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If You Bet on Polymarket, This New Study May Cause You Physical Pain

By Joe Wilkins
Elon Musk

If OpenAI Loses This Trial, It Could Effectively Be Eliminated in Its Current Form

By Victor Tangermann
Future Society

D4vd Bought Chainsaws and Body Bag on Amazon After Murder, Prosecutors Say, in the Most Grisly Case of Internet Brain Rot We’ve Ever Heard

By Victor Tangermann
Data Privacy

How to Get Rid of Reddit’s Giant App-Shilling Popup That Breaks Its Entire Mobile Site

By Jon Christian
Mars

There’s a Hidden Shortcut to Mars, Scientific Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

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Mental Health

OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre

“The ‘safeguards’ OpenAI pointed to after the attack did not fail; they did not exist.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

A man wearing a white polo shirt and light-colored pants is sitting in a dark environment, illuminated by the light from a smartphone he is holding. The lighting casts a blueish hue on his face and shirt, with a red light highlighting part of his pants and the background. He has a mustache and short hair, and appears focused on the phone screen.

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

A man with a beard and mustache is lying on a yellow and blue textured surface, looking at a smartphone in his hand. He has short, slightly messy hair and multiple ear piercings. His skin and hair are digitally altered with a pink hue, and he has a tattoo on his upper arm. The image has a stylized, high-contrast color effect.

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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Tesla Quietly Buys Mysterious $2 Billion Entity

“Tesla is working on a lot of large, ambitious projects.”

Elon Musk, wearing a black cap and large black sunglasses, is holding a red and silver chainsaw with the words "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" on it at CPAC.

Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts

“At this point, if you are invested in Elon, you are pretty much doing it for the white nationalism.”

By Frank Landymore

During Wednesday's earnings call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated that millions of Tesla cars on the road can't drive themselves.

Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers’ Faces for Years About Self-Driving

It was really expensive snake oil after all.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is shown holding a microphone and gesturing with his other hand. Behind him is a large, detailed image of the planet Pluto against a black background.

Head of NASA Calls for Pluto to Be Made a Planet Again

By Frank Landymore

Five security cameras mounted on the corner of a building with an orange hue, angled outward for surveillance. The building has textured walls and a window below the cameras. The sky in the background is clear and light.

AI Spy Cameras Suddenly Blanketing America

According to recent data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, uninstalls of OpenAI's ChatGPT are spiking — and at the worst time.

Uninstalls of ChatGPT Are Spiking at the Worst Time Imaginable for OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

UFO expert Nick Pope, who investigated "unexplained aerial phenomena" on behalf of the UK's Ministry of Defense, recently passed away.

Another Military UFO Guy Just Died

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple security cameras mounted on a textured blue wall, arranged in a grid pattern, all facing in roughly the same direction.

Man Trapped in Dystopian Nightmare Thanks to AI Surveillance Cameras Flagging His Every Move

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Artificial Intelligence

Dark Cloud Gathers as Bill Comes Due for AI Industry

By Frank Landymore

A screenshot shows John Oliver. To his left, there is a graphic showing a digital head made of blue network lines with floating chat bubbles around it and the text "AI CHATBOTS." The background features a dark blue, abstract, geometric design.

John Oliver Just Took the AI Industry Behind a Shed and Beat It With a Pipe Wrench

By Frank Landymore

A solar panel mounted on a pole with an attached security camera, set against a background of trees and a partly cloudy sky. The solar panel and camera are highlighted in red, while the trees and sky have a blue tint.

Police Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk Women

Tools for Humanity, which was founded by Sam Altman, announced it was selling tickets for Bruno Mars' concert. It turned out to be a lie.

Sam Altman Caught in What May Be His Most Spectacular Lie Yet

By Victor Tangermann

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Woman Convicted for Attacking Police With Swarm of Furious Bees

Researchers say it has mapped a supercluster of galaxies hiding behind the Milky Way ten years after it was first discovered.

Scientists Scan Gigantic Structure Hiding Behind Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg relocated to Florida after a California bill proposing a billionaire tax continues to gain considerable momentum.

If You Thought Mark Zuckerberg Was a Pathetic Little Worm Before, Wait Until You Hear About His Latest Move

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI reportedly missed its internal revenue and user growth targets, raising concerns among investors ahead of a possible IPO.

OpenAI in Shambles as IPO Looms

By Victor Tangermann

A man wearing a blue shirt and sunglasses leans on a white wooden porch railing, holding a clear plastic cup. The porch is attached to a house with gray and white siding. In the foreground and background, there are bright yellow signs with black text that read "NO DATA CENTERS." The scene is set along a quiet street with some trees and utility poles visible.

A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There’ll Be Almost Nothing Else Left

Physicists in China claim to have simulated a "false vacuum decay" event using a lab-based "tabletop" experiment

Quantum Physics

Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic created a classified marketplace, dubbed Project Deal, where AI agents buy from and sell goods to other AI agents for their humans.

Weird Things Happen When You Give AI Agents Money and Let Them Spend It

By Victor Tangermann

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