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Man Gets Clean Bill of Health From Super-Expensive MRI Scan, Then Gets Horrible News

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Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails

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Something Wild Happens to ChatGPT’s Responses When You’re Cruel To It

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The Workers Building Labubus Are Allegedly Being Horribly Exploited

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Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse

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AI Psychosis

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

“This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Musk Watch

A new survey shows that pretty much everyone hates the idea of Elon Musk's Grok generating nudes of real adults and minors.

Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

Good.

By Frank Landymore

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

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.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

Cowardly.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

A journalism professor spent a month logging seven chatbots for their newsworthiness, with horrendous results.

If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain

Startup GRU (Galactic Resource Utilization) Space has opened reservations for people who want to stay in the first hotel on the Moon.

Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations

By Sharon Adarlo

Some scientists are coming out against the studies that claimed to have found alarming amounts of microplastics in human bodies.

Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error

By Frank Landymore

In the final days of the Biden administration, government officials spent millions to buy a device thought to cause the mystery illness.

Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome

Beyond performing preprogrammed martial arts and dance moves, we can't shake the feeling that robots as they exist today just kind of suck.

Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.

Astronauts’ Brains Are Being Displaced

By Victor Tangermann

The hottest paid app in China is an interactive timer meant to inform loved ones of a single user's lonesome death.

Hot New App Makes Single People Check in Constantly in Case They Die Alone

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey filed eight trademark applications that featured videos and audio clips of him to thwart AI.

Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is gutting its employee library and cutting subscriptions in favor of what it's describing as an "AI-powered learning experience."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI

By Frank Landymore

AI data centers are using up so much energy that grid operator PJM may be forced to enact rolling blackouts on its customers.

AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

By Sharon Adarlo

Washington State University professor of medicine Bruce Davidson says Trump appears to have suffered a stroke.

Neuroscience and Brain

Doctor Says Trump Appears to Be Showing Signs of a Stroke

A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was detained after ripping AI "artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest."

Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

By Victor Tangermann

A highly controversial study funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services on infants in West Africa has been halted.

Trump Administration Says It’s Not Canceling Tuskegee-Style Medical Study That Will Withhold Hepatitis Vaccine From Newborns

For over two decades, millions volunteered their computers to help UC Berkeley scientists in their search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

By Victor Tangermann

In an appearance on the Katie Miller Podcast, the health secretary said he's astonished that Trump is even alive.

RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet

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