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Family of the victims speak to press after hearing the verdict outside the Los Angeles Superior Court during one of the coordinated lawsuits alleging that Meta and YouTube are designed to hook young users and cause them a variety of negative mental health effects, including strangling themselves and developing eating disorders, on Wednesday, March 25, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA.
Ethics

Meta’s Big Court Defeat Has Huge Implications for Lawsuits Against the AI Industry

Despite the widespread enthusiasm for OpenClaw's AI agents, the tech comes with some enormous and hard-to-overlook security concerns.
Ethics

OpenClaw Bots Are a Security Disaster

Closeup portrait of Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic.
Ethics

Protestors Outside Anthropic Warn of AI That Keeps Improving Itself

The image shows the exterior of the New York Times building with its name prominently displayed on the glass facade. The photo has a motion blur effect, creating a dynamic and slightly distorted appearance of the building and its signage.
Ethics

Study: New York Times Has Published Extensive AI-Generated Articles

Mark Zuckerberg wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie, with a blurred background of people and a radial blur effect centered on his face.
Meta

With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run the Company, Meta Is Slashing Its Headcount

Rampant narratives of a ragtag group of dogs wandering for miles to escape the clutches of dog-eating captors in China are fake.
Ethics

Those Viral Posts About the Brave Kidnapped Dogs Escaping and Finding Their Homes Together Are Fake, You Gullible Buffoons

A small red delivery robot with the label "COCO" is at a bus stop with shattered glass scattered on the ground around it. Behind the robot, there is a poster advertising Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," showing a woman in traditional attire with the dates Mar 14 - Apr 12. The bus stop has black metal poles and a bench.
Robotics

There’s Something Incredibly Weird About Two Delivery Robots Crashing Through Glass Bus Shelter in Chicago Within a Few Days of Each Other

OpenAI is axing its erotic "adult mode" chatbot, once again highlighting how much pressure the company is under.
Ethics

OpenAI Cancels Spicy “Adult Mode” Chatbot as Crisis Deepens

Conspiracy theorists suggested they had stumbled upon a pyramid on Mars that could've been built by aliens. Scientists are not buying it.
Mars

Why Is Everyone Losing Their Minds Over This Little Old Mars Pyramid?

A black mouse with a long pink tail and pink ears is shown against a bright yellow background. The rat is positioned sideways, with its front paws raised slightly.
Biology

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

Meta suffered two courtroom defeats this week that could rekindle a heated debate over the many harmful effects of social media.
Mental Health

Zuckerberg Suffers Pair of Bruising Courtroom Defeats in Two Days That Could Cost Him a Fortune

A large white truck with the phrase "Antimatter in motion" printed on its side is parked on a paved area. In the background, there is an industrial building with large ventilation units on the roof. Two people wearing helmets and dark clothing are standing near the building, one holding a camera. The scene is outdoors on a clear day.
Future Materials

Physicists Successfully Deliver First Bottle of CERN Antimatter From the Antimatter Factory

During a surreal publicity stunt, First Lady Melania Trump walked the White House's red carpet next to a black-and-white humanoid robot.
Ethics

Surreal Footage Shows Melania Trump Walking Into White House Summit With Humanoid Robot

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Anthropic

Why Does Every Case of AI Hiring a Human Feel Like a Groveling Publicity Stunt?

Astronomer Avi Loeb pointed out two papers that found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS bears an unusually high concentration of deuterium.
Astronomy

Scan Finds Presence of Nuclear Fuel in 3I/ATLAS

An illustration of Donald Trump, tinted red and set against a backdrop of black stars.
Investing

Evidence Grows That Trump Is Using the War in Iran to Manipulate Markets

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

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