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After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.
Meta

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

“You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential…”

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

“This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe.”

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.
OpenAI

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

“It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about.”

The Feed

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

Police in Detroit Suburb Install Hives That Can Instantly Deploy Drones to Fight Crime

Underwater view of a large, dark blue iceberg with a smooth, rounded surface, partially submerged beneath a calm water surface with a cloudy sky above.
Future Society

Disaster Strikes as Scientists Tunnel Into Core of Doomsday Glacier

AI companies are looking to spend trillions on data centers — a huge sum that could threaten the economy if the bet doesn't pay off.
Ethics

Tech Companies Showing Signs of Distress as They Run Out of Money for AI Infrastructure

A new render of China's conceptual spacecraft called the Luan Niao, an orbital mothership designed to launch uncrewed fighter drones from high above the planet.
Future Society

China Provides Glimpse of Colossal Orbital Aircraft Carrier

A moderator at the r/aviation subreddit didn't look too kindly on a shot by astronaut Don Pettit, deeming it too "blurry" and taking it down.
International Space Station

Reddit Mod Deleted Breathtaking Photo Taken by NASA Astronaut From Space Because It Was “Blurry”

Investors are starting to look elsewhere as the Trump administration continues to threaten the independence of its central bank.
Artificial Intelligence

Investors Dumping American Stocks as the Country Bets Everything on AI

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

Crypto Bros Nauseated After Realizing Bitcoin Itself Was Funded by Jeffrey Epstein

The raid is part of Paris prosecutors' ongoing investigation into the nonconsensual sexualized images generated by Grok.
xAI

Police Raid SpaceX’s Brand New Offices

NASA's wet dress rehearsal for its Artemis 2 mission to the Moon didn't quite go as planned, forcing the agency to push back the launch.
Moon

NASA Runs Into Trouble Fueling Up Moon Rocket

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

Democracy Itself Is Falling Apart, Harvard Professor Warns

Bitcoin analysts are scrambling to assess just how far Bitcoin might fall, as it appears to be entering a prolonged bear market.
Future Society

The Streets Are Saying Bitcoin Is Gonna Fall to $30,000

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 13: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains profanity) An unofficially-installed poster picturing Elon Musk with the tagline, "Who the [expletive] would want to use social media with a built-in child abuse tool?" is displayed on a bus shelter on January 13, 2026 in London, England. Yesterday the UK communications regulator Ofcom launched a formal investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X, regarding its AI chatbot, Grok. The probe centers on reports that Grok has been used to generate non-consensual sexual deepfakes, including "undressed" images of women and sexualized images of children. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon has created a series of posters and public artworks in recent months critical of Elon Musk, as well as other business and political leaders.  (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
SpaceX

SpaceX Just Bought Elon Musk’s CSAM Company

New York City's new mayor is unplugging a disastrous government chatbot that encouraged small business owners to break the law.
Ethics

Mamdani Shuts Down NYC’s Disastrous AI Chatbot

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

Alarm Grows as Social Network Entirely for AI Starts Plotting Against Humans

FBI agents and police officers raided a mysterious "biological lab" inside a Las Vegas home, finding fridges of vials.
Health & Medicine

FBI Raids Mysterious Biological Lab

Scientists have created a highly detailed computational model of Jupiter's atmosphere to peer below its thick clouds.
Astronomy

There’s Something Fascinating Hiding Under Jupiter’s Clouds, Scientists Find

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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