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"So I Cut Him Off": Bill Nye Says He Keeps Begging RFK Jr. to Stop Texting Him
https://futurism.com/bill-nye-rfk-texts
Published: June 15, 2025 11:30
Everybody seems to want a piece of Bill Nye, the world's premiere science guy — including health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. When speaking with Men's Health, Nye showed his interviewer a very long and one-sided text chain from the antivaxxer in charge…
Musk's Daring Gambit Has Managed to Do Something Remarkable: Alienate Democrats AND Republicans
https://futurism.com/musk-gambit-democrats-republicans
Published: June 15, 2025 10:45
It appears that Elon Musk has seriously overestimated his popularity among his right wing fans. In another one of his masterful gambits, the world's richest man turned-coat and viciously lashed out his former best-friend-in-chief Donald Trump this month. …
Bioengineered Tooth Implant That Grows Into Gum, Fuses With Nerves Performing Well in Animal Tests
https://futurism.com/neoscope/living-tooth-implant-animals
Published: June 15, 2025 10:00
Researchers have successfully implanted a "smart" tooth implant using a gentler form of surgery inside the mouths of rats. In a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, dental researchers from Tufts University detail their successful rodent…
Climate Change Is Ruining Cheese, Scientists and Farmers Warn
https://futurism.com/climate-change-cheese-cows
Published: June 14, 2025 19:00
Climate change is making everything worse — including the dairy that makes our cheese. In interviews with Science News, veterinary researchers and dairy farmers alike explained that changes to the climate that surrounds cows not only affects the…
McDonald's in Trouble as Ozempic Takes Hold
https://futurism.com/neoscope/mcdonalds-ozempic
Published: June 14, 2025 18:15
More on Ozempic: Doctors Concerned by Massive Uptick in Teens Taking Ozempic
You’ll Guffaw When You Hear How Much Self-Driving Waymos Cost Compared to Human-Driven Ubers
https://futurism.com/waymo-cost-uber
Published: June 14, 2025 17:30
The whole point of self-driving taxis is, seemingly, to save costs on human labor — but Waymo, Google's glitchy robotaxi service, doesn't appear to be any cheaper at all. In a report shared with TechCrunch, the ride-hailing data aggregator Obi found that…
Scientists Reveal Easy Three-Step Plan to Terraform Mars
https://futurism.com/three-step-plan-terraform-mars
Published: June 14, 2025 16:45
Terraforming, the act of radically transforming a planet's climate and environment to make it suitable for human habitation, currently belongs to the realm of science-fiction. But it's possible, in theory, and the idea of terraforming our nearest candidate…
Companies Bragging About Their AI Furious as Job Applicants Use AI During Interviews
https://futurism.com/companies-bragging-ai-job-applicants
Published: June 14, 2025 16:00
Goldman Sachs wants those applying for jobs at the investment bank to stop relying on AI while interviewing — a glaring double standard, considering it has made massive bets on the tech, launched its own AI platform, and rolled out AI tools across its…
The Space Station Leak Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again
https://futurism.com/space-station-leak-delay-axiom-space
Published: June 14, 2025 15:15
Space Draft Space tourism company Axiom Space has had to postpone its fourth chartered SpaceX flight to the International Space Station after NASA announced it needed more time to investigate an air leak affecting the orbital lab. For five years, NASA and…
People Don't Realize Meta's AI App Is Publicly Blasting Their Humiliating Secrets to the World
https://futurism.com/meta-ai-embarassing
Published: June 14, 2025 14:30
At this point, we're probably all familiar with the trope of the dirty old uncle who confuses his Facebook feed for a porn site. Now, there's a new type of uncle surfing the net, and thanks to Meta, he's powered by AI. [not really in love w this, will…
College Dropout Entrepreneur Boasts That Peter Thiel's Book Is "Probably the Best Book I've Read, and I've Only Read a Few Pages"
https://futurism.com/dropout-thiel-college
Published: June 14, 2025 13:45
Ever since Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak began pedaling the romantic tale of founding Apple in Jobs' parents' Los Angeles garage, kdis have been tk flockingto quit school and tk. The only problem is that the "founders tale" of late night struggles are…
Scientists Intrigued by Conical Skull Found in Ancient Burial Ground
https://futurism.com/the-byte/cone-skull-burial-ground
Published: June 14, 2025 13:00
Cone Caution Archaeologists in Iran have discovered an ancient cone-shaped skull that is believed to have belonged to a teen girl — and there are signs of tragedy in her bones. As Live Science reports, the skull, which was found in a prehistoric burial…
The World Birth Rate Is Now Dropping Precipitously
https://futurism.com/neoscope/world-birth-rate
Published: June 14, 2025 12:15
More on babies: Genetics Startup Advertises App-based Eugenics Service for Parents to Select “Smartest” Embryos
Astronomers Just Took the First-Ever Picture of the Bottom of the Sun
