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A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.
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Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

Spotify promised to fix AI slop drowning out real music less than a day ago.

By Victor Tangermann

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A robotics technician is suing Tesla, alleging he was struck and knocked unconscious by a robotic arm at the company's Fremont plant.
Elon Musk

He’s suing the company for $51 million.

By Victor Tangermann

A multibillion-dollar contract between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is under scrutiny as experts warn China could beat the US to the Moon.
Starship

Is SpaceX squandering America’s lead in space?

By Victor Tangermann

After less than a year a the company, a recent high school graduate is now in charge of vetting the training data for Elon Musk's Grok.
Elon Musk

Meritocracy at its finest.

By Frank Landymore

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Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers or 30 percent of its workforce in a pivot to AI, after the CEO told workers to use AI.
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A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
Robot Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese EV maker BYD's YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar has absolutely obliterated the top speed record for a production car.
Electric Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian satellite came back to Earth while carrying organisms, as part of a mission to test the theory that life was seeded from space.
Exobiology

By Sharon Adarlo

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.
Future Society

By Joe Wilkins

An analysis from the Financial Times makes a damning case of mindless AI band-wagoning among the US's top companies.
Future Society

By Frank Landymore

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that almost half of the most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving.
Ethics

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.
Anthropic

By Victor Tangermann

Christians on TikTok are scrambling for explanations after some predicted that the Rapture would happen yesterday.
Future Society

By Sharon Adarlo

The CEO of a company that's pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much.
Ethics

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview, Julie Zhuo explained that AI companies putting the pedal to the metal can't even see over the steering wheel.
Investing

By Joe Wilkins

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is making drastic changes following severe budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
James Webb Space Telescope

By Victor Tangermann

The extensive network could've taken down New York City's cellular network and disrupted emergency communications.
Future Society

By Frank Landymore

NASA revealed that its Artemis 2 mission to the Moon could launch as soon as February 5, roughly two months earlier than anticipated.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

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

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