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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.
OpenAI

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.”

Users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis." Financial experts are increasingly concerned.
Finance

Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

“There is still more work that needs to be done.”

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.
OpenAI

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.

The Feed

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

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.
Anthropic

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

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

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

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

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

Object Spotted Near Earth May Be Ancient Spacecraft

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

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.
Astronomy

Mysterious Interstellar Visitor Reaches Perihelion Today

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

New Law Would Prevent Minors From Using AI Chatbots

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

Awe-Inspiring Airplane Footage Shows Inside Hurricane Melissa

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

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

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

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

Former OpenAI Insider Says It’s Failed Its Users

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

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"
Future Society

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

OpenAI completed its restructuring into a for-profit public benefit corporation, untangling billions of dollars of investment.
OpenAI

OpenAI Successfully Sheds Its Roots as an Ethical Non-Profit

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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

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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