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By Joe Wilkins
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By Frank Landymore
Staff at New Data Center Powered by Human Brain Cells Need to Swap Out Cerebrospinal Fluid Every Day

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Large Hadron Collider Discovers All-New Particle

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Absurd AI-Powered Lawsuits Are Causing Chaos in Courts, Attorneys Say, “Clogging the System” and Driving Up Costs

“Nobody realized how unhinged things would get.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

“Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

Musk Watch

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Judge Rules That Elon Musk’s Ketamine Use Is Off Limits

Hands off!

By Frank Landymore

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Elon Musk Just Made a Small Change That Speaks Volumes About His Desperation

Grok, is this true?

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk reportedly ordered another round of layoffs at xAI after becoming frustrated with the company's AI coding software.

Elon Musk Orders Sweeping Layoffs as xAI Fails to Catch Up

As the AI race heats up, xAI is starting from scratch.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI

By Frank Landymore

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Blockchain Slumlord Startup Implodes in Real Time

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Cars Slated to Clog Roads With Horrendous Congestion

A UK High Court judge noticed something was seriously off during a January case brought on by somebody wearing a pair of smart glasses.

Man Caught Using Smart Glasses to Get Advice While Being Cross-Examined in Court

By Victor Tangermann

Tech executives are warning that nobody is checking the "fallibility" of AI-generated code, a disaster waiting to happen.

A Grim Truth Is Emerging in Employers’ AI Experiments

By Victor Tangermann

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Polymarket Announces New Bar For Degenerate War Profiteers

Encyclopedia Britannica Hits OpenAI With Scary Lawsuit

By Frank Landymore

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Grab Your Betrayal-Themed Popcorn Buckets, Because Microsoft Is Threatening to Sue OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

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CEO of AI Company Says Gen Z Needs to Get Ready for 30 Percent Unemployment

The situation for Donald Trump's Truth Social bid has only gotten even more dire since its shares hit all-time lows last week.

Things Are Suddenly Looking Incredibly Bad for Trump’s Social Media Company

By Victor Tangermann

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“Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic

By Frank Landymore

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Delivery Robot Dogpiled on the Streets of Philly

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Is It Safe to Inject Gray-Market Chinese Peptides?

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Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says Gamers Are Completely Wrong About His New AI Feature That Yassifies Games

By Frank Landymore

Andrej Karpathy, who cofounded OpenAI and created "vibe coding," removed his assessment of jobs most vulnerable to AI.

OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which Jobs Are Getting Steam Engined by AI

By Victor Tangermann

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Sam Altman Confronted At Oscars Party Over Pentagon Deal

By Frank Landymore

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