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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards This summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved heaven and earth to recharge his company’s lagging AI division, spending billions of dollars to poach top talent across the industry. But it sounds like he’s already falling out with the man he hired to spearhead Meta’s renewed AI efforts, Alexandr Wang. According to new reporting from th

Getty / Futurism According to a fresh study by the Pew Research Center, 64 percent of teens in the US say they already use AI chatbots, and about 30 percent of those who do say they use it at least daily. Yet as previous research has shown, those chatbots come with significant risk to the first generation of kids navigating the intense new software. New reporting by the Washington Post — which has a partnership with OpenAI, it’s worth noting — details a tr

ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images In a new interview with The Financial Times, Yann LeCun, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, finally dished on his abrupt exit from Meta in November. From how he tells it, most of it boils down to his increasingly fraught relationship with CEO Mark Zuckerberg — and his new golden boy, Alexandr Wang, who ended up bossing LeCun around even though he’s nearly four decades younger. LeCun had been at Zuckerberg’s company for

Getty / Futurism Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to their coding questions — and resulting in a vast online repository of coding knowledge. But as Dev Class reports, the advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for the platform, with the number of monthly questions plummeting significantly since around the time ChatGPT burst onto the scene

Getty / Futurism For years now, AI companies, including Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, have insisted that their large language models aren’t technically storing copyrighted works in their memory and instead “learn” from their training data like a human mind. It’s a carefully worded distinction that’s been integral to their attempts to defend themselves against a rapidly growing barrage of legal challenges. It also cuts to the core of copyright law it

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images A veteran programmer shared his brutally honest opinions about AI’s role in the workplace, and it’s as much an indictment of the tech as it is of the organizations lazily deploying it. In an X rant that’s being praised in online programming circles, the programmer, Dax Raad, said that what’s holding back software companies isn’t the speed they’re able to churn out code, but the quality of

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Grammarly is being accused of “necromancy” after users discovered a feature for reviewing manuscripts with AI versions of real professors — some of whom have already left this mortal coil. The issue was first flagged by Verena Krebs, a medieval historian and Ruhr-University Bochum professor. On Sunday, Krebs shared a screenshot showing the “Expert Review” tool allowing users to pick histo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Tax season, that dreaded time of year, is upon us. But if you were hoping that newfangled AI tech could help you file the laborious paperwork — and perhaps find a way of saving you a few bucks — think again. After testing several four leading AI chatbots, the New York Times found that all of them struggled to pick and fill out the correct forms, fumbling key calculations. In all, the bots

Hachette A prominent publisher is pulling a horror novel after the author was widely accused of using AI to help write the book, The New York Times reports. Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishing houses in the US, said it will discontinue selling “Shy Girl” by Mia Ballard in the UK, where it was released last fall and sold 1,800 print copies, per data cited in the reporting. It will also cancel plans to publish a US edition, which was slated to

“This whole thing sucks, and I wish none of it had happened. It’s a really sad day! But I want to make one thing clear: we’ll keep fighting for open-source AI, harder than ever. This is too important to slow down now. Let’s go!,” Delangue wrote on X. This whole thing sucks, and I wish none of it had happened. It’s a really sad day!But I want to make one thing clear: we’ll keep fighting for open-source AI, harder than ever. This is too important to slow dow

Getty / Futurism A dismal job market has given rise to a grim new cottage industry: a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to do the work they can’t get hired for anymore. The company has been recruiting educated and underemployed experts while keeping them fully in the dark about whose AI they’re even training. As New York Magazine reported last month, shifts are also crushingly long, the va

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Think something weird is up with your reflection in the mirror? Allow Grok to interest you in some 15th century anti-witchcraft reading. A new study argues that certain frontier chatbots are much more likely to inappropriately validate users’ delusional ideas — a result that the study’s authors say represents a “preventable” technological failure that could be curbed by design choices. “D

Getty / Futurism Tired of your AI chatbot’s constantly-glazing therapy-speak? You could instead try striking up a conversation with “Talkie,” an old-timey AI model which is trained purely on books, newspapers, and other text sources from before the year 1930. With its thirteen billion parameters, the researchers behind Talkie say it’s the largest “vintage” model they’re aware of, capable of holding down a conversation as if truly stuck in a past when movie

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Even in 2026, there are still plenty of researchers who refuse to use AI to publish their research papers. Others do use the tech for tasks like sourcing journal articles for references, editing copy, or formatting citations — but they face pressure to verify every claim, since AI has a baked-in risk of contaminating their work with hallucinations. A vocal minority of academics, however,

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Earlier this year, a 23-year-old without any formal mathematics training made headlines by claiming he’d used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to solve one of the “Erdős problems” — a database of challenging conjectures left behind by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. Then, last month, scholars were taken aback when OpenAI claimed its AI had disproved an 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture, also dev

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A lawyer was working at a legal tech startup when her boss’s fascination with AI began to veer from enthusiastic to downright obsessive. First he started using OpenAI’s ChatGPT to generate his Slack messages and emails. Then he mandated AI use for all employees. “He called a company-wide meeting to announce that from then on, we had to discuss with the AI prior to all meetings or before c

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A dystopian future where advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems replace human decision-making has long been a trope of science fiction. The malevolent computer HAL, which takes control of the spaceship in Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a chilling example. But rather than being fearful of automation, a more useful response is to consider what types of repetitive human tasks could be safely offloade

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A lot of people still seem convinced that AI will replace every job on Earth, despite the fact that the tech still struggle with simple math. As the AI hype wears increasingly thin, that gap between hype and reality is becoming impossible to ignore. The large language models making up the world’s favorite chatbots might be powerful compared to the predictive text algorithms that came befo

Published on July 16, 2026 at 5:37 PM Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Suno We knew Suno had a voracious appetite for other people’s music. A hack has just turned suspicions into a detailed inventory: millions of tracks scraped from YouTube, Deezer, and Genius to train the AI. A decisive verdict in Germany is just fifteen days away. Music-generating AIs, like LLMs, feed on data, and nobody really overlooks where the fuel comes from. Suno, one of the sector’s most promi