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NASA Not Paying Moon Astronauts as They Prepare to Risk Their Lives

They’re putting their lives on the line — and not even getting paychecks for it.

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Blamed for Tens of Thousands of White Collar Layoffs

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Mom Says Tesla’s New Built-In AI Asked Her 12-Year-Old Something Deeply Inappropriate

By Frank Landymore
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This AI-Generated Sitcom Is Actually Unsettling to Watch

By Victor Tangermann
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Murdered Tech CEO Was Cruelly Bullying Employees Before His Death

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Woman Aghast as 14 Data Centers Move Next Door, Emits Terrible Stench

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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

Researchers studying stray dogs inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, spotted at least three dogs that had turned blue. They may know why.

Stray Dogs in Chernobyl Zone Turn Mildly Blue

By Victor Tangermann

Officers accused a Denver woman of stealing a $25 package after an AI camera flagged her car as being in the area.

Woman Baffled When Cops Accuse Her of Random Crime, Saying They Have Cameras Everywhere

A software developer from Iceland has successfully hacked a satellite's flight computer to run a port of the infamous 1993 shooter.

Hacker Gets “Doom” Running on Satellite in Outer Space

We heard you like the gig economy.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Woman Using Waymo Robotaxi to Deliver Doordash

Out of the 80 analysts covering Nvidia stock for Bloomberg's enterprise terminals, only one of them is saying "sell."

Wall Street Analyst Warns That Nvidia Is Facing Serious Trouble

Astronomer Avi Loeb outlines nine "anomalies" that he says support his hypothesis that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an alien artefact.

Nine Reasons This Scientist Is Suspicious the Object Screaming Past the Sun Is a City-Sized Alien Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is spending untold billions on infrastructure and top talent for its AI ambitions. Investors are rattled.

Meta Stock Plummets as Investors Horrified at How Much Zuckerberg Is Spending on Misfired AI

By Victor Tangermann

A beloved neighborhood cat in San Francisco allegedly lost its life in a hit-and-run accident after a driverless Waymo failed to stop.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Beloved Bodega Cat Reportedly Killed by Driverless Waymo

Days after announcing its conversion into a for-profit corporation, OpenAI is reportedly preparing for a mammoth initial public offering.

Immediately After Ditching Its Nonprofit Roots, OpenAI Is Already Preparing to Go Public

By Frank Landymore

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

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.

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

By Frank Landymore

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

By Frank Landymore

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

Object Spotted Near Earth May Be Ancient Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

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

Amazon Denies That AWS Just Went Down Again After Mass Layoffs

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