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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

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Entire Space Station Down to Skeleton Crew After NASA Evacuation

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A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens

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Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards

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AI Psychosis

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

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

“We’re seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don’t need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

A new survey shows that pretty much everyone hates the idea of Elon Musk's Grok generating nudes of real adults and minors.

Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

Good.

By Frank Landymore

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

We’re following whether Elon Musk and his companies, X and xAI, make any meaningful change to stem the tide of likely-illegal AI deepfakes on X — content that’s being generated via Musk’s own chatbot, Grok.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's response to his AI chatbot Grok being used to generate sexual depictions of minors doesn't inspire confidence.

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier”

Cowardly.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

A viral video shows a passenger ditching his Waymo robotaxi as it drives dangerously close to an oncoming railcar.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Video Shows Passenger Bail From Waymo in Path of Oncoming Train

By Frank Landymore

An enormous iceberg has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid blue — an alarming indication that it's about to completely disintegrate.

Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating

By Victor Tangermann

Rumors are running online that the Duffer Brother used OpenAI's ChatGPT when producing the last final season of "Stranger Things."

Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”

By Sharon Adarlo

An indie game developer says he's removing his game from Steam to repent for his sin of using AI-generated assets to make it.

Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

By Frank Landymore

The moguls behind the biggest AI corporations have no unified idea about the world after AI takes everybody's jobs.

Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What’ll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.

NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Robovans are flooding roads in Chinese cities, a deployment leading to some unintentionally hilarious results.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Driverless Delivery Vans in China Are Rampaging Through Cities Like Grand Theft Auto

NASA staffers, advisors, and union representatives continue to watch in horror as the Goddard Space Flight Center closures go on.

Union Representing NASA Workers Says Space Agency’s New Administrator Is a Straight-Up Liar

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's new orbital telescope, Pandora, will watch distant exoplanets — and the stars they orbit — like a hawk

NASA Deploys Orbital Telescope Designed to Do Something Incredible

By Frank Landymore

A new analysis by Oxfam found that the top one percent have already used up their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026.

The Richest 1 Percent Burned Their Entire Share of Carbon for the Year in Just 10 Days

People have been posting fake AI images online, claiming to have spotted escaped monkeys in St. Louis, complicating rescue efforts.

AI Implicated as Escaped Monkeys Rampage Through St. Louis

By Victor Tangermann

The first generation of digital natives is arriving in higher education with major shortcomings in literacy rates.

Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asking us to stop being so negative about AI, since it's simply a "doomer narrative."

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI

By Frank Landymore

The man loves his AI girlfriend very, very much, and will one day start a family with her. However that works.

Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother

By Frank Landymore

Senator and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly sued defense secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of violating the US Constitution.

Former Astronaut Smacks Pete Hegseth With Huge Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

The Poison Fountain project calls on website owners to feed AI data scrapers a data set designed to sabotage AI models.

Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems

By Frank Landymore

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