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Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Listing for Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror

“Genuinely the worst possible thing to scroll past before I fall asleep.”

By Victor Tangermann

Developments

Palantir Is Stocking the Wildest Imaginable Item in Its Vending Machines

By Victor Tangermann
Future Society

A Serial Killer Used ChatGPT to Plan Murders, Police Say

By Frank Landymore

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Future Society

Antarctica’s Gravity Hole Growing Stronger, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann
Ethics

Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse

By Joe Wilkins
Artificial Intelligence

AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make

By Frank Landymore
Hacking

Hackers Working on Method to Make Ring Cameras Store Footage Locally, Never Giving It to Amazon

By Joe Wilkins

AI Psychosis

After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

“You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential…”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

“This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

“It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero

“People would love to have a clanker as their boss.”

A group of five serious-faced people in blue tones are giving thumbs-down gestures against a bright yellow background. In the foreground, Elon Musk is smiling and blurred, contrasting with the disapproving expressions behind him.

Court Having Trouble Assembling Jury for Elon Musk Because People Hate Him So Much

A man of the people.

By Frank Landymore

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Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn’t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is

Grok is “BASED,” enthused Musk.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

A forum mod ran high-quality audio through a banana, old microphone cable soldered to pennies, and wet mud. Nobody could tell the difference.

In Blind Test, Audiophiles Unable to Tell Difference Between Sound Signal Run Through an Expensive Cable and a Banana

By Victor Tangermann

A row of modern, single-story houses with stepped flat roofs and textured gray walls, illuminated by warm exterior lights. Each house has a large window with wooden frames and is surrounded by bushes and trees with autumn foliage. In front of the houses, there are concrete driveways with parked cars and a small signpost displaying the address "977 Kaizen Way" along with a QR code and a mailbox. A light blue bicycle lies on the grass near the sidewalk, and a semi-transparent figure of an elderly person with a cane stands near the first house. The scene is set during sunset with a soft, warm glow.

The Economics of 3D Printed Homes Are Surprisingly Horrible

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Artificial Intelligence

Woman Uses AI to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop

By Frank Landymore

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AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty

A fiery red and orange tornado-like vortex of flames rising above a calm blue ocean, with dark smoky clouds in the background.

Scientists Find That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans

Screenshot from AI-generated video by Shokunin Studio showing Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting.

Hollywood Is Lying to Everyone About How Much AI They’re Using, Says Consummate Hollywood Insider

By Frank Landymore

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It’s Comically Easy to Trick ChatGPT Into Saying Things About People That Are Completely Untrue

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Developer’s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative

By Frank Landymore

A man in a white jacket and black pants is interacting with a robot on a tiled outdoor surface. The robot has kicked the man in the nose while a crowd of people stands in the background watching and taking photos or videos.

Video Shows Man Bleeding After Flailing Robot Kicks Him in Nose

By Frank Landymore

The economic pressure from the hype surrounding AI is affecting the rest of the consumer electronics world hard.

Personal Electronics Spiking in Price as AI Industry Buys Up All the Components

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages

By Frank Landymore

A close-up of a person using a nasal spray, with warm, orange-red lighting casting shadows across their face and hand. The person is holding the white nasal spray bottle up to one nostril.

Stanford’s New “Universal Vaccine Formula” Nasal Spray Protects Mice Against Stunning Range of Diseases

By Frank Landymore

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RX and Medicine

It Seems Bad That Temu Is Selling Peptides

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS appears to have started spewing huge amounts of water into space.

3I/ATLAS Spraying Material as It Exits the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Community members mourn during a candlelight vigil for the victims of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School where a mass shooting took place a day earlier in the small town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on February 11, 2026.

OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter’s Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police

By Jon Christian

A team of over 200 employees at OpenAI has been working on a smart speaker that features a built-in camera to analyze its surroundings.

OpenAI’s Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe

By Victor Tangermann

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