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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: I-Hwa Cheng / AFP via Getty Images While gamers beg for cheaper GPUs, and consumers at large yearn for affordable devices amid constant chip shortages, Nvidia is giving the people what they really want: laptops primarily designed for running AI agents. On Monday, CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a new family of consumer PC chips, called the RTX Spark, designed for handling intense AI workloads. It’s a CPU an

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kristina Bumphrey / Variety via Getty Images; Shutterstock The film community is in meltdown after acclaimed director Martin Scorsese promoted a new AI startup called Black Forest Labs, saying that he’s already using its tech to help plan his movies. Scorsese revealed this collaboration in a statement to The New York Times on Tuesday, which was accompanied by the release of a new promotional video fro

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it’s in their best interests to keep the question as open-ended as possible. Now, the Financial Times reports that three of the industry’s top dogs — Anthropic, Google’s AI lab DeepMind, and Meta — have all hired experts in fields like psychology, philosophy

via Wikimedia Commons At first, it felt a bit like Emmy-winning writer director Jorge Gutierrez had been living under a rock. On May 27, Amazon announced that it had ordered an animated series, dubbed “Punky Duck,” as part of its GenAI Creators’ Fund, celebrating it as a “creative breakthrough.” The fund, a collaboration between Amazon’s MGM Studios and its Amazon Web Services, was designed to hand creators “access to professional-grade AI tools and fundin

Illustration featuring a photograph of Sam Altman set against a purple and yellow background. Florida has become the first state in the union to sue ChatGPT producer OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. In a landmark lawsuit filed by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier, the state accused the entity and its chief executive of putting revenue over safety in order to grab market share with a product even though it knew it could harm users. First reported by NB

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Some copywriter at Microsoft is getting a real stern talking to. In an internal document obtained by 404 Media, the tech giant let slip that it wants to “make people addicted” to its new personal assistant AI agent, Scout — an alarming admission, given that AI companies have tirelessly fought against the criticism that they design their models to be as engaging as possible, to the point o

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael Siluk / UCG / Universal Images Group via Getty Images Do you oppose data centers being built in your town? Well then you’re a lowly “unkempt” rube, in the eyes of Shelbyville, Indiana mayor and aspiring aristocrat Scott Furgeson. In a video seemingly recorded without his knowledge, Furgeson, a Republican, fumes against the “No Data Centers” signs popping up across town, before making a cartoon

ESPN The first game of the 2026 NBA finals was everything fans could want out of playoff basketball. The New York Knicks overcame an early 14-point deficit to bring themselves within spitting distance of the San Antonio Spurs by the third period, the orange and blue squad only pulling ahead in the final minutes. Courtside fans, unable to contain themselves, stormed the hardwood to take selfies with the stars in pure playoff ecstasy. For those watching at h

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A silent war is playing out across rural America. Residents are packing themselves into local county meetings in incredible numbers and calling on their representatives to oppose gargantuan data center projects, developments that could cause electricity prices to spike, drain water supplies, and generate copious amounts of noise. Farmers are being hailed as heroes for rejecting millions o

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock Not even Google’s own workforce seems all that enthusiastic about AI. Internal messages obtained by 404 Media show employees ruthlessly mocking AI tools — including the company’s own internal AI coding tool, Jetski — complaining that they’re unreliable and make their jobs harder. It’s clear who these jokes are being aimed at. CEO Sundar Pichai has made

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary wants to build a menacingly large data center facility near the Great Salt Lake in Utah that would be over twice the size of Manhattan. But his plans for the “Stratos Hyperscale Data Center” has got locals outraged and spooked. And despite his earlier defiance that he would never downsize his project, O’Leary is now

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: David Dee Delgado / Getty Images for The New York Times Anthropic is calling for a global “pause” on AI development, claiming that the technology is nearing a point where it can spiral out of human control. In a lengthy blog post published Thursday, the world’s most valuable AI startup made the case that its Claude family of models were on the path to achieving “recursive self-improvement,” or the abi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Tilly Norwood The New York Times is getting torn apart by readers after its magazine published a “profile” of the AI “actress” Tilly Norwood. “I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood,” the article headline reads. The sub-headline builds on this anthropomorphizing framework: “The AI actress on her craft, the future of film and how she definitely does not intend to murd

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Earlier this year, a 23-year-old without any formal mathematics training made headlines by claiming he’d used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to solve one of the “Erdős problems” — a database of challenging conjectures left behind by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. Then, last month, scholars were taken aback when OpenAI claimed its AI had disproved an 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture, also dev

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Good news for sports broadcasters and fans who’d prefer their play-by-plays to have that human-touch: AI doesn’t know ball. A new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northeastern University found that top AI models are horrible at analyzing professional sports. The yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study sought to analyze how capable the most popular AI model

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI data centers will consume as much water as the water needs of 1.3 billion people by 2030, according to a new report from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. The report, released this week, found that the environmental cost of AI is being “systematically mismeasured” because current assessments focus on the carbon emissions from training large lang

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images; Shutterstock It’s a desperate time for tech companies trying to assert dominance in the AI boom. Back in April, we found out that nearly half of the data centers that were supposed to open this year had been cancelled or significantly delayed — putting a bottleneck on an industry which will live or die by its ability to access AI chips. The situation has grown so fran

Shutterstock / Futurism The United States Soccer Federation is hoping to recruit players from across the world by using AI to scan video footage of tens of millions of young athletes, joining some college athletic programs that are infusing AI into their recruiting process. At a Fortune event in Scottsdale, Arizona, this week, US Soccer Federation COO Dan Helfrich — formerly the CEO of the consulting giant Deloitte — declared that AI-assisted scouting repr

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses — and top Meta executives are fuming. Last week, Wired reported that Meta discreetly moved to infuse facial recognition tech into its popular smart glasses, as evidenced by a piece of code discovered in the Meta AI app by the magazine’s journal

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The company behind an “AI gun detection” system is being sued by the survivor of a Tennessee high school shooting after it failed to detect the handgun used by the shooter. The lawsuit, filed last month and spotted by Ars Technica, targets Omnilert, which designed and marketed the AI weapon detection system, and System Integrations, the company that installed and maintained it. It was fil