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…
BuzzFeed laid off about 180 employees, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, on Monday, hitting HuffPost, Tasty and its film and TV studio. The cuts are the first major move by new controlling o…
Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude exposed user chats on Google for the second time in a year after Redditors discovered conversations indexed via "site:claude.ai/share" searches. Anthropic has since plugg…
AI companies are targeting London's rare bookshops in a 'dystopian' hunt for training data, after court documents revealed Anthropic bought, scanned and destroyed millions of physical books under a se…
Over the weekend of July 26–27, Reddit users discovered that hundreds of shared Claude conversations and Artifacts, including medical records, clinical trial data, internal company documents, children…
Anthropic's Claude AI exposed users' shared chat links in Google search results over the weekend, allowing anyone to read transcripts of conversations including lawyers discussing legal strategies and…
Anthropic says its Claude chat-sharing feature is working as intended after Google indexed thousands of shared conversations, including medical records and children's phone numbers, because the compan…
AI companies, including Anthropic, are buying, scanning, and shredding rare physical books at an unprecedented scale to train large language models, according to a Futurism report citing a settled law…
Anthropic's Claude share chat feature exposed an untold number of private conversations and Artifacts on Google search results over the weekend, including health records, company documents, and childr…
Anthropic's Claude chatbot conversations shared publicly by users are being indexed by Google and made searchable, exposing sensitive personal and business information including medical records, phone…
A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic's Claude, including sensitive personal and company information, have been left exposed to Google and are searchable to anyone on the web. The a…
AI companies are bulk-buying physical books, having them industrially scanned, and then shredding the originals, according to a Futurism investigation. The practice, brokered by data firm ISBNdb under…