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“We expect to prove to a jury that OpenAI’s decisions to degrade the safety of its products were made with full knowledge that they would lead to innocent deaths.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

“My family is being ripped apart, and I firmly believe this phenomenon is central to why.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis." Financial experts are increasingly concerned.

Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

“There is still more work that needs to be done.”

By Victor Tangermann

A young Irish dad believed ChatGPT when it told him his severe sore throat wasn't cause for concern — until his stage-four cancer diagnosis.

ChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying

If you ever needed more reason to distrust AI medical advice, here’s a big one.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Musk Watch

Not one to sit out a feud, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk didn't take lightly to interim NASA head Sean Duffy saying the firm is behind schedule.

Elon Musk Accuses Head of NASA of Being “Gay”

“Sean Dummy is trying to kill NASA!”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk first teased then proclaimed that Grok will achieve AGI, and an OpenAI researcher wasn't having it.

OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face

Pot calling the kettle black, much?

By Frank Landymore

NASA is getting ready to ditch SpaceX for its first attempt to deliver astronauts to the Moon's surface in over half a century due to delays.

NASA May Ditch SpaceX for Moon Landing Because It’s So Behind

“They’re behind schedule.”

By Victor Tangermann

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China's Chang'e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon, discovered extremely rare water-rich minerals.CN

China Found Something Fascinating on the Far Side of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese rocket booster tumbled back down to Earth and exploded in a massive orange fireball as it impacted the ground.

Chinese Rocket Falls to Earth, Explodes in Epic Fireball

The SD card survived the implosion of the OceanGate submersible which went missing while diving to the Titanic shipwreck.

Advanced Transport

Titanic Sub Investigators Find Camera With Intact SD Card Amid Crumpled Wreckage

By Frank Landymore

AI safety analyst Steven Adler began to doubt his own expertise after reading a lengthy conversation a man had with ChatGPT.

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown

A huge and ideologically diverse cohort of public figures have signed a letter calling for a "prohibition" on building AI superintelligence.

Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A major AWS outage threw the cryptocurrency community into chaos on Monday, taking down everybody's Bored Apes NFTs.

Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody’s Bored Apes

By Victor Tangermann

A quick search on social media reveals that AI slop continues to find its way into Spotify users' Discover Weekly personalized playlists.

AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI coined a new, cringe-inducing term during its announcement of its new browser, Atlas: "life vibing."

OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing”

By Victor Tangermann

The world's leading Non-government organizations are weaponizing AI to produce heavily racialized misery porn.

Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

Third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia found that ChatGPT mobile app growth and time spent on the app slowed down significantly.

ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds

By Victor Tangermann

And watch out, because the company plans to produce 3,000 new AI-generated podcast episodes every single week.

Artificial Intelligence

Company Churning Out AI Podcasts Filled With Bizarre Glitches They Didn’t Even Catch

By Frank Landymore

Some of SpaceX's classified military satellites are emitting a "mysterious signal" that could be violating international standards.

SpaceX’s Classified Military Satellites Emitting “Mysterious Signal”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists simulated the conditions of Mars in a lab to observe how blocks of carbon dioxide "dug" their way through the planet's dunes.

Scientists Investigate Evidence of “Burrowing” Under Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI, claimed that ChatGPT had found the answers to "previously unsolved" math problems.

OpenAI Researcher Forced to Delete “Embarrassing” Tweet Claiming Huge Breakthrough

By Frank Landymore

For just a couple dollars, Endless Summer will generate images in your likeness of a fantasy vacation that never has to end.

Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford

Apps and platforms relying on AWS were in a jam after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world's internet.

Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”

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