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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

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Congress Just Snuck a Bizarre Hemp Ban Into Law in Ridiculous Example of Government Overreach

By Joe Wilkins
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Chinese Astronauts Alarmed After Finding Cracks In Their Spacecraft’s Window

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a “Resource” to Be “Manipulated or Eliminated”

By Joe Wilkins
Ethics

After Attempting to Short the AI Bubble, the “Big Short” Guy Suddenly Closes Up Shop

By Victor Tangermann
OpenAI

Disney+ Will Allow Users to Generate Their Own “Frozen 3” Using AI

By Victor Tangermann
OpenAI

Sora Is Being Used to Brutally Mock Fat People

By Joe Wilkins

AI Psychosis

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

ChatGPT: “cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? that’s not fear. that’s clarity.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

“My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered an idea to curtail crime during his latest meeting with the board of directors: robots that stalk criminals.

Elon Says His Robot Will Follow Criminals Around to Make Sure They Never Offend Again

“It’s just gonna stop you from committing crime, that’s really it.”

Elon Musk had his personality effortlessly deconstructed by an 87-year-old novelist, and didn't take it well.

Elon Musk Got One-Shotted by an Extremely Mean Tweet

The world’s richest man, bullied by an 87-year-old woman.

By Frank Landymore

The head of Tesla's Cybertruck program, Siddhant Awasthi, has announced that he's leaving the company after more than eight years.

The Guy Responsible for the Cybertruck Is Suddenly Leaving Tesla

He’s leaving a disaster behind.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Fireflies CTO and co-founder Sam Udotong recently admitted that his AI transcription startup charged $100 an hour for notes taken by a human.

Founder Admits His “AI Transcription” Startup Was Just Him Joining People’s Meetings and Taking Notes by Hand

Workers at NASA's Goddard Space Center describe a "campaign of destruction" being carried out by the Trump Administration.

NASA Insiders Say They’re Now Under “Constant Attack” by Trump’s White House

A major tech selloff is shaking up Wall Street as the gulf between AI company valuations and their lagging revenues continues to grow.

Dark Clouds Suddenly Gathering Over AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard's "Country Digital Song Sales" chart in the United States.

Billboard’s Top Country Song Is Currently AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

The British Geological Society is warning that the Earth is about to get hit by the most powerful solar storm in over two decades.

Scientists Say the Largest Solar Storm in Two Decades Is About to Blast Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese company XPeng showed off a robot with distinctly female anatomy, including pronounced breasts and hips, sparking a discussion.

Robotics Company Explains Why Its Terminator-Style Robot Features Prominent Bazongas

By Victor Tangermann

Yann LeCun, Meta's top AI scientist, is reportedly leaving the company amid Mark Zuckerberg overhauling its AI strategy.

Meta’s Top AI Scientist Is Quitting as Zuckerberg’s Spending Spree Sputters

By Frank Landymore

Russia unveiled a humanoid robot, dubbed AIdol, during a flashy showcase in Moscow — only for it to fall on its face.

Russia’s First Humanoid Robot Just Failed So Spectacularly During It’s Debut That We’re Suspicious the Entire Thing Was an Elaborate Joke

By Victor Tangermann

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas is using the troubling rise in AI companionship apps to hawk his company's AI web browser.

Perplexity CEO Warns That AI Girlfriends Can Melt Your Brain

If there's any job artificial intelligence should be good at, it's spamming the internet with algorithmic comments.

AI Is Failing at the Most Hilarious Task Imaginable

OpenAI's AI video-generating app, Sora, is likely costing the company an astronomical amount of money to run, as Forbes reports.

OpenAI Is Reportedly Burning a Ludicrous Amount of Cash on Sora

By Victor Tangermann

The tech giant's stocks tumbled after SoftBank pulled nearly $6 billion in funding, though the AI bubble isn't bursting yet.

Nvidia Stock Lurches Down as SoftBank Pulls Entire Investment

A clandestine startup privately funded by tech billionaires is looking into germline gene editing a human embryo.

Startup Secretly Working to Gene-Hack Human Baby

Viral footage shows a huge Blue Origin rocket trundling down the highway, showcasing its mind-boggling scale.

You Haven’t Realized How Huge a Rocket Actually Is Until You’ve Seen This Video of One Being Moved on the Highway

By Frank Landymore

A YouTuber named Chris Doel cracked open hundreds of vapes to build an energy cell capable of powering his entire house.

Man Builds Huge Battery Bank From 500 Disposable Vapes to Power His Entire House

The MeerKAT radio telescope detected hydroxyl radicals from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, suggesting it's shedding a ton of water

Scientists Receive Interesting Signal From Mysterious Interstellar Object

By Victor Tangermann

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