To defend against Russian aggression Eastern Europe is considering a “drone wall.” The idea is to use sensors, drones, and counter-drone systems arranged along Russia’s border to deter and destroy drones. The project is ambitious and would require unprecedented cooperation from multiple countries to pull off. Rene Ehasalu, the Cluster Manager for the Estonian Defense […]
Did Trump Use ChatGPT to Determine Disastrous New Tariffs?
Following President Trump’s announcement of sweeping global tariffs on Wednesday, users on social media were quick to try and decipher the math behind them. On top of a baseline 10% tariff against the entire world, individual countries will face additional tariffs based on how “unfairly” Trump believes they are treating the U.S. It turns out, […]
That Tweet About Elon Musk’s Botched Penis Being Real Is Fake
Did Ashley St. Clair, the MAGA influencer who says Elon Musk is the father of her child, confirm rumors that the billionaire oligarch had a “botched” penis enlargement surgery? There’s a screenshot of a tweet that’s going viral on social media right now that appears to show exactly that. But the screenshot is completely fake. […]
YouTube Pauses Monetization for 2 Fake Movie Trailer Accounts
A few days ago, it was reported major Hollywood studios were monetizing fake movie trailers that use generative AI. Seeing this, YouTube’s now decided to cut that off and paused a pair of channels best known for those trailers. Per Deadline, which initially reported on this, YouTube’s turned off the ad revenue for Screen Culture […]
AI Experts Say We’re on the Wrong Path to Achieving Human-Like AI
According to a panel of hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, the field is currently pursuing artificial general intelligence the wrong way. This insight was revealed at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)’s 2025 Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research. The lengthy report was put together by 24 AI researchers whose […]
ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli AI Art Trend Is an Insult to Life Itself
In the past, OpenAI has explicitly refrained from allowing users to create prompts and generate images mimicking Studio Ghibli’s art style to avoid potential copyright lawsuits from the anime giant. That is, until the company released a new ChatGPT update earlier this week touting its technological ability to create more “precise, accurate, photorealistic outputs.” The […]
Garmin’s New Paid Tier Is Filled With AI, but Actually Seems Useful
If there’s anything we’ve been learning these last couple of months, all good things must end. Fortunately, Garmin isn’t putting an end to its free tier, but it is introducing a premium plan called Garmin Connect+. The perks will sound familiar if you subscribe to apps like Strava. And because its 2025, the paid features […]
You Can Now Peruse All the Books Meta Pirated to Train its AI
Our access to free literature is being abused from two ends, on one side is a U.S. government taken over by tech oligarchs, the other side is some of the oligarchs and other big tech firms. AI developed by companies like Meta have gobbled up millions upon millions of books from piracy sites. But if […]
Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism
The dystopian future is here. Yale University has suspended a scholar in its law school after a Jewish news website that uses AI to produce articles called her a member of a terrorist group. It comes as the Trump administration has launched a relentless campaign to silence any speech sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Already, […]
Sam Altman’s AI Short Story Sucks, and He Doesn’t Know Why
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s job is to talk up the promise of AI, whether its capacity to destroy the job market, destroy the world, or merely how well ChatGPT can put words in front of other words. Like most tech bros who read science fiction and imagine themselves creating the “torment nexus” of their dreams, […]