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Desperate AI Startup Now Cleaning Messy Apartments for Free

By Victor Tangermann
Self-Driving Vehicles

Beloved Grandmother Was Standing in Her Own House When a Tesla, Allegedly on Autopilot, Smashed Through the Wall and Killed Her in Grandchildren’s Playroom

By Frank Landymore
Elon Musk

Musk Furious After SpaceX Stock Get Worst Possible Environmental Grade

By Victor Tangermann
SpaceX

SpaceX Investors Are Losing a Colossal Amount of Money

By Victor Tangermann
Mental Health

Research Suggests the Older You Get, the More Weed You Should Smoke

By Frank Landymore

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Mental Health

Google’s AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real

Google’s AI Overviews are having severe trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?

One event seems to have kicked off a wave of AI psychosis: memory that persists across chat sessions, letting the bot weave tapestries of delusions about users’ lives.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

“There’s no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

“His location and plans are something OpenAI could shed light on if they were willing to cooperate.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk’s Conflicts of Interest With the Trump Administration Regulating SpaceX Are So Profound That They Have Grim Implications for Society

Elon Musk holds incredible sway over the federal government.

By Victor Tangermann

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Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved

“Give the data ⁠to a university, have it independently verified by a qualified researcher, and then let’s talk.”

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Elon Musk Fantasizes About Killing Journalists

What an odd thing to say.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

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Artificial Intelligence

Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

By Frank Landymore

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Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits

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Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Give Artists Sweeping Protections Against AI Stealing Their Work

By Frank Landymore

A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle is seen in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on December 13, 2025.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Has Been Defeated by New York City

By Victor Tangermann

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Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way

By Victor Tangermann

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Weather So Brutal That Dean Passes Out at College Graduation

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Microsoft Announces New Feature That Narcs on You to Your Boss

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TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

College Students Consumed by “Resignation and Despair” as They’re Relentlessly Pressured to Use AI

By Frank Landymore

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Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues

By Victor Tangermann

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Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads

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Out-of-Control Icebergs Are Wreaking Havoc on the Oceans

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Building World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Deep in the Nevada Desert

By Victor Tangermann

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OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

Get Ready for a Catastrophic Leak That Reveals All Your Messages and Search History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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We Are Admittedly a Bit Startled by This Medical Case Report About Giving an Elderly Woman With Advanced Alzheimer’s a Gigantic Dose of Psychedelic Mushrooms Just to See What Would Happen

By Victor Tangermann

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