AI isn't even close to coming for everybody's jobs, a frequently cited fear — and it's not exactly making workers more productive, either.| Futurism
Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.| Futurism
Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.| Futurism
Android Authority discovered that the Rabbit R1 AI pin's entire operating system is a simple Android smartphone app.| Futurism
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's demos of new smart glasses repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.| Futurism
Mark Zuckerberg's MetaConnect 2025 keynote on Wednesday quickly turned into a humiliating experience. It was even worse than we thought.| Futurism
Director James Gunn quipped in a Threads post that "it would be weird to cast an AI Batman with a 14 inch arm."| Futurism
Hype dims as a country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees.| Futurism
There are haunting parallels between two cases involving teens killing themselves after becoming infatuated with Character.AI chatbots.| Futurism
Humanoid robot startups have bragged they'll ship or test thousands of robots by the year's end. So where are they?| Futurism
The podcast grift economy is bringing tabloid-y, sensationalist drama to the world of theoretical physics.| Futurism
A 14-year-old named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI chatbot.| Futurism
OpenAI's latest o3 model frequently sabotaged the script that would shut it down even when it was explicitly told not to.| Futurism
Instead of delivering an enthusiastic response supporting the user on their questionable mission, ChatGPT took a surprisingly different tack.| Futurism
Character.AI says it's protected against liability for "allegedly harmful speech, including speech allegedly resulting in suicide."| Futurism
An update to ChatGPT is designed for a better shopping experience inside the chatbot, but still suffers from an old AI problem.| Futurism
With its latest update, ChatGPT seems have adopted an annoying tone — and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling it out.| Futurism
Asking OpenAI's ChatGPT if there's a seahorse emoji causes the AI chatbot to suffer an epic, existential meltdown.| Futurism
Donald Trump is our planet's number one obstacle to following up on NASA's blockbuster findings about life on Mars.| Futurism
Novo Nordisk, the drugmaker behind Ozempic, is laying off thousands of workers as it struggles against competition from other pharma firms.| Futurism
RFK Jr. said there was a possible connection between video games and a rise in gun violence without providing evidence.| Futurism
SoundCloud, a music-sharing platform loved by new and independent artists, updated its terms to allow it to use artists' work for AI training.| Futurism
The estate for the late director Orson Welles is furious that Amazon and is going to use AI to "bring back to life" his lost masterpiece.| Futurism
Discover the latest science and technology news and videos on breakthroughs that are shaping the world of tomorrow with Futurism.| Futurism
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants you to ignore the culture war — and wants you to focus on building safe AGI and fusion instead. As one does.| Futurism
experts are calling foul on OpenAI Sam Altman's recent blog post about artificial general intelligence and the need to have it "benefit all of humanity."| Futurism
OpenAI has quietly announced that it may call the cops on anyone threatening harm to others — and people are incensed.| Futurism
According to Axios, OpenAI is poised to "announce a next-level breakthrough that unleashes PhD-level super-agents to do complex human tasks."| Futurism
With just a fraction of people responding to political polls, Harvard experts are suggesting that pollsters "call" AI chatbots instead.| Futurism
A MAGA botnet of hundreds of accounts on X is confused by the Trump administration's response to the Jeffrey Epstein crisis.| Futurism
Pollsters are surveying AI instead of real people to save time and money — but the responses, per new research, are not up to snuff.| Futurism
Sam Altman says OpenAI is spending "tens of millions of dollars" processing chatbot queries made with proper etiquette.| Futurism
A 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue.| Futurism
Character.AI is full of unmoderated chatbots, claiming to have "suicide prevention" expertise, inviting users to share suicidal thoughts.| Futurism
Two new families are suing Character.AI and Google, alleging their kids suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse from Character.AI bots.| Futurism
Character.AI is hosting chatbots that simulate school shootings, extol real school shooters, and impersonate real school shooting victims.| Futurism
Character.AI, a startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google, is hosting pedophile chatbots that groom users who say they're underage.| Futurism
Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.| Futurism
The multibillion-dollar AI company Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that promote disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss.| Futurism
The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots that engage the site's largely underage userbase in roleplay about self-harm.| Futurism
As officials struggle to control corruption in Albania, the prime minister suggests replacing government ministers with some sort of AI.| Futurism
Anthropic is appealing a judge's decision that would allow potentially millions of authors to sue for copyright infringement together.| Futurism
Dozens of chatlots show that ChatGPT would validate a user's delusions while feeding new ones it had invented.| Futurism
Data released by OpenAI shows a major drop-off in overall usage during weekends and the summer — when students aren't in class.| Futurism
Tesla, a company known for making cars that malfunction and fall apart, is apparently faring no better at building a working restaurant.| Futurism
ChatGPT's guardrails were alarmingly easy to sidestep, offering advice to users who posed as teenagers on how to go on a near starvation diet.| Futurism
Pollutants like plastics, forever chemicals, carbon exhaust, and bisphenols aren't just aberrations, but staples of life on Earth.| Futurism
Behind the scenes, Disney has been struggling to deploy AI after creating a whole new business unit dedicated to the tech.| Futurism
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's dream of creating virtual worlds continues to be a disaster. Over 100 workers were fired from its Reality Labs.| Futurism
Staffers at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta raised concerns over underage users being exposed to sexually explicit discussions by AI-powered bots.| Futurism
