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Workplaces Have Gotten So Bizarre That People Are Just Sending AI Slop Back and Forth at Each Other

By Frank Landymore
Mental Health

The Hectic Modern World Is Shredding Your Little Cave Man Brain, Scientists Confirm

By Frank Landymore
Artificial Intelligence

AI “Actor” Will “Star” In a New “Movie”

By Frank Landymore
Meta

Zuckerberg Admits That AI Is Not Working Out the Way He Imagined

By Victor Tangermann
Self-Driving Vehicles

Drivers Trapped for Hours in Hopeless Gridlock as Waymos Brick on Major Holiday

By Joe Wilkins

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There’s an Urgent Sign of an Impending Market Collapse

The numbers are bad.

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AI Psychosis

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Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

“The timeline you’re leaving behind? It won’t miss you — because it’s not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis

“Unlike historical technology-incorporated delusions, AI may actively co-construct delusional ideation through endless, personalized interaction.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

Good luck fighting those charges.

By Victor Tangermann

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SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day

Shares are still swinging wildly after the IPO.

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly

He’s back to name-calling his critics.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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Bryan Johnson Spent Tens of Millions Trying Not to Die, Gets Diagnosed With Incurable Disease

By Frank Landymore

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Experts Say Mysterious Metallic Orbs Appear to Have Fallen From the Sky

By Victor Tangermann

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Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power

By Frank Landymore

A person wearing an orange short-sleeve shirt is receiving an injection in the upper arm. A healthcare professional wearing white gloves is holding a syringe with one hand and a cotton ball on the injection site with the other hand. The background is blurred with a green circular grid pattern behind the arm.

Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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You’ll Never Guess Why Government Officials Are Sinking a Four-Story Riverboat Casino Into the Abyss

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Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall

By Frank Landymore

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El Niño Already Killing Thousands in Europe

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Data Center Emits Constant Screeching Noise Directly Into Man’s House

By Frank Landymore

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Startup Exec Boasts About Using AI to Churn Out Sports Content”Without Human Input”

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Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

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Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns

Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe, Killing One

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College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content

By Frank Landymore

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Taxi Company Annoyed by the Naughty Thing Passengers Keep Doing in Its Cabs

By Frank Landymore

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US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country

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