https://futurism.com/first-picture-bottom-sun
Published: June 14, 2025 10:45
Astronomers have gotten an unprecedented view of the bottom of the Sun. On Wednesday, the European Space Agency shared images that show, in all its tumultuous glory, our star's secretive south pole. Captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, the stunning…
ChatGPT Is Telling People With Psychiatric Problems to Go Off Their Meds
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-illness-medications
Published: June 14, 2025 10:00
For some people, obsession with ChatGPT has gone so far, it's exacerbating their mental illness — and in some cases, even putting them in harm's way. In interviews with Futurism, concerned loved ones described watching on in horror as the chatbot…
Puzzled Trump Says He Has No Idea Why Musk Supported Him in the First Place
https://futurism.com/trump-musk-support-evs
Published: June 13, 2025 21:13
President Donald Trump has once again said the quiet part out loud. During a signing ceremony for a trio of bills blocking California's new emissions standards and pro-electric vehicle push the president admitted that he had been surprised when his former…
Watching This Humanoid Robot Sort Packages Is Quite Something
https://futurism.com/the-byte/figure-robot-sort-packages-video
Published: June 13, 2025 20:10
Post Flipper Earlier this year, humanoid robotics company Figure showed off its Figure 02 robot using a sophisticated visual language system called Helix to sort packages at a logistics warehouse. Footage showed the humanoid deftly picking up packages of…
You Can Tell When War Is Breaking Out Because the Pentagon's Pizza Orders Spike Drastically
https://futurism.com/the-byte/war-pentagon-pizza-orders
Published: June 13, 2025 19:10
A flurry of activity at pizza delivery companies near the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, is a wildly accurate predictor of war. As painstakingly documented by an X account, dubbed Pentagon Pizza Report, a "busier than usual" indicator on the Google Maps…
Former Tesla Dealership Manager Says It's "Game Over" for Elon Musk
https://futurism.com/tesla-dealership-manager-musk
Published: June 13, 2025 18:18
Back in May, as Tesla Takedown rallies and anti-Musk vandalism rocked the US, Tesla dealership manager Matthew LaBrot launched "Tesla Employees Against Elon" — an act of protest that swiftly got him fired. We wrote about LaBrot's symbolic act of defiance…
Elon's Explosion at Trump Appears to Have Cost Him a HUGE Deal
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-trump-spacex-golden-dome-deal
Published: June 13, 2025 17:08
Following the spectacular explosion of billionaire Elon Musk's bromance with president Donald Trump, the consequences of his actions are starting to come into focus. As Reuters reports, the White House's plans to tap Musk's SpaceX for a "Golden Dome" may…
Google's AI Is Actively Destroying the News Media
https://futurism.com/google-ai-destroying-news-media
Published: June 13, 2025 16:20
Google's pivot to AI-powered search is proving disastrous for the digital news media landscape. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company's latest tools, including its wildly hallucinating AI Overviews and chatbot-style AI Mode, are causing the…
Someone Somehow Survived That Massive Boeing Jet Explosion
https://futurism.com/someone-survived-boeing-jet-explosion
Published: June 13, 2025 15:38
On Thursday, a Boeing jet crashed just moments after taking off from an airport in Ahmedabad in western India. The Air India airliner, carrying 242 passengers, slammed into a nearby medical college and exploded in an enormous fireball. Somehow, one man…
Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis
https://futurism.com/man-killed-police-chatgpt
Published: June 13, 2025 14:59
OpenAI's ChatGPT is sending people spiraling into severe mental health crises, causing potentially dangerous delusions about spiritual awakenings, messianic complexes, and boundless paranoia. As the New York Times reports, these spirals can have…
The FDA Is Already Outsourcing Drug and Food Analysis to Error-Plagued AI Chatbot
https://futurism.com/neoscope/fda-outsourcing-ai
Published: June 13, 2025 14:08
In case you haven't had enough artificial intelligence, the US Food and Drug Administration is now outsourcing its oversight duties to a large language model (LLM.) In an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), FDA…
Frontier AI Models Are Getting Stumped by a Simple Children's Game
https://futurism.com/frontier-ai-models-stumped-childrens-game
Published: June 13, 2025 13:23
Earlier this week, researchers at Apple released a damning paper, criticizing the AI industry for vastly overstating the ability of its top AI models to reason or "think." The team found that the models, including OpenAI's o3, Anthropic's Claude 3.7, and…
Tesla's Robotaxi Launch Date Was Supposed to Be Today, But We're Shocked to Hear That It's Been Pushed Back
https://futurism.com/teslas-robotaxi-launch-chaos
Published: June 12, 2025 21:12
The launch of Tesla's robotaxi network will have to wait. On Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk made a tweet stating that, "tentatively," the first public rides on its autonomous vehicles — which will not be its purpose-built "Cybercabs," but regular Teslas with…
