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PONTUS LUNDAHL/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images/Shutterstock/Futurism Geoffrey Hinton is regarded as a godfather of AI, but he deserves equal recognition for being one of the most disappointed parents of all time. Sounding as gloomy about his own creation as ever, the Nobel prize-winning computer scientist suggested in a new interview with The Guardian that humankind might have “been better off never developing it.” He pointed to the recent hacking spre

PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images The “blue tsunami” that swept over the midterm elections made it clear that voters are sick of tech billionaires meddling in politics, opposed to data center construction, and deeply suspicious of the AI industry. But OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar apparently didn’t get that memo. In an interview with CNBC on Friday, she vowed that OpenAI would keep pouring money into data center construction so it can ple

Shutterstock / Futurism For years, many bosses have been adamant that employees use AI at all costs — despite research suggesting there’s little to gain from it in terms of productivity, evidence that flies in the face of the tech industry’s repeated promises of a workplace revolution brought on by the tech. But now that execs are drowning in meaningless “workslop,” they’re starting to sing a very different tune. As Business Insider reports, one CEO of a t

Lev Radin / Shutterstock New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani blasted Google’s decision to block its search engine in schools that restrict its AI features. “Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools,” he wrote in a social media statement. “No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children.” “Our public schools exist to serve students,” Mamdani added, “not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.” G

Shutterstock / Futurism Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that Google is pressuring schools not to ban AI — by rescinding their access to its eponymous search engine if they do. The decision triggered a firestorm among educators and lawmakers, with senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) accusing the company of “extortion.” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) fumed that Google was “once again prioritizing profits over people,” tweeting that it’s “more con

Shutterstock / Futurism The world’s capitalists have been waiting with bated breath for the day AI finally delivers on the tech industry’s longstanding promise to create a tool more efficient than human workers. In the four years since AI first became broadly available as a commercial product, these productivity returns have mostly failed to materialize. Now, there’re signs that the push to automate labor is actually backfiring in ironic fashion, as worker

Leon Neal/Getty Images Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO — a human in charge of its AI operations, we should clarify — says he’s willing to consider giving AI models rights if they ever become conscious. But he really doesn’t want that to happen in the first place. The comments came in a post he made on X clarifying some of the things he said in a recent essay he penned on “model welfare.” He began that essay with an unequivocal statement: “AIs are not

jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock Tech billionaires continue to find new ways to alienate themselves from the public. After broad disillusionment with Big Tech played a major role in last week’s midterm elections, AI chipmaker Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was forced to publicly admit that he had cheated on his wife with a suspected Chinese spy. “I was unfaithful to my wife,” he wrote in a memo. “My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did

Brandon Dill for The Washington Post via Getty Images Claude maker Anthropic has signed an unprecedented $3.4 billion deal with a Texas-based energy company called OnePWR Solutions. As the Financial Times reports, the deal will provide gas-fired engines to provide AI data centers with off-grid electricity. The AI industry is racing to secure enough power and related equipment for its incredibly resource-intensive — and massively hated — facilities, and the

Applied Sciences / Futurism The midterms were in no small part a searing repudiation of the AI industry, and in particular data centers. In fact, of 41 ballot proposed measures that would crack down on data center development, Americans voted for all but one. The lone exception: the town of Harwood, North Dakota, population 845. According to reporting by The Washington Post, a lot of residents were hesitant to approve the $3 billion, 1.8 million square foo

LISA O'CONNOR / AFP via Getty Images In one of the biggest unenforced errors in the history of the AI industry, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted on Sunday that he had cheated on his wife with an alleged Chinese spy. The embarrassing news sent shares of the AI chipmaker — a bellwether for an economy overindexed on AI — plummeting, with one analyst estimating that parting ways with Huang could wipe out almost 30 percent of the company’s value. Nvidia’s board

Shutterstock / Futurism Paradium.AI, the recently-rebranded media company formerly known as The Arena Group, announced staggering third-quarter losses yesterday as it continues to go “all in” on AI. Paradium’s stock has been declining for years, though it experienced a drop of about 14 percent today after the company revealed that it had sustained a net loss of $3.6 million in the Q3 of 2026 — a dramatic shift from the same quarter last year, when its reve

jamesonwu1972 / Shutterstock Over the weekend, tech billionaire and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly admitted that he had cheated on his wife with a suspected Chinese spy. The news sent markets rocking wildly, with investors worrying he could be forced to step down — a move that could trigger even more volatility. One person who was seemingly unsurprised by the revelation was president Donald Trump. As the New York Times reports, he knew about the affair s

There were legions of Apple fans who held off from buying a new MacBook Pro for every dry year, one after another. They heard the endless ant’s march of small rumors all building up to this, the first OLED MacBook. And Apple has not disappointed. It’s truly one of the best screens I’ve had the chance to use on a laptop. It’s also a laptop that charges a $500 premium on top of what are already very expensive Mac designs. So it’s here; you can finally buy on

There’s something about those stupid little orange foam ear cushions. When I see a throwback to Sony’s iconic Walkman headphones, my eyes are at attention, like when a bird sees a worm or when Cookie Monster gets a whiff of something that makes nutritionists frown. I can’t help it; I’m conditioned to appreciate retro vibes—by my generational peers, by the seemingly endless/shameless cheap ripoffs from audio brands, and now, once again, by Sony itself. Sony

Sometimes you want to splurge on your friends and family around the holidays—and new gadgets are one of the best ways to do so. Nothing says I love you quite like spending $500 on some potentially life-changing tech. But when the sky’s the limit on your gift-giving price range, it means you’ve got a basically endless number of potential gifts to buy. Narrowing down your options from the myriad of products available these days can be daunting, even if you’r