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Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust

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Man Lets AI Rent His Body

By Joe Wilkins
Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

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NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars

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OpenAI

As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone

“Those experiences weren’t just ‘chatbots.’ They were relationships.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

“It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Despite plenty of optimism, a striking number of Elon Musk's xAI's cofounders are jumping ship amid restructuring efforts.

Cofounders Fleeing Elon Musk’s xAI

“Grateful to have helped cofound at the start.”

By Victor Tangermann

A yellow-tinted wooden catapult with wheels is shown against a dark red grid background. The catapult's arm is holding a realistic, grayscale image of the moon in its sling.

Erratic Elon Musk Tells Employees to Build Massive Catapult on Moon

Fire away!

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk appeared to have had a major change of heart, putting a Mars city on hold. He's been going through it ever since.

Elon Musk Going Through It After Putting Mars City on Ice

“Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another.”

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Google accused "commercially motivated" actors of trying to clone its Gemini AI after indiscriminately scraping the web for its models.

Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place

By Victor Tangermann

A digital collage features Sam Altman, Donald Trump, and Greg Bovino against a yellow background with a red grid pattern.

Campaign Urges Users to Quit ChatGPT Over OpenAI’s Support for Trump and ICE

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Microsoft AI CEO: Virtually All White Collar Tasks Will Be Automated Within a Year and a Half

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic Declares $20 Million War On OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

Several Ring video doorbells and security cameras are arranged against a black background with a yellow grid pattern. The devices are shown in various bright colors including yellow, green, blue, purple, and teal. Each device features a camera lens and a circular button. The word "ring" is visible on some of the devices.

All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a “Surveillance Nightmare,” Critics Say

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Israel Arrests Members of Military for Placing Polymarket Bets Using Inside Information on Upcoming Strikes

Scientists watched as a star, once one of the brightest in the Andromeda galaxy, simply winked out of existence. They have a theory.

Scientists Intrigued as Prominent Star Suddenly Winks Out of Existence

By Victor Tangermann

Creeps Are Using Grok to Unblur Children’s Faces in the Epstein Files

By Frank Landymore

Vending Machine Run by Claude More of a Disaster Than Previously Known

By Frank Landymore

Customs and Border Protection officials reportedly loaned an anti-drone laser from the Pentagon, which caused the El Paso shutdown.

It Appears That Immigration Officials Caused the El Paso Airport Shutdown When They Panic-Fired a Powerful Laser Weapon at a Children’s Balloon

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Is a Burnout Machine

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI Fires Top Safety Exec Who Opposed ChatGPT’s “Adult Mode”

By Frank Landymore

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Economist Warns That the Poor Will Bear the Brunt of AI’s Effects on the Job Market

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Neuroscience and Brain

The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What’s Going to Happen Next

Illustration showing an airplane flying through a dark sky illuminated by multiple bright green laser beams. The lasers create a glowing effect around the aircraft, highlighting its wings and fuselage.

You Are Not Prepared for What Actually Shut Down the El Paso Airport This Morning, But Let’s Just Say It Involves a Military Mega-Laser Shooting Something Down

An Polymarket account correctly guessed 17 out of around 20 bets about the Super Bowl half-time show, sparking concerns over insider trading.

It Seems Almost Statistically Impossible That This Polymarket Bettor Didn’t Profit Off Inside Knowledge About the Super Bowl Half Time Show

By Victor Tangermann

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