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Futurism futurism.com · 14h
Disastrous.
Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment

Bitcoin's plunge has made it far less economical to mine the digital token. Some companies are starting to unplug their equipment.

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Futurism futurism.com · Feb 5
Altman is flabberghasted.
Uh Oh… Nvidia's $100 Billion Deal With OpenAI Has Fallen Apart

After announcing a blockbuster $100 billion deal in September, the ChatGPT maker may have changed its mind.

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Futurism futurism.com · Feb 4
"It acts as a force multiplier."
Police in Detroit Suburb Install Hives That Can Instantly Deploy Drones to Fight Crime

Dearborn police are the latest to make use of dystopian drone hives to surveil their cities from the skies.

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Futurism futurism.com · Feb 4
"Even in the best case, we throw these guys out electorally, I don't think we're going to go back."
Democracy Itself Is Falling Apart, Harvard Professor Warns

Political scientist Steven Levitsky warns that the project of US democracy is at its breaking point, and there may be no going back.

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Futurism futurism.com · Feb 3
"We've basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick."
Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein

The crypto community is reeling from the discovery that Epstein was a huge backer of early Bitcoin efforts.

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Futurism futurism.com · Feb 2
"Genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently."
Alarm Grows as Social Network Entirely for AI Starts Plotting Against Humans

Moltbook, a Reddit-style site where AI agents post, has generated loads of hype and discourse as the chatbots exhibit human-like behavior.

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Futurism futurism.com · Feb 2
Yikes.
New Study Examines How Often AI Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good

Researchers at Anthropic found that issues of "user disempowerement" among AI users are far too common, a growing trend.

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Futurism futurism.com · Feb 1
"They would've been mush on the street."
Cybertruck Attempts to Fling Baby Onto Highway

A couple says their Tesla Cybertruck nearly dumped their baby onto the side of the highway after its passenger door latch failed.

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Futurism futurism.com · Feb 1
"The era of giant corporations juicing profits by underpaying workers is over."
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers

New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.

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Futurism futurism.com · Jan 31
"We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."
Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal

Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

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