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Giant AI-Generated Christmas Decoration Being Torn Down After Residents Noticed Grotesque Horrors Hidden in It

You’ll never guess why.

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientists Find Evidence That Humans Made Out With Non-Human Creatures

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Here’s an Interesting Theory About Why Kids’ Test Results Have Fallen to Their Lowest Point in Two Decades

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Bonkers NASA Mission Next Year Will Drop Rocket Out of Plane, Blast Off From There

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A Chilling Proportion of Teens Now Prefer Talking to AI Over a Real Person

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AI Psychosis

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

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

ChatGPT: “cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? that’s not fear. that’s clarity.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Musk Watch

Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas

Confronted with cameras, a worker raged that “you’re fake news.”

A person died in a Tesla vehicle in Arizona Tuesday after the vehicle crashed and burst into hot flames which required hazmat control.

Driver Dies After Tesla Crashes and Bursts into Flames

They needed a hazmat crew to put out the flames.

By Sharon Adarlo

A new analysis of AI-generated ripoff of Wikipedia, "Grokipedia," found that it cites the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront 42 times.

Elon Musk Is Not Beating the Allegations: Grokipedia Cites a Hardcore Nazi Website 42 Times

“The guardrails are off.”

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

Microsoft is hellbent on transforming Windows 11 into a "canvas for AI," and users aren't left feeling impressed.

Artificial Intelligence

Windows Users Furious at Microsoft’s Plan to Turn It Into an “Agentic OS”

By Frank Landymore

A video game executive has sparked a fierce debate surrounding the use of AI in the industry by claiming that "Gen Z loves AI slop."

Gaming Exec Says That “Gen Z Loves AI Slop”

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre cryptocurrency company is creating an alternative to the widely used opium reversal drug Naxalone, for inexplicable reasons.

RX and Medicine

Crypto Company Creates Bizarre Drug

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to the Origin of Life

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Mission Barns is using pig fat to grow pork in a bioreactor, a process with major implications for the meat industry.

New Startup Harvests Bacon Without Killing Pig

Researchers discovered a disturbing trend among people who learned about a topic with ChatGPT, instead of using a regular web search.

Artificial Intelligence

Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

It turns out that the mere presence of a guy dressed as Batman is enough to turn dead inside commuters into momentary altruists.

Scientists Discover That People Act Way Better When Batman Is Present

By Frank Landymore

Moss can survive several months exposed to the harsh environment of outer space, according to a new paper.

Scientists Intrigued by Moss Surviving on Exterior of Space Station

By Sharon Adarlo

according to Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, there's something off about the latest image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Scientist Identifies Something Strange About New Image of Mysterious Interstellar Visitor

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond Neptune.

Scientists Discover Weird Structure in Outer Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki says his game's longstanding issues with child predators are an opportunity for growth.

CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an “Opportunity”

financial holdings company JPMorgan asked 111 billionaire clients how they use AI. Their answers range from down-to-earth to absurd.

The Way Billionaires Are Using AI May Cause Concern They Have Actual Brain Damage

By Victor Tangermann

economist and author David McWilliams told Fortune that AI hardware investments are "digital lettuce" that are going to go "off."

Top Economist Warns That AI Data Center Investments Are “Digital Lettuce” That’s Already Starting to Wilt

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's space company SpaceX suffered a major setback on Friday morning when a next-generation Starship booster prototype exploded.

While Grok Calls Him a Genius, Elon’s New Rocket Explodes While Just Sitting There

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk sought to dispel suspicion that he manipulated his chatbot Grok to lavish him with praise by sharing a bizarre admission.

Elon Musk Clarifies That He Is a “Fat R*****”

By Frank Landymore

Bath & Body Works is pumping vanilla and fresh pine scent into the tunnels connecting the Grand Central Station subway in New York.

Corporation Pumping Soothing Gas Into New York Subway Station

By Victor Tangermann

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