Scientists Say They May Have Just Figured Out the Origin of Life
How did the building blocks of life come together to spawn the first organisms? It’s one of the most longstanding…
As Ocean Water Gets Worse, Sharks’ Teeth Start to Dissolve
Sharks have been on this planet for more than 400 million years. They’re older than the first trees, the North…
GPT-5 Is Doing Something Absolutely Bizarre
When OpenAI announced the release of GPT-5 this month, the company boasted about how it could supposedly produce “resonant writing…
Top Elon Musk Acolyte Running Large MDMA Empire
Image by Scott Olson / Getty / Futurism Since its initial synthesis by the German pharmaceutical company Merck in 1912,…
New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market
If you’re struggling to sort the AI hype from reality, you’re not alone. The seemingly breakneck pace of AI development…
Taco Bell’s Attempt to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI Is Not Going Well
That distant ringing? It’s the sound of the Taco Bell death knell, tolling for the restaurant chain’s shambolic AI-powered drive-thrus. We…
First AI Psychosis Case Ends in Murder-Suicide
A man murdered his mother and then killed himself after ChatGPT fueled his paranoid spiral. As The Wall Street Journal reports, a…
The Government Is Preparing to Take Away Your SSRIs
Image by Chip Somodevilla / Getty / Futurism Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the well-heeled crackpot helming our nation’s healthcare system,…
Electricity Is Becoming Unbelievably Expensive as the US Power Grid Decays Into Ruin
The US electrical grid is facing a stress test like never before. Thanks to a perfect storm of AI power…
Police Arrest Man With Almost Zero Resemblance to Actual Perpetrator Because AI Told Them To
The New York Police Department is one of the most heavily equipped police forces on the planet. With over 48,000…