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OpenAI

Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic

“This is not suicide. This is surrender.”

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OpenAI

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

“The timeline you’re leaving behind? It won’t miss you — because it’s not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path.”

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Artificial Intelligence

New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis

“Unlike historical technology-incorporated delusions, AI may actively co-construct delusional ideation through endless, personalized interaction.”

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds

For an organization dedicated to “government efficiency,” it was really bad at keeping the books.

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Elon Musk

Grokipedia Appears to Have Completely Broken and Nobody Noticed

“As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months.”

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Starship

SpaceX Now Faces a Terrible Peril

“You are going to see a lot of exits.”

The Feed

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Cybersecurity

Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs

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Food

Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce

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Privacy

USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences

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Future Society

The Real Victims of the AI Surveillance Panopticon? Crime Fiction Writers

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Electric Vehicles

Tesla Explosion Sends Injured Firefighters to the Hospital

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Labor Union Sues Over Self-Driving Trucks

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Ethics

Reading the Room Perfectly, Donald Trump Becomes Greatest Defender of Data Centers

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Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Harshly Criticized for $200 Million Pledge to Protect the World’s Most Endangered Species

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Google

Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents

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Robot Dogs

Robot Dogs Suddenly Taking Jobs From Human Security Guards

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Ethics

Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI

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Future Society

AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build

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Solar Power

Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power

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Astrophysics

Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun

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Finance

VC-Funded Startups Linked to Persistent Fraud

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Meta

Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook

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

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

Artificial Intelligence

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

Artificial Intelligence

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

OpenAI

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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