Getty / Futurism Michael Burry, who famously shorted the US housing market before its collapse in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the share prices of AI chipmaker Nvidia and software company Palantir will fall — making a similar play, in other words, on the prediction that the AI industry will collapse. According to… Continue reading The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops
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Amazon Demands That AI Browser Stop Automatically Shopping on Behalf of Users
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images With more money flowing into AI development than ever before, web browsers powered by autonomous “AI agents” are hitting the market like crazy. One of the most popular is Comet, offered by the startup Perplexity. Though Comet promises to organize your emails, summarize webpages, and automate… Continue reading Amazon Demands That AI Browser Stop Automatically Shopping on Behalf of Users
Don’t Panic, But AI Stocks Are Suddenly Lurching Downward
Getty / Futurism Investors are increasingly becoming concerned that AI companies may be grossly overvalued — and could struggle to justify their enormous hype by successfully ratcheting up profits. So it’s naturally alarming that shares of AI industry stalwarts, including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Amazon, fell sharply on Tuesday, following concerns over enormous valuations that… Continue reading Don’t Panic, But AI Stocks Are Suddenly Lurching Downward
Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds “Larger Than Football Fields” Goes Viral
AI-Generated Image The Caribbean just suffered one of the largest Hurricanes in recorded history. The scale of Melissa — which bombarded Jamaica, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic with sustained winds of 185 mph — is unprecedented, which is makes it all the more bizarre to see fake AI-generated images of the storm go viral. While… Continue reading Experts Alarmed as AI Image of Hurricane Melissa Featuring Birds “Larger Than Football Fields” Goes Viral
Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Tristar Media / WireImage ; Getty Images Despite his fixation on “making life multiplanetary” and “expanding consciousness to the stars,” Elon Musk still occasionally expresses concern about humans on planet Earth. Which is why he wants to block out the Sun, of course. On Monday, Musk took to… Continue reading Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites
Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots
Stanislav Kogiku / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images Elon Musk’s Optimus Robots are currently Looney Tunes slapstick disasters. But there’s a massive effort behind the scenes to make sure they don’t stay clumsy clankers forever. Enter Tesla’s secret lab at its engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, California, where according to a new scoop… Continue reading Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots
Character.AI Users in Full Meltdown After Minors Banned From Chats
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins. Source: Getty Images Last week, the embattled chatbot platform Character.AI said that it would move to ban minors from conversing with its many thousands of AI companion and roleplay bots. Site users, including self-avowed minors and adults alike, have a lot of thoughts. The policy change, announced last week, comes as… Continue reading Character.AI Users in Full Meltdown After Minors Banned From Chats
Studio Ghibli Demands That OpenAI Stop Ripping Off Its Work
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP via Getty Images After Sora 2 was used to relentlessly churn out depictions of Japanese anime and video game characters, the creators of those characters are striking back. On October 28, a group representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and other major Japanese… Continue reading Studio Ghibli Demands That OpenAI Stop Ripping Off Its Work
Fox News Falls for Racist AI-Generated Videos, Runs Completely False Story That Has to Be Updated With Gigantic Correction
Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients. Last week, shared we reported on a huge wave of AI-generated slop videos pedaling misinformation about people who receive Supplemental Nutritional Assistant Program, otherwise known as SNAP or food stamps. One of the… Continue reading Fox News Falls for Racist AI-Generated Videos, Runs Completely False Story That Has to Be Updated With Gigantic Correction
OpenAI’s Browser Avoids Large Part of the Web Like the Plague
Getty / Futurism OpenAI unveiled its AI browser Atlas last month, effectively building a web browsing interface around its blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT. The browser’s “agent mode” has caught most of the attention so far. The feature can navigate the web on behalf of the user, like a human, to carry out tasks like research or… Continue reading OpenAI’s Browser Avoids Large Part of the Web Like the Plague