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The Blue Moon Is Fake. You Are Being Deceived

By Frank Landymore
Google

DuckDuckGo Installs Spike as Google Moves to Replace Search With AI

By Victor Tangermann
Global Warming

Scientists Rush to Save One of the World’s Rarest Trees as It Literally Falls Off a Cliff

By Victor Tangermann
Brain

Kids Are Flying Into Lunatic Rages When Their iPads Are Taken Away

By Frank Landymore
Moon

Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Explodes Into Mushroom Cloud, Dealing Massive Blow to NASA’s Moon Plans

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

NBA Commissioner Announces Plans to Let AI Take Over for Lazy Referees

“Those calls will be done by an AI automated system, with cameras lined around the court, and it’ll take all those so-called objective calls out of the hands of the referees.”

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AI Psychosis

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Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

“There’s no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

“His location and plans are something OpenAI could shed light on if they were willing to cooperate.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

“AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

“The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested.”

By Jon Christian

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SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

“Bro, have you seen inflation lately? Ketamine is expensive!”

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Elon Musk’s Ex Says He Bragged About 10,000 Lasers in Orbit That Are “Not a Piece They’ll See on the Chess Board”

“First of all, how the f**k do you have real-time data on elections?”

The Feed

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Influential Tech Founder Says His Peers Are Suffering From Mass AI Psychosis

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YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

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This Summer Is Going to Kill a Lot of People

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AI Firm Trots Out Digitally Resurrected Corpse of Stan Lee You Can Use to Create Mind-Numbing Slop

By Frank Landymore

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The Industrialists

New Website Detects Apocalypse If Billionaire Jets Start Fleeing en Masse

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Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents

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Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones

By Victor Tangermann

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The MyPillow Guy’s Entire Business is Being Held Hostage by Hackers

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Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They’re Fired Because of AI

By Victor Tangermann

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More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

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NASA Releases Sweeping Plans for Moon Base

By Victor Tangermann

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Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It

By Victor Tangermann

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Machine Learning

Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks

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Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

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99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds

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