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Scientists Scan Gigantic Structure Hiding Behind Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann
Finance

If You Thought Mark Zuckerberg Was a Pathetic Little Worm Before, Wait Until You Hear About His Latest Move

By Victor Tangermann
OpenAI

OpenAI in Shambles as IPO Looms

By Victor Tangermann
Ethics

A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There’ll Be Almost Nothing Else Left

By Joe Wilkins
Quantum Physics

Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe

By Victor Tangermann

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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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AI Psychosis

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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

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Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

“AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

Musk Watch

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Tesla Quietly Buys Mysterious $2 Billion Entity

“Tesla is working on a lot of large, ambitious projects.”

Elon Musk, wearing a black cap and large black sunglasses, is holding a red and silver chainsaw with the words "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" on it at CPAC.

Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts

“At this point, if you are invested in Elon, you are pretty much doing it for the white nationalism.”

By Frank Landymore

During Wednesday's earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated that millions of Tesla cars on the road can't drive themselves.

Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers’ Faces for Years About Self-Driving

It was really expensive snake oil after all.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Bitcoin developer James Lopp suggested freezing 5.6 million long-dormant Bitcoins to save them from quantum computer attacks.

Bitcoin Developers Are Debating a Move That Could Send Crypto Markets Into a Tailspin

By Victor Tangermann

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Waymo Has a Bike Lane Problem

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who traveled around the Moon and back, demonstrates that getting used to Earth's gravity isn't exactly easy.

International Space Station

Video Shows NASA Astronaut Struggling to Walk After Journey Around the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has issued a grim apology, admitting that the firm had failed to notify law enforcement ahead of a deadly shooting.

Sam Altman Issues Grim Apology

By Victor Tangermann

Tinder Scanning Users’ Eyeballs to Prove They Aren’t Creeps

By Frank Landymore

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Two Delivery Bots Blunder Into the Middle of a Police Incident, Have Awkward Standoff

By Frank Landymore

Top journal Nature Medicine argued that "evidence that AI tools create value for patients, providers or health systems remains scarce." %

Top Medical Journal Publishes Searing Article Warning Against Medical AI

By Victor Tangermann

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Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Deploying Ransomware Himself

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Mowing Down Simulated Elephants Could Help Self-Driving Cars Prepare For the Chaos of Real Life Streets

By Frank Landymore

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Machine Learning

America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

A new browser plugin intentionally adds typos and other grammar mistakes to emails to make them sound less like AI.

New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real

By Victor Tangermann

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Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens

Researchers used AI to teach a robot arm how to beat "elite and professional" table tennis players "under official competition rules."

New AI-Powered Robot Can Destroy Human Champions at Ping Pong

By Victor Tangermann

A new tool, dubbed Malus.sh, uses AI to "liberate" any piece of software from existing copyright licenses, "clean room" clones that work.

Devious New AI Tool “Clones” Software So That the Original Creator Doesn’t Hold a Copyright Over the New Version

By Victor Tangermann

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Physicist Proposes Dark Matter Is Made of Black Holes That Survived Dead Universes

By Frank Landymore

A man with a distressed expression holds his temples with both hands while a wooden judge's gavel is striking a surface in the foreground, creating a motion blur effect. The scene conveys tension or stress related to a legal or judicial situation.

Prestigious Wall Street Law Firm Humiliated When Its AI Use Is Discovered in Court

By Frank Landymore

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