Mark Zuckerberg Is Reportedly Absolutely Furious at His Own Failure
https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-furious-llama
Published: June 12, 2025 20:27
Mark Zuckerberg, it can't be said enough, is firmly entrenched as the second richest man in human history. Despite the luxury this unfathomable wealth affords — enough to provide everyone on earth clean drinking water and waste disposal, by the way —…
Stanford Research Finds That "Therapist" Chatbots Are Encouraging Users' Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts
https://futurism.com/stanford-therapist-chatbots-encouraging-delusions
Published: June 12, 2025 19:11
A new Stanford University study found that AI "therapist" chatbots contribute to harmful mental health stigmas and react in outright dangerous ways to users exhibiting hallmark signs of severe crises, including suicidality and schizophrenia-related…
There's a Giant Problem With SpaceX's Starlink Satellites
https://futurism.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-radio-signal-emissions
Published: June 12, 2025 18:27
Astronomers' attempts to peer into the furthest reaches of the universe could be threatened by thousands of SpaceX Starlink satellites leaking radio emissions and ruining observations made with highly sensitive telescopes. As New Scientist reports, a team…
Tesla Drivers Sue Elon Musk for Turning Their Cars Into "Extreme" Right-Wing Symbols
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-drivers-sue-elon-musk-right-symbols
Published: June 12, 2025 17:08
Totally Ruined It Around ten Tesla owners in France are suing Elon Musk's EV maker for turning their vehicles into what they claim to be "extreme-right symbols." As news agency France 24 reports, the owners are demanding that their lease contracts be…
Tech Startup Raises $24 Million to Replace Hollywood With AI Slop
https://futurism.com/ai-startup-hollywood-slop
Published: June 12, 2025 16:21
In case you haven't noticed, generative AI is creeping into our lives at an alarming rate. The perfidious tech and its algorithmically-generated slop is becoming a fact of life as unscrupulous tech companies set it loose into the world, consequences be…
Apple Execs Get Seriously Flustered Trying to Explain the Company's Dismal AI Failure
https://futurism.com/apple-execs-flustered-explain-ai-failure
Published: June 12, 2025 15:36
Apple is facing some intense scrutiny after yet again flubbing its AI tech. During the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on Tuesday, the company showed off its latest vision of "Apple Intelligence," a suite of small-but-useful tools that use…
Boeing Jet Explodes in Giant Fireball, Killing Hundreds
https://futurism.com/boeing-jet-explodes
Published: June 12, 2025 14:01
A Boeing Dreamliner 787 plane, which was headed to London, crashed into a residential neighborhood with 242 people aboard mere moments after taking off from Ahmedabad in western India. The cause of the immensely tragic loss of life remains unknown. As CNBC…
CEO Says AI Will Replace So Many Jobs That It’ll Cause a Major Recession
https://futurism.com/klarna-ceo-ai-replacing-jobs
Published: June 12, 2025 13:12
The CEO of layaway startup Klarna is claiming that AI is coming for your white-collar jobs — even though his own experiments with replacing human workers with AI were a bust. Speaking to The Times Tech podcast, the "buy now, pay later" CEO and AI…
Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in Very Dark AI Company
https://futurism.com/meta-scaleai-superintelligence
Published: June 11, 2025 22:20
Meta's AI development isn't going quite as well as billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped. Once a frontrunner in the AI race, odd failures to and setbacks to his company's "state-of-the-art" Llama 4 Behemoth have gotten the most of the tech tycoon,…
Government Website Caught Hosting "Gay Impregnation" Content
https://futurism.com/trump-vaccines-ai-slop
Published: June 11, 2025 21:20
Portions of the US government's official "Vaccine Hub" website, Vaccines.gov, seem to have been taken over by an AI slop-eration that hosts "gay impregnation" content — and pages featuring lots of other NSFW topics, too. As flagged by 404 Media, this same…
Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic
https://futurism.com/sam-altman-ai-skeptic
Published: June 11, 2025 20:36
In the artificial intelligence world, there are two streams. One is the cold stream, the cool, analytical waters of AI scholarship. This is a meticulous academic stream, flowing with genuine curiosity and drive to verify. The other is the warm stream —…
Elon Musk Apologizes for Accurately Pointing Out That Trump Was Extremely Close Friends With Jeffrey Epstein
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-apologizes-trump-friends-jeffrey-epstein
Published: June 11, 2025 19:29
Billionaire Elon Musk appears to have some major regrets about losing his composure during a major escalation of his personal feud with president Donald Trump. The unlikely pair have been at each other's throats for well over a week. Their on-and-off-again…
