Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a puddle. For years now, we’ve watched individuals under the age of 18 become obsessed with social AI companions, an alarming trend that…
As far as completely pointless ways to kill time on your phone, this is certainly one of the weirdest on record. Behold the all-new invention of so-called “dopamine sites” — digital domains where you can browse and hunt for deals…
Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety. Now, it seems Altman is riding the…
In case you thought the extreme backlash against automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) was excessive, a veteran police investigator was just arrested after conducting over 4,000 unauthorized searches using the software provided by Flock Safety. According to New York’s NEWS10,…
Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it’s driving the data center buildout.
Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as AI, right? Well, we hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but a new piece from Politico makes it sure sound like that Congress…
Did the Earth once have a larger cousin that was devoured by the Sun? And more importantly: would we have any way of knowing it did? A team of astronomers believe that the answer to both of those questions is…
GLP-1 weight loss drugs are changing lives in more ways than one. In a new piece for The Guardian, the newspaper’s readers share how the weight loss journey that drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro have set them down on…
You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection from their nosy pedagogues. New…
The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive policing” units in the US Border Patrol are analyzing Americans’ financial activity and using it as a pretext to pull them over…