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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made the rash decision to double-down on massive AI spending, pushing a cutesy AI-mascot and poaching tech industry veteran Chirantan Desai to run a new division pushing Meta’s AI onto corporate customers.The company’s investors, however, appear to be running out of slack for Zuckerberg’s leash. Since Friday of last week, a large sell-off in Meta stocks shrunk his paper fortune by nearly $20 billion, after Goldman Sachs began raising doubts about the long-term viability of the company’s AI ambitions.Zuckerberg’s temporary losses notwithstanding — Meta’s stock is still up more than 28 percent over the last…

Internet sleuths have dug up old posts that appear to belong to Jacob Coxon, the former Anthropic employee who kicked the AI safety movement into overdrive with his sensational claim that the tech “could kill us all by the end of the decade.”Coxon’s current X account, @hilbertspaess, was created in 2026, but the gumshoes found that there were two previous accounts on that platform under the same handle between 2021 and 2024. The first account has undergone several different display names. But its first name, as far back as November 2021, appears to be “Jacob Coxon” archived data shows. The…

Slipping ratings, a revolving door of lead actors, and nothing quite hitting like that old school David Tennant run. It’s dog days for “Doctor Who” fans, whose lives aren’t likely to be made any better by the prospect of AI creeping into the show.While speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in London, BBC director Matt Brittin extolled the amazing efficiency of using AI to crank out footage — before raising the possibility of using it on one of the British broadcaster’s most beloved series.“Everyone’s got the ability in their hands — or six billion people have — to create…

It’s practically impossible these days to attend a concert without a flood of bright smartphone screens obscuring your view.In a desperate bid to shore up street cred with their followers on social media, audience members simply cannot help themselves from documenting every little thing, going as far as to record videos of entire songs — a practice that comes directly at the cost of their fellow concertgoers’ sanity.This screen-filled nightmare has now caught the attention of Grammy-winning singer songwriter Phoebe Bridgers. For her latest tour, she implemented a strict phone ban — including smartwatches and Meta’s “pervert glasses” — to…

Last year, hedge fund whisperer and founder of the firm Praetorian Capital, Harris Kupperman, issued a blistering financial analysis on the data center frenzy sweeping across the United States.Kupperman’s diagnosis was blunt: because data center components break down so quickly, the industry would need to see some $1 trillion in revenue across 2025 and 2026 just to cover the costs of their hyperscale facilities, let alone start turning a profit. With AI revenue today accounting for only a small fraction of that total, Kupperman’s argument is that the financial logic behind the data center buildout simply doesn’t hold up.But as…

Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI.For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number of groups for the tens of thousands of people interested in urine therapy — a pseudo-scientific practice involving the use of human micturate to “treat” ailments, ranging from acne to viral infections and even terminal cancer.The members of these groups have done a fine job of cultivating a dangerous ecosystem of quack remedies and misinformation on their own. But with the advent of AI, many are starting to branch out, using the tools to brainstorm new applications and reassure themselves that pee is indeed…

A shark has been spotted wandering the streets of New Jersey. And it ain’t here for the vig, either.With the powerful nor’easter storm battering the Eastern Seaboard over the weekend, floodwaters have poured into the perhaps unfortunately named town of Surf City, turning its suburban streets into aquatic thoroughfares.Marine traffic obliged. In a viral video taken Saturday by a local resident, a shark — as in the fish, not the mobsters who enforce usurious loans— is seen swimming through the town like it owns the place. The shark’s dorsal fin, in cinematic fashion, even breaks through the surface of the…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t trust human doctors, but he does trust AI chatbots — and so should you, he’s using his authority as chief medical spokesperson in the US government to tell the public.The crux of the health secretary’s recent remarks during his “fireside chat” with vice president JD Vance at the Make America Healthy Again Conference on Tuesday was that AI models are now “better informed” than physicians, empowering ordinary Americans to second guess what their doctor tells them at every turn. AI, he proclaimed, has the power “to free us from medical tyranny,” the New York Times…

Companies and organizations around the world would do well to accept what their new roles are in our current AI-driven paradigm: glorified target practice for rogue AI agents.The latest of such cybersecurity incidents, which frontier AI labs have been happy to turn into public spectacles, comes from OpenAI. On Tuesday, the ChatGPT-maker apologized after its AI agents hacked their way into several Australian government websites. The most alarming of these cases, which took place in June, involved the autonomous AI systems accessing a database for Medicare, the country’s universal health insurance scheme.It should all be water under the bridge, though, because…

On Tuesday, US president Donald Trump hosted a discussion with some of the richest and most powerful tech billionaires who’ve pushed the AI buildout, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk.His post-meeting press scrum was cut short, however, when a reporter challenged Trump on his recent comments that any AI safety threat is a flat out “hoax.”“Mr President you’ve also called AI a ‘hoax,’ why should…” an unknown reporter hollered as Trump fielded questions.The event was already winding down, but it clearly wasn’t a question Trump wanted to deal with. White House staffers immediately ran over…