People Pretty Much Lost Their Minds When ChatGPT Went Down
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-down-outage-freakout
Published: June 11, 2025 18:31
Like all websites, ChatGPT is fallible — and when it went down this week, people lost their godforsaken minds. According to OpenAI's status page, the company has experienced major issues this week, leading to breathless coverage from sites like TechRadar…
"Piracy Is Piracy": Disney Sues Midjourney for Massive Copyright Violation
https://futurism.com/disney-sues-midjourney-copyright-violation
Published: June 11, 2025 17:31
Disney and NBCUniversal are suing AI company Midjourney, accusing it of enabling copyright infringement on a massive scale through its AI image generator tech. In the lawsuit, which was filed in a California district court today, the two Hollywood…
Influencer Sobs in Front of TikTok Headquarters After Getting Banned
https://futurism.com/the-byte/influencer-tiktok-headquarters-banned
Published: June 11, 2025 17:01
More on influencers: Scientists Figured Out the Personality Traits of Influencers, and It Could Explain A Lot
Investment CEO Tells Convention Audience That 60 Percent of Them Will Be Unemployed Next Year Due to AI
https://futurism.com/ai-ceo-unemployed
Published: June 11, 2025 16:10
Although hundreds of billions of dollars have been poured into AI development, nearly 75 percent of businesses have failed to deliver the return on investment promised to them. The hyped-tech is notoriously buggy and likely getting worse, with project…
CEOs Are Creating Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings
https://futurism.com/ceos-ai-clones-hallucinations
Published: June 11, 2025 15:12
CEOs are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools to create avatars of themselves that can deal with mundane tasks like attending media interviews on their behalf. A slew of AI startups, including Personal AI, Delphi, and Tavus, allow…
Waymo Hiring For a "Public Affairs Specialist" in Los Angeles While People Are Settings Its Cars on Fire
https://futurism.com/waymo-public-affairs-specialist
Published: June 11, 2025 14:27
Waymo is hiring a "community and public affairs specialist" after becoming an unwitting participant in Los Angeles' anti-immigration raid protests. After justice-minded rabble-rousers set fire to a bunch of Waymo's driverless cabs, the company suspended…
Trump Says He's Not Sure Whether Musk Was Taking Illegal Drugs in the White House
https://futurism.com/trump-not-sure-drugs-musk-white-house
Published: June 11, 2025 13:08
On Monday, Trump responded to the reports about Musk's alleged drug habit — and his answer left considerable room for interpretation. Asked if he knew if Musk ever took drugs while physically in the White House, Trump told reporters, "I really don't know.…
You Are Completely Unprepared for What Tesla's Robotaxi Actually Looks Like
https://futurism.com/unprepared-robotaxi-looks-like
Published: June 11, 2025 00:00
We've finally gotten a glimpse at one of Tesla's robotaxis in action. But don't expect your socks to be blown off. As seen in a bystander's footage taken in Austin, Texas that Elon Musk has proudly reshared, it's a black Model Y with the word "robotaxi"…
People Are Asking ChatGPT for Relationship Advice and It’s Ending in Disaster
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-dating-advice-results
Published: June 10, 2025 21:11
Despite ChatGPT's well-documented issues, people are using it to advise them on relationship issues — and it's going about as well as you'd expect. In a new editorial, Vice advice columnist Sammi Caramela said she had been blissfully unaware of the…
ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977
https://futurism.com/atari-beats-chatgpt-chess
Published: June 10, 2025 20:04
Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode. In a post on LinkedIn, of all places, Citrix software engineer Robert Caruso explained how the OpenAI chatbot "got absolutely wrecked" by an Atari…
Cybertruck Sales Are So Bad That We Gasped
https://futurism.com/cybertruck-sales-bad
Published: June 10, 2025 19:18
Mother of All Flops There's little left for us to say that can further embarrass the Tesla Cybertruck, a vehicle that was supposed to be the culmination of Elon Musk's genius. And perhaps this is simply what Musk's genius looks like. The luckless EV has…
Google DeepMind CEO Says AI Will Let Us "Colonize the Galaxy" Starting in Five Years
https://futurism.com/google-deepmind-hassabis
Published: June 10, 2025 18:29
In the age of "artificial intelligence," tech CEOs have ranked among the tech's biggest cheerleaders. Drawing on SciFi tropes and ill-defined industry terms, the pitch usually involves a confident prediction, like that humans and AI will learn to live in…
Genetics Startup Advertises App-Based Eugenics Service for Parents to Select "Smartest" Embryos
https://futurism.com/neoscope/genetics-startup-eugenics-app
Published: June 10, 2025 17:10
A Gen Z-er with an apparent passion for eugenics has launched an app that allows prospective parents to rank which embryos they want the most. First reported by the Wall Street Journal, this new, subscription-based platform hails from Nucleus Genomics, a…
