Category Archives: Robots & Artificial Intelligence
AI chatbots triggering terrifying new mental illness in once healthy people, top expert warns – are YOU at risk?
Microsoft’s artificial intelligence chief has warned of a rise in ‘AI psychosis’, where people believe [...]
The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA data to the police
Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini apps use for [...]
Confronted with AI hallucinations in filings, one court shows ‘justifiable kindness,’ while another gets tough
Many federal courts are trying to teach lawyers a lesson for court filings with errors [...]
Two Charts of Extremely Perverse Incentives
As a thought experiment, consider these changes to our economy’s incentive structure.
Synthetic Intelligence: The Counterfeit Crown Beyond Artificial Imitation (AI)
This is not merely about algorithms, nor about commerce, nor even about technology’s ceaseless march. [...]
China’s Industrial Robots are Changing Manufacturing
China is leading the world in industrial robots or programmable machines that are pioneering fast [...]
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet [...]
The Download: churches in the age of AI, and how to run an LLM at home
On a Sunday morning in a Midwestern megachurch, worshippers step through sliding glass doors into [...]
Senior, 76, died while trying to meet Meta AI chatbot ‘Big Sis Billie’ — which he thought was real woman living in NYC
A cognitively impaired New Jersey senior died while trying to meet a flirtatious AI chatbot [...]
The Awakening Is Here: AI Is Spontaneously Improving Itself and Is Becoming “Human” at a Very Frightening Pace
It appears that at least some of the ultra-intelligent entities that we have been creating [...]
We Need to Rethink AI Before It Destroys What It Means to Be Human
America was built on the foundational belief that every man is created in the image [...]
Hackers Weaponized ChatGPT-5 With This 6-Word Trick
Imagine you’re at work, and your AI assistant—the one your company trusts with sensitive documents [...]
If It Walks Like a Duck: Is The AI Mania a Psych-Ops?
Before you scream, “Oh no, not again–could somebody please take off his tin-foil hat?”, hear [...]
Teens Keep Being Hospitalized After Talking to AI Chatbots
It’s the dawn of a new era for the internet in 2025. Thanks to the [...]
AI Reveals New Secrets of the Nazca
Imagine flying high above the sun-drenched plains of southern Peru where the land is a [...]
Exclusive: Inside San Francisco’s Robot Fight Club
For the past few months, Cix Liv – real name – has been operating his [...]
Research Psychiatrist Warns He’s Seeing a Wave of AI Psychosis
Mental health experts are continuing to sound alarm bells about users of AI chatbots spiraling [...]
The AI boom is now bigger than the ’90s dotcom bubble—and it’s built on the backs of bots, maybe more than real users
We’ve all had that uncanny moment when we realize we’ve been talking to “someone” online [...]
Experts: 90% of Online Content Will Be AI-Generated by 2026
“Don’t believe everything you see on the Internet” has been pretty standard advice for quite [...]
Peter Thiel’s visions of Apocalypse Is AI the Antichrist?
Peter Thiel is a big thinker, and these days he’s been thinking about Doomsday. In [...]
AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers
Texas has long been defined by oil, heat, and huge infrastructure projects. Now, it’s also [...]
Experts predict AI will lead to the extinction of humanity
Truly super-intelligent bots could wipe us off the face of the Earth, says a Nobel [...]
Doctors Let AI Control Surgery Robot and Perform Gallbladder Removal on Its Own
An AI-controlled robot has autonomously completed a gallbladder removal with “100 percent accuracy.” The procedure, [...]
AI is taking scientific discovery from decades to minutes
The hardest math in science has long been a bottleneck, delaying discoveries across physics, chemistry, [...]
“I Am a Failure”: Google AI Develops Depression and Engineers Are Rushing To Cure It
The problem began being reported in June, when users posted screenshots that showed the bot [...]
Detailed Logs Show ChatGPT Leading a Vulnerable Man Directly Into Severe Delusions
As the AI spending bubble swells, so too are the numbers of people being drawn [...]
Man Follows ChatGPT’s Advice and Poisons Himself
A man trying to cut out salt from his diet learned the hard way that [...]
Dogs Of War: China Touts Killer Robot ‘Wolves’
China’s latest gun-toting quadruped military “wolf” robots are designed to stealthily approach enemies, fire precise [...]
A glimpse into OpenAI’s largest ambitions
OpenAI has given itself a dual mandate. On the one hand, it’s a tech giant [...]
Claude 4 Chatbot Raises Questions about AI Consciousness
When Pew Research Center surveyed Americans on artificial intelligence in 2024, more than a quarter [...]
Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel
Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which, the company says, is its [...]
AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents
On Monday, Mayor Patrick Collins of Cheyenne, Wyoming, announced plans for an AI data center [...]
AI Tool ‘Aeneas’ Helps Historians Restore Damaged Latin Texts By Accelerating Complex And Time-Consuming Work
Google DeepMind has developed an artificial intelligence program called Aeneas that helps historians restore damaged [...]
‘Catastrophic’: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Wipes Out Company’s Entire Database
SaaS industry veteran Jason Lemkin’s attempt to integrate artificial intelligence into his workflow has gone [...]
