This could be huge. Decisions, Decisions The New York Times is weighing a lawsuit against OpenAI over intellectual property infringement, NPR reports. Per NPR, the NYT and OpenAI have been in the throes of heated negotiations for weeks, in an attempt to reach a deal that would grant OpenAI a licensing deal to access to… Continue reading The New York Times Is Apparently Considering a Lawsuit Against OpenAI
Author: Futurism_Magazine Online News
Self-Driving Car Gets Stuck in Freshly Poured Concrete
“It thinks it’s a road and it ain’t because it ain’t got a brain and it can’t tell that it’s freshly poured concrete.” Concrete Shoes Self-driving robotaxis have caused all kinds of mayhem across San Francisco, from obstructing the fire department during active blazes to running over a dog. Now, a driverless Cruise robotaxi has… Continue reading Self-Driving Car Gets Stuck in Freshly Poured Concrete
Tesla Seems to Have a Small Problem With People Getting Locked Inside Its Cars
Help! I’m trapped in a Tesla! Door Performance Tesla owners keep reporting a slight problem with their cars losing power and locking them in in the process. In a piece meant to instruct Tesla drivers on how to get out of their cars if they find themselves trapped — talk about SEO — Insider reports that this… Continue reading Tesla Seems to Have a Small Problem With People Getting Locked Inside Its Cars
Brands Horrified When Their Twitter Ads Appear on Nazi Posts
Advertisers are still pulling out of Elon Musk’s platform. X-ing Out At least two advertisers have pulled out of advertising on X-formerly-Twitter after finding that their ads appeared next to posts promoting Nazism. That’s despite X CEO Linda Yaccarino claiming mere days ago that the company was committed to protecting advertisers’ brands on the platform, as… Continue reading Brands Horrified When Their Twitter Ads Appear on Nazi Posts
Sites Spring Up to Sell Semaglutide for Cheap With No Prescription
Image by Mario Tama via Getty / Futurism As the Ozempic craze continues in kind, websites are now purporting to sell knockoffs of the injectable drug without a prescription — an escalation that seems both risky and shady. The Wall Street Journal reports that it found more than 50 sites selling what they dubiously termed… Continue reading Sites Spring Up to Sell Semaglutide for Cheap With No Prescription
Google’s SGE Search AI Is Devouring False AI-Generated Info and Saying It’s True
Google’s AI-powered search doesn’t understand geography. Or, apparently, the alphabet. And definitely not both at the same time. It all started when a Bluesky user declared that Google is now “dead.” They included a screenshot of Google’s featured snippet feature, on its regular search engine, proclaiming that there are no countries in Africa beginning with the letter… Continue reading Google’s SGE Search AI Is Devouring False AI-Generated Info and Saying It’s True
They Seem to Be Working on an Electric Lamborghini
Intriguing. Lambo Skin Luxurious Italian carmaker Lamborghini seems to finally be giving in to the inevitability of an electric-powered future. The brand just teased its “first 100 percent electric” supercar by posting an image of a silhouette. The brand is set to unveil the mysterious vehicle on August 18 at the Monterey Car Week in… Continue reading They Seem to Be Working on an Electric Lamborghini
Russia Sends Back Photos From Trip to Moon
From lunar orbit with love. Moon Snaps Russia is officially on the way to the Moon, the country’s first lunar mission since 1976. Russian state media recently shared the first images taken by its Luna-25 spacecraft, showing the Earth as a small dot in the distance. Another image shows the Moon as an equally small… Continue reading Russia Sends Back Photos From Trip to Moon
It Sounds Like Caroline Ellison Has Some Major Dirt on Sam Bankman-Fried
Ouch. Um, Uh As we get closer to the trial against disgraced FTX founder Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, prosecutors are teasing new evidence from the jailed wunderkind’s ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison that sounds like an important part of the case against him. Quoted in a recent court filing, Ellison reportedly told employees of Alameda Research, FTX’s sister… Continue reading It Sounds Like Caroline Ellison Has Some Major Dirt on Sam Bankman-Fried
Scientists Extracted a Pink Floyd Song From Someone’s Brain Waves. Here’s What It Sounds Like.
Image by Getty / Futurism After a decade of research, scientists have managed to recreate a song from brain recordings with the help of AI — and they’re letting us hear the track. In a press release about this pioneering research, UC Berkeley neurologist and psychology professor Robert Knight said that he and his fellow… Continue reading Scientists Extracted a Pink Floyd Song From Someone’s Brain Waves. Here’s What It Sounds Like.