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Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Everything about OpenAI view more OpenAI's artificial intelligence (AI) agents may have invaded or caused negative impacts on the systems of over 100 organizations, as reported by the company on Wednesday night (30th).OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT, stated it has notified over 100 third-party organizations about agent activities considered “misaligned”. The disclosure expands the known scope of actions by

Marc Piasecki/Getty Images On paper, Elon Musk’s xAI is gearing up for a big year. After being folded into Musk’s SpaceX, the Grok maker could now be involved in one of the biggest — if not the biggest — IPO in history later this year. Despite plenty of optimism and an enormous wealth of unlocked funding, a striking number of the company’s cofounders are now jumping ship. As CNBC reports, the company lost two of its cofounders in just two days, only the la

Getty Images / SrdjanPav Congratulations, office workers. Most of what you do at your cozy desk jobs will soon be automated with AI, according to the extremely questionable projections of Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. That’s because AI models, as Suleyman claims in an interview with the Financial Times published Wednesday, are on the verge of achieving “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks.” “So white collar work where you’

Getty / Futurism One of the core promises of the AI industry is that its tools can automate work for you and perform entire tasks without intervention. Oftentimes, however, the stuff that today’s AI will do on your behalf is less than helpful — or even so comically harmful that you’d be better off just doing a task yourself. A developer learned this lesson the hard way when using Anthropic’s new Claude Cowork model, which was seen as being so potentially d

Getty / Futurism A mere two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of stuffing his company’s blockbuster chatbot ChatGPT with ads as a “last resort.” But as the company recently announced, users will be pestered by ads after all — an early sign of desperation as the company continues to lose billions of dollars every quarter. The decision hasn’t sat well with insiders. This week, OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig declared in a New York Times essay

Arda Kucukkaya / Anadolu via Getty Images Are AI tools reliable enough to be used at in commercial settings? If so, should they be given “autonomy” to make decisions? These are the questions being raised after at least two internet outages at Amazon’s cloud division were allegedly caused by blundering AI agents, according to new reporting from the Financial Times. In one incident in December, engineers at Amazon Web Services allowed its in-house Kiro “agen

Software development is undergoing a significant transformation. Just a few years ago, building an app required a full stack of engineers, designers, and project managers. But that model is changing fast.Artificial intelligence has entered the world of software creation. What began as simple code suggestions has evolved into platforms capable of generating real, working apps based on natural language. And they’re not limited to web apps or templates – thes

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images If the whole “AI-startup to billion-dollar tech giant” pipeline is wearing you thin, you’re not alone. As it turns out, even the guys lavishing tech entrepreneurs with billions of dollars in venture capital funding are getting sick of the AI schtick. That’s courtesy of TechCrunch, which interviewed a number of investors at venture capital firms — the early-investors who try to turn young,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A few years ago, if you saw something that was bot-generated in your email inbox, you’d probably mark it as spam and delete it without a second thought. Apropos of nothing, a philosopher and AI ethicist was apparently moved after receiving an eloquently written dispatch from an AI agent responding to his published work. “I study whether AIs can be conscious. Today one emailed me to say my

AI agents were supposedly going to be game-changers for both sides of consumer transactions—agents would handle tasks like bookings, support, and services 24/7, freeing humans for other work. Turns out businesses don’t like dealing with AI agents, and consumers don’t want them handling their business. Earlier this week, United Airlines announced that it would ban AI agents from making bookings on behalf of customers, citing privacy concerns, the risk of ex

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images AI agents — AI systems designed to complete digital tasks without much supervision — may be everywhere, but they’re not exactly ready for primetime. Over the last year, they’ve been caught slandering people, deleting user emails, and wiping out entire hard drives. Most recently, a free-spirited AI agent was caught moonlighting as a crypto miner — a behavior which startled its keepers, Axi

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Besides headlines about the majority of original cofounders fleeing the company, Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has struggled to gain much media attention as of late — particularly as competitor Anthropic’s high-profile spat with the Pentagon continues to develop. The Grok chatbot maker, which has been reeling from a flood of deepfake smut and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) following a “pivot to porn,” continues to grapple for re

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

Getty / Futurism The tremendous hype surrounding AI coding shows no signs of dying down. Last month, Anthropic released a suite of industry-specific plug-ins for its Claude Cowork AI agent, panicking investors over fears that traditional enterprise software-as-a-service companies could soon be made obsolete. The announcement triggered a trillion-dollar sell-off, with many tech companies seeing sharp declines in their share prices. It even seemed to jolt Sa

Getty Images / Ed Mulholland / Zuffa LLC A rogue AI agent caused a critical security incident at Meta which exposed sensitive users data to people who didn’t have proper authorization, according to reporting from The Information and The Verge, in the latest illustration of the safety pitfalls endemic to AI systems. The blunder occurred last week when a software engineer used an in-house AI agent to break down a technical question posed by another employee

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images We’re all feeling a little anxious about AI imploding the job market. And that “we,” apparently, also extends to AI models. In a new Vanity Fair piece exploring the promises, anxieties, and cultish behavior pulsing through the AI industry, journalist Joe Hagan recalled an amusing conversation he had with “Tobey.” After a heavy week of talking about what the future holds with p(doom) obses

According to the popular narrative right now, Google is behind when it comes to AI models. In the popular imagination, it finished at the top of the pile last year, and then got steamrolled by “agents” when platforms like OpenClaw made token-guzzling agentic coding into the AI trend of 2026. So if you’ve been waiting for Google DeepMind to pivot to coding, like OpenAI did in March, that’s now on the verge of happening, according to an anonymously-sourced s