In a major change in tune, Google has admitted that the “open web is already in rapid decline” — despite being adamant for months that the “web is thriving.” As first spotted by The Verge, the tech giant attempted to dissuade regulators from breaking up its advertising tech business, arguing that doing so would harm… Continue reading Google Says the Open Web Is Now in “Rapid Decline”
Author: Futurism_Magazine Online News
Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Star System Is Now Changing Color
As interstellar object 3I/ATLAS approaches its closest point to the Sun next month, the mysterious visitor continues to fascinate astronomers. The object, which is broadly believed to be a comet that came to us from outside the solar system, has already been observed changing shape. Its tail has grown longer, and its coma — a… Continue reading Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Star System Is Now Changing Color
Anti-AGI Protester Now on Day Nine of Hunger Strike in Front of Anthropic Headquarters
Artificial general intelligence, the prospect of a synthetic entity meeting or exceeding the cognitive power of a human, is a polarizing topic. For some, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, it’s a mission statement — the lodestar guiding the company’s $300 billion operations. For others, like activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter, it’s an existential threat to be… Continue reading Anti-AGI Protester Now on Day Nine of Hunger Strike in Front of Anthropic Headquarters
If the AI Industry Fails, It Could Take the Rest of Us Down With It
Don’t let AI critics tell you it’s good for nothing: the amount of money being spent on AI infrastructure is so enormous that it’s literally propping up the US economy. The drawback, of course, is that if the AI industry fails, it could drag the rest of the economy down with it. In 2024, the S&P 500… Continue reading If the AI Industry Fails, It Could Take the Rest of Us Down With It
Tesla’s Market Share Has Fallen So Badly That It’s Back to 2017 Levels
Ten years ago, it was rare to see a Tesla on the road. The Model S, despite being the world’s best-selling EV at the time, sold just over 50,000 units worldwide, making it rarer to see on the road than the exceedingly rare Porsche Macan. In the following years, Tesla rocketed to the top of… Continue reading Tesla’s Market Share Has Fallen So Badly That It’s Back to 2017 Levels
As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low
The US Education Department, which the Trump administration is actively attempting to dismantle, has released the latest math and reading test scores for American high-school seniors — and they’re an absolute disaster. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the scores have hit an all-time low, even by America’s historically underwhelming standards. It’s a worrying sign… Continue reading As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low
GPT-5 Is Making Huge Factual Errors, Users Say
It’s been just over a month since OpenAI dropped its long-awaited GPT-5 large language model (LLM) — and it hasn’t stopped spewing an astonishing amount of strange falsehoods since then. From the AI experts at the Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Artificial Intelligence and irked Redditors on r/ChatGPTPro, to even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman… Continue reading GPT-5 Is Making Huge Factual Errors, Users Say
Tesla Admits That Its Cars May Never Fully Drive Themselves
Tesla has quietly changed how it defines “Full Self-Driving,” Electrek reports, in a way that awfully sounds like it’s giving up on CEO Elon Musk’s perennially pushed-back promise that its cars will actually drive themselves without human help. The change comes in a document outlining a potential and absolutely ludicrous $1 trillion compensation package for… Continue reading Tesla Admits That Its Cars May Never Fully Drive Themselves
The Man Who Proposed Simulation Theory Has a Dire Warning
More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a computer simulation. Beloved by such strange bedfellows as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Sam Altman, Bostrom has released two other influential missives… Continue reading The Man Who Proposed Simulation Theory Has a Dire Warning
No Man’s Sky Players Are Competing to Create the Goofiest Spaceships Imaginable
Procedurally-generated open exploration game No Man’s Sky recently got one of its biggest updates ever, a whopping nine years after it was first launched, allowing players to customize their own spaceships to a baffling level of detail — and the resulting creativity is truly out of this world. The “Voyagers” update, which rolled out late… Continue reading No Man’s Sky Players Are Competing to Create the Goofiest Spaceships Imaginable