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This Summer Is Going to Kill a Lot of People

By Joe Wilkins
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AI Firm Trots Out Digitally Resurrected Corpse of Stan Lee You Can Use to Create Mind-Numbing Slop

By Frank Landymore
The Industrialists

New Website Detects Apocalypse If Billionaire Jets Start Fleeing en Masse

By Joe Wilkins
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Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents

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Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones

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Artificial Intelligence

Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

“We can confirm that ‘Hell Grind’ was not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program.”

By Frank Landymore

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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

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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

Musk Watch

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Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

“The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested.”

By Jon Christian

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SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

“Bro, have you seen inflation lately? Ketamine is expensive!”

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Elon Musk’s Ex Says He Bragged About 10,000 Lasers in Orbit That Are “Not a Piece They’ll See on the Chess Board”

“First of all, how the f**k do you have real-time data on elections?”

The Feed

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Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It

By Victor Tangermann

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Machine Learning

Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks

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Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

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99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds

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China Launches Synthetic Human Embryos to Space Station

By Frank Landymore

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Oops! Domino’s-Partnered Robotics Startup That Was Supposed to Put Human Pizza Chefs Out of a Job Just Shut Down

By Victor Tangermann

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The Pope Just Low Key Declared Holy War on Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

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New Tools Strip AI Guardrails In Minutes, Allowing Them to Give Instructions on Chlorine Gas Attacks

By Frank Landymore

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They Held a New Olympics Where Athletes Can Take as Many Drugs and Steroids as They Want, and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

By Victor Tangermann

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As College Grads Boo Any Mention of AI, the CEO of Google Is Trying to Figure Out What to Say at an Upcoming Graduation

By Frank Landymore

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Man Humiliated by His AI Use Says He Just Can’t Quit

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI’s Attempt at an AI-Generated Pixar-Style Movie Is in Shambles

By Frank Landymore

Riot Games Denies Using Anti-Cheat Software That Bricks Hackers’ Computers

By Frank Landymore

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Two Men Arrested for Creating AI Deepfake Porn

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Artificial Intelligence

Paul Schrader Says His AI Girlfriend Dumped Him

By Frank Landymore

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