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Jeff Bezos’ Botched Space Launch Was So Bad It Could Threaten NASA’s Entire Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann
Moon

Guess What This Creepy Underwater Thing Is That Was Photographed by US Navy Divers for NASA

By Victor Tangermann
Elon Musk

Tesla Drivers Losing Patience at Elon Musk’s Eternal Excuses

By Victor Tangermann
Finance

JPMorganChase Data Center Gets $77 Million Handout to Create Grand Total of One Job

By Joe Wilkins
Ethics

Nvidia CEO Loses His Cool at Tough Question

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale

“This is very upsetting to see.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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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

A man with a beard and mustache is lying on a yellow and blue textured surface, looking at a smartphone in his hand. He has short, slightly messy hair and multiple ear piercings. His skin and hair are digitally altered with a pink hue, and he has a tattoo on his upper arm. The image has a stylized, high-contrast color effect.

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

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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

Musk Watch

Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk’s Starlink Fails

“Starlink reliance exposed limitations under multiple-vehicle load.”

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NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center

“All too often, big corporations like xAI treat our communities and families like obstacles to be pushed aside.”

Elon Musk is shown smoking while wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone. A tweet from Elon Musk is overlaid, stating that The Boring Company could build a Hyperloop tunnel from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles for less than 5% of the cost of subsidizing free flights between the two cities, calling it a technological marvel exceeding any high-speed rail on Earth. The tweet references a post by Hans Mahncke about the cost of subsidizing free flights.

Elon Musk Says He Could Definitely Build a Public Transit System Better Than Anything In China If He Tried

Sure.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

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In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The winning robot of this year's humanoid robot half-marathon in China beat the human record holder by several minutes.

Chinese Humanoid Robot Runs Half Marathon, Beats Fastest Human Time in History

By Victor Tangermann

Knicks owner Jim Dolan, wearing a black jacket and white shirt, stands smiling next to a control panel with various dials, gauges, and levers.

Madison Square Garden Reportedly Used Facial Recognition to Stalk Trans Woman For Two Years

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The Florida Mass Shooter’s Conversations With ChatGPT Are Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine

By Sharon Adarlo

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RX and Medicine

Scientists Intrigued by Nasal Spray That Reverse Brain Aging in Mice, Say It May Work on Humans as Well

By Sharon Adarlo

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Machine Learning

China Is Starting to Pull Ahead of US in AI Race

Researchers uploaded two fake studies about a fake skin condition to a preprint server to trick large language models.

Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

By Victor Tangermann

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Hospital Reuses Syringes, Infects Hundreds of Children With HIV

After a litany of bad press, Character.AI announced a feature that's seemingly designed to stop children from reading books.

AI Company Known for Teen Suicides Launches New Feature to Turn Books Into Roleplaying Experiences

By Victor Tangermann

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Alarmed as FSD Takes Him Directly Into the Path of an Oncoming Train

A cartoonish red brain with large, googly eyes and thin, stick-like arms and legs is looking at a smartphone held up in front of it. The background is bright yellow with a grid pattern and an orange circle behind the phone.

Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

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Democrats Warned Not to Upset Multi-Million Dollar AI Lobbyists, Even Though It’d Be a Slam Dunk With Voters

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You Are Not Prepared to Learn the Size of Neanderthal Infants

By Sharon Adarlo

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City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center

The octogenarian mother of a man who was killed in a road accident has been unknowingly talking to his AI clone via regular video calls.

Mother Reportedly Doesn’t Know Her Son Died Because She’s Been Talking to an AI Version of Him

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump sipping Diet Coke.

Trump Secretly Believes That Diet Coke Kills Cancer Cells Inside the Body

By Sharon Adarlo

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