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Firefighters and emergency responders already consider robotaxis a pain in their backsides. And Tesla’s gilded Cybercab, free of steering wheels or pedals, isn’t going to make their lives any easier.According to new guidance posted by the Elon Musk owned automaker, a firefighter who has to deal with a Cybercab in an emergency or that had an accident might need to call not one, but two different Tesla support support hotlines and wait for an employee to assist them with their request — an awfully clunky procedure in a profession where time is of the essence.The process is even more painstaking…

Plenty of eyebrows went up this summer when one by one, the leaders of frontier AI labs announced that they were each calling for a slowdown in AI development.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Grok creator Elon Musk were among those arguing that the tech was simply moving too fast to ensure it doesn’t fly off the rails. Several autonomous hacking sprees had already raised hackles earlier this year, highlighting the danger of AI models breaking out of containment and infiltrating third-party companies like Hugging Face.Then Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon lit the powder keg with his high-profile departure,…

President Donald Trump has waded into the AI debate with a lexical proclamation: AI shouldn’t be called AI.“Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence,” he began in a post on his social media site Truth Social on Saturday, seemingly apropos of nothing.“A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI).”Today Trump used an address at the United Nations to make the term official.

The gambling hub DraftKings could be using the mountains of user data it collects, and the analyst expertise it boasts, to stop problem gamblers from ruining their lives.Instead, it’s using this power to do the opposite, according to the New York Times: scout for potential addicts and keep them hooked.To do that, DraftKings, which is best known for its sports betting app, built an AI model to determine which customers were likely to gamble and lose the most money in response to its enticing promotions, according to numerous former employees, some of whom helped build the machining learning algorithm. It…

Must an AI be useful? Isn’t being creepy sufficient testament to its utility?“Creepy” is the word being used to describe Meta’s new AI assistant, Muse. Chances are you’ve seen it pop up on Instagram or Facebook, where Meta is heavily promoting its tool as an AI agent for casual users who are blissfully unaware of what an “OpenClaw” or “Instinct” is.To use it, you install it on your device and link it to stuff like your email and bank accounts. Then you set it on a task and it “keeps working while you get on with your day,” Meta says.…

I’ve never shot a gun before — and it’s not an activity I’d actively seek out, given the grim implications of trivializing an act of violence by transforming it into recreation.Yet it’s never been easier to fire a weapon. Now, in fact, it doesn’t even require you to get off your couch. A just-launched website called Shov allows users to “shoot guns on the internet” by remotely-controlling a weapon right inside their web browser. The pneumatic weapons fire .68 caliber hardened rubber “less lethal” munitions, which have killed dozens and wounded thousands worldwide when they’ve been deployed by police.The project…

For years, human rights monitors have been outraged at the selective policing of content on Meta’s social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The company’s latest enforcement action is hardly shocking at this point, but it provides a crystal clear example of the kinds of things Meta will — and won’t — allow on its apps.In a bizarre case of digital censorship, Meta’s content moderation system stepped in to stop a local theatre in Barcelona from promoting a stage adaptation on the grounds that it violated a rule on promoting “social topics,” per the Guardian.The production in question is an adaptation…

The era of the robots is here.We’ve seen humanoid bots pull off impressive martial arts choreographies, run faster than the world’s fastest person, tear it up on the dance floor, and face off in the ring against each other.But — at least beyond a few humans catching stray blows from robots in stunts gone awry — we’d been yet to see a robot contender square off in the ring against a homo sapien fighter.Until now, that is. A new video making the rounds on social media shows humanoid robot fighting company REK have one of its androids spar with influencer…

Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI has been instrumental to the American campaign.On the home front, AI and its infrastructure is quietly shaping the ideological battlefield: President Donald Trump is spewing out wartime propaganda slopped together by generative AI, as US-owned data centers and tech company offices become widely accepted as military targets.AI is also proving instrumental for helping US Central Command choose targets for obliteration via drone strikes or missiles — so much so that an AI system played a pivotal role in perpetuating an American war…

Hundreds of flights across New Jersey, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston were delayed Monday afternoon after the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a massive ground stop impacting thousands of travelers — right as the government starts testing an AI air traffic control system, though there’s no current indication that the two incidents are connected.According to early reporting by Reuters, over 600 flights were delayed across Newark and Philadelphia alone, in addition to hundreds more across four other east coast airports. Dozens of imminent takeoffs were likewise aborted across the busy flight corridor when the ground stops — which appeared…