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Someone vibe-coded a gun and 3D-printed it — and wants the freedom loving citizens of the world to enjoy this power, too.The creator, gun-rights activist Cody Wilson, told The Verge that it’s the “first AI-made gun” — his timely followup to the world’s first 3D-printed firearm that he crafted 13 years ago. Called the WASP, the .22 caliber weapon’s unconventional design aptly looks like it might’ve been hallucinated by an old image model, except it apparently actually works and is capable of firing real ammunition.But the WASP is arguably just a proof-of-concept of his more consequential creation: his very own…

Flying cars are right around the corner, if Tesla CEO Elon Musk is to be believed. Last week, he unveiled the automaker’s long-awaited Roadster by having it drive to the top of a ramp, flipping upside down in the process, then fling itself into the air before using its cold-fuel thrusters to gently land in style. Minutes later, another Roadster did its best Evel-Knievel-with-a-jetpack impression by blowing itself into the air and leaping over a row of six Tesla vehicles, including its Semi Truck cab.Sure, the Roadster can “fly.” There’s no denying that it was an impressive stunt. But huge…

A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes.In the report, Decrypt Ads — a startup that tracks the supply chains of online advertisements — identified more than two thousand websites that strongly appear to be AI slop farms masquerading as blogs run by real chefs and home cooks. These sites, the report found, are pumping fake recipes into search engines like Google as well as social media platforms such as Pinterest, often relying on sketchy Russian and Chinese adtech partners to monetize the operations.It’s “common knowledge that publishers in certain niches are being openly…

Whether as short-form slop Reels or the data centers that spit them out, Americans are absolutely sick of AI. Their elected officials, however, are going all-in — both embracing gobs of money from tech lobbying arms, and increasingly even embracing the tech to churn out attack ads to tarnish their opponents.According to reporting from the New York Times, AI generated election ads have become a hundred-million dollar business, generating over $137 million in promotional revenue already in the current election cycle. That’s nearly a quarter of all spending on midterm political advertising overall — which amounts to a cool $565…

A retired professor was handcuffed and arrested last week, for the crime of standing on the sidewalk in front of a delivery robot.According to local channel 6ABC, 78-year-old Carolyn Marvin was arrested in Philadelphia’s Center City, after planting her feet in the path of an oncoming Avride delivery robot. Marvin, a retired communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, told local reporters she was protesting the robots due to the threat they pose to local delivery workers.“I know they’re taking the jobs of human delivery workers,” Marvin told 6ABC, “and so I have been protesting them whenever I saw them…

Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years. And now the International Monetary Fund is the latest to sound the alarm.In its Global Financial Stability Report published last week, the global financial institution warned that markets everywhere are increasingly at the mercy of precarious AI investments.The untold billions poured into AI has driven economic growth, the IMF says, but the boom could quickly invert if profits, which so far have largely proven elusive, never come to fruition — or at least not proportionately with the epic investment levels. AI stocks would tank, and the resulting market correction would…

Donald Trump’s Twitter clone, Truth Social, is in serious trouble.The company has weathered bad news before, hitting all-time low stock prices on multiple occasions over the past year. But those days now look balmy in comparison, with the social network’s shares sliding more than 7.5 percent on Monday alone and setting a new rock bottom of just $6.40. Zooming out doesn’t paint a prettier picture, either: over the past month, the company’s stock has fallen a stomach-churning 29 percent.It’s easy to empathize with any investors looking to ditch the company. It never had much of a raison d’être beyond “funnel…

For months, executives at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been dumping tens of millions of dollars into political action groups, in an obvious bid to curry favor with electoral candidates ahead of the US midterm elections.And while we have a good idea of how much money top AI companies have spent — at least $55.7 million so-far — their exact policy positions have been difficult to pin down. That is, until now.According to Politico, a team of representatives from Anthropic have been engaged in quiet talks with lawmakers about the language of a draft bill on AI…

An image published by a TikTok account called “WellWithHer” shows a selfie of an obviously AI-generated woman sitting in her bed, weeping. According to the image’s caption, which is written in the first-person, the woman spent six months “hiding” her GLP-1 “pens in her bag,” only for her secret use of the meds to be discovered by her sister.“I hid my GLP-1 from my sister for 6 months… she just sent me this,” reads text overlaying the image. “I cried.”The next image in the carousel is a screenshot of a locked iPhone screen, which shows a lengthy text from a…

The conventional wisdom is that AI systems, with their tens of billions of parameters, are effectively indecipherable: the exact mechanics of how their basic building blocks of nodes or “neurons” function are an incomprehensible “black box,” even to the researchers who create them.But a new essay from AI researcher Nick Cammarata has stunned Silicon Valley by arguing the opposite. AI models aren’t impenetrable black boxes, he claims, and in fact there may be a way for us to see how they actually “think.”The nearly 26,000 word spiel was praised by figures across the industry, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. A prominent researcher…