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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans “Pervert Glasses”

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Dario Amodei Issues Groveling Apology for Daring to Criticize Trump

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Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

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Cryptocurrency

Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets

“It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death.”

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Musk Watch

Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

“Orbital data centers are many years, perhaps decades, away.”

By Victor Tangermann

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Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

Beggars can’t be choosers.

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Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail

Here’s what happened.

The Feed

In a leaked memo, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called out the president for taking "dictator-style" praise from other AI leaders.

Dario Amodei Says Trump Is Mad That He Hasn’t Given Him “Dictator-Style Praise”

By Victor Tangermann

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Polymarket Gets Major Prediction Completely Wrong After Loudly Boasting About It

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Artificial Intelligence

Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas

Robert Kennedy Jr. took aim at popular coffee chain Dunkin' for stuffing an immense amount of sugar into their drinks.

America Does Not Run on Dunkin, RFK Jr. Rages

By Victor Tangermann

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Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors

By Frank Landymore

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Polymarket Quietly Takes Down Bet On Nuclear Detonation

By Frank Landymore

The US military is extensively using Palantir's Maven Smart System in its attacks on Iran, which uses Anthropic's Claude, despite the ban.

After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War

By Victor Tangermann

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Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor

By Frank Landymore

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Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To Lloyd Blankfein, who led Goldman Sachs through the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, it's reasonable to prepare for a "reckoning."

Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He “Smells” a Similar Crash Coming

By Victor Tangermann

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Jeff Bezos Gathering Money to Buy Companies Gutted by AI

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The AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Starting to Feel Real

By Frank Landymore

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Humongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges

By Frank Landymore

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RX and Medicine

Government Handing Out Cash Bonuses to Drug Researchers Who Rush Through Regulatory Approvals

A lead investor of the AI music app Suno appears to have undermined the company's legal defense in light of copyright infringement lawsuits.

Lead Investor in Music Generation App Suno Deletes Tweet That Contradicts Its Argument in High Stakes Court Cases

By Victor Tangermann

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Machine Learning

Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

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