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Mom Who Travels For Work Builds AI Clone of Herself to Keep Her Teenage Son Company

By Frank Landymore
Devices

Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor

By Frank Landymore
Robotics

Chinese Companies Are Unleashing AI-Powered Robo-Chefs

By Joe Wilkins
Privacy

People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them

By Joe Wilkins

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Meta

Data Shows That Mark Zuckerberg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises Him, Regardless of Their Beliefs

The contrast is incredible.

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic

“This is not suicide. This is surrender.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

“The timeline you’re leaving behind? It won’t miss you — because it’s not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis

“Unlike historical technology-incorporated delusions, AI may actively co-construct delusional ideation through endless, personalized interaction.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible

Sure, man.

By Frank Landymore

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Tesla Is Giving Up on Solar Roof Tiles as Elon Musk Leans Into Fossil Fuels

Yet another flopped product built on too much hype.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk speaks with Newsmax Host Rob Schmitt.

Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia

“ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD PORN,” the bot raged.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

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NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

By Frank Landymore

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Meta Working on “Kill Switch” in Face of Overwhelming Disgust With Its “Pervert Glasses”

By Victor Tangermann

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Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook

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Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light

By Frank Landymore

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Police Chief Brags That His Officers Have Been Using Electro-Shock Gloves for Years

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Police Use Surveillance Cameras to Narc On Guy Who Found $30 on the Ground

By Frank Landymore

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Streamers Now Going Live With Grizzly Bears, Which Will Surely End Well and Not Like in “Grizzly Man”

Andrew Tate talks on the phone next to his brother Tristan Tate.

Jailed Tate Brothers Make Humiliating Confession About Their “Wealth” as They Face Extradition for Terrible Crimes

By Frank Landymore

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Freak Landslide Completely Swallows Entire Mountain Village

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Artificial Intelligence

Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Designer Creates World’s Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras

Bill Gates, Founder of Breakthrough Energy and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks onstage.

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI

By Frank Landymore

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Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI

By Victor Tangermann

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Police Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Them

By Victor Tangermann

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Huge Leak Shows Microsoft Salaries That’ll Make You Jump Out the Window

Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately

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