Doctors Concerned By Massive Uptick In Teens Taking Ozempic
https://futurism.com/neoscope/doctors-concerned-teens-ozempic
Published: June 10, 2025 16:15
Teens are being prescribed Ozempic more than ever before — and some doctors are worried about what the trend could mean. In interviews with Reuters and Raleigh, North Carolina's WRAL broadcaster, doctors expressed disquietude at recent studies that found…
Anthropic Abruptly Shuts Down Blog Run by Its AI, Won't Say Why
https://futurism.com/anthropic-claude-blog-offline
Published: June 10, 2025 15:12
Anthropic wanted to show off its Claude chatbot's writing skills by having it pen a blog — but just after announcing the venture, the company decided to kibosh it. As TechCrunch reports, the "Claude Explains" project was only live for a few weeks before…
People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises
Published: June 10, 2025 14:10
Across the world, people say their loved ones are developing intense obsessions with ChatGPT and spiraling into severe mental health crises. A mother of two, for instance, told us how she watched in alarm as her former husband developed an all-consuming…
College Says Every Student Is Now Required to Use AI
https://futurism.com/college-every-student-required-use-ai
Published: June 10, 2025 13:14
Forget the debate about whether AI has a place in education. Ohio State University went ahead and announced that, starting this fall, every single one of its students will be forced to use AI in class. We hope your eyeballs are nice and lubricated, because…
United Airlines Shuts Down Starlink WiFi Service on Its Planes After the Antennaes Caused Problems With Its Jets' Equipment
https://futurism.com/the-byte/united-airlines-starlink-wifi
Published: June 9, 2025 22:22
Plane Turbulence More on Starlink: Something Surprising Is Destroying Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites
The Man Who Attempted to Assassinate Trump Was Reportedly "Having Conversations With Someone That Wasn’t There"
https://futurism.com/trump-assassin-trump-thomas-crooks
Published: June 9, 2025 21:23
Assassin's Creed The Pennsylvania man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump last year during a campaign rally was apparently mentally unraveling in the months before the shooting, The New York Times reports, with anecdotes of him talking to…
YouTube Playlists Are Advertising "No AI" as Entire Site Gets Choked by AI Slop
https://futurism.com/youtube-playlists-no-ai
Published: June 9, 2025 20:26
The flood of AI slop isn't letting up. And it's trickled into an online space where many seek solace and comfort, or simply a way of numbing the mind to the world in an attempt to accomplish anything productive: YouTube background music playlists. We…
Duolingo CEO Expresses Astonishment That People Were Mad When He Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI
https://futurism.com/duolingo-ceo-ai-reaction
Published: June 9, 2025 19:26
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn is having major regrets after widely bragging about replacing his human staffers with AI. Earlier this year, von Ahn boasted that the language learning app company would "gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can…
Elon Musk Shushes His AI Grok as It Says He Stole the Wife of Trumps Deputy Chief of Staff
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-ai-grok-wife
Published: June 9, 2025 18:20
Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller and his wife, Katie, have become embroiled in a bitter and still escalating feud between the president and billionaire Elon Musk. Katie Miller served as a top spokesperson for the White House and an…
Waymo Halts Service in LA as Vandals Keep Setting Its Robotaxis on Fire
https://futurism.com/the-byte/waymo-robotaxi-fire-los-angeles
Published: June 9, 2025 17:09
It's Lit Downtown Los Angeles was a riot scene on Sunday as people vandalized and torched several Waymo vehicles while protesting a nation-wide crackdown on immigrants, prompting the robotaxi company to shut service to the area, according to CNBC. Dramatic…
The Internet System Elon Musk Installed at the White House Is Causing Concerns
https://futurism.com/internet-elon-musk-installed-white-house
Published: June 9, 2025 16:10
Elon Musk's lackeys at his so-called Department of Government Efficiency installed a Starlink terminal on the roof of the White House — and then totally blew off the major security concerns raised by communications experts, the Washington Post reports.…
Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Water on the Entire AI Industry
https://futurism.com/apple-damning-paper-ai-reasoning
Published: June 9, 2025 15:11
Researchers at tech giant Apple have released an eyebrow-raising paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of the latest, most powerful large language models. In the paper, a team of machine learning experts discussed the "illusion of…
"Very Serious Consequences": Trump Issues New Threat to Elon Musk
https://futurism.com/trump-issues-new-threat-elon-musk
Published: June 9, 2025 14:07
All hell broke loose last week, when billionaire Elon Musk and president Donald Trump's once-flourishing bromance collapsed in dramatic fashion.
