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

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

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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

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

New Law Would Prevent Minors From Using AI Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Awe-Inspiring Airplane Footage Shows Inside Hurricane Melissa

By Frank Landymore

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Former OpenAI Insider Says It’s Failed Its Users

By Victor Tangermann

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

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"

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 Successfully Sheds Its Roots as an Ethical Non-Profit

By Frank Landymore

A truck that was transporting research monkeys crashed. Police say they carried dangerous diseases, claims that have since been refuted.

University Denies Monkeys That Escaped in Truck Crash Were Infected With Horrific Diseases

By Victor Tangermann

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

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