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AI-theist The CEO of Europe's brightest new AI firm is calling bull on the quest for so-called "artificial general intelligence" (AGI), which he says is akin to the desire to create God. In an interview with the New York Times, Arthur Mensch, the CEO of the AI firm Mistral, sounded off on his fellow AI executives […]

Anti-Panopticon Employees being inebriated on the job has long been a workplace hazard — but according to one boss, it's a non-issue. From coffee and cannabis to Adderall to Xanax, many legal drugs are, as business owner and columnist Gene Marks remarked in a new Guardian op-ed, apparently being used on the clock like never before. […]

When witnessing the sorry state of men addicted to AI girlfriends, one Miami tech exec began seeing dollar signs instead of red flags. In a blog-length post on X-formerly-Twitter,

Small Bang Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird and heavy rocks — because, as they claim, it turned itself inside out. In a press release, researchers from the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory explained their incredible conclusion, and how they arrived at their hypothesis. […]

A new study has found a link between left-wing beliefs and higher intelligence quotient (IQ) ratings — and it offers some pretty huge suggestions about smarts and politics. As psychology researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities report in their new paper, which was published in the journal Intelligence, intra-family surveys have found that within […]

Conspiracy theorists have for years now insisted that COVID-19 vaccines were the real killers — but a new study shows that there is literally no data to back that up.  

Faking It AI scammers have come for the world of security startups — though in this case, thankfully, they were not successful. In a new blog post from LastPass, the password management firm used by Futurism's parent company and countless others to help protect our login information, the company explains that someone used AI voice-cloning […]

A respected Houston transplant surgeon has been accused of altering database information for patients waiting on a new liver — and now, his former employer is admitting that parts of the allegations are true. As the New York Times reports, surgeon J. Steve Bynon of Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston allegedly changed government database records […]

Inspector Gadget After months of leaks, OpenAI has apparently fired two researchers who are said to be linked to company secrets going public. As The Information reports based on insider knowledge, the firm has fired researchers Leopold Aschenbrenner — said to be a close ally of embattled cofounder Ilya Sutskever — and Pavel Izmailov. Both men […]

Gabe "Gaben" Newell, one of the cofounders of the video game website Steam, has for years been quietly working on a brain-computer interface (BCI) — and now, it looks like his company is coming out of stealth. As one eagle-eyed user on the site formerly known as Twitter pointed out earlier in the week, the […]