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Activists Plaster New Name on Larry Ellison’s Superyacht

By Joe Wilkins
Bank Warns of Tesla Stock Collapse

By Victor Tangermann
You Know How Scientists Keep Finding Microplastics Literally Everywhere? Well, You’d Never Guess What Their Lab Gloves Are Coated in Straight Out of the Packaging

By Victor Tangermann
Scientists Investigating Whether Object NASA Is Approaching Is Core of Destroyed Planet

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain

What else are friends for?

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AI Psychosis

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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

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OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk’s Orbital Data Centers Are Staggeringly Huge

Good lord.

By Frank Landymore

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There’s a $10 Billion Problem With Elon Musk’s New Chip Factory

“We either build the Terafab or we don’t have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab.”

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Judge Rules That Elon Musk’s Ketamine Use Is Off Limits

Hands off!

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

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Scientists Intrigued by Microbe That That Makes Mice Swole

By Frank Landymore

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Sharks Showing Unusually High Levels of Cocaine

By Frank Landymore

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China Built the World’s Largest Outdoor Escalator, and It’s a Modern Marvel That Looks Like It Never Stops Rising Into the Sky

By Frank Landymore

A large group of people participating in a protest, many lying down on the street holding signs with messages such as "PALANTIR: ICE, WAR PROFITEER AND PROTECTOR" and "MONEY FOR AIDS HEALTHCARE NOT FOR WAR & PROFIT." Others stand behind a large banner that reads "MOTHERS + HEALTH CARE NOT WAR." The scene takes place on a city street with scaffolding on one side and tall buildings in the background. Some individuals are taking photos or filming the event.

Protesters Stage Unsettling Demonstration in Front of Palantir’s Office

Researchers say there may be a peculiar "cavity" of reduced cosmic radiation that could provide Moon astronauts with shelter.

Data From Chinese Moon Lander Shows Signs of Peculiar Radiation “Cavity”

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI is running into trouble with its plans to build a huge number of data centers to power its AI models.

OpenAI’s Obsession With Data Centers Is Running Into Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink Patient Using Brain Chip to Carry Out Important Life Task: Playing World of Warcraft

By Frank Landymore

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Redditors Are Posting Their Blood Pressure “High Scores” and We’re Concerned They May Explode Into a Fountain of Red Mist

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Now Causing CEOs to Resign in Fear

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Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land

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Strange Modular Robots Are Writhing Across Landscapes

By Frank Landymore

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Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America

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New York’s Beloved Bodegas Are Filling Up With AI Slop

Quantum Computing

Google Warns That Quantum Armageddon Is Drawing Closer

By Frank Landymore

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Netizens Terrified of What NASA Grew on the Space Station: A Potato

By Frank Landymore

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