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China Presses Pause on Self-Driving Taxis Nationwide After Issue Where They Blocked Streets. America Could Learn a Lot From That

By Victor Tangermann
Mental Health

Meta Has Entered Its Death Spiral

By Jon Christian
Mental Health

Cursed New AI Service Writes a Mother’s Day Card and Mails It to Your Mom, Without Any Human Involvement Except Inputting Your Credit Card Details

By Jon Christian
Black Holes

NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye

By Frank Landymore
Hacking

Scammers Furious That Their Fellow Criminals Are Using AI, Saying It’s Unethical

By Joe Wilkins

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OpenAI

Marc Andreessen Mocked for Accidentally Revealing That He Seems to Have a Deep Misunderstanding of How AI Actually Works

“He is scripting his own psychotic break.”

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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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

A man with a beard and mustache is lying on a yellow and blue textured surface, looking at a smartphone in his hand. He has short, slightly messy hair and multiple ear piercings. His skin and hair are digitally altered with a pink hue, and he has a tattoo on his upper arm. The image has a stylized, high-contrast color effect.

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

Musk Watch

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Sure, Elon Musk Did Roleplay As His Toddler Son on a Secret Burner Account, But He Probably Isn’t Pretending to Be His Mom

It’s not what it looks like!

By Frank Landymore

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Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court

He’d rather be building rockets.

The anxiously-awaited trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI could have vast implications for the entire AI industry.

If OpenAI Loses This Trial, It Could Effectively Be Eliminated in Its Current Form

The timing of Elon Musk’s lawsuit couldn’t be worse for OpenAI.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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You’ll Never Guess Trade Unions’ Position on AI Data Centers

James Cameron Accused of Stealing 14-Year-Old Girl’s Face for Main Character of Billion-Dollar “Avatar” Films

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

The Situation With Richard Dawkins’ AI Girlfriend Just Got Way Weirder

By Frank Landymore

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Billionaire Declares That “Tax the Rich” Is Hate Speech That Offends Him Horribly

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SpaceX Bombarded With Lawsuits to Accusing Starship of Damaging Homes

By Frank Landymore

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FBI Director Kash Patel Says AI Has Stopped Numerous Violent Attacks Against America. We’d Love to See a Single Whiff of Evidence

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Sam Altman Frets That Frontier AI Models Are Acting Strange, Asking for Favors

By Frank Landymore

Researchers say they've identified a minor planet beyond Pluto that's wrapped in an extremely thin envelope of gases.

Scientists Detect Atmosphere on Planet-Like Object Beyond Pluto

By Victor Tangermann

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Video Shows Amazon Drone Dropping Package Into Pond

Microsoft's Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced Xbox would "begin winding down" the company's Copilot AI chatbot.

Gamers Cheer as Microsoft Pulls Copilot AI Out of Xbox Entirely

By Victor Tangermann

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Ordinary People Fear AI, While the Tech Leaders Working to Create a Permanent Underclass Say They’re Extremely Psyched About It

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Earth Screams in Agony as Microplastics Found to Increase Global Warming

By Frank Landymore

According to a new investigation by Mother Jones, OpenAI's ChatGPT still easily gives advice on how to plan mass shootings.

Even After Two Massacres, OpenAI Still Hasn’t Stopped ChatGPT From Helping Plan School Shootings

By Victor Tangermann

Over the weekend, a test of SpaceX's water deluge system appeared to have resulted in an explosion, a potential setback.

Explosion Reported on Site as SpaceX Prepares Starship for Another Launch

By Victor Tangermann

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Busy Roadways Clogged as Waymo Becomes Stumped by Small Puddle

A humanoid robot is seated in an airplane window seat with black leather upholstery. The robot has a sleek, metallic body with a black head featuring a visor-like face. The airplane window shows a bright, sunlit exterior.

Passengers Groan as Humanoid Robot on Flight Causes Hour-Long Delay at Oakland Airport

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