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Google Says Showing Polymarket Bets on Google News Was a Mistake

Interesting definition of “news.”

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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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

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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

“Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Morgan analysts are now warning that Tesla's share price could drop by a whopping 60 percent following disastrous sales numbers.

JP Morgan Concerned Tesla Stock Will Crash by 60 Percent in Face of Ongoing Business Failures

“We advise investors cautiously approach this expectation within the context of both execution risk and the time value of money.”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Secretly Shared His Number One Priority at Tesla and It Really Says It All

Intense workaholic, or deadbeat CEO?

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Man Caught Sleeping Behind the Wheel While FSD Tesla Cruises the Streets After Decadent Feast of Wine and Pizza

Talk about a joy ride.

The Feed

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There’s a Glaring Safety Problem With Nuclear Energy Startups

OpenAI is backing a bill that would shield companies from liability in case AI were to cause serious "critical harms," including mass death.

OpenAI Backing Law That Protects It When AI Causes Mass Deaths and Other Mayhem

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey found that 20 percent of workers are already seeing workplace tasks automated by AI, though many questions remain.

Research Finds That AI Has Already Replaced Work for 20 Percent of Jobs

OpenAI Staffers Horrified When Senior Leadership Hatched “Insane” Plan to Pit World Governments Against Each Other

By Frank Landymore

Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers, argued for legalizing insider trading.

Billionaire Says Insider Trading Should Be Fully Legalized

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Set New Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

Tech leaders remain adamant that the AI construction boom is about to take off, adding tens of gigawatts of compute any day now.

OpenAI’s Latest Thing It’s Bragging About Is Actually Kind of Sad

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey found that Gen Z workers are particularly invested in sabotaging their company's AI deployments.

Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won’t Take Their Job

Just under three and a half years after its watershed ChatGPT moment, OpenAI seems almost unrecognizable and struggling to find its footing.

Why Does It Suddenly Feel Like OpenAI Is Melting Down Into Disaster?

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is shown with a chainsaw and shaking hands with Argentinian president Javier Milei.

DOGE Made Drastic Cuts to a Global Vaccine Assistance Program. Now There’s a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Bangladesh

A viral video shows a parakeet trapped inside a DIY submarine made of a 3,000 PSI paintball air cylinder, oxygen, meter, and lead weights.

Man Creates Tiny Submarine for His Parakeet to Experience Life Underwater

By Victor Tangermann

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The Effects of AI-Generated Code Tearing Through Corporations Is Actually Kind of Funny

By Frank Landymore

A spacecraft labeled "IMPULSE" is shown in space alongside a satellite with four solar panel arrays arranged in an X shape. The satellite has a circular, dish-like structure in the center. In the background, a partially illuminated moon is visible against a star-filled black sky.

Trump Hires Orbital Towing Company to Build Space Interceptors

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Psychologists Found Something Horrible About the Kind of Men Seeking Trad Wives

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Man Punished for Breaking Into Moo Deng’s Zoo Enclosure

By Frank Landymore

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RX and Medicine

To Get Swole, Teens Are Pumping Themselves Full of Drugs Meant for Fattening Cows for the Slaughterhouse

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