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Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

By Joe Wilkins
The CEOs of Polymarket and Kalshi Are Locked in a Bitter Feud

By Victor Tangermann
OpenAI’s Pivot Into Shopping Has Been a Disaster

By Frank Landymore
A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News

By Victor Tangermann
Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly

By Frank Landymore

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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

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Corporate Adviser Says the Ideal Number of Human Employees at a Company Is Zero

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Amazon Staffers Learning Hard Lesson as Company Cuts Robotics Jobs

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Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile

By Frank Landymore

"Vibe coding" comes with some glaring shortcomings, as evidenced in an entirely vibe-coded operating system, dubbed Vib-OS.

Entirely Vibe-Coded Operating System Is a Bug-Filled Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

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Chocolate Company Announces Plans to Produce Lab-Grown Cocoa

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Prosthetics and Devices

Lawmakers Consider Ban on Implanting Microchips Into Workers

Users aren't happy about rumors that Microsoft's Windows 12 operating system will embrace AI even further than Windows 11.

Artificial Intelligence

Drama Erupts Over Claims That Microsoft Will Embrace AI Even More Drastically in Windows 12

By Victor Tangermann

In an announcement to publicize the results of recent raids on tax evaders, South Korea's National Tax Service made a fatal mistake.

Cops Accidentally Publicize Password to $4.4 Million in Crypto, Allowing Thieves to Easily Steal the Money and Run

By Victor Tangermann

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Philosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own “Experience”

By Frank Landymore

Reserachers gathered experimental data exploring whether bacteria could survive a journey between planets via an asteroid strike

Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to Planet While Clinging to Asteroids

By Victor Tangermann

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Emergency Responders Say They’re Now Unpaid “Roadside Assistance” for Confused Waymos

By Frank Landymore

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Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons

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You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create

Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry

A team of researchers found that "large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization."

AI Can Mass-Unmask Pseudonymous Accounts, Research Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

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Children’s Toys Are Shipping With Adult AI Inside Them

By Frank Landymore

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