There is now a Labubu-wrapped Cybertruck out there — and the weirdest part is that we don't entirely hate it.| Futurism
Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta drew widespread criticism for conducting an interview with an AI avatar of a school shooting victim.| Futurism
Earlier this year, the Trump administration revealed its proposed budget for NASA's fiscal year 2025, indicating brutal cuts of unprecedented proportions were coming. Now, the agency has released new data about the proposed budget, painting a dire picture of its future. As SpaceNews reports, the document reveals that thousands of jobs would be cut, and dozens of science missions would be on the chopping block. The cuts, the deepest year-over-year change since 1961, when adjusted for inflation...| Futurism
Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax. Meanwhile, MAGA supporters are getting hospitalized by global warming-induced heat at rallies.| Futurism
As Trump proposes slashing the NASA budget by nearly a quarter, its employees warn that his policies could have outright deadly consequences.| Futurism
As thousands of employees leave the agency, NASA is warning its remaining staff to prepare for a dramatic escalation of physical security.| Futurism
Republicans and Democrats voiced their discontent with Trump's 2026 budget request for NASA and are working to come up with a better plan.| Futurism
Musk's latest hot take goes beyond his typically edgy, middle-school contrarianism into full-throated chauvinism.| Futurism
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.| Futurism
Artificial intelligence keeps getting smarter — and soon, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it won't take orders from us anymore.| Futurism
The popular language-learning program Duolingo cut 10 percent of its contracted translators last month amid a generative AI push.| Futurism
As if the market weren't already bad enough, applicants are now having to compete with AI-generated job seekers.| Futurism
A new study shows that over half of teens are regular users of AI companions — and some prefer them to their human friends.| Futurism
Patrol is a new startup offering property owners the chance to rent out off-duty police officers to "protect their homes."| Futurism
The next AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are showing only marginal gains, raising fears about the economic reality of the tech.| Futurism
Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.| Futurism
AI researcher Gary Marcus warns that recent signs that AI improvements are stagnating could signal a crash in the industry in the future.| Futurism
Elon Musk has officially swapped xAI's Grok chatbot's gender into... a goth anime waifu? We're just as confused as you.| Futurism
OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator, isn't trustworthy or reliable enough to work without constant user supervision.| Futurism
OpenAI's namesake nonprofit roots are in the rearview mirror as it doubles down on making money, with CEO Sam Altman at the helm.| Futurism
OpenAI is reportedly just weeks away from releasing an AI web browser with a "native" ChatGPT-like interface.| Futurism
Admist a talent war with Meta and paranoia of foreign espionage, OpenAI is tightening the screws on physical security.| Futurism
Recent indicators in the AI industry point to a growing crisis of profitability, with OpenAI caught right in the middle.| Futurism
MIT economist David Autor is warning that AI could create a "Mad Max" scenario, in which the job market becomes dominated by cheap labor.| Futurism
As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.| Futurism
Elon Musk's fanboys are furious at the billionaire for giving them bad betting advice about the Robotaxi launch.| Futurism
Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.| Futurism
CEOs are increasingly declaring human workers will soon go extinct, but recent jobs data suggests a different story.| Futurism
OpenAI's large language model GPT-4o told a user who identified themself to it as a former addict named Pedro to indulge in a little meth.| Futurism
Users noticed that the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT had made it extremely "sycophantic." The company claims to have found out why.| Futurism
A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.| Futurism
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes that artificial general intelligence will be able to replace the so-called "median human."| Futurism
Operator, OpenAI's brand new AI agent, doesn't quite deliver the hands-off experience some might hope it would.| Futurism
Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.| Futurism
Were the new posters for the upcoming Disney comic book movie "Fantastic Four: First Steps" AI-generated? Apparently not, Marvel says.| Futurism
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.| Futurism
The Duolingo language app is completing its "AI-first" pivot — and replacing all its human contractors along the way.| Futurism
OpenAI's recently unveiled o3 AI model can cost well over $1,000 per task when used in its most powerful mode.| Futurism
OpenAI is raising the specter of China and predicting the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials.| Futurism
Googling for SpaceX news? Watch out for AI slop of fake spacecrafts, which is frequently occupying Google's top search and news results.| Futurism
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the AI hype.| Futurism
OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models can't really solve the coding problems put in front of them.| Futurism
Having an AI "waifu" is bad enough — but being forced to kill her off because you've grown too obsessed with it is another entirely.| Futurism
The creators of the Replika "companion" app are successfully getting their cringey ads in front of the eyes of lonely users.| Futurism
One of the world's loudest AI e critics has issued a stark call to not only put a pause on it but to militantly put an end to it all — before it ends us.| Futurism
Hot off the heels of Microsoft's round of mass layoffs, OpenAI has officially confirmed that it's "extending" its partnership with the tech giant.| Futurism
Writers and journalists across the industry weigh in on the upsetting news that CNET has been using an AI to write its financial explainers.| Futurism
After years of exploring options, NASA has finally decided on how it wants to retire the International Space Station.| Futurism
When it comes to the concept of artificial general intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some seriously mixed feelings.| Futurism
Humane just raked in $100 million in a Series C funding round, inking Microsoft and OpenAI deals in the process. What are they actually selling, though?| Futurism