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A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into

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Students Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Tests

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Tesla Admits Its Robotaxis Are Being Driven Remotely

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Remember That Robot Olaf Disney Was So Proud of? It Just Wiped Out So Hard That His Carrot Nose Went Clattering Across the Pavement

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Second SpaceX Satellite Abruptly Explodes

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Neuroscience and Brain

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

“AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

Musk Watch

An orbital data center with large, extended solar panels orbiting above Earth, with the Sun rising or setting on the horizon, casting a bright glow over the planet's atmosphere and clouds.

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

Just before cyclone Narelle made landfall in Western Australia, it turned the sky into an apocalyptic shade of bright red.

Australia Turns Into Bright-Red Vision of Hell

By Victor Tangermann

Bluesky's latest foray into AI isn't exactly sitting well with what appears to be the vast majority of the platform's user base.

Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

By Victor Tangermann

Three rescue workers in red uniforms with yellow reflective stripes stand facing a large pile of rubble and debris from a collapsed structure. The scene is chaotic with broken concrete, twisted metal rods, and scattered materials. One worker wears a red helmet, while another is using a phone. Dust and smoke create a hazy atmosphere.

Law Seeks to Ban Public Officials From Making Polymarket Bets on Upcoming Bloodshed, Because Apparently We Live in a Complete Dystopia

Close-up of Todd Lyons, the acting head of ICE.

Top ICE Official Falling Apart Medically Due to Stress of Getting Yelled At

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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

A black robot made of interconnected segments is positioned on a sandy beach near the water. The robot is in motion, kicking up sand in an arc behind it. The background shows a calm sea under a cloudy sky, with a distant pier and some trees on the left side.

Strange Modular Robots Are Writhing Across Landscapes

By Frank Landymore

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