OpenAI announced the latest version of its flagship AI model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday in response to its ongoing attempt to keep up with its competitors. And while GPT-5.2 reportedly performs well in most benchmark tests, there’s one metric that OpenAI did not provide details on: how horny is it? It looks like we’ll find that […]
Software Mogul/Secretary of (*checks notes) the Interior Says AI Will Cure Cancer
Doug Burgum may not have the name recognition of President Donald Trump’s other cabinet secretaries, like Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem or Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but Burgum, the Interior Secretary and former governor of North Dakota, still pops up on TV from time to time to push the president’s agenda. And he […]
xAI Answers the Question, ‘What if Product Placement was Significantly Worse?’
Product placement has existed for almost as long as moving pictures themselves, with the origins of the practice dating all the way back to the 1890s. It’s worked well enough for over 100 years, and has linked brands to some of the most memorable moments in film history, like Reese’s Pieces showing up in E.T. […]
OpenAI, Anthropic, Others Receive Warning Letter from Dozens of State Attorneys General
In a letter dated December 9, and made public on December 10 according to Reuters, dozens of state and territorial attorneys general from all over the U.S. warned Big Tech that it needs to do a better job protecting people, especially kids, from what it called “sycophantic and delusional” AI outputs. Recipients include OpenAI, Microsoft, […]
How Scammers Poison AI Results With Fake Customer Support Numbers
Scammers love to seed the internet with fake customer service numbers in order to lure in unsuspecting victims who are just trying to fix something wrong in their life. Con artists have done it to Google Search for years, so it makes sense that they’ve moved on to the latest space where people are frequently […]
Glenn Beck Is Giving American History the Grokipedia Treatment
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck recently announced he’s launching a new AI project called The Torch that will give subscribers access to his “life’s work” along with an AI chatbot called George that will answer questions based on primary source documents from the time of the founding of the United States. The Torch doesn’t launch […]
Pete Hegseth Chooses Google Gemini to Lead the First Front in the ‘Future of American Warfare’
We may not have achieved artificial general intelligence, but we’ve gotten a step closer to assigning artificial intelligence the title of General. On Tuesday, the Department of Defense (referred to as the Department of War by the current administration) announced that it is launching an AI platform called GenAI.mil, which will allow members of the […]
Everyone Hated the McDonald’s AI Christmas Ad So Much It Got Taken Down
It’s a disquieting new holiday tradition: a major corporation that should know not to dunk its reputation in the sewer celebrates the holidays by releasing a punishing, demonic commercial made with the latest batch of AI doohickeys. This time, the perpetrator is McDonald’s: McDonald’s has released an AI-generated Christmas ad The studio behind it says […]
It’s Code Red Week for OpenAI
If your Spidey senses tingled when Sam Altman got super defensive when one of his own supporters and investors gently asked where the company is getting the money to pay for its trillion-dollar commitments, then your whole body is probably vibrating right now. With Google Gemini eating into the company’s market share and interest in […]
Ron DeSantis Proposes AI Bill of Rights as Trump Says He’ll Kill State AI Laws
Donald Trump said on Truth Social this morning that he plans to sign an executive order that will preempt any and all state regulations on AI, which was apparently news to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who just last week announced a proposal to establish an AI Bill of Rights for Floridians and introduce protections for […]