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Polymarket Quietly Takes Down Bet On Nuclear Detonation

By Frank Landymore
After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War

By Victor Tangermann
Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor

By Frank Landymore
Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He “Smells” a Similar Crash Coming

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Cryptocurrency

Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets

“It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death.”

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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

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…”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

“Orbital data centers are many years, perhaps decades, away.”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie, captured with a zoom blur effect that creates a dynamic, radiating motion around him.

Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

Beggars can’t be choosers.

A close-up of a Elon Musk's face in a red monochrome filter, resting his chin on his hand with a contemplative expression. Two white dice with black dots are floating near his face against a bright yellow background.

Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail

Here’s what happened.

The Feed

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RX and Medicine

Government Handing Out Cash Bonuses to Drug Researchers Who Rush Through Regulatory Approvals

A lead investor of the AI music app Suno appears to have undermined the company's legal defense in light of copyright infringement lawsuits.

Lead Investor in Music Generation App Suno Deletes Tweet That Contradicts Its Argument in High Stakes Court Cases

By Victor Tangermann

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Machine Learning

Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

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After Nixing Its Artemis 3 Moon Landing, NASA Is Starting to Seriously Lose the Moon Race to China

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is continuing his apology tour, conceding OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" its Department of Defense deal.

Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

A white autonomous Waymo Jaguar electric vehicle with roof-mounted sensors is in the foreground. Behind it is a blurred, orange-tinted ambulance against a beige background with a green grid pattern.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting

By Frank Landymore

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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

"Vibe hacking" has quickly turned into a cybersecurity nightmare, with hackers using AI tools to supercharge their attacks.

AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers

By Victor Tangermann

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Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”

By Frank Landymore

Thick, dark smoke billows over a cityscape with mid-rise buildings, set against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains and a partly cloudy sky.

US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes

At an event today, onlookers noticed a "significant rash-like injury" on the right side of president Donald Trump's neck.

White House Responds as Scabby Mark Appears on Trump’s Neck

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft banned the phrase "Microslop" on its over-one-year-old Discord server dedicated to Copilot. The backlash was severe.

Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has given us an astonishingly detailed peek inside the layers of Uranus' upper atmosphere.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

A four-wheeled delivery robot with a teal and gray body, equipped with lights and a yellow flag, is on a sidewalk near a pedestrian crossing button. A man wearing a brown jacket, gray shirt, and striped pants is walking nearby, carrying a black bag and a rolled-up mat. Cars are visible in the background on the street.

Former Delivery Drivers Are Getting Weird New Jobs as Delivery Robots Take Over

Biotech startup Cortical Labs claims to have taught living human brain cells how to play the seminal video game "Doom."

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

By Victor Tangermann

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