With Meta's new content moderation policies, the company is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women, who are already disproportionately targeted by online vitriol — even as it plans…
Springer Nature, the stalwart publisher of scientific journals including the prestigious Nature as well as the nearly 200-year-old magazine Scientific American, is approaching the authors of papers in its journals with…
Fire Sale As Los Angeles burns, users of the crypto-based platform Polymarket are gleefully placing bets on the devastation caused by the raging wildfire, which has already destroyed more than…
Busted An engineer who goes by the online handle STS 3D created a grim robot that can respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire a rifle at terrifying speeds…
Meta's new hate speech rules — or lack thereof — now allow users to make shockingly misogynistic claims on the company's social networks. A perusal of the latest update to…
A West Coast-based real estate mogul and Elon Musk fan named Keith Wasserman triggered a tidal wave of schadenfreude on social media after begging for "private firefighters" to come "protect…
Battle of Los Angeles NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, the agency's research and development center that's been at the cutting edge of space exploration for decades, is under an evacuation order…
Last month, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski boasted that he hadn't hired anyone in a year as a result of his company embracing AI. Klarna's workforce had shrunk by about 22…
An engineer who goes by the online handle STS 3D has invented an AI-powered robot that can aim a rifle and shoot targets at terrifying speeds. As demonstrated in a…
Ads for sleazy AI services that allow users to generate realistic synthetic video clips of real people kissing are flooding social media — the latest trend in the rise of…
Landlord LiAIson It turns out that many of the country's landlords are using the same artificial intelligence tool to jack up your rent. Packaged as part of the popular property…
TerrorGPT Las Vegas police officials have revealed that active duty Green Beret soldier Matthew Livelsberger, who fatally shot himself and blew up a rented Tesla Cybertruck just outside the Trump…
Death Wish An Arizona man who's been on death row for nearly two decades has an unusual request for the state's highest court: to, essentially, get it over with already. Generally…
Page Burner The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which some users say gave them offensive messages about race and gender, Wired reports.…
In a cringe-inducing attempt to curry favor with president-elect Donald Trump, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping changes on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads that will almost certainly allow hate…
FPV Terrorism The FBI has released extensive first-person footage recorded by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man who drove a rented pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year's…
In an astonishing feat of laziness, Amazon Prime Video service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film "Nosferatu" with a slapdash poster that was obviously generated using AI. The poster…
FUbar In a run-of-the-mill fight on social media — you know, the type that the ultra-wealthy used to remain aloof from — Elon Musk deployed an appalling slur against disabled people.…
Path Forward OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has tried all kinds of rhetorical strategies to suggest that the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is nigh — and in new missive,…
Fiscal Shortage While trying its darndest to become profitable, OpenAI is still falling comically short — which, since it's the 800-pound gorilla in the nascent AI industry, should probably give…