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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images These days, the AI stack beckons: emails, shopping, personal finance — there’s hardly a task some company isn’t clamoring to automate on your behalf. As tempting as it might sound to let AI agents handle your affairs, though, you might want to hold off. A fresh report by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of the UK issued a stark warning that outsourcing responsibilities to an AI

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Andres Kudacki / Getty Images America really hates data centers. While the rise of grassroots data center opposition makes compelling evidence on its own, a new survey by the Pew Research Center shows just how bad the tech industry’s PR problem really is. As flagged by 404 Media, the majority of people surveyed said they think data centers are bad for the environment, home energy costs, and quality of

Cortical Labs Last year, researchers at Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs showed off its CL1, the “world’s first code deployable biological computer” that’s made up of 200,000 living human neurons. In February, the company showed off its progress, demonstrating how the neurons could be taught how to play the seminal video game Doom — a far more complex and impressive showing than much earlier attempts to have them play Pong in 2022. Now, Cortical La

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s public persona depends on a carefully balanced contradiction. Though he presents himself as the thoughtful steward of a dangerous technology, the AI luminary has aggressively pursued relationships with top lawmakers while racing rival tech moguls to the top of the market, consequences be damned. One of the ways he maintains this shtick is by ackno

Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The United States military has an AI hype problem, and if officials aren’t careful, it could lead to civil catastrophe. That’s according to a new analysis by the Brennan Center, a law and policy think tank, contends that the US military’s accelerated deployment of untested AI could lead to “unsafe systems” that inflict “excessive civilian harm and infringe on privacy and civil liberties.”

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Another tech giant is culling immense numbers of workers. On Thursday, prominent Australian software firm Atlassian announced it was laying off ten percent of its workforce, or about 1,600 employees. Like a growing number of its peers, it wasn’t shy about sharing why: a pivot to AI. The company, which makes most of its money by selling collaboration software, said it will “rebalance” its

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Getty / Futurism The use of AI in Hollywood has turned into a lightning rod, especially as ongoing contract negotiations between major studios and the Writers Guild of America drag on. Earlier this week, the union released a list of contract demands, including expanded protections over the use and abuse of AI. On-screen performers and voice actors have also spent many months at the bargaining table with studios over concerns that their likeness and voices

Futurism Open source AI agent OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot, has taken over the internet by storm. The tool allows practically anybody to create autonomous AI agents that can complete complex tasks on your computer, like browsing the web and running scripts. It’s a powerful new take on AI that comes with inherent dangers. After all, you’re letting an AI model loose on your machine, going far outside the confines of the browser-based chat

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images An AI system’s little oopsie, and a police department’s staggering incompetence, landed an innocent grandma in jail. Harrowing reporting by North Dakota radio station WDAY details how the 50-year-old Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in the clink after Fargo cops using an AI facial recognition tool flagged her as a suspect in a bank fraud case in the state. The mother of three — and gr

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Harun Ozalp / Anadolu via Getty Images As xAI reels from a mass exodus of cofounders, remains mired in numerous controversies, and loses ground to competitors like Anthropic, CEO Elon Musk has quietly made a small but significant change to how its flagship chatbot Grok functions. Starting last week, Grok stopped taking questions that free users asked in posts on Musk’s social media site, X, where the

Getty / Futurism As AI companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into buildouts of data centers, they’re looking for ways to keep their sprawling facilities secured around the clock — without having to pay a salary or manage shift changes multiple times a day (maximizing human employment is not a priority in the AI data center business.) As such, they’re turning to robot security guards, as Business Insider reports, especially Boston Dynam

Getty / Futurism In October, ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced it would be opening the floodgates for “mature apps.” “Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases,” he tweeted at the time. “As part of our ‘treat adult users like adults’ principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults,” Altman added. Five months later, an “

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Lionel Hahn / Getty Images Amid its pivot to AI, the Washington Post is abandoning the traditional fix-priced subscription model. According to new reporting from Washingtonian, the once-venerable newspaper will now be setting readers’ subscription rates based on an AI-driven algorithm that interprets their personal data, mirroring controversial schemes used by services like Uber, Ticketmaster, and air

Getty / Futurism In 2025 alone, OpenAI released a controversial text-to-video generator, dubbed Sora, and an abysmally slow web browser called Atlas. It also announced top-secret hardware alongside former Apple exec Jony Ive, and signed a $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense. Meanwhile, the company continues to burn through billions of dollars a month, astronomical losses that have executives there feeling agitated. The company recently

NVIDIA via X Nvidia? The gaming GPU company? On Monday, the multi-trillion dollar AI chipmaker unveiled its latest effort at weaving advances in AI into video games, and it immediately backfired. The feature, DLSS 5, is supposed to be a souped-up version of the deep-learning upscaling tech Nvidia has offered since 2018. The company called it its “most significant breakthrough in computer graphics since the debut of real-time ray tracing” in that same year.

Getty / Futurism AI companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into enormous infrastructure projects, fully expecting demand for their services to spike in the coming years to justify their outsize investments. Reality, however, continues to have a lot of catching up to do. Revenues are still being dwarfed by astronomical capital expenditures as the gulf between the tech industry’s lofty promises of an AI utopia and what the tech is actuall

Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Thousands of tech workers are being laid off, from Atlassian slashing 1,600 jobs to Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block firing almost half its workforce. Meta’s latest round of layoffs is rumored to affect an astonishing 20 percent or more of the company. A common thread among these devastating cuts is industry leaders touting the capabilities of AI, claiming that the tech has made the workers who find themselves on the choppin

reaction-buzzfeed-new-ai-apps2 Futurism BuzzFeed made an unfortunate announcement during its company’s earnings report last week, admitting that “there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern” and that it was “actively exploring strategic options” to address its “liquidity challenges.” The company remains neck-deep in debt, reporting a net loss of $57.3 million for 2025 — and, by most indications, it has yet to succe

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images It was clear that things had gone off the rails when a run-of-the-mill dispute with a homeowner’s association spiraled so far that the plaintiff started invoking the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act — a 1970 federal law meant for prosecuting organized crime groups. The drama started back in early 2025. A married couple in Florida was late on HOA fees totaling a fe