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America’s Largest Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says

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AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class

By Frank Landymore
Claude Leak Shows That Anthropic Is Tracking Users’ Vulgar Language and Deems Them “Negative”

By Victor Tangermann
The Real Reason OpenAI Shut Sora Down Is a Warning to Every AI Startup

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William Shatner Says AI Is Spreading Horrific Rumors About Him

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There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry

Doing stuff in space is hard, folks.

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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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

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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

Musk Watch

NASA's decision to bring Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on its Moon mission seemingly had MAGA in a tizzy.

Trump Fans Furious That NASA Is Allowing a Canadian on the Moon Mission

“Why are we letting a Canadian go to our Moon?”

By Victor Tangermann

News emerged that Jonathan, a 193-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise, had peacefully passed away. It turned out to be a crypto scam.

JONATHAN THE 193-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE IS STILL ALIVE, REPEAT HE HAS NOT DIED

“Even our researcher friends in the US unraveling his DNA have just sent condolences.”

By Victor Tangermann

Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial public offering.

SpaceX Files for IPO

Here we go.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Two OpenAI Execs, Including CEO of AGI, Going on Medical Leave

According to a newly-released outline, the OMB wants to slash NASA's budget by 23 percent compared to its recently enacted 2026 budget.

The White House Is Still Desperately Trying to Slash NASA’s Budget

By Victor Tangermann

An illustration shows OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro.

Sam Altman Opens Up About Telling CEO of Disney That It Had All Been Smoke and Mirrors

By Frank Landymore

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Dozens of Robotaxis In China Stop Dead in the Middle of Roads and Highways, Causing Crashes

By Frank Landymore

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The Moon Astronauts Brought Along USB Stick-Sized Living Samples of Their Own Tissue

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AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees in Epic Implosion

By Frank Landymore

Israel-US startup Stardust Solutions is working on a proprietary particle to inject into the atmosphere to cool the planet.

$60 Million Startup Says It’s Invented a New Particle to Dim the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

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Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code

By Frank Landymore

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Insurance Companies Already Deploying AI Systems to Deny Claims Faster Than Ever Before

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Robots and Machines

Delivery Robot Companies in Trouble as Bot Become Targets for Vandalism

Scientists tried to establish a more scientifically rigorous assessment of the effects of "emotional crying."

Do You Cry More or Less Than the Average Person?

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's director of flight operations, Norm Knight, told reporters that a controller issue had caused the fan of the space toilet to jam.

NASA Spacecraft’s Toilet Fails Hours Into Ten-Day Journey to Moon

By Victor Tangermann

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Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed

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Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes

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The Trump Administration Is Doing Something Horrifying to Workers at Nuclear Facilities

NASA is counting down for its Artemis 2 crewed lunar mission. It's a historic moment that also happens to take place on April Fools' Day.

Conspiracy Theorists Are Going to Have a Field Day as NASA Gears Up to Launch Historic Moon Mission on April Fools’ Day

By Victor Tangermann

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