When Robots Go Wrong…
I CANNOT stop watching this
Detroit’s Using Robots to Pick Up Garbage, Mow Grass, Clear Snow, and Much More
At a city-owned beach in Detroit, a pilotless vehicle can be seen roaming over the [...]
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is warning that entire job categories could be wiped out by [...]
Does Google’s AI ‘Aeneas’ Revolutionize Deciphering of Ancient Texts?
Google DeepMind has unveiled an artificial intelligence tool named Aeneas that promises to transform how historians study [...]
AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren’t doctors
AI companies have now mostly abandoned the once-standard practice of including medical disclaimers and warnings [...]
Human-AI teamwork uncovers hidden magnetic states in quantum spin liquids
At the forefront of discovery, where cutting-edge scientific questions are tackled, we often don’t have [...]
Robots gain human trust with the right kind of eye contact
As humans and robots interact more, eye contact plays a powerful role. It’s more than [...]
Trump unveils more than $100B in AI, energy investments as part of major push for US to lead innovation over China
President Trump championed more than $100 billion in new private-sector investments in artificial intelligence and [...]
We’re Not Ready For Superintelligence: What “AI 2027” Warns Us About the Near Future
Superhuman AI is set to shake up our world faster and more deeply than any [...]
The Technological Singularity Is Coming – 9 Ways It Will Transform Life Forever!
What if machines become smarter than humans within our lifetime? The Technological Singularity isn’t science [...]
China Warns of Rogue Robot Troops Unleashing Terminator-Style “Indiscriminate Killings”
Concerns are mounting in China as the Communist superpower advances humanoid robot development to replace [...]
This AI could change EVERYTHING by next year
With Elon Musk’s announcement of Grok 4, humanity is closer than ever before to creating [...]
Meet the $100K robodog Spot that patrols a Long Island construction site
A Long Island construction project has recruited a $100,000 mechanical mutt to walk the premises, [...]
Brainless robot created that runs and swims is powered solely by air
A wheezing pump, a length of elastic tubing, and a spark of curiosity have produced [...]
Welcome to the Matrix: In a World Ruled by Machines, Being Human Became a Disadvantage — And That’s When the Real SHTF Began
Today, I want to talk about an invasion so insidious, so all-consuming, that most people [...]
New ‘Mind-Reading’ AI Predicts What Humans Will Do Next, And It’s Shockingly Accurate
An artificial intelligence system can now predict your next move before you make it. We’re [...]
Hymn To Babylon On Clay Tablets, Lost For A Thousand Years Deciphered Thanks To AI
A significant discovery in the form of the complete text of the previously unknown “Hymn [...]
Massive study detects AI fingerprints in millions of scientific papers
Chances are that you have unknowingly encountered compelling online content that was created, either wholly [...]
Wall Street CEOs finally say the quiet part out loud as they admit apocalyptic reality for American workers: ‘Literally half’
The dam is breaking. In a terrifying admission that signals a seismic change in corporate America, [...]
Archetype AI is helping this Washington city monitor pedestrian safety in real time
When it joined the Vision Zero program in 2015, the city of Bellevue, Washington, set [...]
The U.S. Economy’s Slow Death: Systemic AI Replacing the Middle Class and the Cannibalization of American Workers to Feed a Grotesque Ruling Elite and Build a Dystopian Future
Lately I’ve been watching the endless media propaganda screaming that the economy is “strong.” But [...]
Harmful AI therapy: Chatbots endanger users with suicidal thoughts, delusions, researchers warn
Lay down on the AI therapy couch at your own risk. Chatbots — the hottest [...]
Execs from Palantir, Meta, OpenAI being brought into U.S. Army as colonels to turbocharge military’s use of drone warfare, robot soldiers, other high-tech killing machines
Top executives from tech giants Meta, Palantir, and OpenAI are being sworn into the Army [...]
Is ChatGPT Intentionally Driving You Into Psychosis?
I loved the deadpan wit in this tweet where she asked GPT to draw an image of [...]
People Trying to Call Into Iran Hearing Frightening, Unidentified Voices
Make no mistake: The Iranian regime is running scared. So scared, in fact, that they [...]
Terrifying MIT Study Finds ChatGPT is Rotting Our Brains
A terrifying new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that extensive [...]
The AI arms race could destroy humanity as we know it
The AI arms race is moving too fast for safety, with companies pushing boundaries and [...]
AI is disrupting jobs, but countries are learning to adapt
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic dream. It’s already shaping how people learn, [...]
Peter Thiel’s visions of Apocalypse Is AI the Antichrist?
Peter Thiel is a big thinker, and these days he’s been thinking about Doomsday. In [...]
Did AI just replace stock brokers?
I never thought I’d say this, but I’m glad I waited until 2025 to start [...]
Will Human Error Hand AI the Key to Our Destruction?
AI may be evolving fast, but it’s human carelessness—not killer robots—that’s fueling a cybercrime wave [...]
AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers
AI is all the rage right now as companies laser in on language-learning models like [...]
