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
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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
People Are Starting to Get Divorced Because of Affairs With AI
Getty Images / PhotoAlto / Frederic Cirou Say what you will about AI chatbots, but there’s no question they’re now affecting the real world — including imploding your marriage. We’ve talked pretty extensively about all the alarming ways that AI is disrupting people’s personal lives, including serving as a delusion-prone person’s own little cult leader,… Continue reading People Are Starting to Get Divorced Because of Affairs With AI
Child Development Researcher Issues Warning About AI-Powered Teddy Bears Flooding Market Before Christmas
Getty / Futurism As the holiday season rolls in, parents eager to impress their young children with a splashy present might be tempted to gift them an AI-powered toy or teddy bear, which are popping up everywhere. What’d be more fun for a child than a tiny companion that they can have endless conversations with?… Continue reading Child Development Researcher Issues Warning About AI-Powered Teddy Bears Flooding Market Before Christmas
MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips
Yadav et al. While companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink are hard at work on brain-computer interfaces that require surgery to cut open the skull and insert a complex array of wires into a person’s head, a team of researchers at MIT have been researching a wireless electronic brain implant that they say could provide a… Continue reading MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips
Deaf Man Sues Tesla for Firing Him When His Hearing Aids Malfunctioned
Getty / Futurism A former Tesla employee claims he was fired after raising complaints about how the extreme heat of his work environment was causing his hearing aids to malfunction. The man, Hans Kohls, made the allegations in a lawsuit against the Elon Musk owned automaker, which was filed Monday and obtained by The Independent.… Continue reading Deaf Man Sues Tesla for Firing Him When His Hearing Aids Malfunctioned
New Development Environment for Programmers Rewards Them With Brainrot When They Prompt the AI
Getty / Futurism In a world beset by complex problems, the brain trust at storied startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator has put their money into a startup dedicated to feeding vibe coders a constant stream of brainrot. Called “Chad: The Brainrot IDE,” the new startup is the concoction of a tech entrepreneur… Continue reading New Development Environment for Programmers Rewards Them With Brainrot When They Prompt the AI
People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners
Getty / Futurism As AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) become better at mimicking human connection, more and more users are falling down extremely weird rabbit holes. Case in point, new research published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans reveals the startling depths some users are plumbing in their relationships… Continue reading People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners