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Loredana Sangiuliano / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images OpenAI has faced protests on and off for years. But after its CEO Sam Altman announced a new deal with the Department of Defense over how its AI systems would be deployed across the military on Friday, it’s being barraged with an intensity of backlash that the company has never seen. Droves of loyal ChatGPT users declared they were jumping shipping to Claude, whose maker Anthropic had pointe

Meta / Futurism Meta may have sold seven million of its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone — but likely didn’t anticipate the outpouring of criticism when a recent investigation by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten revealed that Meta’s subcontracted data annotators in Nairobi, Kenya, could’ve been watching users through their glasses’ cameras as they went to the bathroom or had sex. The damning revelations shed light on the AI indu

Stringer / Anadolu via Getty Images In the aftermath of airstrikes that leveled a school and claimed the lives of 165 Iranian elementary students and staff, the Pentagon has refused to say whether the attack was suggested by an AI system. The grotesque possibility isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds. According to bombshell reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon used Anthropic’s Claude AI model in planning military strikes on Iran over the weekend

Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seemed to be sticking to his guns as he insisted that his company’s AI models not be used by the military to conduct mass surveillance of US citizens or control killer drones without human intervention. The CEO lashed out in an internal memo last week, which was leaked to The Information, accusing fellow OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman of bending the knee, claiming that he had given preside

Ryan Lim / AFP via Getty Images Earlier this week, Iranian drones hit three Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, triggering global outages in online services. Experts believe the strikes were the first instance of American big tech companies being targeted in a military operation. The strikes caused “structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activi

Getty / Futurism The AI industry is no stranger to bad press, from fears over sweeping job losses to a burgeoning mental health crisis, suicide and even murder linked to the tech. But what’s really top of mind for AI tech leaders, according to new reporting by The Economist, is that their tech could soon be implicated in a Chernobyl-style event — referring to the 1986 catastrophe that’s now nearly synonymous with the failings of the nuclear industry. Exper

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s looking more and more like using AI to churn out work can take a considerable toll on your mental health, despite the tech’s promises of easing workloads. The latest research to illustrate this grim trend: a survey of nearly 1,500 full time US workers, which found that an alarming proportion of employees who constantly use AI at work to push their productivity past their normal capac

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism; Getty Images A new report from the US PIRG Education Fund suggests that leading AI companies are doing little to police how developers who pay for access to their AI models are using them. One consequence, the group warns, is that AI toymakers can ship products to children that are powered by AI models that are only intended for adults. PIRG’s previous research has demonstrated how combining children’s toys w

Getty / Futurism For about as long as the internet has existed, users have been able to speak their mind freely through pseudonymous accounts that protect them from being doxxed or stalked. But thanks to the advent of sophisticated AI, unmasking pseudonymous users on the internet has become ominously easy. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, a team of researchers at ETH Zurich and AI company Anthropic found that “large language models can be us

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Media workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews, which summarize articles and present them to users in one easy-to-read digest. But while users might be shaving precious seconds from their queries, online media publications are being roiled by the massive drop-off in clicks. That web traffic, SEO firm Growtika found, has dropped of

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina, creating 125 new jobs for workers throughout the area. Pharmaceutical giant Becton Dickinson is putting $110 million into a manufacturing expansion in Columbus, Nebraska — 120 jobs. A new automotive venture in Orangeburg, South Carolina is investing $120 million into a new

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought. Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ethicist was apparently moved after receiving an eloquently written dispatch from an AI agent responding to his published work. “I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my

Getty / Futurism The Barbra Streisand effect was in full swing after tech giant Microsoft attempted to clamp down on the word “Microslop” on a Discord channel dedicated to its AI chatbot Copilot over the weekend. The onslaught of mockery — characterized by a company spokesperson blaming the Microslop dustup on “spammers attempting to disrupt and overwhelm the space with harmful content not related to Copilot” — was too much, forcing Microsoft to shut down

tirimid via YouTube Last year, OpenAI cofounder and former exec Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding,” a new approach involving the rapid development of software by feeding an AI model a series of natural language prompts. But the popular approach comes with some glaring shortcomings, as evidenced in an entirely vibe-coded operating system, dubbed Vib-OS. The project, which is being hosted on GitHub, can be run on ARM64 and x86-based computers, fea

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michel Porro / Getty Images One senior figure at the Associated Press appears to have caught a terminal case of tech CEO brain. According to new reporting by Semafor, the news wire’s product manager for AI strategy Aimee Rinehart embraced her inner “Star Trek” villain by bluntly telling her stuck-in-the-past, pencil-pushing grunts that resistance to AI is “futile.” Reporters, not heeding her warning,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It’s 2026. AI is everywhere, and frankly, humans have had it too good for far too long. For the world’s corporations — the movers and shakers of the global economy, as it’s currently organized — it’s well past time to leave us flesh bags behind. That, at least, seems to be the contention of Daniel Miessler, an outspoken cybersecurity engineer and AI booster. In a rambling post on his pers

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Images Twitter co-founder and Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey ain’t your typical corporate suit. For one, he doesn’t always wear them. He brings up “world peace” when endorsing his favorite tech like crypto. Nobody really knows where he lives. He meditates frequently and sports a longish beard. He comes off as more New Age guru than CEO. So perhaps it was very on brand th

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who earn a wage for a living, it can be hard to stay positive in the wake of recent headlines. Jack Dorsey’s Block just cut 4,000 roles citing AI, which came on the heels of Amazon’s rolling layoffs, which sent some 16,000 office workers packing. Oracle, meanwhile, just announced it’s culling at least 20,000 workers from its ranks. In

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Tax season, that dreaded time of year, is upon us. But if you were hoping that newfangled AI tech could help you file the laborious paperwork — and perhaps find a way of saving you a few bucks — think again. After testing several four leading AI chatbots, the New York Times found that all of them struggled to pick and fill out the correct forms, fumbling key calculations. In all, the bots

Getty / Futurism While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an AI-triggered job apocalypse is nigh are coming to a boiling point. Last week, Twitter cofounder and Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he was firing 4,000 employees at his fintech company, informing investors that “intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company.” “A significantly smaller team, using the t