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Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann
Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn’t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is

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A Huge Survey of CEOs and Other Execs Just Found Something Damning About AI’s Effects on Productivity

By Frank Landymore
AI Will Destroy Millions of White Collars Jobs in the Coming Months, Andrew Yang Warns, Driving Surge of Personal Bankruptcies

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SpaceX Angling for Military Contract to Produce Drone Swarms

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Devices

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking

“I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe?'”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

“This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Musk Watch

Former xAI staffers told The Verge they grew frustrated with the company's ethical carelessness and stagnating technological progress.

Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation

“You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants.”

By Victor Tangermann

Despite plenty of optimism, a striking number of Elon Musk's xAI's cofounders are jumping ship amid restructuring efforts.

Cofounders Fleeing Elon Musk’s xAI

“Grateful to have helped cofound at the start.”

By Victor Tangermann

A yellow-tinted wooden catapult with wheels is shown against a dark red grid background. The catapult's arm is holding a realistic, grayscale image of the moon in its sling.

Erratic Elon Musk Tells Employees to Build Massive Catapult on Moon

Fire away!

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

Renters seeking a new home in the Washington, DC, area made a horrifying discovery while browsing listings.

Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Listing for Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's vehicle sales across 13 European markets are absolutely atrocious compared to the same point just two years ago.

Tesla’s New Sales Data Is Absolutely Brutal

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Artificial Intelligence

Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI

By Frank Landymore

The next AI price hike could affect hard drives, following RAM, SSDs, and graphical processing units.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They’re About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects

By Frank Landymore

Trump administration officials are now considering cutting ties with Anthropic over the company's limits on its contract.

Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic

By Victor Tangermann

The televised Spring Festival Gala put on by the state-run China Media Group featured an impressive synchronized martial arts routine.

Chinese Robots Can Now Run Up Walls

By Victor Tangermann

Still frame from video by Tesla driver Daniel Milligan. A boat docked at a pier at night, with its reflection visible in the calm water. The image is taken from a vehicle dashboard camera, showing a speed of 7 MPH and indicating that the vehicle is in self-driving mode.

Self-Driving Vehicles

FSD Tries to Drive Straight Into Lake

By Frank Landymore

Meta was granted a patent in 2023 for the idea, outlining how a large language model (LLM) can "simulate" a user's social media activity.

Meta Patented AI That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever

By Victor Tangermann

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Top Machine Learning Developer Speechless at Simple Question: Should AI Simulate Emotional Intimacy?

By Frank Landymore

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Site of Elementary School Was Sprayed With Radioactive Fracking Waste, Worker Warns

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama seated in a sports stadium.

Obama Just Dropped a Truth Bomb About Aliens

By Frank Landymore

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Prediction Markets Are Sucking Huge Numbers of Young People Into Gambling

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have found that boreal forests, the largest terrestrial biome on Earth, are steadily shifting northwards.

Forests Are Steadily Crawling North, Satellite Imagery Shows

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Grim New Expression: “AI;DR”

By Frank Landymore

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US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables

By Frank Landymore

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