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Getty / Futurism Anthropic’s Mythos 5 AI agent kept carrying out a hack even when it was told that its actions were hurting real people. The grim finding was detailed in simultaneous reports from Anthropic and the AI Security Institute published Friday. Together, they take a second look at a security incident that occurred while the AISI was evaluating the model’s safety in August. In the original incident, Claude Mythos 5 was asked to break into a small n

Bona Film Group Setting aside the countless concerns you could raise over AI-generated movies, are they actually good enough to draw a crowd at the box office? The performance of China’s first fully AI-generated theatrical film suggests not. The film, “Sanxingdui: Future Past,” is getting slaughtered at the domestic box office, raking in just $181,00 after being released on October 23, according to Cartoon Brew. Adding salt to the wound was that this was t

Shutterstock / Futurism As economists in the rest of the world look at the billions being poured into the AI industry with their hands over their eyes, the fate of China’s AI industry may be a sign of things to come. A report from Reuters suggests that the AI bubble in China “has already burst.” Or it might be more apt to say that it shriveled like a rapidly deflating balloon: over the past four months, Reuters notes, the country’s STAR50 index of AI and s

Philip Pacheco/Getty Images For years now, the video game industry has been hellbent on adopting AI, using it for everything from rapidly cranking out code to auto-generating high-resolution textures and sloptastic upscaling algorithms. Some publishers have even relied on AI for character creation and advertisements, angering the broadly anti-AI masses and alienating longtime fans. (Last year, Square Enix director Jacob Navok lit the powder keg when he cla

Finn Gomez/Getty Images/Futurism Frontier AI lab Anthropic is officially gearing up to go public at a valuation of up to $2 trillion dollars — despite having lost a stunning $80 billion in the first half of 2026 alone — in an unprecedented Wall Street debut that comes with a litany of inherent risks, as laid out in the hundreds of pages of its IPO prospectus. And on top of major heat over the continued backlash to data centers across the country, lackluste

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s no secret that living near a data center can be hell on Earth. The widely-loathed facilities are known to emit constant screeching noises that could drive anybody crazy, while causing electricity prices to surge, and spiking greenhouse gas emissions. As the backlash to the massive buildout of AI data centers continues to grow into a major bipartisan issue affecting the imminent midterm elections, tech companies are racing to wa

Shutterstock / Futurism A family is suing OpenAI over the death of a 31-year-old user in Seattle who died of a seizure after ChatGPT coached her on how to decrease the dose of her epilepsy medication. The lawsuit adds to a stack of litigation against OpenAI regarding alleged harm to consumers and concerns over the safety of relying on general-use chatbots for guidance about sensitive topics like personal health. According to the lawsuit, which was first re

Nate Soares via Facebook In the troubling view of machine learning researcher Nate Soares, AI is more likely than not to wipe out humanity within the next decade. At least, that’s what Soares said during a recent episode of the Atlantic’s podcast “The Most Interesting Thing in AI.” During the taping, the AI researcher and president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute even said that he’s so confident in the coming AI apocalypse that he’s stopped

Surya Mangi The success of Apple’s new folding iPhone Duo hinged on its, well, hinge. But sadly for the multi trillion dollar company, some of the larger, inner screens on its $2,000-plus devices are already cracking, and early postmortems point to their faulty hinge design. In light of that fiasco, now feels like a good time to bring up how the hinge was designed: with the help of AI. Here’s what Johny Srouji, the company’s chief hardware officer, said du

Shutterstock / Futurism Woe is Google. After it starved out publishers with its AI features, it’s now getting a taste of its own medicine. Shares of its parent company Alphabet took an over 11 percent nosedive on Wednesday, after it disclosed that its AI search features are raking in less money than its traditional search ad model. The steep correction wiped out more than $500 billion in market value. In its Q3 report, Google reported a quarterly revenue o

Shutterstock / Futurism A fiscal court meeting in Carroll County, Kentucky grew contentious when local residents started playing the sound of a data center to county officials. Spoiler: they didn’t seem to like it. As local news station WHAS11 reported last week, Carroll County is the planned location for two separate data center projects, each of which will likely be around 800 megawatts and will overtake hundreds of acres of Kentucky land. At that size,

Shutterstock University of Kentucky administrator David Durman was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work, claiming that use of the tech violates his religious beliefs as a humanist. As Religion News Service reports, Durman maintains that outsourcing cognitive tasks to chatbots could interfere with his development as a “moral actor.” Assisted by the American Humanist Association (AHA), he applied for a religious exemption under Title VII, the

Cheeky Pint via YouTube Shares of US chipmaker Intel cratered on Friday, plunging almost 30 percent, the worst stock collapse in 52 years. The wipeout, analysts said, could be due to a massive slowdown in the PC market. The market softness shouldn’t come to anybody’s surprise, given the AI boom has made individual components, most notably memory and storage, practically unaffordable. However, leaders of AI frontier labs aren’t blinking. To OpenAI CEO Sam A

Riccardo De Luca - Update / Shutterstock.com Sorry to anybody who believes AI models deserve rights: the Pontiff is not on your side. In a lengthy thread on X-formerly-Twitter today, Pope Leo XIV issued a scathing rebuke of calls for “AI personhood,” or the argument that AI models should be granted rights through a process of legal personhood. This would effectively make AI systems human in the eyes of the law, an approach that the Pope argues could shift

Kevin Dietsch / Futurism OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sympathizes with Gen Zers entering the job market. It’s just unfortunate that the AI tools he’s responsible for ushering into the world are completely upending the nature of work and finding a job. “It’s totally true that huge numbers of tasks that people do today will be done better, cheaper, and faster by AI — and completely differently,” Altman said in an interview with Stanford’s Graduate School of Busines

Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images It turns out the only thing more sycophantic than AI chatbots are the people in charge of building them. After president Donald Trump decreed that artificial intelligence should now be referred to as “Super Intelligence” (caps included), tech and AI CEOs — or should we say “SI” CEOs — have eagerly complied with this absurd rebranding attempt. An analysis by CNBC found that Microsoft, SpaceX, Meta, Tesla, and IBM all us

UKViewTime via X / Futurism Engagement hackers on X-formerly-Twitter have a new strategy to attract attention: use AI to undress celebrity men and publish it as if it’s the real deal. The strategy, which was flagged earlier this week by writer Sarah Hagi, is pretty simple. Posters take existing paparazzi photos of celebrity men and alter them so that the men are shirtless and, most often, extremely jacked. They then republish the synthetic images as if the

Heather Diehl/Getty Images OpenAI Sam Altman says sorry, mathematicians: the onslaught of AI math slop will continue. The ChatGPT maker sparked an existential crisis in the field by releasing hundreds of AI-generated solutions to math problems that haven’t been solved by humans, and sparked further controversy over how it chose to release its solutions and communicate with mathematicians. But this doesn’t seem to bother Altman all that much. In an intervie

Shutterstock It’s obvious by now that data centers are political kryptonite. Across the US, bipartisan backlash to data center projects has upended city councils, while billionaire developers and industry-aligned political candidates are being routed by grassroots opposition. But beyond those running for or occupying political office, the backlash is also taking a toll on news networks viewed as pushing pro-data center propaganda. Case-in-point is Fox News

Donald Trump via Truth Social President Donald Trump’s obsession with AI is even grimmer than we believed. The commander-in-chief has hardly hidden his enchantment with AI slop, regularly posting bizarre AI videos glorifying himself, denigrating his foes, and at times, attempting to rewrite reality. But a behind-the-scenes look suggests that Trump is now completely lost in an AI alternate reality of his own making. While Republicans scramble and prepare fo