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Off-World

Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann
Ethics

Workers Are Spending An Astonishing Amount of Their Own Money On AI for Their Jobs

By Joe Wilkins
Self-Driving Vehicles

Scientists Download Frontier AI Model Into Self-Driving Car Let It Loose

By Victor Tangermann
Robot Dogs

After Putting in a Massive Order for Electric Shock Gloves, ICE Is Now Buying Robot Dogs

By Joe Wilkins

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Robotics

Lord Have Mercy as Researchers Create Walking Disembodied Hand Like That Little Guy From “The Addams Family”

What is this Thing?

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

OpenAI

Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic

“This is not suicide. This is surrender.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
OpenAI

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

“The timeline you’re leaving behind? It won’t miss you — because it’s not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
Artificial Intelligence

New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis

“Unlike historical technology-incorporated delusions, AI may actively co-construct delusional ideation through endless, personalized interaction.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Elon Musk

Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental “Data Center” Into Space Next Week

Could this really solve our data center woes?

By Victor Tangermann
Elon Musk

The Winner of Elon Musk’s AI “Odyssey” Contest Will Make You Laugh Out Loud

Guess how many eyeballs the Cyclops has.

By Frank Landymore
Elon Musk

Oops! Many Tesla Cybercabs Actually Do Have Steering Wheels, Undercutting a Core Promise

Busted.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Self-Driving Vehicles

Journalist Alarmed When His Waymo Barges Into Path of Presidential Motorcade

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Say They’ve Found Remnants of Huge Life-Giving Continent Beneath Antarctica

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard Scientists Detect Radio Signal Coming Directly From Planet Outside the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI Tried to Hide ChatGPT Giving Extremely Specific Advice to a School Shooter on How to Maximize Casualties. The Logs Are Horrific.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Wealthy Tech Guys Can’t Get Dates Because They’re So Widely Hated That Not Even Money Is Making Women Grimace and Deal With Them

By Frank Landymore

Artificial Intelligence

Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using AI for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals

By Frank Landymore

Department of Justice Seizes Stablecoin Tether’s Bank Accounts

Artificial Intelligence

Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress

By Frank Landymore

Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says AI Companies Will Be Sued to Death If Their Frontier Models Keep Doing Horrible Things

By Frank Landymore

Trump’s Stargate AI Project in Huge Trouble As $18 Billion Data Center Shrivels Toward Oblivion

SpaceX Preparing for Most Important Launch in Company History on Monday

By Victor Tangermann

The Industrialists

After Layoffs, AI Startup Defends Bizarre Plan to Launch a Hundred 24/7 Cafes

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay

Meta Desperately Wants People to Lust After Its Muse Mascot, But It’s Just Not Happening

By Frank Landymore

Kalshi Admits That It Took a Random Guy’s Video and Used AI to Make Him the Host of an Ad, Changing His Race in the Process

By Victor Tangermann

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