The massive data center buildout happening across the country is driving up energy prices for local communities, creating shortages and strains as AI companies hammer the grid with demand. To solve that without telling tech companies to get bent (not that we should dismiss that option), we need to rapidly increase the available energy supply, […]
Anthropic Accidentally Gives the World a Peek Into Its Model’s ‘Soul’
Artificial intelligence models don’t have souls, but one of them does apparently have a “soul” document. A person named Richard Weiss was able to get Anthropic’s latest large language model, Claude 4.5 Opus, to produce a document referred to as a “Soul overview,” which was seemingly used to shape how the model interacts with users […]
Grok Would Still Choose Killing All Jews Over Destroying Elon Musk’s Brain
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has spent 2025 praising Adolf Hitler, spreading conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa, and telling users that Musk is smarter than Albert Einstein. And while it seems like Musk has recently dialed back the Hitler knob, Grok still gives some highly questionable responses. Most recently, Futurism spotted a […]
Apple Has Announced the Retirement and Apparent Replacement of the Guy Formerly in Charge of Siri
In a press release today, Apple announced the retirement of John Giannandrea, a former machine learning luminary who worked as Apple’s senior vice president for machine learning and AI strategy starting in 2018. The move comes after Apple’s most famous AI product, Siri, had developed a reputation as an embarrassing, outdated relic of the pre-ChatGPT […]
438 Reasons to Doubt that David Sacks Should Work for the Federal Government
A new report from the New York Times digs into the financial disclosures of President Trump’s AI and crypto czar, PayPal Mafia founding member David Sacks, and finds ample reason to doubt that he could possibly advise anyone, let alone the president, on AI and crypto impartially. One telling detail in the Times’ piece is […]
AI Is Keeping Coal on Life Support
The fanciful, futuristic dream of an AI era has been powered by present-day energy all along. Increasingly, though, it looks like it’s going to be powered by yesterday’s energy too, by which I mean coal, an energy source with climate change externalities comparable to other combustible fuel, but with deadly effects on the local environment. […]
MIT Report Claims 11.7% of U.S. Labor Can Be Replaced with Existing AI
Last week, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a study claiming that AI is already capable of replacing 11.7% of existing U.S. labor. It’s certainly the kind of eye-popping study guaranteed to get a lot of eyes on researchers’ work at a time of shaky faith in AI, as stockholders might want some reassurance that […]
Judge Says ICE Used ChatGPT to Write Use-of-Force Reports
Last week, a judge handed down a 223-page opinion that lambasted the Department of Homeland Security for how it has carried out raids targeting undocumented immigrants in Chicago. Buried in a footnote were two sentences that revealed at least one member of law enforcement used ChatGPT to write a report that was meant to document […]
All the Bad Things That Can Happen When You Generate a Sora Video
First chance I got, I downloaded the Sora app. I uploaded images of my face—the one my children kiss at bedtime—and my voice—the voice I use to tell my wife I love her—and added them to my Sora profile. I did all this so I could use Sora’s “Cameo” feature to make an idiotic video […]
OpenAI Is Just $200 Billion Away From Still Losing Money, HSBC Says
OpenAI has committed more than $1.4 trillion that it will spend on building out its data center infrastructure to power the development and deployment of its AI models over the next eight years. Notably, OpenAI does not have $1.4 trillion. Also notable is the fact that the company doesn’t make that much money. That means […]