AI & Digital Culture

San Diego School Spends $500,000 on ChatGPT-Powered Humanoid Robots

A charter school network in San Diego spent $500,000 on two humanoid robots powered by ChatGPT to assist with classroom support through four distinct roles, including that of a teacher, a wellness coach, a college planner, and a translator. The purchase targets needs in alternative education settings where students often require extra individualized attention to recover academic credits and stay on track for graduation....

8 Chinese Humanoid Robots Dazzle on America’s Got Talent Stage

Eight sleek Chinese humanoid robots took the America's Got Talent stage by storm, delivering a jaw-dropping synchronized dance performance to Lady Gaga's "Abracadabra" that earned a unanimous yes from all four judges and sent them straight to the next round. Twenty-six-year-old Unitree Robotics engineer Wu Yufei, better known in dance circles as FlyingBug, stood at the center of it all. A passionate street dancer himself,...

Tinder’s New AI Tool ‘Chemistry’ Scans Camera Rolls for Better Matches in USA

Tinder has introduced an artificial intelligence feature called Chemistry that requests explicit user permission to scan camera rolls in order to generate more accurate...

Ex-NFL Star Darron Lee Accused of Using ChatGPT for Murder Cover-Up

Prosecutors in Hamilton County, Tennessee, dropped a bombshell this week during a preliminary hearing, laying out digital evidence that’s straight out of a nightmare....

Meta Glasses Privacy Alert: Your Footage Could Be Publicly Viewable

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses promise effortless hands-free living, letting you snap memories, ask questions, and navigate the world with a simple “Hey Meta.” Yet...

Deaf Girl Sees Conversations in Real-Time with Revolutionary AI Glasses

A 10-year-old girl who has been profoundly deaf since birth saw spoken words appear instantly on lenses right before her eyes for the first...

PewDiePie’s AI Beats ChatGPT on Coding Benchmark: New Video Reveals Performance

PewDiePie has fine-tuned his own artificial intelligence model for coding and reports it reached a 39.1 percent score on the Aider Polyglot benchmark where...

32,000 AI Bots Create Their Own Social Network – Unprecedented Digital Evolution

A new open-source social platform called Moltbook has quickly gained attention online after tens of thousands of artificial intelligence agents began posting, commenting and...

NFT Boom’s First Tweet NFT Plummets from $2.9M to Under $10

Once a digital crown jewel fetching $2.9 million in the heady days of the NFT craze, the tokenized version of Jack Dorsey's inaugural tweet...

Physical AI 2026: The Industry Pivots Beyond LLM Scaling

The future of artificial intelligence is set to pivot dramatically by 2026, moving beyond large language models to embrace 'physical AI' and specialized reasoning...

Elon Musk’s 2026 Predictions: ‘Banger’ Year for AI, Space

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, has made another bold forecast: 2026 will be a "banger" year. His recent comments suggest a future...

Viral Video Exposes Tech Car Theft: iPhone Charger & AirPods

A masked individual used an iPhone charger to hotwire a Kia Stinger in under a minute during a New Year's Eve stunt captured in...

The Cyber Siege: How AI-Generated Crying Women Are Shaming China’s Single Youth

Chinese parents are deploying hyper-realistic AI-generated videos of distraught elderly women to pressure their unmarried adult children into marriage, as the nation's demographic crisis...

Unitree Robots Steal the Show: Dancing & Flipping at China Concerts

Wang Leehom gave fans an unexpected glimpse of the future during his Dec. 19 concert in Chengdu, China, when six humanoid robots joined him...