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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Jon Putman / Anadolu via Getty Images Now that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a metaverse has collapsed in on itself, the billionaire has moved onto his next money pit: a wildly expensive “Superintelligence” unit. But those who’ve survived several brutal rounds of layoffs at the company aren’t exactly thrilled to be part of his new vision for it. As Wired reports, morale within Meta’s 6,500-staff

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock The era of AI maximalism is grinding to a halt. It was only months ago that CEOs were forcing employees to use AI as much as possible for tasks like coding. But at some point during their AI binge, the big wigs stopped to check their tab, and are now having second thoughts. Their employees are hooked on AI coding tools, but the costs of using them are spiraling out of control. How busines

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Marek Antoni Iwanczuk / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images; Shutterstock As anger at the tech industry boils over, college students across the United States are using their graduation ceremonies as a forum to voice their discontent. At Stanford University’s commencement over the weekend, hundreds of students staged a walk-out ahead of a graduation speech by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The walkou

Chris Graythen / Getty Images; Futurism Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Employees have been roiling from multiple rounds of major layoffs. Last month alone, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company laid off a whopping 8,000 workers, roughly ten percent of its workforce, as part of its chaotic refocusing efforts around AI. Many of those who remain are now forced to perform the grunt work to train AI models, weekly busywork that’s already driving some o

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty / Shutterstock The so-called “AI race” is a tale of two polar extremes. On one end is the Silicon Valley model, where powerful, resource-heavy AI development wreaks havoc on the population, driven by what is arguably the most powerful corporate power consolidation to ever exist. Across the Pacific it’s another story, where intense competition and people-centric AI regulation mean that today’s to

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Shutterstock OpenAI burned through a staggering amount of money in 2025. According to audited financial figures obtained by AI skeptic Ed Zitron, who shared them with The Financial Times, the net loss attributed to the ChatGPT maker soared from $5 billion in 2024 to a stunning $39 billion in 2025. You can relitigate the numbers all day — a source familiar with situatio

Stefan Puchner / picture alliance via Getty Images In the early days of the US and Israeli war on Iran, situation monitors were abuzz at the revelation that the Pentagon had used top large language models to identify targets for annihilation via air strikes. Those targets included civilian buildings like Tehran’s Azadi Sport Complex, a historic stadium which once hosted World Cup matches, and the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school, in a bombing that killed at

Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images AI has wormed its way into every crevice of the 2026 World Cup. It’s dreaming up sloppified soccer jerseys, collating thousands of on-field data points, and even guarding venues in the form of robot surveillance dogs that presumably can’t be bribed with sausage. Yet for all its busywork, AI remains blissfully ignorant on the one metric that matters: who wins and who loses. During what must have been a sl

Shutterstock / Futurism If you Google “SCP-565” — an iconic entry in the collaborative fan fiction universe known as the “SCP Foundation” — the company’s AI Overviews describes the nonexistent entity as though it were entirely real, without a single acknowledgement that it’s a piece of online horror fiction. “SCP-565 (also known as ‘Ed’s Head’) is an anomalous, ambulatory human head that behaves like a coral crab (Carpilius convexus),” the AI feature blovi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images An angry customer is suing Anthropic on behalf of all users of its priciest subscription tiers. In a federal lawsuit filed Monday, Karl Kahn accuses the Claude AI maker of misleading customers about the usage limits on its “Max 5x” and “Max 20x” plans and is seeking reimbursement, The Wall Street Journal reports, in a sign of the pushback Anthropic, and other AI labs, are receiving over t

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Law enforcement agencies across the world have rushed to integrate AI into their investigations, promising faster arrests and higher case closure rates. The rising number of wrongful arrests attributed to AI facial recognition systems, however, tells another story: that speed and accuracy are two entirely different things. But while false arrests due to facial recognition software can eas

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock AI is revolutionizing cyberattacks, as advancements in the tech allow bad actors to find and exploit unknown vulnerabilities in software across the web. If there were ever a time to shore up your security habits — or maybe just nuke your entire digital history — it’s now. A pair of terrifying stories dropped this week highlighting exactly how vulnerable all of us are right now. One, publi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Winni Wintermeyer for The Washington Post via Getty Images; Shutterstock OpenAI, a company currently fighting more than a dozen consumer safety and wrongful death lawsuits, just hired Noam Shazeer — a cofounder of the notorious AI companion startup Character.AI, which has settled a pile of lawsuits over teen suicides linked to its chatbots and weathered an almost comical number of other controversies

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Instacart / Shutterstock Whether you’re dodging Flock cameras on the freeway, ever-listening smartphones in your pocket, or AI bots at the drive-thru, it’s nearly impossible to avoid some type of AI-integrated device these days. Now it turns out that not even your grocery store is safe, as Instacart increasingly deploys AI smart carts to grocery stores across the United States. In a recent joint press

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock We hear a lot about how college students are happy to use AI to help with their studies, if not churn out entire assignments. But is this too one-sided a narrative? Many appear to be having the opposite experience with the tech. Jeff Sharlet, a writing professor at Dartmouth College, said that his students are consumed by “resignation” and “despair” as they find themselves in an “arms rac

Photograph of a man looking at his phone with an exaggerated expression of disgust. AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out human creators across platforms. Even the vertical video darling TikTok has fallen victim. According to a new report by San Francisco-based video editing company Kapwing, almost 60 percent of videos being served to new users on the app’s algorit

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock For artists, it’s bad enough that AI companies scraped their artwork without permission or compensation. In a saner age, we’d recognize that for what it is: theft. And it’s even worse that so-called AI “artists” glibly go out of their way to ape the specific style of an actual artist — all while sincerely believing they’re an “artist” themselves for merely typing a prompt. A new proposed

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Shutterstock Workplace morale at Meta is in a tailspin after Mark Zuckerberg and his executive crew slashed thousands of jobs to free up more funds for AI. Usually when rank-and-file morale takes a nosedive, corporate bosses are reticent to acknowledge it head-on, preferring instead to offer a buffet of HR-solutionism like resilience training, pulse s

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Not that anyone in power is going to care, but there’s even more evidence that Americans are coming to overwhelmingly loathe AI — despite, or perhaps because, they’re using chatbots more than ever. In a sweeping new poll conducted by Pew Research, only 16 percent of respondents said they believed AI will have a positive impact on society — a number as dismal as the perception of the tech.

A24 / Futurism A24 has spent years carefully crafting its image as a canny underdog studio that platforms artist driven films. It commands incredible loyalty among moviegoers, with its brand often preceding the names of the actual talent involved in its production. A new movie is an A24 movie, director or lead actor be damned. But with incredible loyalty also comes incredible disappointment. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Google is invest