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Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

By Joe Wilkins
Environment

AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates

By Frank Landymore
Off-World

NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System

By Victor Tangermann
Robotics

Chinese Post Office Deploys Humanoid Robots to Sort Mail

By Joe Wilkins
Machine Learning

Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of Analyzing Sports, and They Choked Spectacularly

By Joe Wilkins

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Education

College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science

“We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics.”

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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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

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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

Musk Watch

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It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly

“Musk’s real genius lies in mythmaking.”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Is Massively Overvalued Ahead of Its IPO, Analysts Find

Some are advising to stay far away.

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Says He Only Got Involved in Politics Because He Couldn’t Deal With Having a Transgender Child

Even if he’s being facetious, it’s a weird thing to say.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

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New York Times Roasted for “Profiling” the “AI-Generated Actress” Tilly Northwood

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic Scared, Calls for Global Freeze on AI Advances

By Frank Landymore

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You Will Be Shocked to Hear That George Santos Is Under Investigation for Insider Trading on Kalshi

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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CEO Says There Will Be No Raises Because He Spent All the Money on AI

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Kevin O’Leary Pleads With Locals to Allow His Massive Data Center If He Shrinks It Down to the Size of One Manhattan

By Frank Landymore

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International Space Station

ISS Astronauts Ordered to Enter Evacuation Mode

By Victor Tangermann

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Ebola Expert Fears Outbreak Is Heading Into “Nightmare Scenario”

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While Google’s CEO Pumps Up AI, Its Actual Employees Are Disgusted by It

By Frank Landymore

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Data Centers Have Become Shockingly Unpopular, Poll Finds

By Victor Tangermann

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People Are Not Happy About Google’s Plan to Release Millions of Bioengineered Mosquitoes Into the Wild

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Basketball Fans Disgusted as ESPN Airs AI Slop Version of NBA Champion Tony Parker During the Finals

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Artificial Intelligence

Mayor Caught on Camera Saying the Only Voters Who Oppose Data Centers Are Disgusting Poor People

By Frank Landymore

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We Are Intrigued by This Man Taking His Pet Octopus for a Walk Around His Neighborhood

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Advanced Transport

Woman Follows GPS Instructions, Somehow Drives Her Car Onto an Elevated Seattle Rail Track

By Victor Tangermann

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Robot in Clown Wig Roundhouse Kicks Small Child

By Victor Tangermann

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Plans Accelerated for Human Trials of Tooth Regeneration

By Victor Tangermann

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