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The Rage at OpenAI Has Grown So Immense That There Are Entire Protests Against It

By Frank Landymore
Gas Prices Spiking After Trump’s War in Iran

By Victor Tangermann
Jack Dorsey Isn’t Telling the Real Story About Block’s AI Layoffs, Insider Says

By Victor Tangermann
Dario Amodei Says Trump Is a Dictator

By Victor Tangermann
Polymarket Gets Major Prediction Completely Wrong After Loudly Boasting About It

By Joe Wilkins

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Cryptocurrency

Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets

“It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death.”

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

“You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential…”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

“This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

“Orbital data centers are many years, perhaps decades, away.”

By Victor Tangermann

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Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

Beggars can’t be choosers.

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Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail

Here’s what happened.

The Feed

The US military is extensively using Palantir's Maven Smart System in its attacks on Iran, which uses Anthropic's Claude, despite the ban.

After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War

By Victor Tangermann

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Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor

By Frank Landymore

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Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To Lloyd Blankfein, who led Goldman Sachs through the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, it's reasonable to prepare for a "reckoning."

Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He “Smells” a Similar Crash Coming

By Victor Tangermann

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Jeff Bezos Gathering Money to Buy Companies Gutted by AI

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The AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Starting to Feel Real

By Frank Landymore

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Humongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges

By Frank Landymore

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RX and Medicine

Government Handing Out Cash Bonuses to Drug Researchers Who Rush Through Regulatory Approvals

A lead investor of the AI music app Suno appears to have undermined the company's legal defense in light of copyright infringement lawsuits.

Lead Investor in Music Generation App Suno Deletes Tweet That Contradicts Its Argument in High Stakes Court Cases

By Victor Tangermann

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Machine Learning

Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

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After Nixing Its Artemis 3 Moon Landing, NASA Is Starting to Seriously Lose the Moon Race to China

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is continuing his apology tour, conceding OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" its Department of Defense deal.

Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting

By Frank Landymore

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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

"Vibe hacking" has quickly turned into a cybersecurity nightmare, with hackers using AI tools to supercharge their attacks.

AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers

By Victor Tangermann

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