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SpaceX Stock Now in Rapid Decline

By Victor Tangermann
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The Funniest Possible Thing Happened After Trump Painted the Lincoln Reflecting Pool Blue

By Frank Landymore
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Ohio Police Fire Robocop for Helping Make Zero Arrests and Failing to Issue a Single Ticket

By Frank Landymore
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SpaceX Stock Has Now Started to Fall

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Elon Musk Fantasizes About Killing Journalists

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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

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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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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Woman “Seriously and Permanently Injured” by Egg McMuffin, Lawsuit Alleges

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Scientists Detect Hundreds of Earthquakes Deep Beneath Antarctica

By Victor Tangermann

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Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class

By Frank Landymore

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Google CEO Humiliated by Graduating Stanford Students as They Walk Out of His Speech in Protest

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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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