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With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run the Company, Meta Is Slashing Its Headcount

By Frank Landymore
Those Viral Posts About the Brave Kidnapped Dogs Escaping and Finding Their Homes Together Are Fake, You Gullible Buffoons

By Victor Tangermann
There’s Something Incredibly Weird About Two Delivery Robots Crashing Through Glass Bus Shelter in Chicago Within a Few Days of Each Other

By Frank Landymore
OpenAI Cancels Spicy “Adult Mode” Chatbot as Crisis Deepens

By Victor Tangermann
Why Is Everyone Losing Their Minds Over This Little Old Mars Pyramid?

By Victor Tangermann

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DNA

Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific

Don’t copy that copy!

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

“Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

Musk Watch

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There’s a $10 Billion Problem With Elon Musk’s New Chip Factory

“We either build the Terafab or we don’t have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab.”

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Judge Rules That Elon Musk’s Ketamine Use Is Off Limits

Hands off!

By Frank Landymore

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Elon Musk Just Made a Small Change That Speaks Volumes About His Desperation

Grok, is this true?

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

Astronomer Avi Loeb pointed out two papers that found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS bears an unusually high concentration of deuterium.

Scan Finds Presence of Nuclear Fuel in 3I/ATLAS

By Victor Tangermann

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Evidence Grows That Trump Is Using the War in Iran to Manipulate Markets

Disney, which signed a groundbreaking $1 billion deal with OpenAI in December, is pulling out after Sora was canceled.

OpenAI Fumbled Its $1 Billion Deal With Disney

By Victor Tangermann

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Broken Nvidia CEO Says He Can’t Stand AI Slop Either

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI is looking to grow to around 8,000 staffers, up from around 4,500 today, inside sources told the Financial Times.

As Mass Layoffs Loom, OpenAI Looks to Double Headcount in Desperate Bid to Catch Up With Anthropic

By Victor Tangermann

As the Wall Street Journal reports, OpenAI is looking to discontinue its disastrous text-to-video app, Sora, entirely.

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Is Reportedly Killing Its Disastrous Video AI Slop App

By Victor Tangermann

NASA firmly recommitted itself to returning astronauts to the Moon, while fleshing out its bold vision for "president Trump's Moon base."

NASA Announces Gigantic Armada of Moon Launches to “Build President Trump’s Moon Base,” Starting Next Year

By Victor Tangermann

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Trump Administration Would Rather Pay a Billion Dollars Than Build a Single Wind Farm

By Frank Landymore

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New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A video shows a uniformed robotic employee at a McDonald's in Shanghai, China greeting a patron while seemingly taking their order.

No, McDonald’s Isn’t Deploying Humanoid Robots as Workers in Shanghai

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is putting Mars back in the crosshairs with a first-of-its-kind nuclear mission it says will launch by the end of 2028.

NASA Announces Nuclear Mission to Mars by 2028

By Victor Tangermann

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CEO Confronted Over Using AI to Clone Real People Without Their Consent

Two side-by-side images show a small delivery robot on a sidewalk near a bus stop shelter with a black curved roof. The robot has a white and green body, four black wheels, and an orange flag. Blue shattered glass is scattered on the sidewalk around the robot in both images. The left image shows a streetlamp partially visible in the upper left corner. The background features a white brick wall with a window.

Delivery Robot Allegedly Smashes Through Bus Stop Window, Keeps Driving Covered in Broken Glass

By Frank Landymore

A slew of new Polymarket accounts are betting big on an imminent ceasefire between the US and Iran, triggering the alarms.

Sketchy Polymarket Accounts Making Suspicious Bets on Imminent Iran Ceasefire

By Victor Tangermann

A man has plead guilty for creating "hundreds of thousands of songs with AI" and using bots to make $8 million in royalties.

Man Pleads Guilty to Making $8 Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

You’ll Snort-Laugh When You Learn How Much AI Actually Added to the US Economy Last Year

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