Car Dealerships Are Replacing Phone Staff With AI Voice Agents
https://futurism.com/car-dealerships-ai-voice
Published: June 8, 2025 14:00
The next time you call your car dealership, the voice on the other end may not belong to a human. As TechCrunch reports, the founders of Toma, an AI voice agent startup, pivoted from pitching to healthcare and finance companies to fielding calls from…
Terrifying Footage Shows Self-Driving Tesla Get Confused by the Sun, Mow Down Innocent Grandmother
https://futurism.com/footage-tesla-grandma
Published: June 8, 2025 13:45
For years, tech entrepreneurs have been preaching that self-driving cars will deliver us from our hellscape of vehicular crashes and horrible, fiery deaths. Among the biggest spokesmen for the safety of autonomous vehicles has been Elon Musk, whose…
Scientists Say They've Created an Injection That Makes Aging Batteries Charge Like They're Young Again
https://futurism.com/injection-makes-aging-batteries-young
Published: June 8, 2025 13:00
Researchers in China have developed a technique to give lithium-ion batteries a second shot at life. Delivered as an injection, it significantly extends the cells' lifespan and has them perform almost like they're young again, the team report in a study…
Scientists Figured Out the Personality Traits of Influencers, and It Could Explain a Lot
https://futurism.com/neoscope/influencer-personality-traits
Published: June 8, 2025 12:15
More and more young people are gunning to become influencers — but certain personality traits appear more likely to pursue it as a career than others. In a new study published in the journal Telematics and Informatics, researchers from Poland's University…
Scientists Say There's Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon's Craters
https://futurism.com/the-byte/trillion-dollars-platinum-extracted-moon-craters
Published: June 8, 2025 11:30
Going Multi-Platinum Researchers have suggested that there could be over $1 trillion worth of platinum lurking under the surface of the Moon, a major lunar bounty waiting to be mined. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Planetary and Space…
Air Force Colonel Gave Out Photos of Flying Saucers Near Area 51
https://futurism.com/air-force-flying-saucer-area-51
Published: June 8, 2025 10:45
The Pentagon's real-life "X-Files" office uncovered an inconvenient truth about military officials spreading UFO disinformation to unsuspecting Americans and coworkers alike. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the Defense Department's All-domain Anomaly…
The Head of Tesla’s Humanoid Robot Program Says That He DEFINITELY Wasn't Fired and Is Only Leaving to Spend Time With His Family, Not Because Elon Musk Is on the Warpath
https://futurism.com/tesla-humanoid-leader-departure
Published: June 8, 2025 10:00
Fresh on the heels of Elon Musk's disgraceful return to Tesla, the head of the company's humanoid robot program is departing — but he swears the decision was his alone. According to an insider who spoke to Bloomberg, Milan Kovac, the head of engineering…
A Billionaire Is Buying Entire Businesses and Converting Them to Run With AI
https://futurism.com/billionaire-ai-businesses
Published: June 7, 2025 17:30
You might have heard the term "private equity" thrown around lately. Private equity, or "termite capitalism," as it's been ironically called, is a sweeping term for a massive industry built around buying and flipping private companies. These businesses can…
Trump Confronted Musk in Private Before Their Blowout Public Fight
https://futurism.com/trump-confronted-musk-privately
Published: June 7, 2025 17:13
This week, president Donald Trump and Elon Musk's bad blood burst into public view — but apparently, it had been brewing behind the scenes for some time. In a massive exposé looking behind the curtain of this summer's biggest breakup, the New York Times…
Scientists Just Found Something Hilarious About What Actually Happens When Muscle Bros Take Ice Baths
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Published: June 7, 2025 16:45
Elite athletes love their ice baths, or "cold plunges." After sweating it out on the court or on the pitch, you plunge into a tub of freezing cold water, and optionally, snap a photo of yourself to signal that you belong to a higher echelon of physical…
Male Politicians Are Getting Wild Plastic Surgery Procedures
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Published: June 7, 2025 16:00
In Washington, projection of power is everything — and some cosmetic surgeons are providing it artificially to their political clientele. As Politico reports, the growing trend of stronger, squarer jawlines among the Trump sons, Matt Gaetz, and even Elon…
The Tech Industry Said It Was "Impossible" to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion
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Published: June 7, 2025 15:15
A team of more than two dozen AI researchers have trained a large language model only using data that was openly licensed or in the public domain, the Washington Post reports, showing that it's possible to create more ethical AI models. But, as the…
