Twitter Feature Reveals That Profitable “MAGA” Accounts Are Actually Scammers From the Developing World Cashing in on Gullible Americans
Elsa/Getty Images Elon Musk’s social media echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter introduced a new feature over the weekend that shows the location where its users have been tweeting from — a move that has exposed an embarrassing problem for the social network: that many of its most politically inflammatory users are actually foreign scammers cashing in on… Continue reading New Twitter Feature Reveals That Profitable “MAGA” Accounts Are Actually Scammers From the Developing World Cashing in on Gullible Americans
Whistleblower Says He Was Fired for Warning Execs That New Robot Could Crush Human Skull
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A former engineer at the humanoid robotics firm Figure AI has sued the company, alleging they were fired for raising a critical safety issue, CNBC reports. The principal robotic safety engineer, Robert Gruendel, had warned top executives in September — including CEO Brett Adcock and chief… Continue reading Whistleblower Says He Was Fired for Warning Execs That New Robot Could Crush Human Skull
Professor Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Releasing Sentinels Around Jupiter
NASA / Futurism Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest pass of the Earth just under a month from now, coming within around 170 million miles of us. Three months later, it’s expected to get even closer to Jupiter as it continues on its highly eccentric path through the solar system. And as… Continue reading Professor Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Releasing Sentinels Around Jupiter
Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Back in August, a retiree and single mother booked a flight to go see her son. He was in a bad way. Formerly a successful young professional in his early thirties, his mother and other family members were shocked to discover that he’d become addicted to… Continue reading Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions
Google Denies Reading Your Gmail to Train Its AI
Google has denied that it’s been quietly rifling through users’ personal Gmail accounts to train its AI models on their emails and attachments. Cybersecurity company Malwarebytes caused an uproar last week when it warned in a blog post that the tech giant was rolling out features that gave its AI models access to private messages… Continue reading Google Denies Reading Your Gmail to Train Its AI
Fire Breaks Out at UN Climate Summit
Photo by AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by -/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images The United Nations global climate summit, COP30, only delivered modest progress on its campaign to slow global warming. The unintentional symbolism, though, was extraordinary: on Thursday, the convention location itself had to be evacuated after a massive fire broke out. The event, hosted in… Continue reading Fire Breaks Out at UN Climate Summit
Elon Musk’s Autobiography Will Definitely Be a Reliable, Trustworthy Document
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is now teasing the idea of writing an autobiography, which will surely provide an unvarnished and truthful account of the life of one of the most brilliant minds ever to indulge a ketamine habit on planet Earth. The potential… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Autobiography Will Definitely Be a Reliable, Trustworthy Document
Scientists Find Evidence That Humans Made Out With Non-Human Creatures
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Sebastian Willnow / DDP / AFP via Getty Images When writer Jean M. Auel first published her now bestselling novel, “The Clan of the Cave Bear,” back in 1980, she made what seemed a questionable conceit at the center of her story: that our distant ancestors had mated… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence That Humans Made Out With Non-Human Creatures