“Well now, Wile E. Coyote has looked down and realized gravity does apply to him, too.” Embarrassing A former Twitter executive is sounding off on Elon Musk after the CEO bashed a disabled ex-employee on the platform. In an interview with the UK’s iNews, Bruce Daisley, who worked as the social network’s VP for Europe,… Continue reading Ex-Twitter VP Says Elon Musk Is Behaving “Like the Local Drunk”
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Former Biotech CEO Arrested for Implanting Phony Medical Devices in Patients
Image by Getty / Futurism New bad guy alert: according to an FBI indictment, Florida woman Laura Perryman, the former CEO of a health-tech company called Stimwave, was arrested on Thursday “in connection with a scheme to create and sell a non-functioning dummy medical device for implantation into patients suffering from chronic pain,” Vice reports,… Continue reading Former Biotech CEO Arrested for Implanting Phony Medical Devices in Patients
Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”
We have questions. OK… A German Microsoft executive has, for some reason, claimed that OpenAI’s next large language model (LLM) will drop imminently. “We will introduce GPT-4 next week, there we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities — for example, videos,” claimed Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun during a digital kickoff… Continue reading Microsoft Says OpenAI’s Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping “Next Week”
Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Air Into Electricity
Woah. Out of Thin Air In an exciting turn for the field of sustainable energy research, Australian scientists have found a way to make energy out of thin air. Literally. As detailed in a new study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia discovered a new bacterial enzyme… Continue reading Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Air Into Electricity
Company Raises $100M After Announcing Shift to AI, But Has No Discernible Product
Humane Inc., a tech startup founded in 2018 by ex-Apple executives Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri, just raised $100 million in its latest funding round, bringing the total of money raised to a whopping $230 million. Which is good for them! But there’s, uh, one thing: we cannot, for the life of us, figure out… Continue reading Company Raises $100M After Announcing Shift to AI, But Has No Discernible Product
Elon Musk Calls Movie About Him That Isn’t Even Out Yet a “Hit Piece”
“How would you know?” Early Review Heads up, movie heads and the Elon Musk-curious: there’s an upcoming documentary about the controversial billionaire, and it’s directed by Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.” But even though the project isn’t out yet and lacks a release date or confirmed… Continue reading Elon Musk Calls Movie About Him That Isn’t Even Out Yet a “Hit Piece”
We’re Totally OK With This 48,500 Year Old “Zombie” Virus Being Resurrected
Image by Getty / Futurism Scientists have decided to resurrect ancient “zombie” viruses found in Siberia’s permafrost in an effort to head off one of climate change’s freakiest eventualities. As CNN reports, the gambit is being conducted by French medical and genomics researcher Jean-Michel Claverie, who’s testing whether or not a 48,500-year-old “zombie” virus he… Continue reading We’re Totally OK With This 48,500 Year Old “Zombie” Virus Being Resurrected
Facebook’s Powerful ChatGPT Competitor Leaks on 4Chan
Of course it ended up on 4chan. Runaway LLaMa Meta-formerly-Facebook’s new artificial intelligence model, which is meant to rival the likes of OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, has been leaked — and naturally, it ended up on 4chan. As Vice reports, the version of the company’s Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMa) that made its way to the… Continue reading Facebook’s Powerful ChatGPT Competitor Leaks on 4Chan
Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership
Everything’s fine! Regressing Revenue How are Twitter’s finances going since Elon Musk’s controversial takeover? If a new report from the Wall Street Journal is anything to go by, not so great. Because Musk took the company private in October, it can be tricky to glean its shaky finances from the outside. But now, sources tell… Continue reading Twitter Finances Reportedly Tank Under Elon Musk’s Brilliant Leadership
Shocking Study Finds 99 Percent of the World Population Is Breathing Harmful Air
Image by Getty / Futurism Ninety-nine percent of the global population — practically everyone in the entire world — is exposed to harmful air pollutants known as PM 2.5, according to a massive study recently published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health. Conversely, it found that only 0.001 percent of the global population live… Continue reading Shocking Study Finds 99 Percent of the World Population Is Breathing Harmful Air