Astronomers Astonished by Largest Explosion Since the Big Bang
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Published: June 7, 2025 14:30
You've heard of how mighty supernovas are, or of the ungodly amounts of energy released by gamma ray bursts. But astronomers have discovered a type of cosmic blast that puts all those to shame. They're called "extreme nuclear transients" (ENTs) — and…
Godfather of AI Alarmed as Advanced Systems Quickly Learning to Lie, Deceive, Blackmail and Hack
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Published: June 7, 2025 13:45
A leading artificial intelligence pioneer is concerned by the technology's propensity to lie and deceive — and he's founding his own nonprofit to curb such behavior. In a blog post announcing LawZero, the new nonprofit venture, AI godfather Yoshua Bengio…
Scientists Calculate That the Entire Big Bang Must Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole
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Published: June 7, 2025 13:00
The standard model of cosmology may be the best explanation we've got for why the universe is the way it is and how it all came to be. But it's not the only explanation. Enter black hole cosmology. It's a radical idea which proposes that the Big Bang — the…
TSA Begs Travelers to Stop Presenting a Costco Membership Card Instead of a Passport
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Published: June 7, 2025 12:15
Americans — next time you fly, the folks at the Transportation Safety Administration have a simple reminder: no, your Costco Membership is not a valid form of ID. The bizarre reminder came days ago, amidst a renewed flurry of web traffic (and presumably…
There’s a Fascinating Hidden Reason That So Many High-Earning Tech Workers Are Getting Laid Off Now
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Published: June 7, 2025 11:30
A little-known change to the tax code during Donald Trump's first presidency seems to be the driving factor behind all those tech layoffs over the past few years. As Quartz reports, a 2017 change to a 70-year-old tax law governing business spending did not…
Giant Crude Face Appears on Sun
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Published: June 7, 2025 10:45
If you look just right, the Sun appears to be opening its mouth and laughing at us. As ScienceAlert reports, this "hole" on the Sun is what's known as "coronal hole," which occurs when the star's magnetic field opens up and allows a gust of charged solar…
White House Realizing That Elon Musk's Incompetence Caused Huge Problems for the Government
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Published: June 7, 2025 10:00
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) moved fast and broke things in Washington — and now Donald Trump's administration is left to clean up the mess. As the Washington Post reports, federal employees fired rapidly under the premise…
Elon and Trump’s Breakup Results In Hilarious Consequences For Dogecoin
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Published: June 7, 2025 00:16
Elon Musk and Donald Trump's nasty feud has had some unintended consequences for the meme coin that inspired the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As CNBC reports, Dogecoin fell 10 percent on Thursday, the day that the Musk and Trump spat spilled…
There's a Huge Problem With Nanoscientists' "World's Smallest Violin"
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Published: June 6, 2025 21:15
A team of nanoscientists in the UK say they've created "the world's smallest violin." Narrower than the width of a human hair, it boasts equal parts meme and engineering potential, and is a cheeky proof of concept of a cutting-edge approach to designing…
Google Going to Trial After Doing Something Super Sketchy to Android Users
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Published: June 6, 2025 20:18
As far as the law is concerned in the United States, corporations are legally defined as "persons." They can hold property, claim religious exemptions to the law, enter contracts, and personally sue others, just like people. And if corporations are people,…
Tesla Seems Terrified These Messages About Its Robotaxi Rollout Will Be Released
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Published: June 6, 2025 19:28
We're less than a week away from Tesla's launch of a robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. The company's long-awaited ride-hailing service is set to kick off on June 12, albeit with some severe constraints. A mere "ten or 20 vehicles," which will rely on…
Elon Musk's "Hubris and Arrogance" Are Ruining Our Chances of Actually Getting to Mars, Says Leading Expert
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Published: June 6, 2025 18:13
The founder of the Mars Society has accused SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of derailing existing plans to explore and eventually visit the Red Planet. Robert Zubrin, who has coauthored hundreds of papers and laid out several blueprints as to how to settle on Mars,…
