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Mother Reportedly Doesn’t Know Her Son Died Because She’s Been Talking to an AI Version of Him

By Victor Tangermann
Trump Secretly Believes That Diet Coke Kills Cancer Cells Inside the Body

By Sharon Adarlo
Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude My Have Already Doomed You in Court

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Physicists Have a Major Problem With the Universe

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Artificial Intelligence

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale

“This is very upsetting to see.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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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

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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

“Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk’s Starlink Fails

“Starlink reliance exposed limitations under multiple-vehicle load.”

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NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center

“All too often, big corporations like xAI treat our communities and families like obstacles to be pushed aside.”

Elon Musk is shown smoking while wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone. A tweet from Elon Musk is overlaid, stating that The Boring Company could build a Hyperloop tunnel from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles for less than 5% of the cost of subsidizing free flights between the two cities, calling it a technological marvel exceeding any high-speed rail on Earth. The tweet references a post by Hans Mahncke about the cost of subsidizing free flights.

Elon Musk Says He Could Definitely Build a Public Transit System Better Than Anything In China If He Tried

Sure.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

The public outrage over the tech industry's obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the pitchforks are starting to come out.

There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash

By Victor Tangermann

In a Thursday video, 20-year-old so-called "looksmaxxing" influencer Braden "Clavicular" Peters claimed that he had learned a hard lesson.

Clavicular Says He’s Quitting Drugs, Meaning He Can’t IRL Stream Anymore Because He’s Unable to Mog Sober

By Victor Tangermann

During an industry trade show, filmmakers showed off a trailer that featured an AI-rendered version of Val Kilmer. Fans were furious.

Fury Erupts as Val Kilmer’s Estate Announces Starring Role in AI Film Made From Beyond the Grave

By Victor Tangermann

The mad scrabble to get in on the latest AI startup — struggling shoe company Allbirds — has since come to a "screeching halt."

Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot

By Victor Tangermann

A recent survey found that more than half of American men aged 18 to 49 said they had an active sports betting account.

More Than Half of Men Aged 18 to 49 Have Already Fallen Into Online Sports Betting

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic researchers were alarmed by the power of the company's latest Mythos AI model, suggesting it could supercharge hackers.

Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI

By Victor Tangermann

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Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds

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Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents

What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand “Pivoted to AI” and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent

By Victor Tangermann

Starbucks’ Baffling ChatGPT Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups

Writer Jonas Ceika "sent ChatGPT an audio file of a series of FART sound effects" for feedback. It was extremely flattering.

ChatGPT’s “Honest Reaction” to a “Song” Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It’s Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock

By Sharon Adarlo

A company hiring desperate job-seekers to train their AI model replacements was hacked, triggering five separate lawsuits.

Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

A blue Volvo XC90 SUV is being punched by a gigantic robot arm.

Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies

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Earth Now Flying Through a Debris Field, Paper Finds

By Sharon Adarlo

A robotic hand playing the keys of a piano, set against a vibrant background featuring a large blue circle on an orange backdrop with a subtle dotted pattern. The robotic hand is metallic and detailed, positioned as if pressing the piano keys.

Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It’s Offering an AI “Songwriting” Class

By Sharon Adarlo

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