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The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.
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AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

“The results haven’t lived up to the hype.”

By Victor Tangermann

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A newly released document links Elon Musk to alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his notorious island in the Caribbean.
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“Epstein is obviously a creep.”

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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The Feed

SAP chief finance officer Dominik Asam didn't mince words when asked what the end result of his company's AI usage would be.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.
Future Society

By Joe Wilkins

Space Force top boss Chance Saltzman says we need to accept that things aren't always going to be perfect, weapons of war included.
Space

By Joe Wilkins

Detail of a Steam Deck handheld gaming console, taken on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Dabe Alan/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Future Society

By Sharon Adarlo

Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.
Devices

By Joe Wilkins

AI bots sided with users who acted in a way that was "deemed inappropriate by crowdsourced human judgments, researchers found.
Future Society

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.
Drones

By Frank Landymore

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Hacking

By Joe Wilkins

Trump's anti-Tylenol expert received at least $150,000 as an expert witness during several lawsuits aimed at Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol.
Mental Health

By Victor Tangermann

The movie studio partnered with the firm Runway to make a movie generating AI trained on its catalog — and it's currently foundering.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make bioweapons?
Developments

By Frank Landymore

Engineers developed an EV battery ejection system that shoots the offending pack out of the side of the vehicle like a giant piece of toast.
Electric Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

The guy who's spearheading Meta's AI-powered smart glasses is named Rocco Basilico — which matches a internet theory called Roko's basilisk.
Metaverse

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A medical examiner has found that former high school football player Shane Tamura, who shot and killed four people, had CTE.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new study links private equity ownership to horrifying outcomes in hospital emergency rooms and ICUs compared to public facilities.
Medical

By Joe Wilkins

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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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