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Anthropic Was So Concerned About Its New Mythos-Based Model’s Power That It Lobotomized Its Ability to Improve Itself

By Victor Tangermann
OpenAI

OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

By Victor Tangermann
Developments

New York Accuses Company of Smuggling Injectable Substance Made From Cadavers

By Frank Landymore
Privacy

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

By Joe Wilkins
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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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Education

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

“There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing.”

By Frank Landymore

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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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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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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

Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead

By Victor Tangermann

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Disaster Strikes When Meme Coin Pays Man to Tattoo Its Name on His Forehead, But They Misspelled It

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Deploying AI-Powered Drive-Thru System for Ordering Its Nauseating Foodslop

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Argentina Moves to Legalize “Non-Human Corporations” Run by AI

By Frank Landymore

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If You Think AI Companies Are Unethical Now, Wait Until They Go Public

By Victor Tangermann

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You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work

By Victor Tangermann

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Soccer Club Places Huge Kalshi Bet Against Itself

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Release Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals

By Victor Tangermann

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