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Scientists Discover Impossible Object in Deep Space

“In fact, at first I was skeptical about the signal as it was too strong to be real.”

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If the War Against the Machines Is Fought Via Martial Arts, Humans Are Gonna Catch an Epic Beat Down

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Court System Says Hallucinating AI System Is Ready to Be Deployed After Dramatically Lowering Expectations

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ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died

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AI Psychosis

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

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.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

“We’re seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don’t need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Elon Musk's response to his AI chatbot Grok being used to generate sexual depictions of minors doesn't inspire confidence.

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier”

Cowardly.

By Frank Landymore

New reporting revealed that one of Elon Musk's top lawyers, Jaymie Parkkinen, moonlights as a professional clown.

You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job

“All of my comedy friends — none of them can believe I’m a lawyer.”

On a recent podcast appearance, Elon Musk declared that his Starship rocket was on par with the evolution of multicellular life.

Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself

“If there are historians in the future, they’ll look back at Starship and say it’s one of the most profound things that’s ever happened.”

The Feed

There's evidence that someone who knew about the Trump administration's regime change plans in Venezuela profited on Polymarket.

There’s Compelling Evidence That Someone Connected to the Trump Administration Profited Off the Invasion of Venezuela by Placing Large Bets on Polymarket

By Victor Tangermann

Last week, news emerged that NASA's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center was being shut down. Insiders are not happy.

NASA Veterans Disgusted by Plans to Shut Down Its Largest Library

By Victor Tangermann

The tech industry is making sure kids will be hooked on AI for generations -- in a huge experiment students never consented to.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Giants Pushing AI Into Schools Is a Huge, Ethically Bankrupt Experiment on Innocent Children That Will Likely End in Disaster

By Frank Landymore

The Twitch channel currently holding the most active subscribers is run entirely by a large language model.

Artificial Intelligence

The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI-Powered Entity

In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”

Yann LeCun, Meta's former chief AI scientists dishes on why he made a shock exit from Mark Zuckerberg's company.

Artificial Intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg’s Former Top AI Scientist Reveals Exactly Why He Quit

By Frank Landymore

Godfather of AI Yoshua Bengio claimed top AI models are showing signs of self-preservation, and criticized calls for giving AI models rights.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Godfather Warns That It’s Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation

By Frank Landymore

A lawsuit against OpenAI reveals the chilling ChatGPT messages that drove a middle aged man to kill his 83-year-old mother.

Disturbing Messages Show ChatGPT Encouraging a Murder, Lawsuit Alleges

By Sharon Adarlo

People who stop taking GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are finding that their hunger comes back -- with a vengeance.

RX and Medicine

Something Grim Is Happening to People Who Go Off GLP-1s

By Sharon Adarlo

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

Scientists Announce Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals

By Victor Tangermann

The average OpenAI employee is earning an astonishing amount in compensation compared to every other startup.

Your Jaw Will Hit the Floor When You Find Out How Much the Average OpenAI Worker Makes

The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger sucessor.

Quantum Physics

The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down

By Frank Landymore

The Trump administration is shutting down NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's library — NASA's largest — and threatening to destroy books.

NASA Reportedly Shutting Down Its Largest Library, Throwing Materials Away

By Victor Tangermann

As the Baltimore Sun reports, a couple used OpenAI's ChatGPT to name their firstborn son. Their decision was criticized heavily online.

New Parents Mocked for Letting ChatGPT Name Their Baby

By Victor Tangermann

People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Three symmetrical jets jutting out of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS are showing up in Hubble observations, puzzling astronomer Avi Loeb.

Scientist Puzzled by “Symmetric Jet Structure” on 3I/ATLAS

By Victor Tangermann

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