Futurism

The Money OpenAI Is Making by Betraying Its Nonprofit Roots Is Obscene OpenAI is in talks about a stock sale that would value it at half a trillion dollars, leaving its nonprofit roots in the rearview mirror.

So much for being "unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."

Mathematicians Startled by 17-Year-Old With Uncanny Abilities A brilliant teen who honed her skills during the COVID-19 pandemic has solved one of math's most frustrating problems.

"We were all shocked, absolutely."

Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious Eventually, aging comes for us all — but new evidence suggests that it might be contagious as well, at least within our bodies.

This may age you.

Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons Experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes during a meeting last month.

"It’s going to find its way into everything."

Not a "3D Body": New Paper Finds Something Very Weird About the Shroud of Turin The mysterious Shroud of Turin, believed by Christians to have laid atop Jesus Christ's body, may be even stranger than we previously thought.

"Significantly distorted."

Scientists Just Found Something Very Weird About the Mysterious Object Hurtling Into Our Solar System Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb is still holding onto hope that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by extraterrestrials.

What happened to its tail?

Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.

"What you’re talking about is super dangerous."

Wild New Robot Dog Is So Strong You Can Ride It Like a Four-Legged Skateboard Chinese robot maker Unitree has shown off its next quadripedal robot dog, which is strong enough to hold a 220-pound adult on its back.

Eat your heart out, Tony Hawk.

Former Google Exec Warns That If You Have a Good Job Now, You Should Be Terrified of AI Google's former chief business officer, Mo Gawdat, warned that AI could soon replace white-collar jobs, including CEOs.

Is that what we really want?

Disney’s Secret Experiments With AI Have Reportedly Been a Comical Disaster Behind the scenes, Disney has been struggling to deploy AI after creating a whole new business unit dedicated to the tech.

It's bringing down the mouse.

ChatGPT Now Issuing Warnings to Users Who Seem Obsessed After months of warnings from experts and users alike, OpenAI has issued a small update to give users "gentle reminders" to take breaks.

"Want more info on bridges? Or back to Wall Street/job stuff?"

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry are calling on OpenAI to prove that it has not betrayed humanity.

"OpenAI is currently sitting on both sides of the table in a closed boardroom, making a deal on humanity's behalf..."

Med Student Horrified to Learn How Much His Zoomer Patient Was Actually Vaping Medical student Eryney Marrogi found that a "zoomer patient" had been taking in huge amounts of nicotine through disposable vapes.

"That's like nicotine equivalent of 30ish packs of cigs EVERY DAY."

"I Had an Immediate Physical Convulsion": Cybertruck Completely Covered by Labubus There is now a Labubu-wrapped Cybertruck out there — and the weirdest part is that we don't entirely hate it.

"I had an immediate physical convulsion upon seeing this image."

Tesla Investors Are Suing Elon Musk Over His Disastrous Robotaxi Debut Tesla shareholders have sued CEO Elon Musk and his carmaker, claiming that the he had hidden significant risk with the company's robotaxis.

They're accusing him of securities fraud.

Nearly Two Months After OpenAI Was Warned, ChatGPT Is Still Giving Dangerous Tips on Suicide to People in Distress New research has found that the top LLM chatbots are remarkably easy to trick into supplying information about suicide and self-harm.

OpenAI's mental health "guardrails" are a disgrace.

If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself Google's notorious AI Overviews feature appears to have finally gotten it right — but probably for all the wrong reasons.

Look who's talking!

If the AI Bubble Pops, It Could Now Take the Entire Economy With It AI companies are pouring so much money into AI, it may be propping up the US economy, which could make a bubble pop an even bigger disaster.

Too big to fail.

Public Horrified by Jim Acosta's Latest Stunt Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta drew widespread criticism for conducting an interview with an AI avatar of a school shooting victim.

"This is absolutely deranged."

Researchers Press Pause on AI Therapy Bot After Reports of AI Psychosis in Similar Products A vitiligo research group has "hit pause" on its forthcoming AI therapy bot after learning how, well, crazy other chatbots have made people.

"Empathy without accountability isn’t therapy."

OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Missed Signs of Delusions in Users Struggling With Mental Health OpenAI provided a rare update regarding reports of AI psychosis, vowing that ChatGPT will get "better" at detecting signs of mental distress.

"We don't always get it right."

Rod Stewart Revives Selfie Stick-Wielding Ozzy Osbourne In Disgusting AI Slop Video Ozzy Osbourne's body is barely cold, but already, he's been subjected to AI resurrection by fellow musician and contemporary Rod Stewart.

Wake up Ozzy, I think I've got something to say to you.

Funeral Homes Are Using ChatGPT to Churn Out Lazy Obituaries Funeral companies and grieving families are turning to AI chatbots to cough up obituaries for the recently deceased.

"Wouldn't it still mean something, even if it was written by a machine?"

Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to "Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant" Tens of thousands of ChatGPT conversations were mistakenly shared by users who used a feature that OpenAI has swiftly removed.

Such empowering tech.

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

"This is illegal."

Baby Born Already 30 Years Old The world's "oldest baby" has been born to a couple who are, technically, just a few years older than the newborn himself.

"We thought it was wild."

Job Seekers Disgusted When They Show Up to Job Interviews and the "Interviewer" Isn't Even Human Job seekers are getting increasingly frustrated with encountering AI interviewers during their search for employment.

"I don’t want to work for a company if the HR person can’t even spend the time to talk to me."

In Desperate Bid to Get Elon Musk to Stay, Tesla Awards Him $29 Billion Tesla has awarded its controversial CEO Elon Musk a whopping $29 billion worth of its shares in a desperate bid to keep him at the firm

"The war for AI talent is intensifying."

Expert Says a Specific Group of People Is Leading to the Collapse of Human Civilization A new book that covers 5,000 years and the collapse of more than 400 societies argues that we're in for a rude awakening.

And you'll never guess who's to blame.

These Behind-the-Scenes Emails From Tesla Meekly Begging the State of California to Allow Its Horrible Robotaxis Are Unintentionally Hilarious As Elon Musk confidently boasts about his outrageous robotaxi ambitions, his company is privately begging regulators to not clip their wings.

Please, sir, don't punish our humble trillion dollar company!