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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images AI chipmaker Nvidia has been at the center of the enormous AI hype wave that has gripped global markets, ascending to become the most valuable company in the world. Yet despite its dominating presence on Wall Street, OpenAI is getting cold feet about the company’s offerings. After announcing a blockbuster $100 billion deal in September — which escalated concerns of AI companies passing the same money around in circular dealmaking

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.” When Liteplo launched RentAHuman on Monday, he boasted that he already had over 130 people listed on the platform, including a

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Last week, Anthropic released a new AI tool for automating legal work, precipitating a mass stock market selloff over fears that the tech could upend huge software customers in industries ranging from law to finance, Reuters reports — an urgent example of the power that AI currently has over financial markets and even the economy writ large. The S&P 500 software and

Getty / Futurism During the COVID-19 pandemic, stationary bike company Peloton was the talk of the town, allowing its customers to stay fit from the comfort of their own homes. But once people started reemerging into the world to once again hit the gym and ride their bikes outdoors, the company began to struggle, a tailspin that has been ongoing ever since. The company’s stock dropped by almost 30 percent in 2025 alone, while over 100,000 subscribers decid

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images In 2024, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the possibility that his company would ever have to stuff ads into its chatbots, painting it as a desperate move he called a “last resort for us as a business model.” As it turns out, the billionaire may have overestimated how much people were willing to shell out every month to access ChatGPT. Paid subscriber growth has slowed in key markets as OpenAI continues to bur

Getty / Futurism For quite some time now, investors have fought the suggestion that the artificial intelligence industry may be forming a massive bubble, risking an eventual collapse of epic proportions that could take down the US economy with it. But shaking off those fears has proven increasingly difficult as the tech stock market reels from a major selloff this week. Amazon shares tumbled nine percent Friday morning after claiming that its spending woul

Elizabeth Landers / Kudu via UCLA The professor behind an AI-generated textbook says that her error-ridden experiment was actually a resounding success. Designed for a comparative literature course on medieval and Renaissance-era writing and announced by UCLA at the end of 2024, the digital textbook was immediately met with widespread mockery and derision from educators. Its AI-generated cover was riddled with incomprehensible text — “Of Nerniacular Latin

Getty / Futurism On Thursday, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new coding model that’s purportedly 25 percent faster than its predecessor, along with other impressive benchmarks. The real head-turner, however, is another claim the Sam Altman-led company made about its development. GPT-5.3-Codex, supposedly, is its first model “that was instrumental in creating itself,” with its team “blown away” by the results. Is the Singularity nearly upon us? Is this t

Getty / Futurism A man’s obsession with an AI chatbot led to his life completely spiraling out of control — and he only snapped out of it when, one day, he woke up outside on a stranger’s futon, completely penniless. “I wasn’t aware of the dangers at the time, and I thought that the AI had statistical analysis abilities that would allow it to assist me if I opened up about my life,” the man, Adam Thomas, told Slate in yet another grim peek at how AI can le

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images At $183 billion AI firm Anthropic, the stakes have always been high. Now with the stock market in a nosedive, however, some of the company’s employees are realizing they may have had a hand in tipping the first in a long series of dominoes. Last week, Anthropic — one of the leading AI companies on the market — released a new tool called “plugins.” It was described as an assistant that can

Getty / Futurism A brand new social media network has taken the internet by storm. But instead of focusing on high-value, human-created content, the network, dubbed Moltbook, turns the equation on its head by putting AI agents front and center. After launching a mere nine days ago, Moltbook — a social network for AI only — has grown substantially. As of Friday, the website claims it has over 1.7 million AI agents, over 16,000 “submolt” communities, and ove

Time via YouTube Darren Aronofsky has always been a divisive filmmaker. But the director of hits like “Black Swan,” “The Wrestler,” and “Requiem for a Dream” has now almost certainly blown up his credibility even with his die-hard fans, after cranking out an almost completely AI-generated historical video series. Called “On This Day … 1776,” the show, which consists of several-minute “episodes,” is meant to cover notable events that took place in the Ameri

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Sven Hoppe / picture alliance via Getty Images Microsoft has continued to focus more and more on AI — almost certainly at the expense of its core products, like the Windows operating system. And unfortunately for the Redmond giant, the gambit doesn’t seem to be paying off. Current and former employees tell The Wall Street Journal in new reporting that the company’s confusing branding and grating lack

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk’s X — formerly known as Twitter and newly acquired by SpaceX — says it will give a million bucks to a proudly self-proclaimed Nazi. On Tuesday, the social media site and Grok-run asylum announced the winners of its “$1M Article Contest,” with the grand prize going to a user named Beaver with the handle @beaverd. As many quickly noticed, that user happen

Getty / Futurism At the height of his powers, and perhaps his amphetamine habit, legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick cranked out around thirty novels in two decades, along with what was probably several hundred short stories. These included enormously influential classics like “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “The Man in the High Castle,” and “A Scanner Darkly” — all the work of a man whose eclectic imagination was matched only by his paranoia, wh

Getty / Futurism An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in peril.” The employee, Mrinank Sharma, had led the Claude chatbot maker’s Safeguards Research Team since it was formed early last year and has been at the company since 2023. While at the company, Sharma said he explored the causes of AI sycophancy, developed defenses against “AI-assisted bioterrorism,” and wrote “one of the fi

Mason Trinca/Getty Images Google’s rank-and-file are joining together to address their bosses with a collective demand: cut ties with the US government’s immigration agencies. As reported by CNBC, over 1,000 “Googlers” have signed onto an open letter demanding a divestment from partnerships with United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP). “In cities across the country we have witnessed these agencies conduct

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives easier? That’s the big question explored in an ongoing study by researchers from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. And so far, it’s not looking good for the rank and file. In a piece for Harvard Business Review, the research team’s Aruna Ranganathan and Xinqi Maggie Ye reported that aft

Getty / Futurism In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet.” But what really caught the attention of the company’s most diehard fans was the decision to retire all of its previous AI models, news that was met with a massive outcry among ChatGPT users who’d developed a strong attachment to the outgoing GPT-4o. The backlash was severe enough for CEO Sam Altman to back down in

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In 2026, the grim comedy of late capitalism seems to have found a perfect punchline: workers laid off in a dismal job market are now being hired to train AI systems meant to replace them altogether. If a great AI replacement ever comes to pass, the scale of potential displacement is massive. MIT researchers recently calculated that today’s AI systems could already automate tasks performed