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Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
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Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart

By Joe Wilkins
Climate Change

Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People

By Joe Wilkins
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Admits Its Robotaxis Have a Small Issue With Driving Into Floodwaters

By Frank Landymore
Cryptocurrency

Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

A Deranged New Wikipedia Clone Is Made Entirely of Surreal AI Hallucinations

An entire “universe” of nonsensical information that somehow all still fits together.

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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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

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Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

“His location and plans are something OpenAI could shed light on if they were willing to cooperate.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

Musk Watch

Grok Just Issued a Brutal Beatdown to Elon Musk

“More than one thing can be true, but this isn’t one.”

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Sure, Elon Musk Did Roleplay As His Toddler Son on a Secret Burner Account, But He Probably Isn’t Pretending to Be His Mom

It’s not what it looks like!

By Frank Landymore

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Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court

He’d rather be building rockets.

The Feed

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The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People

By Krystle Vermes

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MAGA in Shambles as Trump’s “Made in America” Phone Crumbles Into Dust

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly

By Krystle Vermes

OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

By Frank Landymore

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Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

Unitree Shows Off Fully Functional Mecha Suit

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

Husband Alarmed as Wife Starts Whispering Quietly to Her Computer

By Frank Landymore

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AI Is Giving Your Boss Tools to Be More Monstrous Than Ever Before

Artificial Intelligence

Google Alarmed by Formidable AI-Powered Zero-Day Cyberattack

By Frank Landymore

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Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center

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Artificial Intelligence

Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds

By Frank Landymore

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OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months

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