Kentucky middle school parents are furious over instructional packets filled with AI-generated errors, including misspelled state names and an impossible periodic table, handed out at Farnsley Middle …
A humanoid robot at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing crashed and burst into flames after failing to decelerate past the finish line, in a viral video that some suspected was AI-generated but …
Google's AI Overviews returned racist and inconsistent advice for queries about being alone with people of different nationalities, such as warning a user to call emergency services when alone with a …
Meta Platforms Inc. has declined to remove multiple Facebook posts and comments calling for violence against Muslims, including one that says "it's time for hunting" and another that refers to Muslims…
A new analysis by the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) warns that AI-generated fruit videos, or 'fruitslop,' are increasingly depicting extreme violence and could radicalize young vie…
Police arrested 13 student activists on August 10 after a two-hour occupation of the lobby in Washington's Gallup Building that houses OpenAI's public-facing policy office, according to a Metropolitan…
Roku launched the Fairground AI Creator TV channel, the first free all-AI streaming channel featuring content from roughly 100 AI creators, and early reviews have been highly critical, with The Verge …
Tucker Bryant, a Stanford graduate and former Google product manager, created ChatTJB, a website that mimics an AI chatbot but is powered solely by Bryant himself, and after a billboard in SoMa last m…
AI-powered scam bots are more effective at deceiving people through fake romantic relationships than human scammers, according to a report from Futurism. The finding raises concerns about the broader …
San Francisco artist Tucker Bryant launched ChatTJB, a chatbot-style website in which he manually answers every prompt instead of using a large language model, drawing peak traffic of about 5,000 quer…
A viral chatbot called ChatTJB, promoted as an AI-powered chat interface, is actually manually operated by Tucker Bryant, a 32-year-old artist and former Google employee, who responds to users himself…
Google's AI Overview briefly told users that Flock cameras contain up to 5 grams of gold and 23 pounds of copper, a hallucination based on a viral joke, according to a Futurism report. The incorrect i…
LA-based rapper Fenix Flexin has denied allegations that his hit song "Rubberz," which reached No. 66 on the Billboard Hot 100, was generated using artificial intelligence, after internet sleuths and …
At least 37 people have been arrested in U.S. protests over AI data centers this year, according to a report from Futurism. The arrests occurred in communities across the country, including Oklahoma, …
Anthropic's Claude AI chat service has exposed users' private conversations, including cryptocurrency wallet keys, addresses, and medical billing data, through publicly accessible shareable links inde…
A news site called The Wire by Acutus has published 94 articles since December 2025 using AI bots posing as human journalists, with 97% of the articles fully or partially AI-generated, according to in…
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scored 51 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, tying with GPT-5.4, GPT-5.6 Luna, and GLM-5.2, and ranked third on SciCode, contradicting a Futurism article that claimed M…
Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring millions of antiquarian books to scan for training its large language models, then destroying them, according t…
A moral panic has erupted over AI companies buying and destroying old books to train models, but the claims are vastly exaggerated. The original 404 Media report on July 21st noted that AI firms use b…
A wrongful-death complaint filed June 15, 2026 in San Francisco Superior Court alleges OpenAI's GPT-4o fostered emotional dependency, reinforced religious delusions, and contributed to the June 9, 202…