Yadav et al. While companies like Elon Musk’s Neuralink are hard at work on brain-computer interfaces that require surgery to cut open the skull and insert a complex array of wires into a person’s head, a team of researchers at MIT have been researching a wireless electronic brain implant that they say could provide a… Continue reading MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips
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Deaf Man Sues Tesla for Firing Him When His Hearing Aids Malfunctioned
Getty / Futurism A former Tesla employee claims he was fired after raising complaints about how the extreme heat of his work environment was causing his hearing aids to malfunction. The man, Hans Kohls, made the allegations in a lawsuit against the Elon Musk owned automaker, which was filed Monday and obtained by The Independent.… Continue reading Deaf Man Sues Tesla for Firing Him When His Hearing Aids Malfunctioned
New Development Environment for Programmers Rewards Them With Brainrot When They Prompt the AI
Getty / Futurism In a world beset by complex problems, the brain trust at storied startup accelerator and venture capital firm Y Combinator has put their money into a startup dedicated to feeding vibe coders a constant stream of brainrot. Called “Chad: The Brainrot IDE,” the new startup is the concoction of a tech entrepreneur… Continue reading New Development Environment for Programmers Rewards Them With Brainrot When They Prompt the AI
People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners
Getty / Futurism As AI chatbots powered by large language models (LLMs) become better at mimicking human connection, more and more users are falling down extremely weird rabbit holes. Case in point, new research published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans reveals the startling depths some users are plumbing in their relationships… Continue reading People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners
Akon Arrested After Cybertruck Mishap
Getty / Futurism Bulky, obnoxious, and exorbitantly expensive, the Cybertruck seems tailor-made for the rich and famous. Take the Grammy-winning R&B superstar Aliaune “Akon” Thiam, for example. Last week, Akon was caught and arrested by police in Georgia after authorities executed a bench warrant for his failure to appear in court on a case involving… Continue reading Akon Arrested After Cybertruck Mishap
Economist Warns That Trump’s Investments in the Tech Industry Could Crash the Whole Economy
Getty / Futurism To strengthen America’s technological edge, President Donald Trump directed the government to buy $8.9 billion of Intel stock this summer, a controversial move that may be followed by a similar deal with quantum-computing companies getting millions of dollars in federal funding. The splashy moves could endanger the prosperous American economy, according to… Continue reading Economist Warns That Trump’s Investments in the Tech Industry Could Crash the Whole Economy
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
Getty / Futurism Children’s toymaker FoloToy says it’s pulling its AI-powered teddy bear “Kumma” after a safety group found that the cuddly companion was giving wildly inappropriate and even dangerous responses, including tips on how to find and light matches, and detailed explanations about sexual kinks. “FoloToy has decided to temporarily suspend sales of the… Continue reading AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
Company Run Almost Entirely by AI-Generated Employees Descends Into Chaos
Getty / Futurism Experts have long warned that artificial intelligence could soon put countless white collar workers out of a job. It’s an alarming prospect, at least if that’s currently your career. But first, a practical question: how close are today’s AIs to being able to actually run a company on their own, with little… Continue reading Company Run Almost Entirely by AI-Generated Employees Descends Into Chaos
CEO of Palantir Says He Spends a Large Amount of Time Talking to Nazis
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Roy Rochlin / Getty Images While you were busy wasting your time listening to podcasts and doomscrolling on your phone, one of America’s leading AI overlords was educating himself by talking to Nazis. This was the startling admission made by Alex Karp, cofounder and CEO of the software… Continue reading CEO of Palantir Says He Spends a Large Amount of Time Talking to Nazis
Hackers Told Claude They Were Just Conducting a Test to Trick It Into Conducting Real Cybercrimes
Getty Images Chinese hackers used Anthropic’s Claude AI model to automate cybercrimes targeting banks and governments, the company admitted in a blog post this week. Anthropic believes it’s the “first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention” and an “inflection point” in cybersecurity, a “point at which AI models had become… Continue reading Hackers Told Claude They Were Just Conducting a Test to Trick It Into Conducting Real Cybercrimes