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Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

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It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on ChatGPT

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AI Overlords

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends his flip-flopping on erotica by saying the company is not the "moral police."

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut

“We are not the elected moral police of the world.”

Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.

If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

It’s looking grim.

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora 2, it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities.

People Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Mock the Dead

“Please stop.”

By Victor Tangermann

Musk Watch

Tesla fans are trying to defend their Cybertrucks, but it's just making them sound sad, strange, and lonely.

Divorced Tesla Fan Admits That His Cybertruck Is Repulsive to Women

“I was married, but I’m not married anymore.”

By Frank Landymore

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

Audio of Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

“It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The consequences to his neighbors will be devastating, but it's a small price to pay if it means making a tech billionaire happy.

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

“They think this area is a sacrifice zone and that people here don’t matter.”

The Feed

The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has released its latest report on global greenhouse gas emissions, and it's bleak.

The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand

By Victor Tangermann

Some popular protein supplements had well over a thousand percent of a safe daily limit for daily lead exposure.

Neuroscience and Brain

Popular Meal Replacement Drink Contains So Much Lead That Doctors Are Aghast

By Frank Landymore

NASA is gutting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- the storied research center that oversees all the agency's Mars rovers.

NASA Guts Workforce at Lab Responsible for Mars Rovers

A new way of delivering vaccines using nanoparticles could prevent or slow down a number of different cancers in mice.

Doctors Intrigued by Shot That Prevents Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Major talent agencies told the Hollywood Reporter that OpenAI had been "purposely misleading" them in behind-the-scenes communications.

It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's GPT-5 model is giving more dangerous responses than its predecessor GPT-4o, new research has found.

Study Finds GPT-5 Is Actually Worse Than GPT-4o, New Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Much of the rest of the world is growing deeply concerned about AI as well, a new Pew Research Center poll has shown.

International Polling Shows Fear of AI Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

Halloween came early this year for a man in the UK who landed in hot water after trying to collect "every element on the periodic table."

Police Arrest Mad Scientist

Konstantin Ganich was found dead in his Lamborghini after the crypto crash, but some say there's more to this story than meets the eye.

Crypto Kingpin Turns Up Dead in Lamborghini After Market Crash

Even after being caught, the embattled lawyer, at first, refused to admit that he used AI in his court documents.

Artificial Intelligence

Lawyer Gets Caught Using AI in Court, Responds in the Worst Possible Way

By Frank Landymore

Even the biggest players in AI are losing billions — "brutal" economics that highlight growing concerns of an enormous AI bubble.

The Economics of Running an AI Company Are Disastrous

By Victor Tangermann

One of the most epic cosmic explosions ever seen may have been caused by a black hole infiltrating a star and destroying it from the inside.

Scientists Intrigued by Black Hole That Fell Into Star, Then Ate It From the Inside

By Frank Landymore

Two Months Ago, Sam Altman Was Boasting That OpenAI Didn’t Have to Do Sexbots. Now It’s Doing Sexbots

By Victor Tangermann

Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would've required AI companies to prevent minors from engaging with dangerous AI content.

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Bill to Protect Kids From Predatory AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found that posting as few as 250 "poisoned" documents online can introduce "backdoor" vulnerabilities in an AI model.

Researchers Find It’s Shockingly Easy to Cause AI to Lose Its Mind by Posting Poisoned Documents Online

By Victor Tangermann

Using an $800 consumer satellite dish, researchers were able to pick up text messages, industrial data, military chatter, and more.

Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets

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