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OpenAI Is Taking the “Crack Cocaine” Approach to Pricing

By Victor Tangermann
Artificial Intelligence

Consensus Grows That China Is Crushing the United States at AI

By Joe Wilkins
Mental Health

Clavicular’s “Botched” Nose Job Illustrates the Dangers of Looksmaxxing

By Jon Christian, Victor Tangermann
Finance

$1 Million Polymarket Bet That Spain Will Win First World Cup Game Backfires Epically

By Frank Landymore
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Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

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Texas Tech Quarterback’s College Career Over After Getting Caught Betting on His Own Games

“There is no practical way to resolve all the various pending legal disputes and ensure his eligibility.”

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AI Psychosis

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Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?

One event seems to have kicked off a wave of AI psychosis: memory that persists across chat sessions, letting the bot weave tapestries of delusions about users’ lives.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Musk Watch

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Tesla’s Robotaxis Are a Complete Disaster

Broken promises, shoddy service, and a comically tiny fleet.

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell celebrates with family and other SpaceX employees at the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square during the launch of the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq.

SpaceX’s IPO Shows That We Aren’t Even Close to Peak AI Bubble

We’re soaring to even loftier heights.

By Victor Tangermann

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The More Data We See About SpaceX’s IPO, the More We’re Wincing

Investors could easily get fleeced.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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Artificial Intelligence

CEOs Now Being Forced to Reverse Course, Cut AI Spending

By Frank Landymore

An expanding mini universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar.

Scientists Propose That Entire Universes Can Form Inside Collapsing Stars

By Victor Tangermann

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Meta’s Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe

By Victor Tangermann

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Woman’s Death Blamed on Hospital’s AI System

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Humanoid Robot Preparing to Climb Mount Everest

A train transports eight booster motor segments for the SLS (Space Launch System rocket) that will power NASA’s Artemis III mission from Northrop Grumman’s Railyard Shipping Facility in Corinne, Utah, June 2, to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA Loads Moon Rocket onto Giant Trump-Branded Train

By Victor Tangermann

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Scientists Investigate Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah

By Victor Tangermann

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Earth’s Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Horrified as Huge Heatwave Hits Antarctica

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Artificial Intelligence

Consulting Firm’s Report on How Awesome AI Is Found to Contain Idiotic AI Hallucinations

By Frank Landymore

Protesters carry a mock coffin as they march during a demonstration against a controversial US-built Ebola quarantine center.

Massive Protests Erupt in the Streets of Kenya Due to the Trump Administration’s Mysterious Ebola Facility

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GLP-1 Drugs Appear to Prevent Cancer, New Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

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Advanced Transport

Man Attends Video Meeting From Active Roller Coaster

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says

By Frank Landymore

US President Donald Trump jokes with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) as he hosts tech leaders for a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

Meta Employee Laid Off, Immediately Detained by ICE

By Frank Landymore

A female employee sits at her home office in front of her laptop and rests her head on one hand looking forlorn.

Working From Home Has a Grim Effect on Your Brain, Surprise Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

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