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NASA Now Letting Mars Rover Drive Autonomously

The lonely machine must chart its own course across the barren Martian surface.

By Frank Landymore

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Actual Human Interaction Flourishes After High School Bans Phones

By Frank Landymore
Future Society

Anthropic’s Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish

By Joe Wilkins
SpaceX

This New Statistic on Kessler Syndrome Will Give Anyone Who Cares About Space Travel an Instantaneous Stress Headache

By Victor Tangermann
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Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It

By Joe Wilkins
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Officials Deploying AI Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms

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AI Psychosis

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

“It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

“We’re seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don’t need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Private space tourist and billionaire pilot Jared Isaacman has officially been confirmed as NASA administrator.

New NASA Director Taking Over Agency in Crisis

Finally, NASA has a leader again.

By Victor Tangermann

Grok declared that it would be okay with genociding close to half of all children in the world to save Elon Musl.

Grok, Now Built Into Teslas for Navigation, Says It Would Run Over a Billion Children to Avoid Hitting Elon Musk

Correction: 999,999,999 children.

By Frank Landymore

A new video appears to show a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot stumbling backwards after its teleoperator tried to take off their headset.

Amazing Video Shows Tesla Optimus Teleoperator Taking Off Headset, Causing Robot to Stumble and Collapse

“Absolutely hilarious.”

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

The Department of Justice portal to view the latest release of hundreds of thousands of Epstein files seems to be broken.

The Epstein Files Release Website Is Completely Busted

By Frank Landymore

The rise in data center buildouts coincides with below-average water levels in the great lakes, highlighting the need for more transparency.

Furious Residents Say AI Data Centers Are Sucking Up the Great Lakes

Scammers on TikTok are using AI-generated slop videos to sell dubious seeds for hosta plant varieties that don't exist.

TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist

By Victor Tangermann

A venture capitalist is warning investors that the AI robots sector could be experiencing the start of a financial bubble.

Investors Warn That Humanoid Robots Are the Next Financial Bubble

By Sharon Adarlo

Unitree's G1 robot made its major stage debut by appearing alongside Chinese singer Wang Leehom during a Friday night concert in China.

Robots Tear Up Stage as Backup Dancers

By Victor Tangermann

Google's horrible AI summaries are stealing recipes and throwing them together in a meaningless statistical stew.

Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Summaries Are Destroying the Lives of Recipe Developers

By Frank Landymore

Makers of Ozempic and other weight loss drugs are facing lawsuits that allege the drugs cause blindness in some patients.

RX and Medicine

Lawsuits Allege Ozempic Is Causing Blindness

By Sharon Adarlo

In a recent analysis, economist Dean Baker explains that crypto's collapse leaves the rest of us with a bigger piece of the economic pie.

Bitcoin Crashing Is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says

A sheriff in Sweetwater County, Wyoming still has no answers as unexplained drone sightings drag on into their 13th month.

Sheriff Puzzled by UFOs Hovering Over Power Station

Basketball star Kyrie Irving gets into an altercation with a Unitree G1 humanoid robot, and it doesn't end well for the little machine.

Kyrie Irving Has “Incident” With Humanoid Robot

By Frank Landymore

The latest version of ChatGPT still comes up way short of identifying animals on an alphabet poster, a task meant for preschoolers.

Machine Learning

When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly

A Waymo robotaxi has once again been spotted driving on the wrong side of the road, leaving human motorists baffled.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Spotted Driving Wrong Way Down Busy Street

By Frank Landymore

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has called for the halt of new data center construction to let democracy catch up to technology.

Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers

Trump's Truth Social company announced this week that it's merging with the fusion power company TAE, formerly called Tri Alpha Energy.

Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company

By Victor Tangermann

NASA failed to reestablish contact with its MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars and hasn't received any signs of life since December 4.

NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Spinning Helplessly After Signal Lost

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Full Self-Driving software is still ironing out minor issues like being stun-locked by engilding rays of sunlight.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Owner Says FSD Is Great Except for the Part Where It Can’t Drive in the Sun

By Frank Landymore

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