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Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Only Got Involved in Politics Because He Couldn’t Deal With Having a Transgender Child

By Frank Landymore
Artificial Intelligence

Now You Gotta Buy a Second Computer Just for Your AI Agent, Nvidia Declares

By Frank Landymore
The Industrialists

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared

By Joe Wilkins
Future Society

Jeffrey Epstein’s Biopreserved Sperm Is Missing

By Frank Landymore

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Astrophysics

Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed.

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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Tesla Insiders Admit Self-Driving Is a Complete Disaster

“We have all seen it fail.”

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Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

“The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested.”

By Jon Christian

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SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

“Bro, have you seen inflation lately? Ketamine is expensive!”

The Feed

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Scientists Say They’ve Cracked Mystery Behind a Dozen Strange Signals From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

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Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month

By Frank Landymore

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Authorities Alarmed as Mysterious Figures Emerge From Sewers

By Victor Tangermann

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Neighbors Horrified by Data Center Twice the Size of Manhattan

By Victor Tangermann

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Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI

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Behold! Duke Scientists Build Biblically Accurate Angel Robot

By Frank Landymore

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Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

By Frank Landymore

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AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog

By Victor Tangermann

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Random Standard Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are, Alarming New Research Finds

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Scientists Say They’ve Found Fungi That Turn Dead Martian Soil Into Fertile Cropland

By Victor Tangermann

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Startup Testing Drugs on Freshly Extracted Human Brains That Are Kept On Life Support

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

California State University Made a Huge Deal With OpenAI and It’s Been a Disaster

By Frank Landymore

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Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI

By Frank Landymore

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Websites Are Spying on Your Solid State Drive

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Filmmaker Compares His Tech to Something That Gets Worse the More You Think About It

By Frank Landymore

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