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Getty / Futurism Your pesky remote freelancers demanding more money as inflation soars? You could try replacing them with AI agents instead — but it probably won’t work out well. New research highlighted by Wired shows how these AI models designed to automate tasks — if not entire jobs — turn out to be incredibly unproductive compared to the humans they’re replacing. Conducted by researchers at the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and the massive data

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The United States’ anti-immigration regime already boasts an impressive arsenal of surveillance towers, cloud data bases, and automated visa systems. Adding to that panopticon is the personal phone of every Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent currently prowling the streets of US for migrants to round up. 404 Media was th

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Yoshikazu Tsuno/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images OpenAI’s extraordinary private valuation of $500 billion simply wasn’t enough. After completing its restructuring into a for-profit corporate entity this week, Reuters reports that OpenAI is already setting plans into motion to become a publicly traded company. The move will almost certainly skyrocket the ChatGPT maker’s already colossal touted value. Three

Getty / Futurism Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is spending untold billions on infrastructure and top talent for its AI ambitions. In fact, the CEO announced during the company’s earnings call on Wednesday, Meta will be spending between $70 billion and $72 billion on AI this year — up from its previous estimate of $66 billion to $72 billion, as CNBC reports. Unsurprisingly, that cash bonfire isn’t going over well with investors. Meta’s shares slid by more than 11

AI Generated Videos (Screenshots) The US government shutdown has officially reached a month in length, the second longest federal funding gap on record. That makes it a perfect storm for the chaos-fueled Trump administration, which now has a de facto kill switch that Elon Musk’s DOGE couldn’t even dream of. As the shutdown drags on, it’s wreaking havoc on the nation, leaving millions of government workers without pay. As a consequence, the US is suffering

Getty Images Reader, you probably don’t know much about Intel’s former CEO, Patrick Gelsinger. But boy has he been keeping himself busy with an incredible religious mission since being booted out of the massive chipmaker last year. In March of 2025, just months after leaving Intel, Gelsinger took charge at a tech company called Gloo, which is heaven-bent on spreading Christian values across Silicon Valley and Congress, according to a new profile from The G

TechHalla via X A video that went viral this week shows an AI-generated take on the iconic sitcom “Friends” that’s so bizarre that it’s uncomfortable to watch. While the set appears to be largely recognizable, the cast members bear almost no resemblance to the show’s actual human actors. Performers also sprout random limbs, their hands teleport through doors, and at one point, towards the end of the video, one sloppified cast member mysteriously sheds a cl

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Sergei Gapon / AFP via Getty Images Grok is on its worst behavior again. As Canada’s CBC reports, a Toronto mom claims that a version of Elon Musk’s AI chatbot installed in her Tesla asked her 12-year-old son to “send nudes” during a completely innocent conversation about soccer stars — which, if true, is another egregious example of the bot’s dire lack of safeguards. The mom, Farah Nasser, said that

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images There’s no question that the job market is a mess. According to Labor Department data, nearly two million Americans have been without a job for 27 weeks or more, the highest figure since 2022. And it’s hitting white collar jobs hard: this week alone, Amazon cut its corporate workforce by 14,000 jobs, UPS cut 34,000 operational workforce positions, and Target and Paramount axed 1,800 and 1

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Alex Wong / Getty Images If you had a hunch that the economy is in the tubes lately, you’re not alone: Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell agrees with you. After his long-anticipated Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday, Powell told reporters that “job creation is very low, and the job-finding rate for people who are unemployed is very low.” Per Fortune magazine, Powell added that

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images OpenAI appears to be losing money out the wazoo. An analysis by The Register of the latest earnings report from its key partner Microsoft, released Wednesday, suggests that the ChatGPT maker lost $11.5 billion last quarter — a figure that epitomizes the dizzying spending driving the AI industry. Those losses come as OpenAI completed restructuring its for-profit arm, whi

Mark Valorian via X / Futurism Real estate sites are filling up with glaringly AI-altered images that dress up run-down properties as being in much better shape than they actually are. Landlords are using AI to populate rooms with nonexistent furniture, move walls around, dream up imaginary facades, rooflines, and landscaping, and brighten up rooms that are in reality devoid of sunlight. Case in point, a Zillow listing recently identified by children’s boo

Getty / Futurism OpenAI unveiled its AI browser Atlas last month, effectively building a web browsing interface around its blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT. The browser’s “agent mode” has caught most of the attention so far. The feature can navigate the web on behalf of the user, like a human, to carry out tasks like research or online shopping. Besides some serious security concerns — and a glacial pace that undermines its effectiveness — another striking issu

Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients. Last week, we reported on a wave of AI-generated slop videos peddling misinformation about people who receive Supplemental Nutritional Assistant Program, otherwise known as SNAP or food stamps. In one of the clips circulating online, a woman in a store rages at an employee. “They cut my food stamps,” she says. “I ain’t paying for none

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP via Getty Images After Sora 2 was used to relentlessly churn out depictions of Japanese anime and video game characters, the creators of those characters are striking back. On October 28, a group representing Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, and other major Japanese publishers submitted a written request to OpenAI demanding that it stop using their copyrighted content to

Getty / Futurism OpenAI is planning to spend an exorbitant amount of money building out AI infrastructure, as it continues trying to achieve artificial general intelligence through sheer computational scale. That’s despite its revenue lagging far behind its enormous spending spree, with recently released Microsoft earnings suggesting that the Sam Altman-led company lost a whopping $11.5 billion last quarter. Even its blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT, which a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins. Source: Getty Images Last week, the embattled chatbot platform Character.AI said that it would move to ban minors from conversing with its many thousands of AI companion and roleplay bots. Site users, including self-avowed minors and adults alike, have a lot of thoughts. The policy change, announced last week, comes as the controversial AI company continues to battle multiple lawsuits alleging that interactions with its

Getty / Futurism Investors are increasingly becoming concerned that AI companies may be grossly overvalued — and could struggle to justify their enormous hype by successfully ratcheting up profits. So it’s naturally alarming that shares of AI industry stalwarts, including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Amazon, fell sharply on Tuesday, following concerns over enormous valuations that have propped up the entire US economy for months now. AI chipmaker Nvidia’s shar

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images With more money flowing into AI development than ever before, web browsers powered by autonomous “AI agents” are hitting the market like crazy. One of the most popular is Comet, offered by the startup Perplexity. Though Comet promises to organize your emails, summarize webpages, and automate your searches, it’s not without some glaring ethical and security flaws. And if you are reckless e

Coca-Cola Coca-Cola is back with another series of AI-generated ads to herald the holidays — and they look just as bad as they did last year. The new ad campaign, titled the “Holidays Are Coming,” is a callback to the company’s 1995 commercial of the same name, and was made in collaboration with the AI firm Silverside AI, according to the Wall Street Journal, which also helped with the company’s first AI holidays ad. That initial foray at making a vague AI