Amazon’s New AI-Powered Alexa Is a Half-Working Mess

Amazon has infused its famed assistant Alexa with the power of artificial intelligence — an upgrade that’s apparently come with ...
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Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots

Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images The chip manufacturer Nvidia might be one of the most valuable companies in history ...
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YouTube Removes Disturbing AI Slop YouTube Channel Filled With Videos of Women Being Murdered

Image via Getty / Futurism A disturbing YouTube channel was dedicated entirely to showing AI-generated videos of women being shot ...
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OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

Earlier this week, OpenAI announced a “strategic partnership” with AI chipmaker Nvidia in which the duo of tech giants will ...
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New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Getty At the core of contemporary China is a contradiction: it’s the ...
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New Evidence Links Elon Musk to Epstein’s Island

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP / Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images ...
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Spotify’s Attempt to Fight AI Slop Falls on Its Face

It’s been clear for a while that a deluge of AI slop is drowning out real music and human artists ...
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Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage

Researchers have found that the carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into images and videos ...
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Psychiatric Facilities Are Being Bombarded by AI Users

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Image Source: Getty Images While many working people are reasonably worried about AI taking ...
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DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

Image via Getty / Futurism Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, ...
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