Futurism

Meme Stock to Laughing Stock Shares for Donald Trump's social media business are in freefall, tumbling well over 20 percent on Monday alone, and wiping out $1 billion of the former president's net worth, Bloomberg reports. The share price of Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the far right-wing social media platform Truth Social, […]

Not-So-Incognito In response to a lawsuit, Google is going to delete billions of data points from users who browsed on Chrome's Incognito mode — which is great news for those who have used it for not-safe-for-work purposes. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the settlement in Google's class action lawsuit, which was filed in California in […]

Mass Shortage As AI companies keep building bigger and better models, they are running down a shared problem: sometime soon, the internet will not be big enough to provide all the data they need. As the Wall Street Journal reports, some companies are looking for alternative sources of data training now that the internet is growing […]

Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world in 2018, when news emerged that he had used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to tinker with the genetic code of human embryos. The experiments led to a massive uproar, with scientists, ethicists, and regulators balking at the "egregious scientific and ethical lapses." In 2019, He was sentenced […]

Beta Testing Despite having been in public beta mode for nearly a year, Google's search AI is still spitting out confusing and often incorrect answers. As the Washington Post found when assessing Google's Search Generative Experience, or SGE for short, the AI-powered update to the tech giant's classic search bar is still giving incorrect or misleading […]

Swiper, No Swiping Talk about the call coming from inside the house! In an interview with The Financial Times, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassibis likened the frothiness shrouding the AI gold rush to that of the crypto industry's high-dollar funding race, saying that the many billions being funneled into AI companies and projects brings a […]

Teenage Mutant Ticker Fumble Former president Donald Trump's right-wing Twitter clone Truth Social made a measly $4.1 million in revenue for all of 2023, new Securities Exchange Commission documents released today show. That's despite having spent more than $58 million over the same period. The news appears to have hit the platform hard. Truth Social […]

New reports claim to have found a potential origin for the mysterious "Havana Syndrome" that is said to have affected American and Canadian agents — but questions remain about whether the US government agrees. In a five-year investigation conducted with the help of Germany's Der Spiegel and the independent Russian exile outfit The Insider, CBS' […]

  South Korean scientists have set a new world record using the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) device, an "artificial Sun" nuclear fusion reactor, in what they say is a major step forward for the tech. The team was able to generate plasma temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius — seven times as hot […]

  Tesla CEO Elon Musk's toxic behavior is really starting to affect the EV maker's bottom line. According to a recent survey by corporate reputation management platform Caliber, the carmaker's reputation is plunging in large part due to Musk's off-putting and problematic behavior. The values for Tesla's "consideration" and "trust and like" scores fell eight […]