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AI Overlords

It's clearer than ever than OpenAI doesn't have anything close to a handle on its disastrous copyright situation.

It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on ChatGPT

This is embarrassing.

By Frank Landymore

The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses.

Police Issue Warning About “AI Homeless Man” Prank

“We want to be clear: this behavior is not a ‘prank’ — it is a crime.”

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.

As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

“Let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI.”

By Frank Landymore

Musk Watch

Tesla fans are trying to defend their Cybertrucks, but it's just making them sound sad, strange, and lonely.

Divorced Tesla Fan Admits That His Cybertruck Is Repulsive to Women

“I was married, but I’m not married anymore.”

By Frank Landymore

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

Audio of Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

“It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The consequences to his neighbors will be devastating, but it's a small price to pay if it means making a tech billionaire happy.

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

“They think this area is a sacrifice zone and that people here don’t matter.”

The Feed

Ads are no longer merely interrupting games; they're delaying live broadcasts that consumers pay to watch.

Live Sports Are No Longer Live Thanks to Extremely Long Ads

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.

Scientists Invent Room Temperature Ice

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI announced that it was working with the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to put an end to his likeness appearing in Sora videos.

OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank says "European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May," suggesting its struggling to recruit new subscribers.

ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends his flip-flopping on erotica by saying the company is not the "moral police."

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut

The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has released its latest report on global greenhouse gas emissions, and it's bleak.

The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand

By Victor Tangermann

Some popular protein supplements had well over a thousand percent of a safe daily limit for daily lead exposure.

Neuroscience and Brain

Popular Meal Replacement Drink Contains So Much Lead That Doctors Are Aghast

By Frank Landymore

NASA is gutting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- the storied research center that oversees all the agency's Mars rovers.

NASA Guts Workforce at Lab Responsible for Mars Rovers

A new way of delivering vaccines using nanoparticles could prevent or slow down a number of different cancers in mice.

Doctors Intrigued by Shot That Prevents Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.

If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora 2, it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities.

People Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Mock the Dead

By Victor Tangermann

Major talent agencies told the Hollywood Reporter that OpenAI had been "purposely misleading" them in behind-the-scenes communications.

It Sounds Like OpenAI Really, Really Messed Up With Hollywood

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's GPT-5 model is giving more dangerous responses than its predecessor GPT-4o, new research has found.

Study Finds GPT-5 Is Actually Worse Than GPT-4o, New Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

Much of the rest of the world is growing deeply concerned about AI as well, a new Pew Research Center poll has shown.

International Polling Shows Fear of AI Across the World

By Victor Tangermann

Halloween came early this year for a man in the UK who landed in hot water after trying to collect "every element on the periodic table."

Police Arrest Mad Scientist

Konstantin Ganich was found dead in his Lamborghini after the crypto crash, but some say there's more to this story than meets the eye.

Crypto Kingpin Turns Up Dead in Lamborghini After Market Crash

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