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Getty / Futurism Michael Burry, who famously shorted the US housing market before its collapse in 2008, has bet over $1 billion that the share prices of AI chipmaker Nvidia and software company Palantir will fall — making a similar play, in other words, on the prediction that the AI industry will collapse. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission filings, his fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $187.6 million in puts on Nvidia and $912 million

NewsMax Believe it or not, another right wing news network got fooled by obvious AI slop designed to denigrate poor people who can’t get food because their food stamps are on hold. On October 30, Newsmax — the TV network for people who think Fox News is too liberal, basically — aired an AI-generated video purportedly showing a woman raging at a supermarket cashier, threatening to walk out with her haul of groceries without paying because “they cut her food

Getty / Futurism If you get caught cheating by your professor, you would be wise to beg for mercy, grovel at their feet, and pour every ounce of your soul into putting on the contrite performance of a lifetime. You’ll never do it again, you vow, after reminding them of your recently deceased distant relative. If there was ever a moment to put some real effort into your education, this big apology would be it. In an age of ChatGPT, however, even that might

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Things aren’t going well for the Calgary Flames, the professional Canadian hockey team founded in 1972. Despite pushing for a playoff spot late last year, the Flames only have three wins through fourteen games this season, securing an early spot as the worst team in the National Hockey League so far. Some fans think this may be the sign of early-season tanking — when a team loses on purpo

Andrew Cuomo Zohran Mamdani won the race to be New York City’s mayor by a landslide this week, leaving his Democrat-turned-independent rival Andrew Cuomo in the dust. Mamdani ran a strikingly effective campaign that showed him as a genial and relatable young man with a penchant for connecting authentically with voters, often by talking to them right on the street. He kept a laser focus on popular issues of affordability, and projected an infectious sense o

AI Generated Images (Screenshots) via Sora2 If you thought traditional gender reveals were bad for the environment, wait until you get a load of the ones powered by OpenAI’s Sora 2. Ever since its release in late September, lifelike AI gender reveal clips have been popping up like weeds on social media. A compilation reel uploaded to Reddit shows just how tasteless the reels are getting. In one snippet, a couple cheers for joy as a baby-blue mushroom cloud

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If you thought AI’s endgame was a fully automated utopia where everyone finally lives in harmony, think again. According to Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton — often called “the godfather of AI” for his contributions to the tech — the future for AI in its current form is likely to be an economic dystopia. “I think the big companies are betting on it causing massive job replacement by AI, bec

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins. Source: Paul Harris / Getty Images Elon Musk has long made a habit of hyper-focusing on a specific project, forcing an entire team to attend to his every whim while letting his other responsibilities fall by the wayside — whether it’s his obsession with Robotaxis impacting Tesla or his weird procreation kink disrupting the private messages of countless women. The latest object of Musk’s obsession? According to new repor

Patrick T. FALLON / AFP As investors are growing increasingly concerned over an AI bubble, triggering a major tech selloff earlier this week, OpenAI is still in full-steam-ahead mode. During the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference on Wednesday, the ChatGPT maker’s chief financial officer Sarah Friar revealed that the company has no plans of going public, contradicting rumors. “IPO is not on the cards right now,” she said at the event. “We are contin

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images/Futurism During the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference on Wednesday, OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar hinted at the possibility that the government could “backstop the guarantee that allows the financing to happen” as the AI industry continues to take on even more debt. Friar regretted her comment almost immediately, clarifying in a subsequent post on LinkedIn that “OpenAI is not seeking a government backstop

Getty / Futurism Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Plaintiffs filed seven lawsuits yesterday against OpenAI, accusing the company’s flagship chatbot ChatGPT of causing immense psychological harm and multiple suicides. The suits, first reported by The Wall Street Journ

Andon Labs A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum. It didn’t take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight out of a Douglas Adams novel, in what the researchers described as a “doom spiral” including a “catastrophic cascade” and a full-blown “existential crisis.” “EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’

Vanity Fair via YouTube During a new video with Vanity Fair that challenges celebrities to answer probing questions while taking a lie detector test, reality TV star Kim Kardashian admitted that she used ChatGPT for “legal advice” — causing her to fail tests in her ongoing quest to become a Bar-certified attorney. “So, when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I’ll take a picture and snap it and put it in there,” she explained in the video. “They

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Imags Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, Meta comes out and accuses a random man of hosting a trove of illegally torrented smut. The whole thing started with a July lawsuit by an adult film companies Strike 3 — which has been called the “most active copyright litigant in the United States” — and Counterlife Media. To make a long story short, the two rightsholders essentially accused Meta

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Artificial intelligence is here, and it’s wreaking havoc on court rooms throughout the US. The latest AI law blunder comes from the Maryland appellate court, where a family lawyer representing a mother in a custody battle was caught filing court briefs cooked up with ChatGPT. The Daily Record, which publishes summaries of Maryland court opinions, reported that the mother’s lawyer submitte

@tombibbys via X Sam Altman just got served. On Tuesday, the OpenAI CEO was abruptly issued a subpoena while giving a talk in San Francisco with basketball coach Steve Kerr. Footage of the incident, which took place at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, shows a man climb onto the stage and declare that he has a “subpoena for Sam Altman,” before being loudly booed by the crowd. Altman does not physically take the document, and the seeming intruder is ushered awa

Getty / Futurism Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An experimental malware family dubbed PROMPTFLUX, identified by GTIG in a recent blog post, can rewrite its own code to avoid detection. It’s an escalation that could make future malware far more difficult to detect, further highlighting growing c

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The amount of money being spent on artificial intelligence is astronomical. Investors have lavished the top tech companies and startups alike with hundreds of billions of dollars — so much so, in fact, that an estimated 92 percent of US GDP growth now comes from AI. If trends continue in 2026, conservative estimates peg the spending from just the “largest technology firms” at $550 billion

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images In late 2023, the fast-casual restaurant chain Panera found itself in the center of public scrutiny after its caffeine-packed lemonade drink, called “Charged Lemonade,” was publicly linked to at least two deaths and at least one other life-altering cardiac injury. Victims and their families sued, alleging that Panera had failed to properly warn restaurant-goers about the amount of caffeine in the drinks and their associated r

Getty / Futurism Despite its half-a-trillion-dollar valuation, the reality is that OpenAI is almost certainly burning through cash at an alarming rate. According to recent filings, the ChatGPT maker lost a whopping $12 billion last quarter alone. Yet, it wants to spend well over $1 trillion over the next several years, once again stoking fears over an AI bubble that could wipe out the entire US economy if it were to burst. Even its AI video-generating app,