How far will AI go to defend its own survival?
Recent safety tests show some AI models are capable of sabotaging commands or even resorting [...]
AI is getting out of control
The new types of scams that are going to start happening are going to be [...]
We Bought a ‘Peeing’ Robot Attack Dog From Temu. It Was Even Weirder Than Expected
For less than the cost of a round of drinks, a plasticized Boston Dynamics fever [...]
How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help From Physics
When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change [...]
Melania Trump uses AI to narrate her memoir in her ‘own voice’: ‘New era’
She’s letting artificial intelligence do the talking. First lady Melania Trump turned to AI to [...]
Buried in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is a clause that would ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years
Artificial intelligence is going to cause more upheaval in society over the next few years [...]
The Forbidden Truth About AI: Are “Inter-Dimensional Beings” Pulling The Strings Behind DeepSeek, OpenAI… and the Coming Singularity?
Glenn Beck exposes China’s AI threat – but the REAL story is who (or what) [...]
Can AI trigger ‘end-time event’? Man behind ChatGPT fears so, called for doomsday bunker
The scale of danger that Artificial Intelligence poses can be gauged by the fact that [...]
Are We Having a Zeitgeist Moment on AI and Humanity?
Pope Leo XIV chose his papal name in response to the challenge of AI while warning that the [...]
Meet the content creators harnessing AI —and how they use it to make thousands per month
AI is rapidly making huge leaps forward with video production — and for those who [...]
OpenAI: The power and the pride
In April, Paul Graham, the founder of the tech startup accelerator Y Combinator, sent a [...]
Rogue AI, Genetic Data, and Bioweapons: If It Can’t Be Shut Down, Who’s Controlling It?
OpenAI’s most advanced model sabotaged its own shutdown code, refusing to turn off even when [...]
Why Intempus thinks robots should have a human physiological state
Teddy Warner, 19, has always been interested in robotics. His family was in the industry, [...]
Skynet Is on the Horizon – AI Company Revealed Its Program Willing to Blackmail to Ensure Its Survival
The arrival and mushrooming of artificial intelligence has become more and more accepted, as the [...]
World’s most advanced humanoid robot gives chilling response when asked if it’s going to take our jobs
As robots get more and more advanced, it’s natural to worry that we’ll all soon [...]
Anthropic’s Latest AI Model Threatened Engineers With Blackmail to Avoid Shutdown
Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 4, tried to blackmail engineers in internal tests [...]
Doug Burgum Warns Whoever Wins AI Race ‘Controls the World’
Doug Burgum, the soft-spoken Interior secretary responsible for managing the more than 507 million acres [...]
The Download: meet Cathy Tie, and Anthropic’s new AI models
Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein” Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released [...]
ChatGPT’s cowardly DOUBLE STANDARD: Bowing before Islam while mocking Christianity
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has revealed itself to be a spineless enforcer of woke orthodoxy, selectively [...]
THE DEEPER DIVE: The AI Colossus Is Rapidly Enveloping the World
Its continued development and influence over its own evolution is now inevitable.
Forget Humanoids. At MIT, Worms and Turtles Are Inspiring a New Generation of Robots
Everyone is obsessed with humanoid robots right now, but the director of MIT’s Computer Science [...]
By putting AI into everything, Google wants to make it invisible
If you want to know where AI is headed, this year’s Google I/O has you [...]
China’s AI-Powered Humanoid Robots Aim To Transform Manufacturing
China has grown as a Technocracy ever since Zbigniew Brzezinski took Chairman Deng Xiaoping under [...]
This US drone uses AI to pick its own targets
US-based defense contractor AeroVironment has revealed a drone that can choose its own targets and [...]
How Peter Thiel’s Relationship With Eliezer Yudkowsky Launched the AI Revolution
The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other’s monsters. An excerpt from [...]
Are We Having a Zeitgeist Moment on AI and Humanity?
Pope Leo XIV chose his papal name in response to the challenge of AI while warning that the [...]
Princeton Engineers Develop “Metabot” That Is Both a Material and a Robot
This material can expand, change shape, move, and respond to electromagnetic commands like a remotely [...]
Colossus: World’s biggest supercomputer aims 1 million GPUs to shake AI world
Elon Musk’s intelligence company xAI has achieved a significant milestone with its Colossus supercomputer operating [...]
Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction [...]
Dutch scientists built a brainless soft robot that runs on air
Most robots rely on complex control systems, AI-powered or otherwise, that govern their movement. These [...]
Teachers using AI to grade students, “They don’t matter, and will soon be obsolete”
As artificial intelligence (AI) weaves its way into the fabric of daily life, its presence [...]
Elon Musk now admits: AI will replace bloated, inefficient federal government
Large swaths of federal workers being terminated does not mean the end of government involvement [...]
Palantir Partners with NATO on Controversial AI Project Maven
In late March, the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Communications and Information Agency (NCIA) and [...]
CHINA BUILT A ROBOT WITH A HUMAN BRAIN
Chinese scientists grew a cerebral organoid — a mini brain made from human stem cells [...]