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Nike’s AI-Inspired World Cup Jerseys Are So Messed Up That They’re Turning Into a Scandal

By Victor Tangermann
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Extremely Unflattering Statue of Elon Musk Appears in Times Square, Complete With Horrifying Slogan

By Victor Tangermann
Climate Change

Temperatures Soaring So High That Trump’s UFC Fighters May Just Collapse in the Heat

By Joe Wilkins
Elon Musk

The More Data We See About SpaceX’s IPO, the More We’re Wincing

By Victor Tangermann
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Bill Gates Offers Bizarre Excuse About Epstein

By Victor Tangermann

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OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

They’re getting desperate.

By Victor Tangermann

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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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The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible

Investors will need to drink a lot of Kool-Aid.

By Victor Tangermann

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It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly

“Musk’s real genius lies in mythmaking.”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Is Massively Overvalued Ahead of Its IPO, Analysts Find

Some are advising to stay far away.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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New York Accuses Company of Smuggling Injectable Substance Made From Cadavers

By Frank Landymore

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Palantir, World’s Weepiest Eye of Sauron, Sues Mayor of London After Losing a Contract

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Solar Just Produced More Electricity Than Coal for the First Time in the History of the United States

By Victor Tangermann

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Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet

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Google DeepMind Partner Posts Video of Fake Humanoid Robot

By Victor Tangermann

Two screenshots of a video by Booster Robotics featuring a robot winding up to kick a soccer ball and the aftermath as the ball punches a hole in the wall behind it.

Humanoid Robot Kicks Soccer Ball So Hard It Smashes Hole in Wall

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Discover Fearsome Wind That Destroys Entire Galaxies

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility

By Victor Tangermann

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Facial recognition

Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech

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California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean

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College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

By Frank Landymore

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NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points

By Victor Tangermann

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The Industrialists

Sam Altman’s Eyeball Scanning Company Now Laying Off Workers

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Investigators Questioning Bill Gates Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

By Victor Tangermann

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ChatGPT Caught Recommending “Products” That Are Just Scams That Steal Your Credit Card Info

By Frank Landymore

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