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EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly

“It’s a problem when the dogs won’t eat the dog food.”

By Victor Tangermann

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New Law Would Prevent Minors From Using AI Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
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Awe-Inspiring Airplane Footage Shows Inside Hurricane Melissa

By Frank Landymore
Self-Driving Vehicles

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
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Former OpenAI Insider Says It’s Failed Its Users

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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

Starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services began receiving texts and emails baring the bad news.

After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History

In a new memo published on his blog, Bill Gates pushed back on a "doomsday view of climate change," arguing we should help the poor instead.

Bill Gates Says Climate Change Isn’t So Bad After All

By Victor Tangermann

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Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

Researchers found that OpenAI's browser, Atlas's omnibox, is extremely vulnerable to serious prompt injection attacks.

Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser

By Victor Tangermann

Diella will soon be sharing her "children" with government officials loyal to Edi Rama's party, the center-left Partia Socialiste.

World’s First AI Minister is “Pregnant” With 83 Offspring Government Announces

New research shows that several top AI models are actively ignoring explicit instructions to shut themselves down.

Research Paper Finds That Top AI Systems Are Developing a “Survival Drive”

By Frank Landymore

The figures may be our clearest insight yet into the scale of alarming episodes of "AI Psychosis" being caused by ChatGPT.

OpenAI Data Finds Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users Might Be Suffering Mental Health Crises

By Frank Landymore

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.

AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is calling on the government to break up OpenAI in an effort to stop the firm from wiping out jobs.

Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman has reportedly tapped a Caltech engineer known for researching ultrasound to read the brain to lead his Neuralink competitor.

Sam Altman Funding Biomedical Startup to Read Human Brain Using Sound Waves

By Frank Landymore

AI investor Matt Shumer posted AI-generated, first-person-shooter video game footage, claiming it's the future of video games.

We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game

By Victor Tangermann

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which visits the Earth roughly every 71 years, was spotted releasing intriguing radio signals last year.

Scientists Intrigued by Radio Signals Coming From Comet

By Victor Tangermann

Los Angeles-based startup Apex wants to launch "space-based interceptors" that can destroy missiles from orbit for the Space Force.

Robots and Machines

Startup Says It’s Launching a Test Weapon Into Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

Nike has shown off an intriguing new pair of shoes, dubbed Project Amplify, that it claims to be the "world’s first powered footwear system."

Nike’s New Sneaker Contains an Exoskeleton to Boost Your Leg Performance

By Victor Tangermann

Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro told NPR that he's not a fan of generative AI, saying he'd "rather die" than use it.

Guillermo del Toro on Using AI: “I’d Rather Die”

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence isn't just coming for human actors' jobs — even our furry companions are struggling to find work in Hollywood.

AI Is Even Putting Animal Actors Out of Work

By Victor Tangermann

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