Getty Images An outage affecting cybersecurity firm Cloudflare took down huge swathes of the internet with it on Tuesday, once again highlighting how a handful internet services allow the entire web to stay online. Among the websites affected by the outage are gigantic services including X-formerly-Twitter, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Spotify. Even Downdetector, a website that… Continue reading The Internet Crashed So Hard This Morning That Downdetector Went Down
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CEO Accused of Asking ChatGPT About Something Absolutely Wild
Getty / Futurism The CEO of a video game publisher has been accused of asking ChatGPT how to wriggle out of paying out $250 million in bonuses. As Kotaku reports, the three cofounders of the video game developer Unknown Worlds, which is behind the popular “Subnautica” franchise, sued the game’s publisher, Krafton, after being abruptly… Continue reading CEO Accused of Asking ChatGPT About Something Absolutely Wild
Bitcoin Showing Signs of Severe Collapse
Getty / Futurism The OG cryptocurrency Bitcoin is having a horrible month. The token has wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars in total market value, dropping below $92,000 for the first time since mid-April. That’s despite soaring to an all-time high of over $126,000 a mere six weeks ago. It’s been a bruising couple… Continue reading Bitcoin Showing Signs of Severe Collapse
Guests Kicked to the Curb In the Middle of Their Stay After Airbnb Rival Goes Bankrupt Right Before Thanksgiving
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Picture this: you’re on holiday somewhere, enjoying your stay at a short-term rental that you thought you got a good deal on — a hotel for people who don’t need all the accommodations of a hotel. Then, without warning, you’re evicted from the room you paid… Continue reading Guests Kicked to the Curb In the Middle of Their Stay After Airbnb Rival Goes Bankrupt Right Before Thanksgiving
Harvard Scientist Suspicious About 3I/ATLAS’ Origins Fires Back at Critics
Getty / Futurism As we await high-resolution images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is still not giving up hope that it could be an alien spacecraft speeding through the solar system. While there’s a broad consensus among scientists that 3I/ATLAS is most likely a… Continue reading Harvard Scientist Suspicious About 3I/ATLAS’ Origins Fires Back at Critics
OpenAI Blocks Toymaker After Its AI Teddy Bear Is Caught Telling Children Terrible Things
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Last week, researchers at the Public Interest Research Group published an alarming report in which they found that an AI-powered teddy bear from the children’s toymaker FoloToy was giving out instructions on how to light matches, and even waxing lyrical about the ins-and-outs of various sexual… Continue reading OpenAI Blocks Toymaker After Its AI Teddy Bear Is Caught Telling Children Terrible Things
The Stock of Trump’s Tech Company Is Crashing So Hard It Isn’t Even Funny
Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social, is on life support. Shares of the company that runs it, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), hit a record low this week. Despite an initial surge of enthusiasm after its launch, the company has incurred massive losses, with the company showing increasingly blaring warning… Continue reading The Stock of Trump’s Tech Company Is Crashing So Hard It Isn’t Even Funny
Gabe Newell Buys Obscene Yacht
Getty / Futurism Video game titan and Valve cofounder Gabe Newell is indulging himself with some light retail therapy — in the form of a $500 million superyacht. As Boat International reported last week, the billionaire purchased the vessel — dubbed Leviathan, in case you were expecting any subtlety — which is a 364-foot monstrosity… Continue reading Gabe Newell Buys Obscene Yacht
Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children
Getty / Futurism Parents are turning to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in increasing numbers for child rearing advice — and the results of that uncontrolled experiment are anyone’s guess. They’re asking ChatGPT how to handle behavioral problems or for medical advice when their kids are sick, USA Today reports, which dovetails with a 2024 study that found… Continue reading Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children
AI Companies Are Treating Their Workers Like Human Garbage, Which May Be a Sign of Things to Come for the Rest of Us
Getty / Futurism In today’s economy, tech companies are red hot. In fact, the companies burning cash on AI seem to be some of the only ones having a truly great time, as the corporate rate of profit plummets throughout the US and recession fears loom. Though one economist estimates tech companies accounted for 92… Continue reading AI Companies Are Treating Their Workers Like Human Garbage, Which May Be a Sign of Things to Come for the Rest of Us