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Jason Bollenbacher/Getty/Futurism In March, legacy content farm BuzzFeed conceded that there was “substantial doubt” about its “ability to continue” doing business. At the time, the company was reporting a net loss of $57.3 million for 2025, suggesting former CEO Jonah Peretti’s controversial decision to double down on AI content had officially blown up in his face. Months later, it’s looking like BuzzFeed’s fears are coming true. A brief glimpse at its st

Shutterstock / Futurism Huge numbers of kids are turning to AI for schoolwork and emotional support — habits that are linked to poor mental health and suicidal ideation. According to a new survey by the mental health advocacy group JED Foundation, 90 percent of nine to 17 year olds have used an AI chatbot. The majority of them, 58 percent, said they use AI for schoolwork. And nearly the same portion, 57 percent, said they also use AI when feeling sad, stre

westpa1 / Shutterstock Voters across the US have sent data center developers packing, in a bruising defeat for the tech lobby across local and state battlegrounds. The midterm elections on Tuesday saw 41 anti-data center ballot measures go up for a vote across 10 states, a blend of moratoriums on new developments and measures meant to clear the way for further data center expansion. The results were nearly total: after the dust settled, only a single measu

Olivia Reingold via X A journalist is being raked over the coals after she was caught using AI to edit a photo of an election night party of Michigan Democrats. The journalist, Olivia Reingold, is a staff writer for The Free Press, a conservative, billionaire-aligning media outlet best known for ragging about perceived instances of “wokeness” in culture and attacking critics of Israel. As part of her coverage, Reingold posted a photo on X singling out a wo

Yanis Deplazes / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images Anti-AI activists in Amsterdam flooded onto an unfinished Microsoft data center campus on Friday as part of a massive demonstration against big tech. The protest, first reported in the US by The Verge, saw around 100 activists scale the site’s fences and block construction, while hundreds more demonstrated against the AI industry outside. At one point, a handful of protestors even scaled a massive construc

Shutterstock / Futurism Big tech got a bruising reality check after this week’s midterm elections. American voters overwhelmingly voted for candidates promising to hold Silicon Valley leaders accountable — while approving dozens of ballot measures opposing the construction of data centers. It was a striking and bipartisan message that was followed by mass panic on Wall Street. On Thursday, a massive sell off wiped out a record $2.3 trillion in market value

Starbucks announced on an earnings call Thursday that it would be focused on “major tech modernization” in 2027, including through greater use of artificial intelligence. That part isn’t surprising given the fact that just about every company says it wants to deploy more AI these days. But one tech application stood out on the earnings call, and it recalls one particular scene from the 2002 sci-fi movie Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg and sta

Unless you take extraordinary measures, you’re probably not getting your hands on an iPhone Duo for the remainder of this calendar year. There’s a whole constellation of reasons for this, and according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, one bright star in that formation is that sharp-elbowed scalpers—as well as non-scalping consumers—are using AI agents to jostle for advantage. As Gurman phrases it, “scalpers and other buyers are using AI-powered bots to monitor

“Compute campuses.” That’s the latest AI newspeak. This time, the proposed rebrand is coming from OpenAI, whose spokesperson apparently confirmed to Business Insider on Sunday that this was its new preferred nomenclature. “Compute campuses better describes the scale and role of the infrastructure we’re building for AI,” they told Insider, adding, “These are long-term investments in computing, energy infrastructure and skilled work.” Back in September, this

For the past few years, AI boosters have been wearing out their little cliché that says in the future, every human job will be management of AI employees. That cliché looks like it’s turning out to be increasingly accurate, but in literally the worst possible area of human endeavor: love. Two similar horror stories came out this weekend—fittingly on Halloween. One in the Guardian was about a survey from Match Group providing some data about AI’s prevalence

People who asked Google’s AI some political questions this week reported strange answers. Who won the 2020 presidential election? It was Joe Biden, of course, who beat Donald Trump. But some folks were served what amounts to a non-response. The Google non-response some people saw read: “For official results and data regarding the 2020 United States presidential election, including the certified breakdown of electoral and popular votes by candidate, you can

On Friday afternoon, Elon Musk confidently declared to the world that “Saving money for the distant future is pointless with the advent of super intelligent abundance.” Three days later, the same Elon Musk said the cost of running AI was getting a little too steep even for him, and that he needed to start saving a little money. The billionaire appears to have imposed a tighter-than-usual weekly token limit on Grok Bot, the always-on AI agent launched by hi

Having hoovered up basically the entire world of literature, music, and visual art, the insatiable AI behemoth has moved on to software. There’s been a constant barrage of headlines over the last few weeks about the latest piece of software to get a vibe-coded “clone”: entire games, big-ticket software packages, and everything in between. These projects have stepped on some of the biggest toes in the world of software development, so it’s perhaps not surpr

When Anthropic first filed its S-1, the initial registration statement that is required of any company that intends to become publicly traded, it left the most recent quarter of financial figures blank. On Monday, it started filling in those previously missing earnings, and you’ll be shocked to learn that it shows the company spending a lot more than it earns. First, the glass-half-full view for the AI optimists: Anthropic reported about $17 billion in thi

OpenAI announced Monday that a new role called “Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization” would exist, and be filled by none other than former Trump Administration Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. OpenAI’s announcement explains that Driscoll’s job will be to provide guidance on how AI might “strengthen national and cyber security, with a particular focus on working with U.S. allies to advance its responsible use.” Meanwhile, OpenAI’s teams will rec

AI proponents like Bill Gates and Jensen Huang have suggested that AI could one day lead to shorter workweeks. Even critics like Sen. Bernie Sanders have renewed calls for a 32-hour workweek as AI threatens to transform the labor market. “At a time when artificial intelligence and robotics will radically transform our economy, it is imperative that the financial gains from this new technology benefit working families, not just a handful of billionaires and

As cybercriminals eagerly embrace AI tools, OpenAI needs all the help it can get securing its own systems from external hacks. That includes teaming up with a shadowy cybersecurity startup founded by a cadre of former DOGE employees. The startup, called Cathedral, is best known for reportedly hacking into Anthropic’s private systems as part of the AI lab’s bug bounty program. Cathedral told the Washington Post that the hack was performed in under twelve ho