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OpenAI OpenAI unceremoniously killed off its text-to-video AI app Sora last month, bringing an abrupt end to months of brain-melting AI slop. Even what was supposed to be a groundbreaking $1 billion deal with Disney was caught in the crossfire. And as the Wall Street Journal reports, it wasn’t the massive bills or the legal liabilities arising from rampant copyright infringement that inspired it to kill the app. Instead, the company was desperately looking

Getty / Futurism AI company Anthropic suffered a massive leak of the source code to its Claude Code AI assistant earlier this week, triggering a panicked game of cat and mouse as company representatives sent out copyright takedown requests targeting thousands of copies of its pilfered work. The code allowed tinkerers to reverse engineer aspects of the blockbuster chatbot, highlighting concerns that the leak could give Anthropic’s competitors a major leg up

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Meme wisdom holds that modern problems require modern solutions, but what peddlers of this internet adage failed to consider is that an antiquated and possibly impractical approach could be loads more fun. We present Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University who’s rebelling against a world gone mad with AI fever and pervasive brainrot by compelling students

Getty / Futurism Just weeks after the largest nurses strike in New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses X-rays. At a panel held by Crain’s New York Business, Mitchell Katz, president and CEO of New York’s 11-hospital public benefit corporation, made overt gestures of his desire to replace highly trained radiology experts with visual language AI models,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Gary Hershorn / Getty Images Big box chains have proudly embraced artificial intelligence — but don’t expect them to help when their AI assistants charge your card for hallucinated garbage. That trend, in which retail giants force their AI initiatives on consumers while distancing themselves from its failures, is growing. While that attitude certainly isn’t unique to big box stores, it’s increasingly

Getty / Futurism The Cyberspace Administration of China is cracking down on “digital humans,” with incoming regulations that will soon require labeling of AI personalities and ban programs that could harm children or lead to addiction. Those draft regulations, first reported in English by Reuters, would force AI companies to affix prominent “digital human” labels on content featuring AI generated characters. They’d also restrict companies that provide “vir

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Joan Cros / NurPhoto via Getty Images Privacy nightmares. Pervert glasses. These are some of the not-so-flattering ways detractors describe Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses. Now, we’re nominating another hellish descriptor into that list: dysmorphia accelerator. On Friday, Meta announced a host of new features for the smart spectacles that include the ability to track and give advice on everything a wearer e

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Few fears have taken hold of the public imagination quite like the specter of AI-driven unemployment. A recent survey by the think tank Data for Progress found that a majority of US voters think AI is likely to increase unemployment rates, a scenario that often feels like it’s playing out in the horrid job market. It makes a compelling narrative. Yet in a recent article published in Fortu

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images If you’re running a frontier AI company, now’s not the time to rest on your laurels. The stakes could hardly be higher: whichever corporation manages to outmaneuver its rivals stands to capture not just enormous wealth, but significant political influence over what we’re told is one of the most consequential technologies in human history. As some child safety advocates r

Marvel Studios spent significant time at its last two major conventions teasing fans about some exciting returns. Starting at San Diego Comic-Con in July, Ryan Reynolds showed up dressed as Deadpool and asked to be in Avengers: Doomsday. Then, at D23 in August, Hugh Jackman filmed a video where he did the same for Wolverine. We still don’t know for sure whether Deadpool and Wolverine are in the movie, but we are sure the actors had a significant hand in it

Few stories in the history of literature have been adapted more than Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Originally published almost 200 years ago, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge learning the meaning of Christmas after being visited by three different ghosts has been made, remade, and made again. Truly, there are movies out there you may not even realize are A Christmas Carol that are actually A Christmas Carol. This weekend, a new version hits theaters: Eb

After mega hits like Inside Out 2 and Toy Story 5, and with Coco 2 and Incredibles 3 on the way, it’s easy to forget that Pixar was founded on original ideas. Before those titles became name brands, each had a part one. And while the company’s upcoming original film hadn’t quite grabbed our attention just yet, the latest trailer changed that. Pixar’s next film is called Gatto, and it opens on March 5. That much we’ve known for a while, along with a few cut

As glaciers collapse, sea ice dwindles, and wildfire rages across permafrost regions, scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the state of Earth’s cryosphere. The planet’s frozen parts play a key role in regulating the climate, but in a warming world, they’re breaking down. A study published today in the journal Science brings this global crisis into sharp focus. Based on their findings, the authors conclude that the essential functions of the

Some of the fastest-growing and most-used apps in the United States aren’t games or utilities, but glorified payday loans in shiny, tech-friendly clothing. And, as a new piece in The Baffler points out, it’s in no small part due to the slew of freelancers and gig workers getting the rug pulled out from under them by the corporate world’s embrace of artificial intelligence. You have almost certainly seen advertisements for apps that offer you a small loan t