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Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers

By Joe Wilkins
Ethics

Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days

By Frank Landymore
Cybersecurity

AI Browsers Can Basically Be Hypnotized Into Turning Against Their User and Carrying Out Devastating Hacks

By Frank Landymore
Google

Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
The Industrialists

The Amount of Profit Trump Is Making Off Crypto and Corruption Will Blow Your Mind

By Joe Wilkins

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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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SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day

Shares are still swinging wildly after the IPO.

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly

He’s back to name-calling his critics.

By Victor Tangermann

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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

The Feed

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Scientists Horrified by Record-Breaking Ocean Temperatures

By Victor Tangermann

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Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated

By Victor Tangermann

The Problem With SpaceX’s Secret “AI Device”

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The Industrialists

“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview

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Is Your Air Conditioning Killing People Thousands of Miles Away?

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CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop

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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

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Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects

By Victor Tangermann

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

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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

By Frank Landymore

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Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever

By Frank Landymore

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Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History

By Victor Tangermann

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Venture Capitalists Disgusted by Solar Power Because It’s Generating Too Much Clean Electricity to Be Grossly Profitable

By Victor Tangermann

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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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