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Freelance writer with work in Futurism, Verso, Jacobin.

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PPP Loans Were Supposed to Help Workers. Instead, They Evaporated Into Thin Air.

PPP Loans Were Supposed to Help Workers. Instead, They Evaporated Into Thin Air.

American businesses received billions of dollars to continue providing jobs during the pandemic. But workers …

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Uber Drivers Say They're Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When The...

Uber Drivers Say They're Getting Locked Out of the App and Trapped in a Kafkaesque Limbo When The...

Drivers for rideshare giants like Uber say they're being suddenly deactivated on the apps, with no fair proce…

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A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His P...

A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His P...

Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern fro…

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Trump Decimated a Satellite Program That Would’ve Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring Original

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By Joe Wilkins Verified
| Futurism Verified
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Saul Loeb / AFP / Pool via Getty Images; Shutterstock When Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE boys started snipping wires across DC, they took out critical programs like the government’s premier climate research website and the hurricane-hunter aircraft gathering data on dangerous storms. While they were at it, the Trump administration also ripped up a project that would have vastly improved the country’s ability to monitor wildfires.
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AI Bubble Fears Are Starting to Spill Over Original

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By Joe Wilkins Verified
| Futurism Verified
Yet another domino appears to be falling as part of the Ruth Goldberg machine that will eventually pop the AI investment bubble. Earlier this month, economic forecasters were sounding the alarm that overspending on AI was at a level far more severe than Black Tuesday, the day that jump-started the worst economic catastrophe in the history of the industrial economy. Now, investors seem to be coming to that same conclusion all on their own.
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A Chinese AI Model Just Shot to Number One on the Charts, Sending Shockwaves Through the American Tech Industry Original

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By Joe Wilkins Verified
| Futurism Verified
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock While Wall Street was fast asleep, a Chinese-made large language model quietly leapfrogged 16 other models to become number one on the AI charts. The model is called Kimi-K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI.
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