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For anybody who thought AI companies were about to unlock trillions of dollars in profits, OpenAI has bad news for you: it ain’t happening anytime soon.Some red-hot reporting from the Financial Times just revealed that OpenAI’s annualized revenue — an estimated guess at a company’s income for the year — is roughly $20 billion lower than anybody had previously expected, including, it seems, OpenAI itself.Because OpenAI is a private company, it’s important to note that we don’t know for sure what’s going on under the hood. That said, the FT based its reporting on internal memos to investors issued in late…
In yet another confounding testament to the sorry state of the United States education system, New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has expressed skepticism about the country’s Moon landings over half a century ago.“I don’t know about the Moon, you know,” he said during a media appearance on Monday. “I think I can see back in the day why we would put on the mask if we went there, but I’m not really sure 200 percent if we went there or not.”“I wouldn’t say I’m leaning one way or the other,” he said. “I just know I’m a little bit…
Parenting is hard. Why not let an AI model take over some of your childrearing duties? It may come at the expense of forming lasting emotional bonds with your progeny, but that’s a tradeoff that some AI adherents, evidently, have calculated to be worth it.OpenAI Sam Altman has bragged about how much he relies on ChatGPT to raise his son, and also thinks it’s a good idea to let an AI-generated podcast replace the “so how’d your day go?” catchup talk a mom or dad has in the car when they pick their kid up from school.Altman’s comments were ruthlessly…
A fully AI-generated feature film is set to get a theatrical release and has already been rated R, making it the first AI film to be blessed by an official MPA rating. And the studio behind the movie, titled “Gods Don’t Give Gifts,” is even gearing up for an awards push.But whether it looks any better than all the slop that AI art has become known for is up for debate.The film’s creator, the popular YouTuber known as Gossip Goblin, dropped a two minute trailer on Wednesday, giving us a good look at its sci-fi visuals, but filling us in…
For years, illustrators, photographers, designers, and video editors have been held under the thumb of a single software company: Adobe.The infamous Adobe Creative Suite, later rebranded as the Creative Cloud — a change which brought about an end to true offline use — has long dogged creatives with its incredibly high subscription fees, representing an ironclad grip on the world of artists and other creatives.Though plenty of competitors have tried to ram their way into the market, few have been able to make a dent against the dominant Creative Cloud. That may be about to change — and not because of a…
“I’m recording you right now and you probably can’t tell, because there’s no annoying little blinking light on these glasses,” a creator boasting nearly half a million followers declares in an August TikTok video. “I’m gonna be the first one to tell you, go save that $400, and grab some of these from TikTok Shop.”A disclaimer on the video denotes that the creator is “eligible for commission,” meaning that if a follower clicks through a shopping tag included on the video, he may get an affiliate kickback. That shopping tag directs viewers to a TikTok Shop page hawking a range of…
In 2024, award-winning singer songwriter Taylor Swift became the victim of a wave of pornographic deepfakes flooding social media feeds. The controversy set the stage for a pandemic of nonconsensual AI-generated nudes, forcing big tech companies into damage control mode and even striking up a political brawl during the runup to the 2024 presidential elections.Even at the time, Swift’s lawyers were no strangers to their client being the subject of harassment. Almost a decade previously, Swift bought the web addresses TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult right before they went public in 2015, ensuring that nobody could use the domains for any abusive…
For decades, gaming console emulators have allowed tech-savvy users to play their favorite games on officially unsupported devices.While the trend has broadly been confined to older-generation consoles like the Nintendo 64 or GameBoy, hackers are now starting to get even games exclusive to current-generation hardware, like Sony’s PlayStation 5, to run on a PC.Thanks to rapid advancements in emulator tech, PS5 titles are becoming increasingly playable on virtually any modern PC, as Ars Technica reports.Videos making the rounds on social media show PS5 games, like “Dead Cells,” comfortably running “fully natively” on a PC thanks to a new project called…
AI book scammers are still thriving on Amazon’s marketplace.Just a day after a new book about the AI industry’s race to build a powerful artificial general intelligence hit the shelves, its author Kevin Roose discovered that a scammer was already trying to trick his readers — by using AI.On Amazon, an apparent machine-generated duplicate of the book, titled “The AGI Chronicles,” is freely circulating on the platform and even showing up right beneath the real deal in the e-commerce giant’s search results. It looks a lot like the real thing, but is listed for a bargain $24.69 compared to the original…
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.OpenAI has made an eyebrow-raising claim: that teen users can talk to ChatGPT about suicide and other harmful topics for hours before the chatbot notifies their parents.The admission came amid an investigation by Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute. In its report released Wednesday, the nonprofit group found that OpenAI’s new ChatGPT for Teens mode, which is designed to place stricter guardrails…