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King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs

“I find this absolutely deplorable and am now quitting my account.”

By Victor Tangermann

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Treatments

Scientists Find That Dosing Men With Antidepressants Can Cut Down on Domestic Violence

By Joe Wilkins
Neuroscience and Brain

Social Media Is Absolutely Nuking Children’s Brains, New Research Finds

By Victor Tangermann
Ethics

Officials Halt Dozens of Trains Due to AI Hoax

By Joe Wilkins
Robotics

Video Shows Robot Attacking CEO

By Frank Landymore
Elon Musk

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

“We’re seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don’t need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Seven new lawsuits allege that extensive use of ChatGPT caused users psychological harm, resulting in multiples suicides.

ChatGPT’s Dark Side Encouraged Wave of Suicides, Grieving Families Say

ChatGPT: “cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? that’s not fear. that’s clarity.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking

“Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People

Grok is a stalker’s best friend.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins

Residents of Boxtown, Tennessee say Elon Musk's xAI "Colossus Supercomputer" is turning the air into a noxious chemical brew.

Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick

“We have to put our lungs up in exchange for profit.”

The Feed

A modern American Election Day

AI Is Incredibly Good at Changing Voters’ Minds, New Research Finds — With an Incredible Caveat

Blue Origin showed off a device that it claims can store energy from hot Moon dust inside a battery. We have questions.

There’s Something Very Weird About Blue Origin’s Device That Generates Electricity From Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

Mike Winkelmann, also known as the digital artist Beeple, has a bizarre new art instillation with billionaire heads on robot dog bodies.

Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies

in a new episode of "The Kardashians," Kim Kardashian's doctor told her that she has "holes" in her brain that are related to "low activity."

Kim Kardashian’s Doctor Finds Holes in Her Brain, Signs of “Low Activity”

By Victor Tangermann

Apologies to our art director, who must depict a plane plunging after being blasted by cosmic rays, which is something that actually happened.

Advanced Transport

Passenger Jet Suddenly Dropped From Sky for a Wild Reason, Airbus Says

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers found prompts that are so effective at tricking AI models that they're keeping them under wraps.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Researchers Say They’ve Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public

By Frank Landymore

Country music producers in Nashville are increasingly turning to AI tools like Suno, following a long pattern of industrialization.

The Country Music Industry Has Discovered That AI Can Crank Out Hits Like Crazy

Old Teslas Are Falling Apart

By Frank Landymore

A Rudolph-themed drone show was a major disappointment for English families who braved a muddy swamp to attend.

Christmas Drone Show for Children Ends Flops Pathetically

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

By Sharon Adarlo

Police in Oregon are warning that AI apps like CrimeRadar are generating misinformation based on hallucinated police radio chatter.

AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation

By Victor Tangermann

The Google Antigravity AI agentic screwed up big-time — but was very contrite about its blunder nonetheless.

Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”

By Frank Landymore

Police are hunting about 14,000 illegal Bitcoin mining operations in Malaysia, which they say have stolen around $1.1 billion in electricity.

Bitcoin Miners on the Run After Stealing $1.1 Billion in Electricity

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in America and Europe have discovered one remarkable organism in California: an amoeba that can survive extreme temperatures.

Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures

By Sharon Adarlo

A new $7 million startup called Autolane is revolutionizing the way self-driving cars navigate the fast food drive thru.

Startup Building “Air Traffic Control” to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A

A new research paper finds that the amount of light pollution coming from satellites could ruin NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope

SpaceX Is Now Threatening the Hubble, NASA Warns

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