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Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

By Victor Tangermann
A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well

By Joe Wilkins
AI-Generated Film Pulled From AMC Cinemas

By Frank Landymore
NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble

By Frank Landymore
MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts

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Mental Health

Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds

“I fear the problem is more common than most people think.”

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

Elon Musk wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie, captured with a zoom blur effect that creates a dynamic, radiating motion around him.

Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

Beggars can’t be choosers.

A close-up of a Elon Musk's face in a red monochrome filter, resting his chin on his hand with a contemplative expression. Two white dice with black dots are floating near his face against a bright yellow background.

Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail

Here’s what happened.

A stylized image of Elon Musk, wearing a black jacket and a black cap, with his arms crossed. The man is tinted red against a bright yellow background with a large blue circle. To the right, there is a dark silhouette of a person holding a gun to their head, positioned in front of the blue circle. The overall image has a textured, crumpled paper effect.

Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero

“People would love to have a clanker as their boss.”

The Feed

A person wearing light blue jeans, a pink and white striped shirt, and brown sandals is reaching out toward a small red delivery robot labeled "COCO" with "Coco Robotics" written below. The robot has four wheels and a small red flag on a pole. The background is bright yellow.

Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence

A black-and-white halftone image of Bill and Phoebe Gates standing together. The background is a blue and green grid pattern with faint text and shapes.

Bill Gates’ Daughter Says Her $185 Million AI Startup Will Succeed Entirely Due to Her Merits, Not Even a Little Bit Who Her Dad Is

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million light-years.

This Is How Big a Telescope Aliens Would Need to See Dinosaurs on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

A red robotic hand holding a black pen against a green cutting mat with white grid lines and measurement markings. The hand is positioned as if ready to write or draw.

Startup Generates Caring Letters to Your Friends Using AI, Handwrites Them Using Robot Pen

Scientists from the University of California, Santa Cruz have just taken a huge step in the long history of lab-cultured brains.

Neuroscience and Brain

Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful

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Constant Space Launches Turning Earth’s Atmosphere Into a “Crematorium,” Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

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Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable

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Anonymous Kalshi User Makes Huge Bet That the White House Is About to Confirm Alien Life or Technology

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Hubble telescope has circled our planet in a low-Earth orbit for decades. But how much longer has become increasingly uncertain.

The Hubble Is Inexorably Falling to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring a curious geological formation made up of ridges that look like spiderwebs from space.

NASA Rover Exploring Strange, Haunting Structures on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Jack Dorsey Lays Off 4,000 Employees After Move to AI

Ongoing fears that the massive amount of money the AI industry is pouring into data centers may not be sustainable are pushing stocks down.

Artificial Intelligence

The Economy Is Lurching Downward as Fear of AI Spreads

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump standing behind a wooden podium, speaking into a microphone in a formal setting with an audience in the background. The image has a stylized, high-contrast effect with a blue and orange color tone.

AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration

Pete Hegseth and Dario Amodei are shown in a stylized illustration. The background features a grid pattern with a large yellow circle behind them.

Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike

By Frank Landymore

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Renewable Energy

Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths

By Frank Landymore

Antarctica's Blood Falls, with a striking orange-red flow of liquid running down the side of a glacier onto the rocky ground below. The glacier is predominantly white with some blue and gray shading, and the orange-red flow contrasts sharply against the icy surface. The foreground shows a frozen or snow-covered area.

There’s a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation for Antarctica’s Waterfall of Blood

By Frank Landymore

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