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NASA Now Letting Mars Rover Drive Autonomously

The lonely machine must chart its own course across the barren Martian surface.

By Frank Landymore

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Neuroscience and Brain

Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”

By Victor Tangermann
Google

YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop

By Frank Landymore
Ethics

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything

By Joe Wilkins
Ethics

Doctors Warn That AI Companions Are Dangerous

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
Future Society

With the Powers of AI, Annoying Dorks Can Now Pretend They’re Friends With Cool Famous People

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

“We’re seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don’t need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Private space tourist and billionaire pilot Jared Isaacman has officially been confirmed as NASA administrator.

New NASA Director Taking Over Agency in Crisis

Finally, NASA has a leader again.

By Victor Tangermann

Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musl.

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk

Correction: 999,999,999 children.

By Frank Landymore

A new video appears to show a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot stumbling backwards after its teleoperator tried to take off their headset.

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

“Absolutely hilarious.”

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

The Wall Street Journal staffed an office vending kiosk with Anthropic's most advanced AI model, with hilarious results.

Anthropic’s Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish

Researchers attempted to quantify the risk of a catastrophic collision in orbit by coming up with an alarming new metric.

This New Statistic on Kessler Syndrome Will Give Anyone Who Cares About Space Travel an Instantaneous Stress Headache

By Victor Tangermann

A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It

Officials at Beverly Hills High School have unleashed a panopticon of AI surveillance cameras, drones, and audio monitors on their students.

Officials Deploying AI Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms

A holiday yule log app interrupts the cozy ambiance with annoying ads, begging users to subscribe to premium.

Virtual Reality

Holiday Yule Log App Constantly Bombards User With Ads for Premium Version

NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will capture thousands of puzzling structures called cosmic voids.

NASA Says It’s Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While

By Frank Landymore

A German energy company is building two enormous heat pumps that draw water from the Rhine to provide an appreciable 40,000 homes with heat.

Germany Building Clever System to Heat 40,000 Homes Using Device Powered by River Water

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've spotted the first runaway supermassive black hole that's rocketing away from its home at a staggering speed.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots First Ever Supermassive Black Hole to Be Yeeted Out of Its Home Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Justice portal to view the latest release of hundreds of thousands of Epstein files seems to be broken.

The Epstein Files Release Website Is Completely Busted

By Frank Landymore

The rise in data center buildouts coincides with below-average water levels in the great lakes, highlighting the need for more transparency.

Furious Residents Say AI Data Centers Are Sucking Up the Great Lakes

Scammers on TikTok are using AI-generated slop videos to sell dubious seeds for hosta plant varieties that don't exist.

TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist

By Victor Tangermann

A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.

Investors Warn That Humanoid Robots Are the Next Financial Bubble

By Sharon Adarlo

Unitree's G1 robot made its major stage debut by appearing alongside Chinese singer Wang Leehom during a Friday night concert in China.

Robots Tear Up Stage as Backup Dancers

By Victor Tangermann

Google's horrible AI summaries are stealing recipes and throwing them together in a meaningless statistical stew.

Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Summaries Are Destroying the Lives of Recipe Developers

By Frank Landymore

Makers of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are facing lawsuits that allege the drugs cause blindness in some patients.

RX and Medicine

Lawsuits Allege Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

By Sharon Adarlo

In a recent analysis, economist Dean Baker explains that crypto's collapse leaves the rest of us with a bigger piece of the economic pie.

Bitcoin Crashing Is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says

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