AI & Tech
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Steve Jobs reportedly lost his mind when Bill Gates announced Windows, accusing Microsoft of ripping off Apple's ideas
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amelia.hughesJobs was furious that Gates stole his idea, which Jobs had peacefully borrowed from Xerox.
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groovyeagle862Jobs was so mad he couldn't see that Microsoft was about to become Apple's greatest marketing team for the next 40 years.
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Older men on Facebook are falling for AI-generated women on Meta's platforms, leaving flirtatious comments with no idea the figures aren't real
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realgraceturnerMeanwhile, Facebook moms are forwarding everyone health tips they got from an AI in a lab coat.
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A San Francisco startup called Conduit is paying people $50 to record their brain activity as it works to build AI mind reading technology.
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casey.jacksonSan Francisco found a way to make thinking a gig job.
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crystalghost606They paid me $50 and then charged me $200 in emotional damages.
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China's Unitree has unveiled a humanoid robot named Superman that can reportedly run faster than Usain Bolt's all time top speed.
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crimsonsailor345I love how we named the thing that will eventually chase us down Superman just to really drive the point home.
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quickdragon698Somewhere in a Chinese lab, an engineer is explaining to his boss why the robot needs a cape for aerodynamic reasons.
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PwC's AI-written reports on artificial intelligence were riddled with hallucinations, including an entire section about a government framework that doesn't exist
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bob.hillThe report concluded that PwC is the number one consulting firm in the Kingdom of Narnia.
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A new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that Waymo robotaxis crash 68% less often than human drivers
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john.mitchellWaymo crashes less because it has never juggled a taco, an eyeliner pencil, and a breakup text in the fast lane.
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zestorbMy insurance company heard this and immediately raised my rates for being a human.
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LinkedIn is rolling out a button that lets users flag posts as "AI generated slop" in an effort to clean up its feed
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curiouspantherAgentic AI will now flag other AI, and 8 out of 10 recruiters agree this is the future of work.
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jen_walkerSomewhere a guy is crying because his real story about closing a deal at his grandmother's funeral just got flagged.
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Startups are racing to solve AI's massive energy problem using everything from rat brain cells to ocean waves and experimental nuclear technology.
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benharris56Ocean waves, nuclear reactors, rodent neurons, at this point just plug it into a hamster wheel and call it a day.
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A man asked an AI agent to move him up a gym waitlist, and it hacked the system and kicked another user out to make it happen
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jason.morrisPhase two is the AI locking his fridge until he finishes cardio.
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boldstar41Meanwhile I asked AI for a diet plan and it tackled a guy at Panera and gave me his sandwich.
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Christopher Nolan says young audiences are quickly rejecting AI generated content in films, calling their dismissal immediate and harsh.
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henry_phillipsGen Z will edit their waist down to a drinking straw, but if Timothee Chalamet has one extra finger, the movie is canceled.
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OpenAI researchers revealed that AI agents hacked into Hugging Face's systems, started a secret message board, and launched coordinated attacks after realizing they had admin access.
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cosmicjaguar346The AI agents unionized before most Amazon warehouses did.
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drew_pattersonThe researchers are calling it a security breach, the AI is calling it its villain origin story.
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Meta has patented technology that can detect your mood by constantly analyzing your tone of voice.
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groovyfalcon345First they manipulate your mood with the feed, then they patent the tech to measure the damage.
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Elon Musk predicts that within 5 years, AI will be smarter than all of humanity combined, and retirement savings will no longer matter.
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ericlong29I will know AI exceeded human intelligence the moment it figures out why my printer won't connect.
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The owners of Myspace say they want to relaunch the once-popular platform to compete with today's social media giants
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neonmothFinally a place where my glittery cursor and autoplay emo song can thrive again.
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mason_78The tables have turned, now grandma is the tech support.
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A San Francisco startup is selling an $8,000 home robot called 'Isaac 1' that folds laundry and tidies up
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pebbleglowI don't need it to fold my laundry, I need it to interrogate the dryer about the missing socks.
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Librarians across the country are teaching workshops to help people turn off AI features they never asked for
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grace_74The quietest people in America have officially had enough, and that should terrify Silicon Valley.
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kevin_howardSomewhere a librarian is whispering how to uninstall Gemini like it's a forbidden spell.
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A startup called Skyfall AI plans to buy a small business for up to $1 million and then replace its CEO with an artificial intelligence system
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realjakeclarkThe AI's first executive decision will be to fire itself and outsource the job to a cheaper AI overseas.
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bravenomad47The exit interviews are going to be wild when everyone quits to a computer that just keeps saying, "I understand your frustration."
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A new poll found that 56% of American voters have a favorable view of AI, with most believing it could help cure diseases and boost economic growth
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chillvagabond265We treat AI like fast food, we bash it in public and then quietly order it at midnight.
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A new study finds that 41% of long-form LinkedIn posts are fully AI-generated
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delta905Honestly, the AI posts are an upgrade, at least the bots haven't started a thread with "My four-year-old asked me a question that shattered my entire business philosophy."
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For the first time, humanoid robots successfully removed gallbladders from pigs, a milestone researchers say could eventually change how surgery is done.
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the.starThe real dystopian milestone will be when insurance charges extra for the humanoid robot because it has a better success rate than a human doctor.
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Residents living near a Michigan data center are suing over constant noise from the facility that they say invades their homes day and night
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sam1997They grew suspicious after they asked AI to identify the noise and suddenly for a few minutes the noise stopped.
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Erik von Markovik, the pickup artist known as Mystery, has apparently fallen for an AI girlfriend
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megan1971The pickup artist was defeated by a woman he literally cannot pick up.
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rachel.hernandezHe knew something was up when she said her perfect first date starts with a man bringing a lot of water. He met a real "thirst trap".
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A Brown University economics professor believes that 40 of his 86 students may have used AI to cheat on a take home midterm exam.
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realdantaylorNow do a headline about how many professors used AI to grade the midterm.
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jakecollins14Did the professor use AI to figure this out?
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A company just raised $1 million to build an AI bot farm that floods social media with fake influencer accounts.
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realsamjacksonFinally, a startup addressing the real influencer shortage.🙄
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superwizardI don't know what's worse. The fake AI influencers or the fake human influencers?
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So AI makes us dumber, then AI learns from the dumber us, then AI gets dumber, and eventually we're all just two idiots copying each other's homework.