Getty / Futurism For over two months, astronomers have been closely following an interstellar object — dubbed 3I/ATLAS — as it screams through the solar system at a breakneck speed. The unusual visitor was only the third object from beyond the solar system ever detected, following ‘Oumuamua, which was discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov in… Continue reading Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper
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Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car
Chinese EV maker BYD’s YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar has absolutely obliterated the top speed record for a production car. The sleek vehicle reached a white-knuckled 308.4 mph at the ATP Papenburg oval track in Germany, as Car and Driver reports, blowing past the previous record of 304.8 mph, which was set by the Bugatti Chiron… Continue reading Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car
Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Getty Images While many working people are reasonably worried about AI taking their jobs and leaving them on the street, another consequence of the AI revolution is filling seats in mental health facilities. The mass adoption of large language model (LLM) chatbots is resulting in large numbers… Continue reading Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users
DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots
Image via Getty / Futurism Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect-size spy robots. A recent digest of present-day microbots by US national security magazine The National Interest breaks down the many machines currently in development by the US military… Continue reading DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots
Big Businesses Have a Major Problem With AI
Photo Illustration by Tag-Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: © Bob Jacobson/Corbis via Getty Either AI is a magical enterprise cure-all whose effects are literally indescribable — or it’s really not all that useful. Which of the two will ultimately turn out to be correct is a question currently hanging over the global economy like Damocles’… Continue reading Big Businesses Have a Major Problem With AI
Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking
Getty / Futurism A team of researchers from the Harvard Business School has found that a broad selection of popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving. As spotted by Psychology Today, the study found that five out of six popular AI companion apps — including Replika, Chai and Character.AI… Continue reading Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking
Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
Getty / Futurism Economists keep warning that the US economy is being propped up almost entirely by an enormous boom in the tech and AI sector. Should the rest of us be worried? Multibillion-dollar investments have become the norm as AI companies continue to double down on enormous infrastructure buildouts and talent acquisitions that they… Continue reading Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
Christians Sheepish After Boasting They Were Going to Get Raptured to Heaven Today
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Getty Christians on TikTok were so convinced that the Rapture — an event anticipated by evangelical Christians in which the faithful will be beamed up to heaven by God while everybody else is doomed to ruin — was going to happen yesterday that some even ditched their… Continue reading Christians Sheepish After Boasting They Were Going to Get Raptured to Heaven Today
In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Successfully Treat Devastating Brain Disease Huntington’s for the First Time
Getty / Futurism A research team says that for the first time in history, it’s successfully treated Huntington’s disease, a devastating and inherited disorder that kills nerve cells and leads to rapid decline and death. Until now, the disease had no treatment to cure it or alter its course. Patients tend to succumb to the… Continue reading In Major Breakthrough, Scientists Successfully Treat Devastating Brain Disease Huntington’s for the First Time
CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are “Luddites”
Getty / Futurism The CEO of a company that’s pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much about having AI slop shoved down their throats. Inception Point AI CEO Jeanine Wright told the Hollywood Reporter that “people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably… Continue reading CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are “Luddites”