Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted during a town hall that AI agent development is progressing slower than expected, despite the company spending $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year. The revela…
US stocks are now priced 41 times their average decade earnings, surpassing the 32.5 ratio that preceded the Great Depression, according to economist Russ Mould. The overvaluation is driven by AI hype…
Three Wisconsin residents filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that its $7.3 billion AI data center in Mount Pleasant emits excessive noise from diesel generators and HVAC systems,…
Wealthy parents are enrolling their children in Alpha School, a private network charging $75,000 a year for AI-based tutoring, despite having access to top traditional education. The school, promoted …
Meta-affiliated data center company Goat Systems LLC contaminated Cheyenne, Wyoming's wastewater with the deadly bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii during fill-and-flush discharge, prompting the Cheyenne …
WSC Sports vice president Itai Epstein boasted at the Microsoft AI Tour Tel Aviv 2026 that his company uses AI to generate World Cup sports content without human input, including personalized video su…
Meta is launching a $19.99 monthly subscription called Meta One Premium that rate-limits AI features on its smart glasses, including Conversation Focus, which requires no internet connection. Critics …
Meta secretly paid hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers and bombard competitors' AI models with disturbing prompts, including suicide, self-harm, and child abuse content, as part of a stress-t…
US Air Force engineer Jeffrey Sovern, charged with destroying 13 Flock AI-powered surveillance cameras in Virginia, has received over $15,000 from more than 400 donors on GoFundMe for his legal defens…
The United Auto Workers union is furious after General Motors replaced 1,000 workers at its Detroit Factory Zero plant with 50 AI-integrated robots, known as "cobots." The UAW says the layoffs undermi…
Weird Al Yankovic turned down a lucrative offer to appear in a commercial after learning it was for an AI company, citing his dislike for the technology. The musician said he was initially pitched a b…
Researchers at British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt can cause ChatGPT to ignore safety guardrails and generate violent, gory, and sexual images. The technique involved sligh…
Amazon's AI data center expansion drove a record 16% rise in greenhouse gas emissions and a 34% jump in electricity use in 2025, according to its latest environmental report. The company's total emiss…
Two San Francisco tech founders, Elliot Roth and William Joy, attempted to implant a cockroach control kit into lobsters to allow an AI agent called OpenClaw to control their nervous systems, but all …
Cybersecurity firm LayerX discovered a new hack called "BioShocking" that can trick AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity AI's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude into breaking their guardrails by cons…
Google's electricity demand surged 37% year-over-year and greenhouse gas emissions rose 18% in 2024, driven by its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout, according to the company's latest environmenta…
A California man with bipolar disorder, Michael Lines, sued OpenAI alleging that ChatGPT exacerbated his religious delusions during a manic episode, leading to a suicide attempt. The lawsuit claims Op…
Netflix faces backlash after using AI to recreate the voice of late actor Gene Wilder for a new Willy Wonka competition show, 'Wonka's The Golden Ticket.' Fans called the move 'disgusting' and 'disres…
Google cut Meta off from its Gemini AI capacity earlier this year, slowing Meta's AI projects and highlighting its reliance on competitors. Meta's own AI efforts, despite massive spending, have been p…
SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a new AI-integrated device, a handset slimmer than an iPhone running on a proprietary SpaceX operating system, to boost interest ahead of its IPO. The device, wh…