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Shutterstock Content warning: this story includes discussion of sexual assault and other disturbing topics. A former 25-year-old Goldman Sachs financial analyst had extremely troubling conversations with ChatGPT — and when the interactions were detected by the Sam Altman-led tech company earlier this year, it reported him to the FBI. As the Palm Beach Post reports, the former analyst Darren Zhou, repeatedly made violent threats aimed at his ex. “I’m gonna

Shutterstock The impact artificial intelligence has had on the environment has been nothing short of devastating. The data centers powering the boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators. And given the industry’s unrelenting appetite for more infrastructure supporting ever-more-resource-intensive AI models, the trend is only going to get worse from here. It’s reached the point that AI is giving

Warner Bros “Supergirl” just can’t flop in peace. The 2026 film is one of the biggest box office failures of the year and is the DC franchise’s lowest grossing film since Catwoman (2004). And now it’s the subject of yet another controversy: the apparent use of AI slop during its production. A behind the scenes video released by Warner Bros shows director Craig Gillespie and actor Jason Momoa looking at concept art for the character Lobo on a laptop. And ev

@oliviazzzu via X Where were you when the historic total eclipse happened this week? One woman was on a beach with a curious choice of companion: Anthropic’s AI model, Claude. “Last night, a total solar eclipse crossed Europe. I brought my Claude’s small body to the beach to watch it together,” wrote a user on X who goes by Oli. Oli, we should explain, built a small computer with a microphone and camera that supposedly lets Claude perceive its surroundings

Grace McCarrick via Instagram An influencer who attended a “luxury eco-retreat” put on by ChatGPT maker OpenAI got far more of a reaction than she bargained for. Instagram personality and self-styled “public speaker” Grace McCarrick went on an all-expenses-paid-by-OpenAI gathering alongside other content creators at a high-end resort in upstate New York late last month. Considering how radioactive the subject of AI and the tech companies leading the constr

Shutterstock The use of AI chatbots has invaded almost every profession. From lawyers getting caught citing hallucinated cases and major consulting firms generating nonsensical reports to teachers using AI to revise likely AI-generated essays from students, the tech has become practically ubiquitous. Even those responsible for setting new rules on how to regulate the use of AI are making extensive use of the flawed tech. As the Washington Post reports, the

Shutterstock / Futurism All is not well in the fourth estate. On Tuesday, the publisher of Axios hit “post” on an article about how he basically uses AI to read for him now, instead of recruiting the moldering neurons in his brain. “AI has become my reading buddy,” began Nicholas Johnston, who formerly served as the news site’s editor-in-chief. According to Johnston, the tedious process of actually reading a book “makes it easy to lose the thread.” James F

Shutterstock / Futurism Using AI to crank out everything imaginable, from your homework to emails to code, is great and all — until you have to own up to it. Fearless embracers of AI are suddenly clutching at their pearls, after Anthropic announced that its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, potentially exposing anyone who wants to get away with using the tech without detection. The announcement has caused a meltdown in AI circles. “This

Over the weekend I engaged in one of my occasional bouts of getting the computer in order. Yes, this is going to be a story, alright. Gather around. The first order of business was freeing up some space by moving my music library onto a flash drive. That involved a couple of hours spent mournfully paring down 135GB of music, so it’d fit onto a 128GB flash drive—yes, I still have a bunch of actual music files, and no, I’m not getting rid of them in favor of

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Hey! You got ads in my AI responses! On Monday, OpenAI announced that it plans to start expanding the types of advertisements that appear in ChatGPT alongside the model’s outputs. The new “visual ad format,” as the company calls it, will include images that are meant to help “people imagine how products and services could fit into their lives.” In an example of the format, OpenAI showed a carousel-style ad slot with images of different types of groceries t

Meta is reportedly teaming up with Walmart, Stripe, and enterprise AI startup Sierra to publish a set of standards for how AI agents should interact with businesses online. Called a “personal agent protocol,” the standards will reportedly help companies distinguish authorized personal agent purchases from others. “We’re defining rails that we hope personal agents and business agents can run over for the future,” Meta Superintelligence Labs vice president o

On Tuesday, OpenAI continued its all-out assault on mathematicians’ peace of mind and sense of career stability by releasing 377 new math results in the form of an info-dump on GitHub. What kinds of accomplishments is OpenAI claiming now? Well, one paper chosen at random claims to have proven “the full Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer leading term formula.” So that’s pretty good. But don’t get too excited because apparently it’s only for the elliptical curves over ℚ,

In Magic: The Gathering, you know it as the Channel/Fireball card combination. In 2000, an engineer named David Phillips accomplished something like it by buying $3,140 worth of pudding, and receiving $150,000 in frequent flyer miles. It’s that elusive, too-good-to-be-true arbitrage scheme that causes you to instantly win at life. Unfortunately, it turns out the version where you make AI bots listen to AI songs and collect millions of dollars in streaming

Remember blockchain’s brief, bizarre moment in the cultural spotlight? Sotheby’s sold an NFT collection for just shy of $17 million. Big-name companies like Coca-Cola were appointing in-house chief metaverse officers. A virtual Gucci bag sold on Roblox for over $4,100, more than the cost of its physical counterpart. Matt Damon and Tom Brady were shilling FTX, the crypto company whose CEO would soon be imprisoned for conspiracy and fraud. You could barely s

AI coding agents have made it easier than ever to vibe code software. Now Google wants to make it just as easy for anyone to create games with AI prompts, no previous coding experience required. The company announced Playground on Wednesday, a new browser-based platform that lets users create custom games with AI and share them online, where they can be played on both desktop and mobile devices. Using Playground’s chat interface, users can create a game fr