Image by Getty / Futurism It’s a common refrain these days that some specific invention was a mistake, in our age of seemingly every human innovation blowing up catastrophically in our faces. And what better subject of our collective remorse than the advent of the entire internet, the glorious information superhighway now turned AI slop… Continue reading Nearly Half of Young People Wish the Internet Had Never Been Invented
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Something Weird Is Going on With the Investors in Jony Ive’s Startup That Was Just Bought by OpenAI
Back in December, Swedish tech entrepreneur Sebastian Siemiatkowski — the guy behind Klarna, the infamous burrito financing app — directed his family investment company to dump $5 billion into AI startups. The investment made up a “mini portfolio” of four “prominent US-based AI companies,” a press release said at the time. Those were software engineer… Continue reading Something Weird Is Going on With the Investors in Jony Ive’s Startup That Was Just Bought by OpenAI
New Olympics-Style Games Will Let Contestants Dope Up on as Many Steroids and Drugs as They Want
Image by Getty / Futurism A new Olympics-style sporting event invites athletes to get as doped up on as many drugs as they want to compete. The so-called Enhanced Games, which are set to kick off exactly a year from now at Resorts World on the Las Vegas Strip, will see roided-up weightlifters, swimmers, and… Continue reading New Olympics-Style Games Will Let Contestants Dope Up on as Many Steroids and Drugs as They Want
Something Wild Happens If AI Looks Through Your Emails and Discovers You’re Having an Affair
When testing out its latest artificial intelligence model, researchers at Anthropic discovered something very odd: that the AI was ready and willing to take extreme action, right up to coersion, when threatened with being shut down. As Anthropic detailed in a white paper about the testing for one of its latest models, Claude Opus 4, the… Continue reading Something Wild Happens If AI Looks Through Your Emails and Discovers You’re Having an Affair
Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger’s dream
Cursed AI-generated videos come with very convincing audio now. Cursed AI-generated videos come with very convincing audio now. Allison Johnson is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Even at first glance, there’s something off about… Continue reading Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator is a slop monger’s dream
BougeRV water heater review: hot showers to go
A luxurious battery-powered shower for you, the dog, and those dirty dishes. Thomas Ricker is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years. Hot water is like internet connectivity for most Verge readers: you just expect… Continue reading BougeRV water heater review: hot showers to go
Clean Technica: Tesla Model Y & Model 3 Still 1st & 3rd Best Selling Cars in California004036
Despite a horrendous year-over-year sales decline globally in the first quarter, including in California, Tesla’s two mass-market models topped the automobile sales charts in California in the 1st quarter. Well, instead of taking first and second place, as they had previously, they took first and third. Close enough. The Tesla Model Y was the best… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Model Y & Model 3 Still 1st & 3rd Best Selling Cars in California004036
Clean Technica: Signs Tesla Does Indeed Have Demand Challenges004035
Last Updated on: 23rd May 2025, 03:37 pm Elon Musk said this week that there are no consumer demand concerns at Tesla*. However, he also said last year that they’d have sales growth in 2024, and it ended up they had a sales decline. He also said that Tesla would grow 50% a year on… Continue reading Clean Technica: Signs Tesla Does Indeed Have Demand Challenges004035
Nvidia Is Facing Nasty Allegations
The world’s largest manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs) is facing allegations of review manipulation — and the claims being made are pretty egregious. According to the GamersNexus blog and others within the PC gaming review industry, Nvidia has allegedly been trading access to its new GeForce RTX 5060 GPU for friendly reviews. Those who haven’t… Continue reading Nvidia Is Facing Nasty Allegations
Elon Musk Responds to News of How He Was Humiliated
Elon Musk is having a mini-meltdown on his website after The Atlantic published a damning dive into his time at the White House, leading with a mortifying description of how he was humiliated by one of his superiors. Responding Wednesday to a tweet dissing the magazine, Musk wrote, under his newly re-adopted display name “Kekius Maximus”… Continue reading Elon Musk Responds to News of How He Was Humiliated