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The Amish Are Embracing ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
Elon Musk

Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

By Jon Christian
Climate Change

Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration

By Joe Wilkins
Climate Change

Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate

By Frank Landymore
Renewable Energy

Peter Thiel Working on Floating Data Centers in the Ocean

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

“We can confirm that ‘Hell Grind’ was not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program.”

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

“There’s no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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

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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

Musk Watch

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SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

“Bro, have you seen inflation lately? Ketamine is expensive!”

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Elon Musk’s Ex Says He Bragged About 10,000 Lasers in Orbit That Are “Not a Piece They’ll See on the Chess Board”

“First of all, how the f**k do you have real-time data on elections?”

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Elon Musk Compares His Work to Miracles Performed by Jesus Christ

“They’re sort of what I might call Jesus-level technologies.”

By Jon Christian

The Feed

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Artificial Intelligence

Marc Andreessen Sputters Incomprehensibly at Question About How AI Will Actually Benefit Humankind

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Artificial Intelligence

Finance Bros Tremble in Fear That They Could Be Replaced by AI Too

By Frank Landymore

Machine Learning

Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Shows Signs of Sloppy AI Generation

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Town Councilmember Goes Berzerk at Surveillance Camera Ban, Threatens to Outlaw Virtually All Modern Technology

Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: “Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming El Niño

The Trump Phone Appears to Have Already Leaked Its Customers’ Personal Information Through a Glaring Exploit

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Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Bezos Lectures the Public, Saying They Should Be Grateful for the Wonders of AI

By Frank Landymore

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Zuckerberg Tells the Tattered Remainder of His Workers That He Won’t Conduct Another a Mass Firing for at Least Seven Months

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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The Industrialists

A CEO of a Bank Just Said Something So Ghoulish About Its Plans for AI That He’s Now in Full Damage Control Mode

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

It Seems a Lot Like Trump Accidentally Invested $1 Million in a Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Thinking It Was an AI Hardware Company

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Google Is Making Huge Changes That Are Poised to Decimate What’s Left of Journalism

By Frank Landymore

Why Is Mark Zuckerberg Taunting His Employees Before Firing Them?

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New Data Suggests That AI Really Is Already Replacing Human Jobs

By Krystle Vermes

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Artificial Intelligence

Top Literary Magazine Offers Bizarre Response to Accusations That It Published an AI-Generated Short Story

By Frank Landymore

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NOAA Issues Stark Warning About Upcoming El Niño

By Frank Landymore

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