Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images New York City’s mayor isn’t even a month into his term, and he’s already delivering a crushing blow to delivery app companies. In a bombshell intervention, Zohran Mamdani and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection commissioner Sam Levine announced that three… Continue reading Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
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New Study Examines How Often AI Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good
We’ve seen plenty of evidence suggesting that prolonged use of popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT can coax some users into spirals of paranoid and delusional behavior. The phenomenon, dubbed “AI psychosis,” is a very real problem, with researchers warning of a huge wave of severe mental health crises brought on by the tech. In extreme… Continue reading New Study Examines How Often AI Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good
Lab Grown Meat Is Failing For One Key Reason, Analyst Claims
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images For years, the cultivated meat industry has struggled to emerge as a practical alternative to the brutal factory farming sector. The key reason? Perhaps not that lab grown meat isn’t a viable product, but that intense regulations have strangled it in the cradle. A new analysis… Continue reading Lab Grown Meat Is Failing For One Key Reason, Analyst Claims
Cybertruck Attempts to Fling Baby Onto Highway
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A couple says their Tesla Cybertruck nearly dumped their baby onto the side of the highway after its passenger door latch failed, The Oaklandside reports. The husband, Oakland resident Viral Shah, says he and his wife were driving up a ramp to get on the highway… Continue reading Cybertruck Attempts to Fling Baby Onto Highway
Experts Growing Worried About World in Which AI Takes Your Job and You Have No Way to Provide for Yourself
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In a massive 20,000-word screed, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI will act as a “general labor substitute for humans.” Elon Musk has previously imagined a future where “probably none of us will have a job,” but where we’ll all have “universal high income.” Sam… Continue reading Experts Growing Worried About World in Which AI Takes Your Job and You Have No Way to Provide for Yourself
Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. New research flagged by PsyPost suggests that the sycophantic machines are warping the self-perception and inflating the egos of their users, leading them to double down on their beliefs and think they’re… Continue reading Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines
Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Billionaire tech CEOs have often insisted that AI is ushering in an era of plenty, in which automation will provide unthinkable abundance even among the poorest in society. Not everyone takes their word for it. As economist Dean Baker explains in a new essay for the… Continue reading Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages
Fans Furious at What Andrew Huberman Just Admitted
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chance Yeh / Getty Images for Hubspot The neuroscientist, health guru, and controversial podcaster Andrew Huberman just revealed something that has his fans fuming — but also not all that surprised. During a nearly three-hour interview with British bodybuilding legend Dorian Yates, Huberman asked the six-time Mr. Olympia… Continue reading Fans Furious at What Andrew Huberman Just Admitted
Major AI Companies Aren’t Even Pretending to Make Money
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In a way, Silicon Valley has always asked investors to suspend disbelief to fund pie-in-the-sky projects, but the AI boom calls for something closer to a full break from financial reality. It’s 2026. Last year, investors lavished $80 billion on foundation AI companies — the ones… Continue reading Major AI Companies Aren’t Even Pretending to Make Money
Chinese Adults Taking Strange AI Devices to Bed With Them
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images China is a country defined by major contradictions. The nation is governed by a communist party that has carefully embraced market forces as part of a long transition away from capitalism. Against this backdrop of ideological tension, it’s no surprise that smaller contradictions abound. Among them… Continue reading Chinese Adults Taking Strange AI Devices to Bed With Them