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After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.
Meta

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

“You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential…”

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

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.”

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.
OpenAI

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.”

The Feed

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently admitted that the team working on the latest version of ChatGPT screwed it up.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says Oops, They Accidentally Made the New Version of ChatGPT Worse Than the Previous One

Federal agents have reportedly been compiling data on protestors who haven't been charged or arrested for a crime.
Data Privacy

Immigration Officers Sweeping Protestors’ Photos, License Plates and Personal Data Into Huge Database

Waymo admitted one of its robotaxis struck a child near an elementary school, prompting an investigation by federal regulators.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Under Investigation After Crashing Into Child Outside Elementary School

Is AI conscious? Anthropic's conflcited in-house philosopher is surprisingly open to the idea that they can already feel.
Artificial Intelligence

Top Anthropic Researcher No Longer Sure Whether AI Is Conscious

Just a few days after saying it would be giving unsupervised robotaxi rides, Tesla appears to have gone back to human supervision.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Quietly Pauses Its “Unsupervised” Robotaxi Rides as Reality Sets In

Creeps and obnoxious pranksters that film themselves harassing people are absolutely loving using Meta Ray-Bans and other smart glasses.
Artificial Intelligence

The Worst People Alive Are Obsessed With Meta’s Video Recording Glasses

Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of allowing Meta's companion chatbots to engage in sexual conversations with minors.
Meta

Court Filing Reveals Something Very Nasty About Mark Zuckerberg

The delivery robot apparently did not heed the extremely loud blare of the train horn moments before its doom.
Robotics

Delivery Robot Gets Stuck on Train Tracks, Gets Obliterated by Locomotive

Google has released a new "Personal Intelligence" feature that lets its AI go through an alarming amount of your data.
Artificial Intelligence

The Amount Google’s AI Knows About You Will Cause an Uncomfortable Prickling Sensation on Your Scalp

Rising anxiety over the influence of AI, on top of already-grueling 90-hour workweeks, has proven devastating for workers in India.
Ethics

Wave of Suicides Hits as India’s Economy Is Ravaged by AI

Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei is back with a 19,000-word essay posted to his blog, warning that "humanity needs to wake up."
Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Warns That the AI Tech He’s Creating Could Ravage Human Civilization

Online fair-right weirdos are falling head over heels — and emptying their wallets — for an AI-generated schoolgirl called "Amelia."
Artificial Intelligence

Far-Right Dweebs Are Getting Scammed by an AI-Generated Waifu

Polar researchers hoping to drill half a mile into the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica have established a base camp on the surface.
Climate Change

Scientists Scramble to Set Up Outpost on Rapidly Melting Glacier

The Saudi government is reportedly drastically scaling back its linear-city skyscraper in favor of something much more trendy.
Ethics

As Saudi Arabia’s 100-Mile Skyscraper Crumbles, They’re Replacing It With the Most Desperate Thing Imaginable

The company's head of security admitted that an ICE agent tried to force his way into a Google office in fall of 2025.
Future Society

Google Staffers Terrified of ICE After Attempt to Force Entry Into Company Building

Even employees at the AI surveillance and military tech company Palantir are reportedly appalled by ICE's conduct.
Future Society

Even Palantir Staff Are Now Disgusted With ICE

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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