Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors (futurism.com)
Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic (futurism.com)
AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble (futurism.com)
As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.
Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods (futurism.com)
Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)
Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...
Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy, Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source (futurism.com)
"There's no way to get there without a breakthrough," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that AI will soon need even more energy.
Video Shows First Neuralink Patient Playing Mario Kart With His Mind (futurism.com)
Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn? (futurism.com)
A very NSFW website called Pornpen.ai is churning out an endless stream of graphic, AI-generated porn. We have mixed feelings.
Google’s Search AI Says Slavery Was Good, Actually (futurism.com)
Google's AI-driven Search Generative Experience have been generating results that are downright weird and evil, ie slavery's positives.
Oprah Exits Weight Watchers Board After Admitting She Took Weight Loss Meds, Stock Tumbling (futurism.com)
In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From (futurism.com)
Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him (futurism.com)
Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy (futurism.com)
Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing (futurism.com)
Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)
Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....
Suing Writers Seethe at OpenAI's Excuses in Court (futurism.com)
Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft "Makeshift Biohazard Suits" (futurism.com)
On Friday, an international Delta flight bound for sunny Barcelona was forced to U-turn back to its starting point, Atlanta, for an exceedingly rare air travel horror: a passenger had suffered diarrhea throughout the plane’s aisle so extensively that completing the flight was deemed untenable....
Actor at Willy Wonka Disaster Says Even the Script Was AI-Generated (futurism.com)
OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub (futurism.com)
New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
Doctors Concerned About Neuralink's First Patient (futurism.com)
• Concerns rise as Neuralink fails to provide evidence of brain implant success, raising safety and transparency questions....
The Mighty Cybertruck Keeps Getting Stuck in the Snow (futurism.com)
LOL...
Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark (futurism.com)
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use" (futurism.com)
In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate “NSFW stuff” for users — and he has examples of just what kind of “stuff” he means....
Owner of Destructoid, The Escapist, Siliconera, and others Fires Writers and Hires for "AI Editor" to Churn Out Hundreds of Articles Per Week (futurism.com)
According to their website, Publications owned by GAMURS Group include:...
