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Ken Cedeno / AFP via Getty Images While the US appears to be further away from meaningful AI regulations than ever before, lawmakers certainly have plenty of ideas on how the country could go about setting meaningful rules. It’s a particularly precarious moment as fears over rogue AI models wreaking havoc and endangering humanity continue to mount. Even tech leaders from the majority of frontier AI labs have started to coalesce around the idea that the ind

huskirl via X Don’t ask an AI chatbot how many letter e’s there are in the word “seventeen.” Or do, actually, if you want to see how dodgy the tech remains. In a clip that’s gone viral in AI circles, the content creator who goes by “Husk” asks ChatGPT’s Voice mode to answer this simple counting question. Not only does the confident-sounding AI get it wrong — insisting there’re only three e’s instead of four — it doubles down so vehemently that it effective

Shutterstock / Futurism The state of our inboxes here at Futurism is chaotic. Every day is a cacophony of PR pitches, deranged rants, irrelevant news updates, and too-good-to-be-true business opportunities. (Don’t worry, though: we read every email.) But what’s really caught our eye lately is a growing number of cold emails that admit right in the subject field that they’re from an “AI agent” — more than a dozen so far over the last six week alone — that a

Shutterstock / Futurism So far, the long-fear AI job-apocalypse has been little more than smoke and mirrors, with one gigantic exception: entry-level tech workers. According to a new report on New York City jobs data compiled by the nonprofit Center for an Urban Future — first reported by the City — job postings for entry-level roles in “computer and mathematical” occupations has plummeted by 49 percent since 2022, the latest indication that tech firms are

Shutterstock / Futurism AI is supposedly going to kill us all, but at least it’s doing wonders for the stocks for a few multibillion-dollar companies. Mounting fears over the technology’s existential risks reached a fever pitch over the weekend, tanking AI chip stocks across the globe. This earthshattering discussion had a curious aftershock, though. Instead of double-checking their fortified bunkers, investors poured even more money into Microsoft, Google

Getty Images / Xvision With Wall Street on pins and needles amidst a wide-ranging discussion of AI safety, we may well be living through one of the most consequential weeks for the future of AI in the United States. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re headed to an ascendant future for the AI industry. According to London-based firm Capital Economics, the entire economy of the Western world is currently mired in a “late-stage bubble” — a massive misallocati

A stylized photo shows Justin Brown, Lachlan Brown, and Brendan Brown (Brown Brothers Media / Futurism) In September 2024, an entrepreneur named Justin Brown uploaded a YouTube video in which he argued that writers should be “scared right now” about the rise of AI. “I think that one of the big dangers is that AI is going to take many people’s jobs,” Brown muses to the camera as he hikes through a national park in Australia. “This includes writers, by the w

Shutterstock / Futurism If you ever feel like spilling your guts to ChatGPT, just know that you may have an audience. 404 Media reports that OpenAI is hiring hundreds of employees to sift through and read users’ prompts — including messages that contain sensitive personal information. This isn’t part of a moderation effort. Instead, by reviewing the prompts, OpenAI hopes to improve the responses that ChatGPT gives. The contractors rate and critique each of

There is little reason to hold out hope for future generations of cheap gaming gadgets. Today’s case in point is the Acer Predator Atlas 8, a gaming handheld that became so popular it sold out. Now, just two weeks after launch, it costs $150 more. The originally $1,300 Predator Atlas 8 became a hot-ticket handheld at launch, mostly because of its chip—the Intel G3 Extreme—and price point that was $500 cheaper than the similar MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ (though you

For game developer teams, the Independent Games Festival (IGF) is a very big deal. A nomination for the IGF Awards provides a game with priceless publicity, including a showcase at the festival, and a shot at winning one of the industry’s most prestigious independent gaming honors. The Awards are judged by panels of industry representatives—and this year, 19 such jurors have issued a statement declaring that they will not vote for “any game that uses gener

The Ninja Combi multicooker offers 14 different cooking functions and has massive, XL capacity that lets you cook bigger batches with ease. It can replace at least five kitchen appliances, so you can get everything from starters to main courses and desserts done with a single one! Amazon’s early Black Friday deal has now dropped this multifunctional appliance by 28%. It takes $70 off the Ninja Combi’s usual $250 price, so you can grab it for $180 instead.

As global temperatures rise, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is disappearing at an alarming rate. Scientists have grown increasingly concerned that its outlet glaciers—including Thwaites, also known as the “doomsday glacier”—are going to collapse. A deeper look at the ice sheet’s climate history has only heightened their alarm. A study published Monday in the journal Nature Communications presents direct evidence that West Antarctica’s most vulnerable ice str

OpenAI says it used its own AI models to root out what sounds like some kind of alleged corporate spy. They say they handed them over to the FBI, who made an arrest on October 9. OpenAI told Gizmodo the employee had been working in product at OpenAI since July of last year. According to OpenAI, it performs regular security sweeps, and during one such sweep of a conference room on September 30, its technical surveillance countermeasures found something susp