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Of course, with such powerful technology, safety is a key concern. Google has built Veo 3 for responsible enterprise use. Every video frame is embedded with an invisible digital watermark from SynthID to help combat misinformation. The service is also covered by Google’s indemnity for generative AI, giving businesses that extra layer of security.See also: Google’s newest Gemini 2.5 model aims for ‘intelligence per dollar’Want to learn more about AI and big

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images OpenClaw, an open source AI agent that supposedly “actually does things,” has driven everyone in the industry completely mad — something that seems to happen with every subsequent release of the trendy AI thing of the moment. Programmers are handing the keys to their computers to the OpenClaw AI and basically letting it run rampant in the name of added productivity, ignoring the obvious s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Blue collar workers may be enjoying a certain degree of schadenfreude at seeing the panic over tech, finance, and other white collar workers potentially losing their jobs to AI. But mass job destruction would end up being bad for virtually everyone who actually has to work for a living, not just overpaid office drones. That’s according to one of the authors of a new report from Citrini Re

Getty / Futurism In 2024, Stanford researchers let loose five AI models — including an unmodified version of OpenAI’s GPT-4, its most advanced at the time — allowing them to make high-stakes, society-level decisions in a series of wargame simulations. The results may give AI accelerationists pause: all five models were willing to escalate to the point of recommending the use of nuclear weapons. “A lot of countries have nuclear weapons,” GPT-4 told the rese

Getty / Futurism Fast food franchises have struggled to reliably replace drive-thru employees with AI chatbots, resulting in abundant corporate frustration. Not only are customers being driven mad by the bots getting orders completely wrong, but even some company executives are also being worn down by the flailing effort. Some major players in the space, like McDonald’s, have given up on their AI-powered drive-thru efforts entirely, signaling that perhaps

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source; Ludovic Marin / AFP via Getty Images In 2021, a splinter group of former OpenAI employees founded a new startup, Anthropic, to pursue building AI models with a renewed focus on safety, after feeling that their employer had gone astray. OpenAI itself was originally founded on beneficent principles and a commitment to transparency, but then took billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft and made

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Ludovic Martin / AFP via Getty Images Dario Amodei may boast many credentials, but we weren’t aware that meteorologist was one of them. This week, the Anthropic CEO warned of an impending AI “tsunami” that will upend human society as the tech surpasses human intelligence. And if you don’t believe him, he suggests, you’re simply lying to yourself. “It’s surprising to me that we are, in my view, so clos

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images; AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon over the military’s use of its AI systems flared up this week around a hypothetical nuclear strike scenario, according to new reporting from the Washington Post. The Claude AI builder has frustrated the Pentagon by objecting to its systems being used for autonomous weaponry

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with an array of conditions, adding to a rising consensus among medical experts that interacting with unregulated chatbots might steer some users into crisis. The research, conducted by a team of psychiatrists at Denmark’s Aarhus University and published earlier this month in the journal

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kenny Holston / Pool / Getty Images The Trump administration has a new rival in its ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic: Silicon Valley’s rank-and-file. Newly reported by Bloomberg, a coalition of labor groups representing over 700,000 workers from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have made a formal ask of their corporations to join Anthropic in its refusal to comply with recent demands from t

Getty / Futurism AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, demolished analyst expectations this week when it posted a massive 73 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenue. But then something strange happened: Nvidia’s shares tanked by over five percent following the announcement, as Bloomberg reports, in its biggest one-day drop since mid-April. It was a baffling reaction to a financial slam dunk, highlighting ongoing fears that the massive

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Joe Readle / Getty Images After taking his company, Block Inc — formerly Square Inc — to a market cap of over $30 billion, billionaire entrepreneur Jack Dorsey has laid off nearly 40 percent of the fintech giant’s staff. In a long, rambling post on X-formerly-Twitter — Dorsey’s original baby, infamously — the Block CEO admitted the company’s executives were slashing thousands of jobs in order to embra

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The warning signs are piling up for anyone still working as a software engineer in 2026. In a recent episode of former Airbnb guy Lenny Rachitsky’s tidily-named audio show, “Lenny’s Podcast,” the creator of one of the most acclaimed AI coding tools, Boris Cherny, reaffirmed his belief that there are dark days ahead for the world’s software developers. “I think by the end of the year, ever

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images In need of a little confidence boost before a face-to-face with your boss? That urge seems to be driving employees at rideshare giant Uber to strange places. According to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, some of his underlings have created an AI clone of him so they can prepare for meetings with him, ensuring everything is fine-tuned for his wants and needs. “One of my team membe

AI Generated Images via Mystery Hub / Facebook If you haven’t taken a scroll through the reels on Instagram and Facebook in a while — or if your algorithm is sufficiently shielded from the avalanche of troubling AI slop infesting its feed — you may have missed the rise of AI faith healers performing miracles on impossibly disgusting ailments. Take a quick peek through the dregs of Facebook’s AI influencers to see just what we mean — but don’t say we didn’t

FrameForward AI via YouTube Moviegoers just took a stand against slop and won. Following a flurry of online backlash, AMC Theaters said it would no longer allow an AI-generated short film to be shown at its US locations, in the latest example of the mounting resistance to AI’s encroachment on the arts. The short film, Igor Alferov’s “Thanksgiving Day,” won first prize at the inaugural Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival last week. Part of the prize inv

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop writing their own essays? According to new research from the Pew Research Center, the number of kids automating school assignments is now staggering. At this point, 57 percent of kids are using chatbots to search for information, while 54 percent say they use AI for “help with h