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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Dia Dipasupil / FilmMagic; Jamie McCarthy / WireImage; Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a guest of dishonor at an after-Oscars bash last Sunday, after being viciously confronted about his company’s deal with the so-called Department of War, Page Six reports. The party, hosted by Vanity Fair, was attended by A-listers like Michael B. Jordan, Timothée Chalamet, and other celebrities including K

Getty / Futurism While the ability of AI tools to steam engine entire human occupations remains a subject of heated debate, a sobering reality is starting to settle in. Big tech companies are laying off workers in the thousands, with CEOs expecting the worst and predicting soaring employment rates among college graduates — while gleefully cutting costs at their companies and not looking back. Consequently, the subject of which jobs will be at the highest r

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images; NVIDIA via YouTube Think Nvidia’s new feature that slaps an AI filter onto your favorite games looks like garbage? Well, the company’s CEO Jensen Huang says you’re “completely wrong,” Tom’s Hardware reports. On Monday, the multitrillion dollar gaming hardware and AI chipmaker announced a new AI-powered software feature called DLSS 5, which immediately drew widespre

JoJoFunland via YouTube YouTube is rife with AI-generated “educational” videos targeting children, and many of the lessons they’re imparting — if there’s a discernible message at all — could be harming their development. Disturbing new reporting from The 74 and Mother Jones found numerous examples of AI-generated videos either peddling absolute nonsense or damaging lessons to their young intended audience. In one video that’s supposed to be a nursery rhyme

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you think it’s hard to find a job now, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott says just wait until AI really gets going. Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” panel, the AI software executive laid out an apocalyptic employment future for Gen Z in which nearly one in every three people will soon be unemployed. “I think it’s very natural to be concerned about jobs. I think young people coming

Mutual success has only heightened tensions between Microsoft and OpenAI, whose partnership helped kickstart the AI boom. Now, the Financial Times reports the latest escalation between the two heavyweights: Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI. The drama is a bit of a corporate love triangle, and concerns a $50 billion deal to offer OpenAI’s new product, Frontier, on Amazon Web Services, the e-commerce giant’s cloud computing platform. Microsoft believes

Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism Writers are often cautioned not to hit readers over the head with the dictionary. But what if it’s the dictionary that’s throwing blows? On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster struck back against the large language models plundering its tomes of knowledge and sued OpenAI for allegedly using its copyrighted reference materials to train its AI models “at massive scale,” after filing a similar suit

Getty / Futurism The tremendous hype surrounding AI coding shows no signs of dying down. Last month, Anthropic released a suite of industry-specific plug-ins for its Claude Cowork AI agent, panicking investors over fears that traditional enterprise software-as-a-service companies could soon be made obsolete. The announcement triggered a trillion-dollar sell-off, with many tech companies seeing sharp declines in their share prices. It even seemed to jolt Sa

Getty / Futurism An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional spirals found that the bots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs. The study was led by Stanford University AI researcher Jared Moore, who last year published a study showing that chatbots specifically claiming to offer “therapy” frequently engaged in inappropriate and hazardous ways with simulated user

Hachette A prominent publisher is pulling a horror novel after the author was widely accused of using AI to help write the book, The New York Times reports. Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishing houses in the US, said it will discontinue selling “Shy Girl” by Mia Ballard in the UK, where it was released last fall and sold 1,800 print copies, per data cited in the reporting. It will also cancel plans to publish a US edition, which was slated to

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If teachers thought rampant cheating was the worst way AI would impact their livelihoods, we’ve got some bad news. On social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, Wired reports, teenagers are using AI to create videos that ruthlessly mock their school’s faculty, sometimes even attacking their reputation, with one video flippantly labeling a teacher a “predator.” The “slander pages” t

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Sam Barnes / Sportsfile for Web Summit Qatar via Getty Images Steven Bartlett, the host of the podcast “The Diary of a CEO,” apparently takes a vibes-based approach to recruitment, and loves it when potential new hires say they use AI to actually do their jobs. According to Isaac Martin, the director of innovation at Bartlett’s media brand Flight Story, Bartlett now prioritizes hiring people who can “

Getty Images / Ed Mulholland / Zuffa LLC A rogue AI agent caused a critical security incident at Meta which exposed sensitive users data to people who didn’t have proper authorization, according to reporting from The Information and The Verge, in the latest illustration of the safety pitfalls endemic to AI systems. The blunder occurred last week when a software engineer used an in-house AI agent to break down a technical question posed by another employee

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Researchers, teachers, and mental health professionals alike have spent the past few years reeling as teens and young adults exported their brains to AI chatbots — so it should come as no surprise they’re now using the tech as a crutch to sidestep hard conversations they don’t want to have. New reporting by CNN details the troubling rise of young people using AI models like ChatGPT to ste

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images We’re all feeling a little anxious about AI imploding the job market. And that “we,” apparently, also extends to AI models. In a new Vanity Fair piece exploring the promises, anxieties, and cultish behavior pulsing through the AI industry, journalist Joe Hagan recalled an amusing conversation he had with “Tobey.” After a heavy week of talking about what the future holds with p(doom) obses

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As Microsoft has aggressively pushed its Copilot AI, it’s logged more than a few high-profile errors. Copilot has been found hallucinating police reports, exposing secure passwords, and digesting confidential emails — prompting security fears as its use in corporate and government settings becomes more common. Dennis Xu, a research analyst at the firm Gartner, went as far as to suggest th

Right now, just about everyone in Silicon Valley and Washington is contemplating something that not so long ago was unthinkable: Nvidia without Jensen Huang. Huang will be remembered in many ways: as an innovator, a savvy and sometimes cutthroat entrepreneur, a charismatic leader, a political confidante—and now, as a philanderer and disgraced ex-CEO who may very well have jeopardized national security while being honeypotted by a suspected Chinese spy. His

Victims of the biggest reported crypto theft in history can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Binance announced Thursday that it has finished replacing all the cryptocurrency stolen in last month’s massive hack. The world’s largest crypto exchange said it committed more than $6.34 billion in company funds to cover the losses from the October 29 attack. Over the past two weeks, Binance has been buying replacement tokens through regular markets and over-the-