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Earth’s Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems

By Frank Landymore
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Scientists Horrified as Huge Heatwave Hits Antarctica

By Joe Wilkins
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Consulting Firm’s Report on How Awesome AI Is Found to Contain Idiotic AI Hallucinations

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OpenAI Execs Are Panicking

They’re getting desperate.

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?

One event seems to have kicked off a wave of AI psychosis: memory that persists across chat sessions, letting the bot weave tapestries of delusions about users’ lives.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

Musk Watch

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Tesla’s Robotaxis Are a Complete Disaster

Broken promises, shoddy service, and a comically tiny fleet.

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell celebrates with family and other SpaceX employees at the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square during the launch of the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq.

SpaceX’s IPO Shows That We Aren’t Even Close to Peak AI Bubble

We’re soaring to even loftier heights.

By Victor Tangermann

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The More Data We See About SpaceX’s IPO, the More We’re Wincing

Investors could easily get fleeced.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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Autonomous Robots Confirmed to Have Killed Human Soldiers

Visa Officially Allowing AI Agents to Go Ham With Your Credit Card

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Concerned Latest Gene Editing of Human Embryos Could “Open the Floodgates”

By Victor Tangermann

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The El Niño Situation Is Looking Absolutely Brutal

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Doctors Inject Human Subjects With First Vaccine Designed by AI

By Frank Landymore

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Andreessen Horowitz Partner Quit Firm, Horrified by What His Old Colleagues Are Doing to Humankind

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Fish Already Cooking Alive Across the US Ahead of Blistering Summer Heat

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Eighty Residents Sue SpaceX, Saying Elon Musk’s Constant Rocket Launches Are Literally Destroying Their Homes

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Prime Minister of the UK Vows to Unleash AI Tutors on 450,000 Poor Children

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Bro Convinced He Can Vibe Code GTA 6 Before the Real One Comes Out

By Frank Landymore

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Nike’s AI-Inspired World Cup Jerseys Are So Messed Up That They’re Turning Into a Scandal

By Victor Tangermann

An inflatable statue with the likeness of Elon Musk in Times Square ahead of SpaceX's initial public offering.

Extremely Unflattering Statue of Elon Musk Appears in Times Square, Complete With Horrifying Slogan

By Victor Tangermann

Construction continues on the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) "Claw" and the octagon fighting ring on the South Lawn of the White House.

Temperatures Soaring So High That Trump’s UFC Fighters May Just Collapse in the Heat

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Bill Gates Offers Bizarre Excuse About Epstein

By Victor Tangermann

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Advanced Transport

Teardown of Trump Phone Reveals Incredibly Embarrassing Secret

By Victor Tangermann

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These Logs of ChatGPT Allegedly Driving a Suicidal Woman to Her Death Are Deeply Disturbing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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