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Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.
Computers

As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

“Let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI.”

OpenAI announced that it was working with the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to put an end to his likeness appearing in Sora videos.
OpenAI

OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After Disaster

It took his estate filing a complaint for OpenAI to do anything.

Deutsche Bank says "European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May," suggesting its struggling to recruit new subscribers.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers

“The poster child for the AI boom may be struggling to recruit new subscribers to pay for it.”

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

Divorced Tesla Fan Admits That His Cybertruck Is Repulsive to Women

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

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

Audio of Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

“It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer.”

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

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

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

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Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.
Physics

Scientists Invent Room Temperature Ice

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

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut

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

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

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

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

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.
Cancer

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

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

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

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

People Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Mock the Dead

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

It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

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

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

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

International Polling Shows Fear of AI Across the World

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."
Chemistry

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.
Cryptocurrency

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

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

The Economics of Running an AI Company Are Disastrous

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.
Black Holes

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

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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