Install
Discover the latest science and technology news and videos on breakthroughs that are shaping the world of tomorrow with Futurism.
- 3,154articles · 365d
- 23+ min agolatest article
- Sep 16, 2025earliest in window
- 98%with images
- 355avg words
- Science & Technology 1,884
- Science & Nature 1,381
- News 1,211
- STEM 517
- Economy, Business & Finance 347
- Finance & Business 332
- Politics 274
- Crime & Law 239
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
Sam Altman Now Trying to Gain Control of Electric Grid
23+ min ago (259+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 7:02 AM EDT Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety. Now, it seems…...
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
17+ hour, 24+ min ago (375+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 2:01 PM EDT Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as AI, right? “There is a percentage of my colleagues who are still trying to spell AI,” representative Sam…...
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
20+ hour, 23+ min ago (473+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 11:02 AM EDT You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection from…...
Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers
23+ hour, 24+ min ago (351+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 8:01 AM EDT The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI to imitate their inspirations — one of those inspirations being himself. The flesh and blood director didn’t sound impressed....
Support for Unions Is Spiking as AI Threatens Jobs
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (230+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 6:03 AM EDT As the triple-threat of AI-fueled unemployment, rampant inflation, and further erosion of workers’ rights take their toll, US workers are throwing their support behind a long-neglected institution: labor unions. According to a new survey by polling…...
OpenAI's Supposed Mathematical Breakthrough Devolves Into Explosive Drama as Mathematician Accuses It of Stealing His Work
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (364+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 3:40 PM EDT On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for a famous unsolved problem in mathematics by using a swarm of advanced AI agents. But the occasion quickly unraveled into an explosive scandal, with mathematicians…...
CNN Just Ran One of the Worst AI Puff Pieces We've Ever Seen in Our Lives About That "AI Actor" Tilly Northwood
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (528+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 12:47 PM EDT Last year, a so-called “AI actress,” dubbed Tilly Norwood sparked a near-universal backlash. The algorithmic brunette’s appearance couldn’t have come at a worse time, as the entertainment industry continued to reel from being overrun by cheap…...
Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (349+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 10:43 AM EDT With opposition to AI continuing to grow, a top AI lab is building out a massive surveillance apparatus meant to keep a close eye on dissenters and predict when the next groundswell of protest might occur....
Mother Horrified When Instagram's AI Scours Social Media for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (840+ words) Published Sep 10, 2026 9:29 AM EDT Last week, a mother in Utah named Kalie Robins took to Instagram to post what she felt was an “innocent” video of herself and one of her two young daughters singing in the car. Her daughter’s…...
Man Announces That He Has Synthesized a New Schizophrenia Treatment in His Garage, Based on a Formula Devised by ChatGPT
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (585+ words) Published Sep 9, 2026 4:58 PM EDT These days, large language models are pushing the line between schizophrenic break and reality closer than ever before. In a wild new post that’s going viral on X-formerly-Twitter, an enterprising young biochemist named Douglas Yao showcased…...