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Scientists Say They’ve Tested a Way to Get to Alpha Centauri in Just 20 Years

By Victor Tangermann
Investing

Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts

By Frank Landymore
Ethics

Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years

By Frank Landymore
Pollution

Just 11 AI Data Centers Could Belch More Fumes Than Entire Countries

By Frank Landymore
Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Netflix Competitor Opens Floodgates to AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

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xAI

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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AI Psychosis

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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

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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

Musk Watch

During Wednesday's earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated that millions of Tesla cars on the road can't drive themselves.

Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers’ Faces for Years About Self-Driving

It was really expensive snake oil after all.

By Victor Tangermann

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SpaceX’s IPO Plan Will Give Elon Musk Ironclad Rule Over the Resulting Empire

With great power, etc.

Considering Musk has yet to make good on his promise of fully autonomous driving, it's no wonder existing owners are starting to get fed up.

Tesla Drivers Losing Patience at Elon Musk’s Eternal Excuses

They’re fed up.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

As costs continue to ramp up, the AI industry's enterprise customers could soon be left holding the bag due to higher prices.

The Horrible Economics of AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With AI

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was

By Frank Landymore

A former MrBeast executive filed a lawsuit against her former employer, alleging sexual harassment and workplace gender bias.

New Lawsuit Is Not Looking Good for MrBeast

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Huge AI Data Center Project Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes

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You’ll Spill Your Juice When You Learn How Many of Florida’s Orange Trees This Incurable Bacteria Has Already Infected

The FBI announced it's "spearheading the effort to look for connections" among at least ten scientists who died or disappeared.

FBI Investigating Series of Deaths Among Top Scientists With Very Specific Specialties

By Victor Tangermann

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ChatGPT’s Tool for Ordering Starbucks Is So Staggeringly Bad That It’s Breaking Containment

By Frank Landymore

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Astronomers Create Entire Synthetic Universe “Indistinguishable” From Our Own

By Frank Landymore

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Rogue Group Gains Access to Anthropic’s Dangerous New Mythos AI

By Frank Landymore

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Facial recognition

Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time

Even SpaceX itself isn't fully sold on orbital data centers, an idea its mercurial CEO is pushing hard and prioritizing over everything else.

SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea

By Victor Tangermann

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Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said developers' productivity is going through the roof — while being overseen by a nagging, micromanaging AI boss.

Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You

By Victor Tangermann

Florida is opening a criminal probe into ChatGPT maker OpenAI for its alleged role in a deadly mass shooting at Florida State University.

Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into ChatGPT’s Role in School Shooting

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy

By Frank Landymore

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