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Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center

By Joe Wilkins
Artificial Intelligence

Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
Artificial Intelligence

New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds

By Frank Landymore
Mental Health

OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré
Pollution

The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months

By Joe Wilkins

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OpenAI

Marc Andreessen Mocked for Accidentally Revealing That He Seems to Have a Deep Misunderstanding of How AI Actually Works

“He is scripting his own psychotic break.”

By Victor Tangermann

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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

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

Maye Musk is shown with striking black and white hair, bold pink eyeshadow, and glittery red lipstick wears large black earrings and a black leather jacket. Behind her stands Elon Musk in a red and black medieval-style armor costume. The background is dark and out of focus.

Sure, Elon Musk Did Roleplay As His Toddler Son on a Secret Burner Account, But He Probably Isn’t Pretending to Be His Mom

It’s not what it looks like!

By Frank Landymore

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Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court

He’d rather be building rockets.

The anxiously-awaited trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI could have vast implications for the entire AI industry.

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

The timing of Elon Musk’s lawsuit couldn’t be worse for OpenAI.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine

By Frank Landymore

Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS, which was only discovered last year, has been visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere for weeks now.

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

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Vibe Coded Apps Are Spilling Users’ Personal Information Directly Into the Maw of Greedy Hackers

By Jon Christian

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Quantum Physics

Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says

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Man Who Invented Roomba Moves Into Household Demon Market

By Frank Landymore

In one Apollo 12 photograph taken by a NASA astronaut on the lunar surface, a strange light can be seen hovering above the horizon in space.

Government Releases UFO Files Containing Photos of “Anomalies” During Apollo 12 and 17

By Frank Landymore

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The Upcoming El Niño Is About to Unleash Devastation, Experts Warn

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Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is officially throwing in the towel, succumbing to growing calls among employees for access to OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude.

Amazon Admits Its Flagship AI Coding Tool Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Workers to Use

By Victor Tangermann

Google's web browser has been "silently" installing an AI model on users' devices without asking for consent.

Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users’ PCs

By Victor Tangermann

Two Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup trucks are parked in a row, showcasing their angular, futuristic stainless steel bodies and distinctive geometric design.

Cybertruck Recalled to Keep Its Wheels From Flying Off While Driving

By Frank Landymore

The image shows a robotic arm on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover that has become stuck inside a rock on the Red Planet.

NASA Rover Gets Arm Stuck Inside Mars Rock, Struggles to Break Free

By Frank Landymore

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The More Sophisticated AI Models Get, the More They’re Showing Signs of Suffering

By Jon Christian

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RX and Medicine

A Member of Sackler Family Says She Got Addicted to Opioids

A young man is sitting at a wooden desk with his feet up, wearing white sneakers, light blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and a blue button-up shirt. He is holding a disposable coffee cup in one hand and resting the other hand on a silver laptop. The desk has scattered papers, a blue pen, an open notebook, a closed blue notebook, and a white smartphone. The background is plain and light-colored.

Bosses Horrified as “AI Native” College Graduates Hit the Workplace

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