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Everything about ChatGPT view more Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more ChatGPT and Claude have placed an old philosophical question at the center of the technology industry: could machines have experiences, feelings, or consciousness? According to the magazine The Economist, AI companies have already started taking this possibility seriously. The reason goes beyond curiosity. If an AI is capable of experiencing suffering or other sensations,

Long serial chains of cognition must pass through the chain of thought. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.11473 Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and a coalition of companies and nonprofit groups have come together to call for more to

One of the biggest PR challenges currently facing Silicon Valley is the sizable ecological impact of building new AI systems; just this morning, the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft has inked a new deal with Chevron to build a sprawling new data center in West Texas powered by natural gas. Now, Nvidia is claiming to have effectively removed at least one major component of the AI industry’s environmental footprint: its dependency on local water s

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Earlier this month, data analyzed by Deutsche Bank showed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT revenue was starting to plateau in Europe, suggesting that enthusiasm for the AI chatbot app to beat may be waning. That’s despite the industry’s sky-high promises of delivering a technological revolution, as astronomical amounts of money continue to be poured into building out AI infrastructure. Now it appears that a similar story may be playing out el

The DSA has struck again, and corporations are trembling. No, not the Mamdani DSA, the other DSA, the EU’s Digital Services Act, Europe’s legal framework for regulating the tech industry, which is also arguably the entire world’s de facto legal framework for regulating the tech industry. The targets today: Roblox, the gaming sandbox and online space where kids can interact, and where, perhaps too often, adults can interact with kids, along with ChatGPT, th

An average of 8 minutes is all hackers need to log in with stolen credentials Attackers used stolen credentials to log in an average of eight minutes after infection across 27 confirmed infostealer cases, according to a report from Elastic Security Threat Command. Researchers also documented misuse of AI applications to execute commands and digitally signed remote monitoring tools to maintain access. “An agent that holds credentials and can reach the inter

Getty / Futurism 32-year-old Anthony Duncan first used ChatGPT to help with the business side of his career as a content creation. But he soon ended up talking to the OpenAI chatbot like a friend on a daily basis. What started as a harmless way to vent soon drove Duncan to blow up his personal relationships as he became afflicted with troubling delusions, he recalled in a TikTok video detailing his experience — upending his mental health and causing a spra

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images While AI companies continue to command the global economy and pour billions of dollars into building data centers, it’s still not even clear that their products can deliver on one of their core premises: increasing productivity. One big skeptic of the tech’s economic promises is vice president and principal analyst at the global market analytics firm JP Gownder, who says we’re simply “not

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images In a memo sent out to staff last month, OpenAI CEO issued a “code red” urging employees to double down on improving the company’s flagship product ChatGPT, as financial pressure loomed and competitors gained ground. The company continues to frantically chase some much-needed revenue. Despite Altman calling ads a “last resort for us as a business model” in 2024, the company announced earlier this month that ChatGPT will soon sta

Getty / Futurism Along with being used to generate nonconsensual sexual images of women and girls, spread racist rhetoric, and doxx the home addresses of both celebrities and non-public figures, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is struggling to get a grip on reality. The mercurial billionaire’s social media platform X, which was folded into his AI startup xAI last year — and subsequently acquired by SpaceX this week — has once again been thrust into the center

Published on February 25, 2026 at 10:39 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Geralt - Pixabay. A catastrophic essay on AI sparked panic among investors. The dystopian essay imagines a future in which artificial intelligence has caused a recession, marked by a surge in unemployment, cascading layoffs, and a housing crisis. This nightmare scenario reflects the very real fears of investors facing an AI that promises to change everything. On Sunday, February 22, 2026, Citrin