Futurism

After being interviewed by Don Lemon, X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk has abruptly canceled the TV journalist's upcoming show on X. In a statement from Lemon, the partnership was meant to be a "part of their public commitment to amplifying more diverse voices on their platform," likely a nod to the growing divide between the two's […]

A report commissioned by the US State Department is warning rapidly evolving AI could pose a "catastrophic" risk to national security and even all of humanity. The document titled "An Action Plan to Increase the Safety and Security of Advanced AI," first reported on by TIME earlier this week, advised that the US government must […]

Sora for the Delay OpenAI made a big splash with its new video generator called Sora last month. The text-to-video model can be used to "create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions," according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. And with stunning results, […]

Cat Scratch Fever Sometime in the wee hours this past Sunday, a cat exploring a metal plating factory in Japan slipped and fell into a vat of caustic, cancer-causing liquid but managed to escape, leaving paw prints on the floor. But now local officials in Fukuyama are warning residents: If you see "a cat that […]

The European Union is a big step closer to enacting the first AI rules in the world, sweeping guardrails meant to put real-world limits on the development of the technology. The straightforwardly named AI Act was passed by the bloc's parliament today, which could set the tone for similar rules in other parts of the […]

Silver Light Beneath a gunmetal gray sky in Wales, a man making his morning ambulation through a soggy, rutted field on Tuesday spotted a strange apparition that would not look out of place in an Arthur C. Clarke novel: a 10-foot tall silver monolith. "It must be some sort of art installation," 37-year-old stone mason […]

Blazing Glory A Japanese rocket by startup Space One has exploded in spectacular fashion following a launch attempt earlier today. It's yet another major setback for the company, which was hoping to become Japan's first commercial entity to launch a satellite into orbit, the New York Times reports. Drone footage shows the dramatic scene. At […]

  In a desperate attempt to keep out the rising ocean tides, residents of a small town in Massachussetts spent half a million dollars on a sand dune to protect their lavish, coastal homes. Unfortunately for them, the Atlantic wasn't impressed, sweeping away the 14,000 tons of sand in a matter of just three days, […]

Buyer's Remorse Elon Musk and Donald Trump apparently have a deeper bromance than anyone knew — and the former president even tried to get the owner of the site formerly known as Twitter to buy his terrible social network. As the Washington Post reports based on insider sources, Trump made Musk an offer he was, apparently, […]

Botnet Attack AI company Midjourney has banned all of the employees of its competitor Stability AI from using its AI image-generating services after it allegedly caught one employee scraping huge amounts of important data, including prompt and image pairs, Ars Technica reports. This data could help Stability train or fine-tune its image-generating AI models — […]