“Instead of rewarding their clients as promised, their insatiable greed led them to spend millions of dollars on their own lavish desires.” Meme to McClaren Surprise, surprise: former top executives of the once-ascendant meme coin SafeMoon, which according to Bloomberg ballooned in value by a staggering 19,000 percent at the height of 2021’s crypto craze,… Continue reading Execs of Top Meme Coin Charged With Spending Customers’ Money on Luxury Cars
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Elon Musk Is About to Release His First AI
We can’t wait to take Musk’s “maximum truth-seeking AI” for a spin. Hype Beast Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is set to release its first AI model to a select group of users as soon as Saturday, the mercurial CEO said in a tweet today. And since Musk is no stranger to overpromising, he’s… Continue reading Elon Musk Is About to Release His First AI
Police Investigating AI-Generated Nudes of New Jersey High Schoolers
“You’d never think one of your classmates would violate you like this.” Question Mark After AI-generated nudes of teen girls began circulating in a New Jersey high school, neither parents, school officials nor even local law enforcement have been able to figure out how to deal with it. As the Wall Street Journal reports, girls at… Continue reading Police Investigating AI-Generated Nudes of New Jersey High Schoolers
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Facing 110 Years in Prison
“This kind of fraud, this kind of corruption, is as old as time.” Lock Him Up FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven counts in the jaw-dropping conclusion to his fraud trial — and he’s now facing a very real prison sentence. Bankman-Fried is, as NBC News reports, staring down a statutory maximum… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Is Facing 110 Years in Prison
Elon Musk Was Staggeringly Wrong About Sam Bankman-Fried
Zero points. Dead Wrong Former crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried is really, really screwed. Last night, a New York jury found the disgraced CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX guilty on all seven charges, including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to launder money. He’s now facing over 100 years in prison. And… Continue reading Elon Musk Was Staggeringly Wrong About Sam Bankman-Fried
Fox News Host Tries to Mock Biden By Claiming Webb Telescope Isn’t Real
“I don’t understand.” Tangled Web In an attempt to dunk on President Joe Biden, Fox News host Laura Ingraham was forced to correct herself on-air when she learned that the James Webb Space Telescope does, in fact, exist. As highlighted by extremism researcher Andrew Lawrence, the embarrassing exchange was spurred on by an entirely different… Continue reading Fox News Host Tries to Mock Biden By Claiming Webb Telescope Isn’t Real
Scarlett Johansson Taking Legal Action Against AI App for Cloning Her Voice Without Permission
This definitely isn’t the AI in “Her.” Scarlett Fever Famed Hollywood actor Scarlett Johanson is taking legal action against an AI app developer for stealing her voice and likeness for an online ad, Variety reports. And no, we’re not talking about her role in the 2013 dystopian drama “Her,” which featured her as a disembodied… Continue reading Scarlett Johansson Taking Legal Action Against AI App for Cloning Her Voice Without Permission
Microsoft Shamelessly Pumping Internet Full of Garbage AI-Generated “News” Articles
We’ve known that Microsoft’s MSN news portal has been pumping out a garbled, AI-generated firehose for well over a year now. The company has been using the website to distribute misleading and oftentimes incomprehensible garbage to hundreds of millions of readers per month. As CNN now reports, that’s likely in large part due to MSN‘s… Continue reading Microsoft Shamelessly Pumping Internet Full of Garbage AI-Generated “News” Articles
Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence
The misinformation is coming from inside the tech industry. Software giant Adobe has been caught selling AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas war, as first spotted by Australian news outlet Crikey, a shocking and morally reprehensible instance of a company directly profiting from the spread of misinformation online. A quick search on the company’s Adobe Stock… Continue reading Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence
Elon Musk Wants to Turn Twitter Into a Dating App
“I think we might be able to improve the dating situation.” Billionaire Matchmaker Elon Musk doesn’t just want your finances. He wants a hand in your dating life, too. Last week, to celebrate its one-year anniversary of Musk ownership, Twitter — or X, as it’s now called — held a rare and wide-ranging all-hands meeting. … Continue reading Elon Musk Wants to Turn Twitter Into a Dating App