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Please Resist the Urge to Drink the Melted Sludge From 3I/ATLAS

By Victor Tangermann
Anthropic Announces Jobs Most at Risk From AI

By Victor Tangermann
Mother Sues OpenAI for Not Telling Police About Mass Shooter Before Deadly Rampage

By Frank Landymore
Amazon Admits Extensive AI Use Is Wreaking Havoc on Its Core Business

By Frank Landymore
Waymos Are a Huge Drain on Public Resources, Government Data Shows

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Fossil Fuels

Looks Like the Economy Is Hitting a “Nightmare Scenario”

Wall Street is seeing red.

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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…”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

“Orbital data centers are many years, perhaps decades, away.”

By Victor Tangermann

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Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

Beggars can’t be choosers.

A close-up of a Elon Musk's face in a red monochrome filter, resting his chin on his hand with a contemplative expression. Two white dice with black dots are floating near his face against a bright yellow background.

Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail

Here’s what happened.

The Feed

Mark Zuckerberg watches intently through a chain-link fence at a mixed martial arts fight inside a cage, where two fighters are engaged on the ground under red lighting.

The Industrialists

Zuckerberg Loudly Booed at His Safe Space

By Frank Landymore

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Machine Learning

AI Agent Goes Rogue, Starts Mining Crypto to Amass Funds

The Earth's atmosphere is being littered with new metal aerosols from burning spacecraft and rockets, scientists warn.

Rapid Space Launches Shifting the Chemistry of Earth’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

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Toxic Sludge Raining Down on Iran After Bombing of Oil Facilities

Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs due to a "cash crunch" resulting from a massive AI data center expansion effort.

Oracle Axing Huge Number of Jobs as AI Crisis Intensifies

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit against the Pentagon on Monday, challenging its move to label it a "supply chain risk."

Anthropic Sues Pentagon

By Victor Tangermann

Top OpenAI Executive Quits in Protest

By Frank Landymore

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Xiaomi Now Using Humanoid Robots to Assemble Electric Cars

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an ongoing dispute, a blow to those who argue that AI-generated art should be eligible for copyright.

The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Crushing Blow to “AI Artists”

By Victor Tangermann

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Study Finds That Execs Are Already Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI

The CEOs of Polymarket and Kalshi are locked in a bitter, years-long feud as they vie to become the biggest prediction market.

The CEOs of Polymarket and Kalshi Are Locked in a Bitter Feud

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI’s Pivot Into Shopping Has Been a Disaster

By Frank Landymore

One former Block machine learning engineer told Business Insider that he was blindsided by the latest layoff.

A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly

By Frank Landymore

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Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming

Kalshi Sent Bizarre Message to Underage Streamer

By Frank Landymore

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