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New Chinese Spacecraft Tests Robotic Octopus Tentacle for Refueling in Orbit

By Joe Wilkins
A Reporter Tried Cooking Actual AI-Generated Recipes and the Results Are Stomach-Churning

By Frank Landymore
Scientists Intrigued by “Negative Mass Anomaly” Under Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann
If Your Job Involves Using Your Brain, You May Be in Big Trouble, Tufts Report Finds

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Data Privacy

Anthropic Just Leaked Upcoming Model With “Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks” in the Most Ironic Way Possible

It’s so powerful, the company claims it’s a major cybersecurity risk.

By Victor Tangermann

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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

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

By Frank Landymore

Rampant narratives of a ragtag group of dogs wandering for miles to escape the clutches of dog-eating captors in China are fake.

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

By Victor Tangermann

A small red delivery robot with the label "COCO" is at a bus stop with shattered glass scattered on the ground around it. Behind the robot, there is a poster advertising Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," showing a woman in traditional attire with the dates Mar 14 - Apr 12. The bus stop has black metal poles and a bench.

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 is axing its erotic "adult mode" chatbot, once again highlighting how much pressure the company is under.

OpenAI Cancels Spicy “Adult Mode” Chatbot as Crisis Deepens

By Victor Tangermann

Conspiracy theorists suggested they had stumbled upon a pyramid on Mars that could've been built by aliens. Scientists are not buying it.

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Frank Landymore

Meta suffered two courtroom defeats this week that could rekindle a heated debate over the many harmful effects of social media.

Zuckerberg Suffers Pair of Bruising Courtroom Defeats in Two Days That Could Cost Him a Fortune

By Victor Tangermann

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Future Materials

Physicists Successfully Deliver First Bottle of CERN Antimatter From the Antimatter Factory

During a surreal publicity stunt, First Lady Melania Trump walked the White House's red carpet next to a black-and-white humanoid robot.

Surreal Footage Shows Melania Trump Walking Into White House Summit With Humanoid Robot

By Victor Tangermann

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Why Does Every Case of AI Hiring a Human Feel Like a Groveling Publicity Stunt?

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

An illustration of Donald Trump, tinted red and set against a backdrop of black stars.

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

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