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SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day

By Victor Tangermann
Climate Change

Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn’t Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe

By Frank Landymore
Ethics

Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects

By Victor Tangermann
Robotics

Factories Attach Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots

By Joe Wilkins
Education

Boys Are So Unprepared by the Education System That They’re Hitting High School Unable to Read Anything More Challenging That a Children’s Book

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Biology

Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce

“We’re hoping we’re really starting the true age of bioeconomy, enabling technology that will let people engineer biology.”

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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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.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He’s Killed, Including Children

“I could go on and on.”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Is “Like Union Pacific,” Which Is Extremely Funny If You Know What Actually Happened to Union Pacific

“A mess of self-dealing and corruption.”

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Musk Furious After SpaceX Stock Get Worst Possible Environmental Grade

Temper tantrum alert!

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae

By Victor Tangermann

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Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

By Victor Tangermann

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Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI

By Frank Landymore

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Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires

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A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad

By Victor Tangermann

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NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them

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Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers

By Frank Landymore

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We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound

By Victor Tangermann

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Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning

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Artificial Intelligence

There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims

By Victor Tangermann

A sinkhole with a diameter of 15 meters and a depth of 5 meters has formed in the village of Suduragi, Karaman, Turkiye, on August 25, 2025.

Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle

By Frank Landymore

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