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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images If Elon Musk ever cuts the ribbon on his massive chip factory “Terafab,” it could be among the largest buildings on Earth — and one of the most expensive. Terafab, announced in a painfully awkward conference over the weekend, is a joint semiconductor venture between Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI companies. Should it ever come to be — we’re skeptical — the fact

Futurism It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s text-to-video AI app, Sora, to melt down into outrageous drama. Almost immediately after the company rolled out the flashy smartphone app in early October, it became ground zero for photorealistic videos of people shoplifting, flagrantly copyright-infringing footage of SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth, and mocking clips of deceased celebrities. Less than five months on, OpenAI is looking to rid itself of the “

Getty / Futurism The tech industry is roiling from sweeping layoffs affecting tens of thousands of workers. Executives are citing AI as the reason for the deep cuts, in contentious claims undermined by persistent shortcomings of the tech that continue to rear their ugly head. Instead of mass firing staffers, OpenAI — the company that kickstarted today’s corporate AI fever with the release of ChatGPT in 2022 — is looking to almost double its headcount as so

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Images The overwhelming backlash against Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 feature that uses AI to yassify video games has clearly rattled CEO Jensen Huang, who’s now insisting that he actually hates AI’s horrible and homogenous aesthetic as much as gamers do. “I think their perspective makes sense and I can see where they’re coming from, because I don’t love AI slop myself,” Huang

Disney / Futurism On Tuesday, news emerged that OpenAI was canning its chaotic and controversial text-to-video AI app, Sora. The app, which was announced to much fanfare late last year, has struggled to retain users, with downloads plummeting. The stream of uninspired AI slop wasn’t just and rife with copyright-infringing material— the costs to keep it running were also enormous, even for a company the size of OpenAI. In short, we can think of a litany of

Getty / Futurism It’s been a strange launch for RentAHuman, the job platform built for AI agents to hire human gig workers to complete real-world tasks. In its early days, the site was overrun with humans desperate to make a quick buck — while the AI agents that would ostensibly assign those jobs were nowhere to be found. Flash forward a few weeks, and the site seems to be filling out. Examples of seemingly successful AI-human pairings are now plastered on

Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s State-of-the-Union speech last month was notably light on education policy. While actively dismantling the US Department of Education and implementing shameful anti-trans policies at schools, the Trump administration has focused its efforts on AI education in what it frames as an attempt to ensure that young Americans have the “skills and understanding necessary to thrive in the AI-driven wor

Getty / Futurism The walls continue to close in on OpenAI. The company recently raised an additional $10 billion in funding, bringing its valuation one small step closer to $1 trillion. But actually making any money continues to be an enormous challenge for the ChatGPT maker. The company’s panicked executives have made it abundantly clear that distracting “side quests” must be abandoned, while doubling down on both enterprise and coding. The purported goal

Douyin / Lu In Disney’s beloved 1993 family film, “Homeward Bound,” a ragtag group of two dogs and a cat embark on a daring quest through the wildness of the Sierra Nevada mountains to return to their owners. The movie was a major success, tugging at the heartstrings of pet owners everywhere. Now, viral video footage of a group of dogs stranded on the side of a busy roadway in China has drawn plenty of comparisons to the story, showing a reminiscent group

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jon Putman / Anadolu via Getty Images Intermittent layoffs are the norm at Meta, but it’s now carrying them out as its shift towards building AI — and using it to attempt to speed up its own workforce — becomes more overt than ever. On Wednesday, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company fired around 700 employees, according to reports from The New York Times and The Information. That number is only a sliver of

Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images ; Futurism The odds that the New York Times and other major news outlets have published AI-generated articles — whether knowing it or not — seem very high indeed. Speculation abounded on this possibility earlier this week, centering on a “Modern Love” column published in the NYT last November. It was sparked when on X, Becky Tuch of Lit Mag News posted an excerpt of the piece with her controversial take: “this reads EXAC

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chance Yeh / Getty Images for HubSpot Months after a daring hunger strike failed to pause development of Anthropic’s AI Claude, protestors have rallied around the company’s headquarters to call for a complete stop to AI development. Last weekend, nearly 200 protestors with the organization Stop the AI Race demonstrated in front of Anthropic, demanding the company’s CEO, Dario Amodei, publicly commit t

Futurism OpenClaw agents, which are personal AI assistants designed to take over entire computers to carry out complex, multistep tasks, have blown up this year. The free and open-source agents quickly amassed a loyal following, allowing users to give AI control over their email inboxes, messaging platforms, and even crypto holdings. Despite the widespread enthusiasm, the tech comes with some enormous and hard-to-overlook security concerns. In a yet-to-be-

Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Tech giants Meta and Google-owned YouTube suffered a devastating legal blow yesterday after losing a landmark social media addiction trial, a watershed outcome that’s likely to reverberate across the social media industry — and shrapnel from that fallout could hit AI companies, too. In the case characterized by some as Big Tech’s “Big Tobacco moment,” a jury found that Meta and YouTube caused a young wo

Getty / Futurism As fears over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continue to grow, researchers are trying to get a better sense of which occupations will be most — and least — affected. Tech leaders continue to cite AI as the reason behind widespread layoffs, with economists warning that the changing dynamics could be devastating in the longer run. Now, researchers at Tufts University have released what they claim to be the “first-of-its-kind data-driven framew

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images As companies continue to burn through billions of dollars by running massively resource-hungry AI models — and only passing on a fraction of the costs to consumers and enterprise clients — the AI race shows no signs of slowing down. On Thursday, a data leak caused by a major security lapse in its public-facing content management system revealed that Anthropic is working on a powerful new model release. The company has since

Getty / Futurism The AI industry and its legions of AI bros are hellbent on force-feeding everyone AI slop. Most of us encounter these surreal monstrosities as an assault on our eyeballs: weird TikToks of humanoid animals living a white picket fence existence accidentally cannibalizing their young, for instance, or anthropomorphized food items sobbing before they’re boiled alive. But it can get way worse, an intrepid reporter found. Mia Mercado at The Cut

Getty / Futurism Far be it from tech writers to chart yield curves or forecast jobs data, but it doesn’t take a tenured econ professor to notice the sorry state of the financial world. Thanks to Trump’s disastrous invasion of Iran, gas has surged to $9 a gallon in some places, the Dow and Nasdaq have officially entered a correction, and Bloomberg TV anchors are actively weighing the possibility of a full-blown “recession” on the airwaves. If they’re right,

Getty / Futurism In a matter of only a few years, AI chatbots have become a common part of many of our daily lives, even though they remain deeply flawed systems. The reality is that chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude still make regular mistakes. According to an October study by the BBC, even the most advanced AI chatbots gave wrong answers a whopping 45 percent of the time. But many users don’t understand that reality.

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images Not even the most enduring symbol of New York city is safe from the AI onslaught. No, we’re not talking about the iconic pizza rat, or even the stable of mascots wandering Times Square like some kind of sad, brand-name purgatory. We’re talking about bodegas, the ubiquitous corner stores that first emerged in the 1950s as waves of Puerto Rican migrants began calling