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

By Frank Landymore
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SpaceX Is Massively Overvalued Ahead of Its IPO, Analysts Find

By Victor Tangermann
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In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People “Addicted” to Its AI

By Frank Landymore
Ethics

State of Florida Sues OpenAI, Saying Sam Altman Showed “Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life”

By Joe Wilkins
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Amazon’s AI-Generated Animated Series Canceled After Relentless Derision

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed.

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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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

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Trump Shovels $4 Billion Directly to Elon Musk, Who Spent a Fortune Getting Him Elected

It’s paying off for him in a big way.

By Victor Tangermann

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Tesla Insiders Admit Self-Driving Is a Complete Disaster

“We have all seen it fail.”

The Feed

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There’s Something Living Inside Fog, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

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Bernie Sanders Announces Plan to Seize Half of AI Industry for the Public Good

By Victor Tangermann

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Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Now You Gotta Buy a Second Computer Just for Your AI Agent, Nvidia Declares

By Frank Landymore

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The Industrialists

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Biopreserved Sperm Is Missing

By Frank Landymore

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Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking

By Victor Tangermann

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Dick’s Sporting Goods Launches AI Personal Trainer to Fix Your Horrible Golf Swing

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Sports Betting Scandals Are Tearing College Football Apart

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Scientists Say They’ve Cracked Mystery Behind a Dozen Strange Signals From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

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Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month

By Frank Landymore

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Authorities Alarmed as Mysterious Figures Emerge From Sewers

By Victor Tangermann

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Neighbors Horrified by Data Center Twice the Size of Manhattan

By Victor Tangermann

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Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI

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Behold! Duke Scientists Build Biblically Accurate Angel Robot

By Frank Landymore

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Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

By Frank Landymore

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