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NASA Not Paying Moon Astronauts as They Prepare to Risk Their Lives

They’re putting their lives on the line — and not even getting paychecks for it.

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Racist Influencers Using OpenAI’s Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

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Stray Dogs in Chernobyl Zone Turn Mildly Blue

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Woman Baffled When Cops Accuse Her of Random Crime, Saying They Have Cameras Everywhere

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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

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

Elon Musk's Grokipedia appears to be heavily relying on Wikipedia, copying many pages almost word for word.

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia

“Even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist.”

By Victor Tangermann

During Wednesday's Tesla earnings call, CEO Elon Musk made some strangely suspicious remarks about securing control over his "robot army."

Elon Musk Makes Suspicious Remarks About His Robot Army

“I don’t feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.”

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Days after announcing its conversion into a for-profit corporation, OpenAI is reportedly preparing for a mammoth initial public offering.

Immediately After Ditching Its Nonprofit Roots, OpenAI Is Already Preparing to Go Public

By Frank Landymore

Federal immigration officers are busting out their phones to scan people's faces and confirm their residency.

ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People’s Faces to Check If They’re Citizens

A new benchmark shows that AI agents are embarrassingly terrible at doing remote work tasks -- which is bad news for the AI economy.

A New Paper Tested AI’s Ability to Do Actual Online Freelance Work, and the Results Are Damning

By Frank Landymore

Americans are getting slimmer; Gallup says the obesity rate has decreased along with increased use of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic.

RX and Medicine

American Obesity Rates Are Now Falling, and It’s Almost Certainly Because of Ozempic

By Sharon Adarlo

Amazon is accused of controlling workers through a surveillance dragnet, while skirting responsibility for their wellbeing.

Amazon Tells Driver to Keep Delivering Packages Amid Raging Wildfire

New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that a quasi-satellite may be the "relic of an interplanetary mission by humanity from the 1960s."

Object Spotted Near Earth May Be Ancient Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier today, another AWS outage in tandem with a major Microsoft Azure blackout was reported by users across the globe.

Amazon Denies That AWS Just Went Down Again After Mass Layoffs

According to astronomer Avi Loeb, it's the perfect day to test whether interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is the remnant of an alien civilization.

Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Reaches Perihelion Today

By Victor Tangermann

A bipartisan bill wants to keep kids under 18 away from AI companion bots, seeking penalties for AI companies that don't comply.

New Law Would Prevent Minors From Using AI Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As Hurricane Melissa made landfall, a daring team of aviators flew straight into the eye of the monstrous Category 5 storm.

Awe-Inspiring Airplane Footage Shows Inside Hurricane Melissa

By Frank Landymore

Waymo CEO thinks it's matter of time when a Waymo driverless autonomous robotaxi accidentally kills somebody in a fatal crash.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo CEO Says Society Is Ready for One of Its Cars to Kill Someone

By Sharon Adarlo

Chatbot maker Character.AI, accused of driving teens to suicide, says it will move to largely ban minors from talking with its chatbots.

Character.AI, Accused of Driving Teens to Suicide, Says It Will Ban Minors From Using Its Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler argued that OpenAI isn't doing enough to mitigate users' severe mental health issues.

Former OpenAI Insider Says It’s Failed Its Users

By Victor Tangermann

A recent survey uncovered several mysterious objects in the night sky, photographed before the first satellite ever made it to space.

Scientists Find Strange Lights in the Sky in Photographs Before First Satellites Were Launched, Clustered Around When Nuclear Weapons Were Tested

The company charged him with eight separate offenses, including copyright infringement and "defamation by implication"

Lock Company Sues Man Who Picked Its Lock, Gets Horribly Humiliated

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