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

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.”

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

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.”

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

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

Jarring.

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?
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Elon Musk

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

We’re following whether Elon Musk and his companies, X and xAI, make any meaningful change to stem the tide of likely-illegal AI deepfakes on X — content that’s being generated via Musk’s own chatbot, Grok.

Elon Musk's response to his AI chatbot Grok being used to generate sexual depictions of minors doesn't inspire confidence.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier”

Cowardly.

New reporting revealed that one of Elon Musk's top lawyers, Jaymie Parkkinen, moonlights as a professional clown.
Elon Musk

You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job

“All of my comedy friends — none of them can believe I’m a lawyer.”

The Feed

Trying to quit Zyns without weaning them off can lead to panic attacks, intense headaches, and even hallucinations, one power-user discovered.
Health & Medicine

Horrendous Things Happen When You Quit Zyn Cold Turkey

OpenAI's ChatGPT Health will ingest your medical records to generate more relevant responses that shouldn't be acted upon.
Ethics

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”

One of the more bizarre gadgets showing at CES 2026 is the Breakreal R1, an AI cocktail machine with "unlimited recipes."
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be

For the first time ever, NASA has been forced to cut a mission to the International Space Station short due to a "serious medical condition."
Crew Dragon

NASA Announces Emergency Evacuation From Space Station

The Trump administration's shutting of NASA's largest library is turning into scandal. Staffers are absolutely furious.
NASA

NASA’s Library Shutdown Scandal Is Ballooning

Japanese tech giant Sony is looking to let an AI navigate PlayStation games on the human player's behalf.
Ethics

Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck

The Tesla owner uploaded footage of the car running FSD swerving off the road after failing to brake in time.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Fan Profusely Praises FSD For Veering His Car off the Side of the Highway

Kawasaki has announced that it's started to work on turning its ambitious vision for a four-leged robotic horse into a reality.
Robot Dogs

Kawasaki’s Robot Horse Is Going Into Production

A group of researchers studied the personality traits most common in conspiracy-brained people, discovering insecurity might be to blame.
Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories

NASA announced that it was forced to postpone a January 8 spacewalk, citing a "medical concern." Many questions remain.
International Space Station

Astronaut on Space Station Suffers Medical Issue

28 trainees and veterans in China's astronaut corps took part in a nearly month-long training program in a cave in Chongqing.
Space

Chinese Moon Astronauts Emerge From Month-Long Journey Into Deep Cave

A Finnish company called IXI is claiming to have manufactured the world's first eyeglasses that can change prescription on the fly.
Prosthetics and Devices

Instant Bifocals: New Glasses Can Change Their Prescription on the Fly Depending on What You’re Looking At 

New details show the lucky bettor who made over $400,000 betting for Maduro's downfall on Polymarket doubled down hours before the attack.
Finance

The Venezuela Polymarket Scandal Is Looking Really Bad

The National Weather Service was caught posting an AI-generated weather map that hallucinated names for towns in Idaho.
Ethics

National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

Trump's smartphone company Trump Mobile has embarrassingly little to show and just blew through its own deadline.
Future Society

Trump’s Golden Smartphone Is Getting Sketchier and Sketchier

Windows PC maker Dell admitted at this year's CES that things have really gotten out of hand, agreeing that people don't buy PCs for AI.
Ethics

Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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