Amazon Testing Humanoid Robots to Ride in Vans, Hand-Deliver Packages
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Published: June 6, 2025 17:48
Amazon drivers have a hard gig. They've struggled for years against long hours with limited breaks, unreasonable delivery quotas, and wage theft — not to mention repressive union busting efforts to make sure none of that changes. Those are the conditions…
"Gasping": Scientists Make Breakthrough Toward Full Cure for HIV
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Published: June 6, 2025 16:58
Reseachers say they've taken a major step toward finding a cure for HIV. As The Guardian reports, scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne found a way to make the HIV virus visible, potentially laying the groundwork…
Trump Adviser Urges Immigration Investigation Into Elon Musk's Past as "Illegal Alien"
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Published: June 6, 2025 15:20
As Elon Musk and Donald Trump's bromance experiences a rapid but totally predictable disassembly, Steve Bannon, Musk's archnemesis, is calling on the president to investigate the world's richest man for being an "illegal alien." "They should initiate a…
Musk Is Suddenly Groveling to Get Back in Trump's Good Graces as He Realizes He's Made a Terrible Mistake
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Published: June 6, 2025 14:35
Billionaire Elon Musk and president Donald Trump are seething on their respective social media platforms following a major escalation of resentment that's been simmering for months. The gloves came off this week, as the two enormous egos started taking…
Trump Advisor Calls on Trump to Nationalize SpaceX Immediately
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Published: June 6, 2025 14:18
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is urging the president to nationalize Elon Musk's SpaceX and deport the billionaire. Bannon, a far-right white nationalist commentator who served as Trump's chief strategist during his first term, said that Trump should…
Are Children Losing the Ability to Read?
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Published: June 6, 2025 13:06
Parents are not reading out loud to their kids the way they used to — and it's majorly hurting the young ones. As The Atlantic reports,
Elon Musk Declares That He's "Immediately" Cutting Off NASA's Access to Space
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Published: June 5, 2025 20:49
Billionaire Elon Musk has countered president Donald Trump's threat to "terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," threatening to permanently cut the United States off from space. "In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my…
Elon Musk Melts Down, Claims Trump Is In The "Epstein Files" and That's the Reason They Haven't Been Released
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Published: June 5, 2025 20:30
In a dramatic escalation of the pair's nasty public breakup, Elon Musk is now claiming that Donald Trump had a closer relationship to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein than previously known. "Time to drop the really big bomb," Musk tweeted. "[Trump] is in the…
"He Just Went CRAZY": Trump Threatens to Terminate Elon Musk's Government Contracts
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Published: June 5, 2025 19:47
The gloves have officially come off as a feud between billionaire Elon Musk and president Donald Trump that's been brewing for months has spilled into the public. In the latest escalation, Trump threatened to cut Musk's government contracts. "The easiest…
Republicans Admit They Have Zero Respect for Musk, Were Just Using Him for Money and Clout
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Published: June 5, 2025 18:46
Many Republicans are breathing a massive sigh of relief now that billionaire Elon Musk has unofficially broken up with president Donald Trump in dramatic fashion. As Axios reports, lawmakers are releasing plenty of steam and pent-up frustration. "He's a…
Trump Takes the Gloves Off and Shreds Elon Musk
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Published: June 5, 2025 17:05
Billionaire Elon Musk's bromance with president Donald Trump has officially exploded into an ugly, spite-fuelled, mud-slinging match of epic proportions. The feud, which has been simmering for months now, boiled over this month after Musk excoriated…
The Trump-Musk Bromance Has Exploded Into a Million Spite-Fueled Pieces
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Published: June 5, 2025 16:10
It's been eleven excruciating months since billionaire Elon Musk vociferously announced that he "fully" endorsed "President Trump" following a failed assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania. At first, Musk appeared to dislike the optics of…
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