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After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.
Meta

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…”

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

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.”

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.
OpenAI

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.”

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Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous

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Google

Google Has a Major Problem With ICE

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Anthropic

Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter

TikTok refuses to confirm or deny that ICE is obtaining detailed information about its users via private data brokers.
Data Privacy

TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE

If we were to ever find alien life, breaking the news to the general public could be much more difficult than one might think.
Exobiology

If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It Will Pose Serious Issues

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Artificial Intelligence

“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up

Savannah Guthrie and Nancy Guthrie pose smiling at the camera.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Finally Finds Practical Use: Kidnapping Senior Citizens for Ransom

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Future Society

Forget the NFL: New Sport Forces Two Massive Guys to Smash Into Each Other like Rhinos

As part of an effort to bring the study of space radiation in-house, SpaceX is now developing its own particle accelerator in Florida.
Astrophysics

SpaceX Is Building Its Own Particle Accelerator

Elon Musk said "SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon," despite Mars being his top priority until now.
Starship

Elon Musk Announces Huge Change: Self-Growing City on Moon Now Top Priority at SpaceX

Two victims who say they've experienced strokes following their sinuplasties involving an AI-powered medical device have sued the maker.
Treatments

AI-Powered Surgery Tool Repeatedly Injuring Patients, Lawsuits Claim

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Data Privacy

The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

A man in France was rushed to the operating room after shoving a 37mm brass-and-copper "collectible shell" from WW1 up his rectum.
Future Society

Hospital Evacuated When Man Arrives With WW1 Shell Stuck in the Wildest Part of His Body Imaginable

The production of GLP-1-based weight loss drugs releases huge amounts of organic solvents and other plastic byproducts that don't break down.
Treatments

GLP-1s Are an Environmental Catastrophe

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DNA

Jeffrey Epstein Had a Bizarre Obsession With “Improving” Human DNA, and He Was Emailing With Top Scientists About It

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NASA

Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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