6+ hour, 47+ min ago   (436+ words) Published Jan 12, 2026 3:15 PM EST To push back against AI, some call for blowing up data centers." If that's too extreme for your tastes, then you might be interested in another project, which instead advocates for poisoning the resource that the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (249+ words) Published Jan 1, 2026 7:00 AM EST In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right in the groin, forcing him into a groaning heap while painfully and visually embodying the promise and perils…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (94+ words) Published Dec 21, 2025 8:15 AM EST YouTube's janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie trailers, in what is one of the…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (465+ words) Published Dec 8, 2025 2:26 PM EST There's sloppy science, and there's AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written with large language…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (477+ words) Published Nov 13, 2025 3:11 PM EST As philosophers go, Aristotle was no angel. Sure, he established the first formal system of logic, and yeah, his theories dominated Western science for thousands of years. Yet he was also an avowed defender of slavery…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (432+ words) Published Nov 8, 2025 9:45 AM EST We're racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts." You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans. And though the tech…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (594+ words) Published Nov 7, 2025 4:09 PM EST A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum. It didn't take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (317+ words) Published Nov 2, 2025 7:30 AM EST The future of home automation is here, and it's covered in stir-fry. A clip showing a robot home-aid recently went mega-viral, nabbing some 1.3 million views on X-formerly-Twitter. The video shows a man stir frying his lunch,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (621+ words) Published Sep 28, 2025 1:30 PM EDT A disturbing YouTube channel was dedicated entirely to showing AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head, 404 Media reports. Named "Woman Shot AI," the channel racked up more than 175,000 views since starting on June 20, 2025, the…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (536+ words) Published Sep 25, 2025 12:26 PM EDT Robots are being put through all kinds of abuse these days. They're being kicked, punched, shoved, and even dragged by a chain around their neck " all in an apparent effort to teach them how to adapt…...