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Leaked Plan From Trump’s Potential NASA Head Outlines Sweeping “Project Athena” to Remake Space Agency

There’s a storm brewing at NASA.

By Victor Tangermann

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Professors Aghast as Class Caught Cheating “Sincerely” Apologizes in the Worst Possible Way

By Frank Landymore
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Newsmax Gets Fooled by AI Video, Broadcasts Entire Segment as If It Was Real

By Frank Landymore
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The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops

By Victor Tangermann
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Coke’s New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage

By Frank Landymore
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Amazon Demands That AI Browser Stop Automatically Shopping on Behalf of Users

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AI Psychosis

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

Elon Musk's brilliant plan for saving us from climate change involves a little help from a swarm of friendly AI satellites.

Elon Musk Announces Plan to Control Climate by Surrounding Earth in Adjustable Satellites

Just the man for the job, right?

By Frank Landymore

Every day, dozens of human "data collectors" repeat each activity hundreds of times to train Tesla's Optimus robots.

Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots

Everything from wiping a table… to twerking.

By Frank Landymore

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated version of Wikipedia, has a lot of questionably glowing things to say about the Cybertruck.

Grokipedia’s Article on the Cybertruck Clearly Shows Why the Whole Project Is Doomed

As absurd as you’d expect.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

A NASA union claims there's been a total collapse in the information chain connecting the space agency to the US government.

NASA Staff Slam Leadership for “Complete Breakdown in Communication” Under Trump

The embattled chatbot company Character.AI is banning minors from its platform. Unsurprisingly, the site's users have a lot of thoughts.

Character.AI Users in Full Meltdown After Minors Banned From Chats

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

During a recent interview with OpenAI investor Brad Gerstner, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lost his cool when asked about the company's tiny revenue.

Sam Altman Loses His Cool When Asked About OpenAI’s Minuscule Revenue

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose company facilitated a multibillion-dollar deal involving the Trump family.

Trump Can’t Explain Why He Pardoned Crypto CEO Who Did Huge Financial Favors for Him

By Victor Tangermann

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy threatened to ground all commercial flights in the United States amid a prolonged government shutdown.

Head of NASA Threatens to Ground Every Single Commercial Flight Before Thanksgiving

By Victor Tangermann

A group representing Studio Ghibli and other major Japanese publishers is drawing a line in the sand against OpenAI's copyright abuses.

Studio Ghibli Demands That OpenAI Stop Ripping Off Its Work

By Frank Landymore

Fox News ran a story treating AI-generated ragebait as if it were real, in order to stir up anger against SNAP recipients.

Fox News Falls for AI-Generated Footage of Poor People Raging About Food Stamps Being Shut Down, Runs False Story That Has to Be Updated With Huge Correction

OpenAI's Atlas browser's agent mode completely avoided publications that filed lawsuits against OpenAI, highlighting a fraught relationship.

OpenAI’s Browser Avoids Large Part of the Web Like the Plague

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists were surprised to note that 3I/ATLAS brightened much faster than they anticipated during its perihelion last week.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Unexpectedly Started Brightening, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Nearly 6,200 Tesla Cybertrucks are being recalled because of the shoddily attached lightbar for off-roading.

Tesla’s “Apocalypse-Proof” Cybertruck Gets Recalled for the 10th Time Because Its Lightbars Are Falling Off

By Frank Landymore

It's becoming shockingly commonplace to spot real estate listings with glaringly AI-generated images that apply a thick coat of paint.

Landlords Are Using AI to Make Photos of Nasty Apartments Look Clean and Modern

By Victor Tangermann

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency lost contact with a probe orbiting Venus last year and officially calls it quits on the mission.

The Last Spacecraft Orbiting Venus Has Officially Died

A company recently agreed to purchase up to ten thousand liters of lunar helium-3 extracted from the Moon.

Mining Company Says It’s Identified Hugely Valuable Material on Surface of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

At least one AI artist has charted on Billboard in each of the past four weeks, a "streak suggesting this trend is quickly accelerating."

Billboard Says at Least One AI-Generated “Artist” Is Charting Every Week Now

By Victor Tangermann

A recent filing from Microsoft gives us a preview of how much money OpenAI lost last quarter — and it's huge.

The Amount of Money OpenAI Lost Last Quarter Will Make You Choke on Your Slurpee

By Frank Landymore

Columbia researchers say we haven't even begun to explore the possible consequences of stratospheric aerosol injections.

Scientists Warn Against Trying to Dim the Sun to Cool the Planet

By Victor Tangermann

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