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Movchan Agency / Shutterstock / Futurism Does it ever feel like your inbox is filling up with emails that don’t sound quite human? You may be right. Last week, I received an email from a publicist identified as “June Barton,” whose address indicated that she worked at a firm called VectorGuideHQ. The message, which read like any one of the countless PR emails in my inbox, was seeking coverage for a wellness app called RiseGuide. Barton offered to set me up

FotoField / Shutterstock / Futurism Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down. Earlier this week, the social media company announced during its second quarter earnings call that it was raising capital expenditures from $125 billion to at least $130 billion, a clear sign that it’s not taking its foot off the pedal. Yet amid renewed concerns that the tech industry may be nearing the edge

Google Google Earth is the de facto record of our entire planet. But today, the company undermined its own credibility with a dangerous new AI feature — and then quickly pulled it down after people started using it to generate blatant misinformation. On Thursday, Google announced that it added an image generation tool straight into the web browser version of the app, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images of anywhere in the world. It was cle

Shutterstock / Futurism Book publisher Minotaur, which is owned by leading publishing company Macmillan US, has walked away from a $2.4 million deal for an unpublished debut novel “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body” by author Jerry Falade. As Deadline reports, questions surrounding the use of AI during the writing of the book made the publisher drop the contract altogether. But it’s not because the company is drawing an ethical line in the sand while highlightin

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Eklip Studio / Shutterstock The majority of workers agree: AI has turned their lives into slop-filled misery, making them yearn for the good old days before the tech existed. According to a new survey of office workers by professional services company Adaptavist, just shy of two thirds of respondents say they regularly long for their old, pre-AI work life. Over a third of them would delete generative

Dwarkesh Patel Podcast via YouTube / Futurism Suddenly, things ain’t looking great for the AI industry. Or at least for the people pouring loads of money into it. Situational Awareness, a much-hyped AI hedge-fund whose 24-year-old founder Leopold Aschenbrenner preached endless AI gains, basically imploded over this month amid a mass tech sell-off. The Wall Street Journal reported that it’s now down 67 percent in July, forcing Aschenbrenner to desperately s

Shutterstock / Futurism If you’re among the 2.6 million active users of the popular telehealth apps Hims and Hers to obtain medication for erectile dysfunction, hair loss, and a cavalcade of other intimate issues, there’s probably a very short list of people you want to know about it — and Mark Zuckerberg probably isn’t one of them. On Wednesday, the US Federal Trade Commission filed a major lawsuit against Hims and Hers, over allegations the firm was shar

Shutterstock / Futurism For a time, it appeared as if AI would find broad acceptance among the American masses. The peanut gallery on social media happily embraced early image generation models as researchers appeared to make significant breakthroughs with the aid of their newfound tools. On paper, surveys found public attitudes toward the tech continued to improve into 2025 — before sharply reversing. In 2026, America’s honeymoon phase with AI seems to be

Shutterstock / Futurism Last week, OpenAI claimed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, successfully hacking into the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark test. In the wake of the announcement, two very distinct narratives have emerged surrounding OpenAI’s claims. Some say it was essentially a publicity stunt, with the company setting parameters for the test that pushed the models toward outrageous behavio

SANDY HUFFAKER / AFP via Getty Images It takes a lot to get your typical white-bread American riled up enough that they’re willing to go to jail. Getting arrested is a massive pain, bringing court dates, fines, and a record that can shadow your job and housing prospects for the rest of your life. For most folks, just the threat of jail time is enough to keep them on their best behavior. Yet in 2026, data centers have become one of the rare issues pushing m

Antonello Marangi / Shutterstock / Futurism Late last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon that raising a child was now impossible without constantly turning to AI for advice — despite humans managing just fine without ChatGPT since the dawn of time. His comments painted a dystopian picture of the future of parenting in which human connection is supplanted by AI-powered nannies and chatbots. And as children unfortunate enough t

Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images / Futurism Even before Donald Trump was sworn in for his second stint in the White House, he was promising to unleash “AI innovation” on an unprecedented scale. Despite grumblings from the populist Republican sect, the billionaire-in-chief soon made good on those promises, cozying up to AI moguls like Sam Altman and promising to flip the US power grid on its head in order to feed the growing demand for AI data centers.

In many ways, life on Earth feels like a miracle. Had things gone differently, Earth might have looked more like our neighbors in the solar system. Scientists long suspected that plate tectonics was partly responsible for how Earth evolved, but pinning down when it began has proven difficult. Now, researchers have identified a “chemical fingerprint” that points to when plate tectonics likely began. The team studied over 1,200 rocks spanning nearly 4 billio

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is facing growing political pressure as more details emerge about his affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese intelligence asset. Now, some Republican lawmakers are threatening to subpoena Huang, while at least one senator is calling for his resignation. North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer told Politico on Tuesday that Huang’s actions amount to a national security risk. “The potential for extortion is so tremendous that somethin

All eyes are on Jensen Huang after it was revealed the Nvidia CEO had an extramarital affair with a woman who’s alleged to be a spy for China. Will Huang step aside, amid calls from both Democrats and Republicans for him to do just that? Nobody knows for sure at this point. What’s been getting less attention, however, are the behind-the-scenes battles within the federal government. What did members of the Trump regime know about the affair, and when did th

Former Megaspeed senior leader and accused Chinese spy Alice Huang apparently wasn’t Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s only extramarital side piece. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the AI titan had a second affair with one of his subordinates, citing five sources. That person is Kimberly Powell, Nvidia’s vice president of health care, sources told The Times. Such relationships are verboten under Nvidia corporate policy (as they generally are at any c

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