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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The point of making an apology is that it should be sincere. It also helps if you put some actual effort into making it. A judge in New Zealand is being forced to mull over these criteria after receiving a written apology from a defendant that appears to be generated with — and why else would we be talking about it on this website — an AI model. The defendant had a lot to answer for: she

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images An AI “filmmaker” was viciously mocked after begging his followers for ideas on what to make. “I will have 30k to make a fully AI film, what’s the plan?” wrote the filmmaker, Ian Durar, in a tweet. “I’m supposed to have ideas by next week. cmon guys what do you want to see? I like sci-fi but it feels to obvious for AI.” Nothing says creativity like crowdsourcing ideas on X, right? Reid So

Getty / Futurism Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI surveillance company whose CEO wants to end all crime within the decade by blanketing the country in ever-watchful security cameras. That startling figure comes courtesy of NPR, which reports that concerned activists are putting mounting pressure on cities to cut ties with the company. “We are seeing a lot more momentum,” Will Freeman, a Col

Getty Images Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI — especially about the tech’s effects on the environment. From today’s vantage point, some of the corporate claims floating around back then sound patently absurd: Google insisted that AI had the potential to “mitigate 5-10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions,” while Microsoft enthused that the new tech would “accelerate the discovery and development of sustainab

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for JBS Foods are paralyzed as an $11 million ransomware attack takes out their processing facilities. Some 2.2 million workers at Stop & Shop and Hannaford have their personal data exposed as the result of a cyberattack on parent company Ahold Delhaize USA. These scenarios, straigh

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty Images AI leaders insist they’ve got humanity’s best interests in mind. If we’re to take them at their word, then we must say: they have a really unfortunate habit of sounding like they have nothing but contempt for the human race. The latest case in point: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s tone-deaf comments at an event hosted by The Indian Express — made fresh off his skin-crawlingly awk

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Lazy undergrads rejoice. A new AI “homework agent” can supposedly log into your account on the learning management system Canvas and automatically complete your homework and assignments for you — streamlining the laborious, outdated process of having to copy-paste answers from ChatGPT. Called “Einstein,” the AI can even participate in discussions, reply to your peers, write essays, and ta

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its cheap and serviceable V3 model early last year, it sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and beyond, roiling the stock market, shaking political confidence in American AI, and stoking new fears from the ever-churlish China hawks. A year later, DeepSeek is preparing to launch its new V4 model — a development which could have major implicati

Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot Earlier this month, Google publicly griped that “commercially motivated” actors were trying to clone its Gemini AI through agents that queried the chatbot up to 100,000 times to “extract” the underlying model. The hypocrisy of Google’s accusations was palpable. For years, the search giant has relied on indiscriminately scraping the internet for content to train its AI models, without compensating copyright holders — and

Alex Wong/Getty Images During a November podcast appearance alongside OpenAI investor Grad Gerstner, CEO Sam Altman lost his cool. After Gerstner challenged him on how a company “with $13 billion in revenues” can “make $1.4 trillion of spend commitments” through 2030, Altman got catty. “If you want to sell your shares, I’ll find you a buyer,” Altman snapped. “Enough.” At the time, despite certain pangs of panic over a growing AI bubble, the hype was at an

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andreas Solaro / AFP via Getty In a closed-door meeting with clergy from the Diocese of Rome late last week, Pope Leo XIV clobbered his priests with a distinctly 21st-century request: to resist the “temptation to prepare homilies with artificial intelligence,” according to Vatican News. “Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die,” the Pope reportedly sai

Iona Wolff / BAFTA via Getty Images / Futurism Disaster tends to strike when you let automated systems distribute news, especially on sensitive topics. The latest case in point: how Google’s automated news alerts accidentally ended up throwing more fuel onto an already hurtful racial slur controversy that unfolded at the BAFTA awards this weekend. As Deadline reported, Google pushed out a notification linking to an article with the headline, “How the Toure

The right-wing Big Tech executives saw an exodus on the horizon, saying talent would start fleeing the Bay Area because of the state’s progressive policies. They were right; the brain drain has come. Tech talent is leaving Silicon Valley and its progressive policies… and moving to communist New York City and Mayor Mamdani. According to a report from investment firm CBRE, the Big Apple is now the Big Apple (like the company), surpassing the Bay Area in most

The late Spirit Airlines, which shut down all operations earlier this year after filing for bankruptcy for a second time, agreed on Friday to give Google a vast trove of its company records for (what else?) training new AI models. Its former flight attendants have organized to fight back against the deal. On Tuesday, the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), a union representing the ex-Spirit employees, filed an official objection to the agreement in the

This week, Axios obtained a memo written by the National Republican Senatorial Committee that talks about the party’s struggle in Ohio as the Democrats use AI data centers against the Republican candidate. At first glance, it’s a straightforward warning that data center construction could make Republicans who support them vulnerable to attack. But if you read between the lines, there’s a more interesting dynamic at play. The GOP seems to be signalling that

In San Francisco, meetings have reportedly been happening in which Anthropic Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao is taking questions from would-be investors ahead of the public release of the company’s IPO prospectus. Remarkably, that prospectus is expected to include verbiage spelling out the fact that the public is fearful upset about what AI companies are doing, according to CNBC. CNBC, which cites anonymous “people familiar with [the] matter,” first re