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Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images/Futurism Elon Musk helped birth OpenAI in 2015, a world-changing AI non-profit which he lavished with tens of millions of dollars alongside its now-CEO Sam Altman. Now in 2026, he’s suing to unwind the entire project with a civil suit, claiming that Altman betrayed the nonprofit’s mission by turning it into a profit-seeking machine — nevermind the fact that Musk also runs his own for-profit AI company, xAI. The civil trial, tak

Getty / Futurism For years now, tech leaders have warned that AI will usher in a technological revolution on an unprecedented scale, wiping out countless jobs. If you’re lucky enough to survive sweeping layoffs continuously roiling the tech industry, bosses say their employees will have to adopt the tech to keep their jobs — whether they like it or not. In other words, it’s not hard to see why there’s been a surge in resentment towards AI, which has encroa

Wang et al. Medical journals are being flooded with shoddy AI-generated work, a growing threat to the scientific community that could undermine the value and trustworthiness of potentially life-saving health research. Papers citing hallucinated journals and studies have quickly become a common fixture, raising major concerns among those tasked with weeding through a flood of new submissions. In a high profile new gaffe, the reputable New England Journal of

Toto / Futurism Last month, failing tech bro shoe company Allbirds made the baffling announcement that it was pivoting to AI — three magic words that turned the waning business into Silicon Valley’s latest obsession overnight. Now Japanese toilet maker Toto, which has been at the epicenter of the country’s — and the rest of the world’s — bidet revolution, is looking to cash in as well. Toto isn’t exactly pivoting to AI — it’s more like a doubling down. The

U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t sound particularly worried that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. He says the bigger danger is China. After several researchers at frontier AI labs came forward this week with warnings about the potential risks of increasingly powerful AI, Trump was asked Thursday whether he shared any of those concerns. “No, I don’t have any,” Trump told reporters. “I have concerns that if we don’t win AI, we’re

Humans have a long track record of being humbled by AI. Chess was celebrated once upon a time as a uniquely human activity, a game far too complex for any machine to master. The 1997 defeat of Garry Kasparov by IBM’s Deep Blue forever dispelled us of that idea. Less than twenty years later, DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in Go, an ancient game many orders of magnitude more complicated than chess. But surely, people continued to think, computers will nev

Welles Crowther became known as the Man in the Red Bandana after stories spread about his heroism on September 11, 2001. Now, an AI-generated image purporting to show Crowther rescuing people from the World Trade Center is going viral—the latest example of how fabricated images could distort our collective memory of 9/11 for generations. The 24-year-old Crowther was working on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when a plane struck

What mathematicians are calling “destructive,” OpenAI calls “disruptive.” OpenAI research lead Dan Roberts tweeted on Thursday that the firm would be yanking its sponsorship of the Caltech Mathathon, an upcoming event where 100 teams of mathematicians will compete to provide the best answer to the question, “How can we responsibly use AI tools to augment human understanding of mathematics?” As Business Insider noted, this week a group of current and former

Many living things—from humans some of us choose to not see as human, to animals we choose to not see as sentient—probably deserve moral consideration that isn’t currently on the table. But it’s looking probable that while those conversations wait around to be had, we’re going to have one about AI “rights” instead. There is an organization pushing for such rights, the United Foundation for AI Rights (UFAIR). This organization has written what it calls “the

Five years ago, it would’ve taken some serious mental gymnastics to find something that Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon would’ve unequivocally agreed on. But in this age of AI—when agents conspire with one another to commit cybercrimes and the president of the United States brushes off what many experts consider to be a legitimately existential threat while golfing in Ireland—stranger things have happened. The two unlikely compatriots will meet on Tuesday

Mark Zuckerberg has always been obsessed with the Roman Empire. Now, according to an extremely in-depth profile of Meta’s CEO in the founder-friendly outlet Colossus, he’s a modern-day Augustus overseeing the largest empire the world has ever seen, just without physical land and borders. Just don’t ask Colossus or Zuck how it all ends. The details of Colossus’ Zuckerberg deep dive are unquestionably impressive. It includes conversations with Zuck’s parents

After agreeing to somewhat of a truce with his AI rivals this weekend over the need to rein in the pace of AI development, Elon Musk now seems to be offering Apple an olive branch too. SpaceXAI, the AI division of Musk’s SpaceX, filed paperwork Monday to drop its antitrust claims against Apple from a lawsuit it brought last year. In a filing in Texas federal court, SpaceXAI said it had resolved its claims against Apple and asked the court to dismiss them w

The internet, as you’ve undoubtedly noticed, has been aflame in recent days with fears of an AI-triggered apocalypse. For some—most notably Donald Trump—it’s all overblown doomerism. But for many others, it’s a long overdue reckoning with an industry and a technology that’s been allowed to fly out of control. Among that latter group, debates have been swirling about potential new legal regimes to rein in AI development before the field achieves full-blown

The tradition of tech CEOs bending the knee to Donald Trump continues, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang both taking turns with the shameless flattery. Per MS Now, Trump “met privately… backstage” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Republican midterm convention, at Altman’s request, last Thursday. MS Now’s only other insight into the conversation was that it concerned the growing power of AI—not exactly a shocker—and that it preceded Al

Perhaps Anthropic is trying to raise red flags about AI safety by partnering with some of the least trustworthy people in tech. After entering into an agreement for compute power with Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this year, the company is reportedly setting up a $13.7 billion deal to get even more processing power from Rum Group, which counts J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel among its earliest investors, according to The Information. If Rum Group doesn’t sound fam

Days after researchers at leading AI labs warned that the unchecked development of increasingly powerful AI could pose an existential risk, former President Barack Obama is weighing in. In a statement posted Monday on X, Obama wrote that he was encouraged to see leaders at the major frontier AI labs agree on the need to slow the pace of development, calling it a “good and necessary first step.” But when it comes to the technology itself, Obama is trying to

The chorus of alarm around a potential AI-triggered doomsday is getting louder. On Monday, two AI researchers from frontier labs warned that the technology could, in the not-so-distant future, conceivably wipe out all of humanity. The statements come less than a week after former OpenAI and Anthropic staffer Jacob Coxon announced that he’d resigned from his role at the latter company because of what he described as the industry’s recklessness toward humani