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A former safety engineer at leading robotics firm Figure also alleges the robot left a gash in a stainless steel door.
Robotics

Whistleblower Says He Was Fired for Warning Execs That New Robot Could Crush Human Skull

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be passing by Jupiter to "seed" the planet with "technological devices."
Astronomy

Professor Says Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Releasing Sentinels Around Jupiter

Google has been quietly rifling through users' personal Gmail accounts to train its AI models on their emails and even attachments.
Ethics

Google Denies Reading Your Gmail to Train Its AI

A massive fire broke out inside the convention center hosting over 50,000 UN delegates attending COP30, forcing an evacuation.
Climate Change

Fire Breaks Out at UN Climate Summit

British military tested out a powerful laser that can take down high-speed drones which have become widely available in the battlefield.
Future Society

British Military Attacks Drones With Huge Laser

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.
Evolution

Scientists Find Evidence That Humans Made Out With Non-Human Creatures

US standardized test scores have plunged to their lowest in decades, and the problem lies with screens, argues a psychologist.
Education

Here’s an Interesting Theory About Why Kids’ Test Results Have Fallen to Their Lowest Point in Two Decades

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.
NASA

Bonkers NASA Mission Next Year Will Drop Rocket Out of Plane, Blast Off From There

A survey found that a shockingly large proportion of UK teens would rather talk to a chatbot than a person, and many are using AI for advice.
Future Society

A Startling Proportion of Teens Now Prefer Talking to AI Over a Real Person

Sam Altman's blockchain startup "Tools for Humanity" demands employees treat its surveillance orb project with a slavish devotion.
Blockchain

Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Orb Startup Made a Cult-Like Demand of Its Employees

Students at the University of Staffordshire have spent the past two years learning to code from AI-generated course material.
Education

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.
Quantum Physics

Giant Chinese Orb Detects “Ghost Particles” While Buried Under Mountain

A simple trick involving poetry is enough to jailbreak the tech industry's leading AI models, researchers found.
Ethics

Scientists Discover “Universal” Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says the country has no choice but to move the nation's capital amidst an unprecedented water crisis.
Climate Change

President of Iran Says It’s Forced to Move Its Entire Capital City

Microsoft is hellbent on transforming Windows 11 into a "canvas for AI," and users aren't left feeling impressed.
Artificial Intelligence

Windows Users Furious at Microsoft’s Plan to Turn It Into an “Agentic OS”

A video game executive has sparked a fierce debate surrounding the use of AI in the industry by claiming that "Gen Z loves AI slop."
Ethics

Gaming Exec Says That “Gen Z Loves AI Slop”

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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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