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By Frank Landymore
Meta Patented AI That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever

By Victor Tangermann
Top Machine Learning Developer Speechless at Simple Question: Should AI Simulate Emotional Intimacy?

By Frank Landymore
Site of Elementary School Was Sprayed With Radioactive Fracking Waste, Worker Warns

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Obama Just Dropped a Truth Bomb About Aliens

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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking

“I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe?'”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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

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…”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Musk Watch

Former xAI staffers told The Verge they grew frustrated with the company's ethical carelessness and stagnating technological progress.

Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation

“You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants.”

By Victor Tangermann

Despite plenty of optimism, a striking number of Elon Musk's xAI's cofounders are jumping ship amid restructuring efforts.

Cofounders Fleeing Elon Musk’s xAI

“Grateful to have helped cofound at the start.”

By Victor Tangermann

A yellow-tinted wooden catapult with wheels is shown against a dark red grid background. The catapult's arm is holding a realistic, grayscale image of the moon in its sling.

Erratic Elon Musk Tells Employees to Build Massive Catapult on Moon

Fire away!

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

A stylized image of a soccer player in mid-air, wearing a uniform with the number 17, overlaid with an orange tint. In front of the player is a blue delivery robot labeled "COCO" and "Coco Robotics." The background features a grid pattern with two horizontal blue stripes and four red six-pointed stars, resembling the Chicago flag.

Large Area of Chicago Bans Delivery Robots After Resident Outcry

Two groups of scientists have now come forward saying they've found traces of lost Soviet lander, Luna 9, which launched 60 years ago.

Scientists Spot Signs of Derelict Soviet Moon Lander on Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

In 2022, pop sensation Justin Bieber shelled out a hefty $1.3 million for a Bored Ape. It lost over 99 percent of its value since then.

You’ll Be Sorry When You Hear What Justin Bieber’s $1.3 Million Bored Ape Is Worth Now

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientists Find Intense Psychological Differences in People Who Exercise

Anthropic's Claude AI went to extreme lengths to beat out the competition and even formed a cartel when it was told to be a vending machine.

AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs

By Victor Tangermann

A devastated landscape showing extensive destruction of houses and trees, likely caused by a natural disaster such as a tornado or hurricane. The area is filled with debris, broken tree trunks, and remnants of buildings, with some vehicles partially buried under rubble. The sky is overcast, adding to the somber atmosphere.

Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation”

A spiral galaxy with a bright core surrounded by a glowing white halo, featuring a dark central region resembling a black hole. The galaxy's arms display a mix of pink, purple, and blue hues with scattered stars and cosmic dust. The background is filled with numerous small stars and distant celestial objects.

The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

A former SpaceX engineer and his startup, General Galactic, are looking to put the concept of turning water into rocket fuel to the test.

SpaceX Veteran Says He’s Figured Out How to Make Rocket Fuel From Water

By Victor Tangermann

A spacecraft equipped with solar panels is scanning a large crater on a rocky, orange-brown planetary surface. The scan reveals an underground cavity filled with rocks. Earth is visible in the distant black space background.

Scientists Spot Huge Cave on Venus

By Frank Landymore

ByteDance has once again upped the ante with the latest version of its Seedance AI video generating tool. Hollywood is scared.

New AI Video Generator Is So Impressive That It’s Scaring Hollywood

By Victor Tangermann

A large wildfire is burning intensely on a hillside at night, with bright orange flames and glowing embers spreading across the landscape. Thick smoke rises into the dark sky, and the fire's glow reflects on the water in the foreground. Dim lights from buildings or homes are visible at the base of the hill.

Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say

Malware researchers found a serious security vulnerability plaguing Microsoft's latest AI-enhanced version of its plain-text editor, Notepad.

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Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick

By Victor Tangermann

A split image showing a humanoid robot performing martial arts moves in a traditional Chinese courtyard. On the left, the robot is executing a one-handed handstand while a person in red traditional attire performs a flying kick behind it. On the right, the robot is balancing on one leg with its arms raised, appearing to be in mid-motion. The background features ornate red pillars, decorative window frames, and tiled roofs typical of classical Chinese architecture.

They Gave a Robot a Sword

Amazon's home security subsidiary Ring, may have finally dethroned Pepsi's disastrous ad as the biggest Super Bowl marketing disaster.

Ring’s “Orwellian” Ad Was the Worst Super Bowl Disaster Since Kendall Jenner Handed the Cops a Pepsi

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig declared in a New York Times essay that she was resigning from the company, raising concerns over ads.

Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust

By Victor Tangermann

A wooden mannequin puppet is suspended by strings controlled by two large robotic hands above it. The scene is illuminated with dramatic blue and purple lighting, creating a futuristic and controlled atmosphere.

Man Lets AI Rent His Body

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