Waymo vehicles have reportedly racked up more than 200 million miles of autonomous driving on public roads. But it’s yet to run into a tornado or an elephant,…
Read more Waymo Catches World Model Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More World ModelsTesla’s self-driving Robotaxis have been operating in Austin, Texas, with a safety monitor in the passenger seat, a trained person who can intervene in case anything goes wrong…
Read more Tesla Appears to Have Moved Its Robotaxi Safety Monitors to a More Sneaky LocationSulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week to talk about the inner workings of the company that he…
Read more Engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast InterviewAI image generation models have massive sets of visual data to pull from in order to create unique outputs. And yet, researchers find that when models are pushed…
Read more AI Image Generators Default to the Same 12 Photo Styles, Study FindsAI is all the rage, and that includes on the toy shelves for this holiday season. Tempting though it may be to want to bless the kids in…
Read more Do Not, Under Any Circumstance, Buy Your Kid an AI Toy for ChristmasHere on Earth, regulators and citizens alike are realizing that there may be downsides to going all in on the demands of AI data centers and the companies…
Read more Jeff Bezos’s New AI Hardware Startup Isn’t Even His Biggest MoonshotIs it a good sign or a bad sign that the biggest player in an emerging industry actively making trillion-dollar commitments that are artificially propping up the economy…
Read more Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?What happens when data centers come to town? A whole lot, wanted or not. Tech firms are promising to pour trillions of dollars into building new data centers…
Read more Small Towns Are Betting That the Data Center Boom Will Never EndMeta forgot to keep its porn in a passworded folder, and now its kink for data collection is the subject of scrutiny. The social media giant turned metaverse…
Read more Meta Says Porn Stash was for ‘Personal Use,’ Not Training AI ModelsThe owner of a haunted house in Pennsylvania has a new idea to spook his patrons: the eerie whirring of fans, the humming of electricity, and the looming…
Read more What’s Scarier Than a Haunted House? An AI Data CenterOpenAI claims that 10% of the world’s population currently uses ChatGPT on a weekly basis. In a report published by on Monday, OpenAI highlights how it is handling…
Read more OpenAI Data Shows Hundreds of Thousands of Users Display Signs of Mental Health ChallengesMeta has thrown billions of dollars at its artificial intelligence efforts. Somehow, that is apparently resulting in fewer people being employed. According to a report from Axios, about…
Read more Meta Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds From Its AI TeamChatGPT has broken out of the chatbot. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is launching a web browser called ChatGPT Atlas, which it says will reimagine the browsing…
Read more OpenAI Launches the AI Browser WarRepublicans have largely been embracing a “hands-off” approach to regulating artificial intelligence, but Vice President JD Vance has found where he draws the line: weird porn. During an…
Read more Looks Like JD Vance Didn’t Get the Memo That This Admin Hates AI GuardrailsIt’s been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he’s been gone, he coined and popularized the term “vibe coding”…
Read more Even the Inventor of ‘Vibe Coding’ Says Vibe Coding Can’t Cut ItEarlier this year, OpenAI scaled back some of ChatGPT’s “personality” as part of a broader effort to improve user safety following the death of a teenager who took…
Read more Sam Altman: Lord Forgive Me, It’s Time to Go Back to the Old ChatGPTFinally, generative AI has found its purpose: letting kids prank parents. In an apparent new social media trend, kids are creating AI-generated images of homeless people in their…
Read more Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an ‘AI Homeless Man’ TikTok PrankThe complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week. After initially requiring copyright holders to opt…
Read more You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking OutOpenAI’s DevDay 2025 featured a major focus on vibe coding. The company, which boasts that it now has more than 800 million weekly active users for ChatGPT, announced…
Read more OpenAI Goes All-In on Vibe Coding, Says ‘Mature Experiences’ Are on the HorizonTaylor Swift once said, “You deserve to own the art you make.” Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the millions of artists who have had their works fed into…
Read more Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos