A self-driving taxi operated by Google’s Waymo was attacked and destroyed by an angry mob in San Francisco over the weekend. A furious mob used fireworks to set the vehicle on fire in a furious clash that brought together lawless California and driverless vehicles.
A new AI-generated image trend on social media, known as #DignifAI, has turned the tables on deepfake porn by creating images that add clothing to photos of scantily clad women in order to make them appear more modest. The trend has expanded to men as well, removing face tattoos and generating images of celebrities as clean cut members of society.
Big Tech has a plan to use AI to create a “healthy information ecosystem” just in time for the 2024 election.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis railed against Biden’s “absurd” scheme to survey electricity consumption from the cryptocurrency mining industry.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram and Threads will no longer recommend political content on their social media platforms, the company announced on Friday. Zuckerberg’s latest move to control the national conversation will include attempting to quiet down the popular Breitbart News Instagram account.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pursuing a wildly ambitious plan that could require raising up to $7 trillion to reshape the global semiconductor industry and expand AI capabilities.
The release of Apple’s new augmented reality headset, the Vision Pro, has sharply divided opinion online regarding the technology’s societal impacts. Many social media users used humor and sarcasm to highlight the dystopian aspects of Apple’s latest gadget this week.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is aiming to vote on reauthorizing and potentially reforming deep state spy powers next week, according to a report.
A SpaceX crew returned to Earth following a six-day delay at the International Space Station (ISS), and Florida locals heard a “sonic boom.”
Chinese state media went into overdrive this week to distract from revelations of a massive state-linked Chinese cyberattack on U.S. infrastructure, howling that China is actually the world’s biggest victim of cybercrime, while America is the greatest threat to global information security.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has blacklisted the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei due to repeated violations of policies against dangerous individuals and organizations. The permanent suspension came after Khamenei called to “wipe Israel off the map.”
A new study has identified the cities across the U.S. that are most and least at risk of losing jobs to artificial intelligence. According to the report, residents of Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford, Connecticut are most at risk of being replaced in the workforce by AI.
The Biden administration has launched a consortium of over 200 major tech companies, academic institutions, and research groups to collaborate on developing ethical guidelines and safety standards for AI technology. Biden’s “AI Safety Institute Consortium” claims it has the goal of developing ways to “mitigate AI risks and harness its potential.”
The Grammy Awards’ Best New Artist nominee Ice Spice performed her Top 40 hit song, “Think You the Sh*t (Fart)” at a recent Spotify event.
Billionaire Elon Musk this week shared photos of what he claimed were Disney’s alleged Diversity, Equity, Inclusion policies that he referred to as “mandatory, institutionalized racism and sexism.”
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has canceled a class teaching bondage techniques, such as “safe rope tying” and “handcuff skills,” after facing a slew of backlash from concerned parents.
A Waymo self-driving car reportedly struck and injured a cyclist in San Francisco, causing minor injuries and raising concerns over safety as autonomous vehicles continue to undergo real-world testing on public roads.
Disney is reportedly investing $1.5 billion in Fortnite developer Epic Games to collaborate on a new persistent gaming universe bringing together Disney characters and stories with the massive reach of Epic’s hugely popular game.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will soon begin detecting and labeling AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, as well as requiring users to note when they post realistic AI video or audio as part of its efforts to prevent potential misinformation ahead of upcoming elections.
Disney fans battered by inflation are hitting the “Cancel” button in droves. The Disney+ streaming service lost 1.3 million subscribers worldwide during the last three months of 2023.
Multiple viral videos of Tesla drivers wearing an Apple Vision Pro headset while letting the car drive itself has people sounding the alarm about Elon Musk’s notoriously dangerous assisted driving technology.
A new ordinance in Seattle meant to improve wages for food delivery drivers is instead hurting their income, according to the gig economy workers the city set out to help.
Elon Musk’s alleged drug use and close relationships with multiple Tesla board members, who are supposed to provide independent oversight on issues like Musk’s compensation package, have raised concerns about conflicts of interest, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.
Actress and MMA star Gina Carano is suing the Walt Disney Company for firing her from the Star Wars series “The Mandalorian” in 2021, alleging the studio violated California law by discriminating against her over her political beliefs.
Microsoft has reportedly joined forces with Ben Smith’s media startup Semafor, leveraging AI for the ominous goal of “creating healthy information ecosystems.”
Pop phenom Taylor Swift is threatening legal action against a Florida college student who tracks her private jet and its global travels.
The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released “ethical guidelines” for brain-computer interfaces (BCI).
Google’s Threat Analysis Group claims to have uncovered a series of government-backed hacking operations that exploited previously unknown vulnerabilities in Apple’s iPhone OS, using spyware allegedly developed by Barcelona-based startup Variston.
Twenty state attorneys general have warned that President Joe Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to censor information labeled as “disinformation.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) took to X/Twitter on Monday to post “never-before-released internal emails” subpoenaed by the House Judiciary GOP that he dubbed the “Amazon files,” which reveal “that the Biden White House pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White House did not approve of.”
A finance worker at a leading multinational company was reportedly deceived into transferring $25 million to fraudsters using advanced deepfake technology to impersonate the firm’s chief financial officer and other company executives during a Zoom video meeting.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) robot, which leaders hoped would usher in the future of law enforcement, is no longer on patrol.
A source in the Japanese government said Chinese hackers leaked classified Japanese diplomatic telegrams in 2020.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen may be considering an attack on undersea Internet cables in the Red Sea.
Snap, the maker of the social media platform Snapchat, says it will lay off 10 percent of its global workforce, around 500 employees, to “promote in-person collaboration.”
Climate change alarmists have praised ChatGPT as a reliable purveyor of global warming groupthink, fruit of instructions from woke programmers.
Tesla has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by California counties over hazardous waste violations at its factories in the state. The violations stemmed from allegedly careless treatment of hazardous chemicals like paint and used batteries, but CEO Elon Musk claims what America really needs to take care of the environment is a carbon tax.
In a recent congressional hearing on artificial intelligence and intellectual property, country music singer and Yellowstone star Lainey Wilson shared her unsettling experience of having her voice cloned by AI technologies.
Tesla CEO and X/Twitter owner Elon Musk recently reiterated his belief in the need for carbon taxes, backing up the World Economic Forum’s recent call for a “globally coordinated system of carbon taxes.” In a recent tweet, Tesla owner Elon
Two Cleveland-area brothers were indicted on Thursday by federal prosecutors for fraud and money laundering schemes after allegedly posing as members of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) royal family to run a crypto scam and con investors out of millions of dollars.
