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Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility

By Victor Tangermann
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Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech

By Joe Wilkins
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California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds

By Victor Tangermann
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Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean

By Joe Wilkins
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NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points

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College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

“There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing.”

By Frank Landymore

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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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The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible

Investors will need to drink a lot of Kool-Aid.

By Victor Tangermann

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It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly

“Musk’s real genius lies in mythmaking.”

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Is Massively Overvalued Ahead of Its IPO, Analysts Find

Some are advising to stay far away.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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Disaster Strikes When Meme Coin Pays Man to Tattoo Its Name on His Forehead, But They Misspelled It

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Deploying AI-Powered Drive-Thru System for Ordering Its Nauseating Foodslop

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Argentina Moves to Legalize “Non-Human Corporations” Run by AI

By Frank Landymore

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If You Think AI Companies Are Unethical Now, Wait Until They Go Public

By Victor Tangermann

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You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work

By Victor Tangermann

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Soccer Club Places Huge Kalshi Bet Against Itself

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Release Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals

By Victor Tangermann

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Zoo Officials Horrified by AI Data Center Menacing Their Endangered Animals

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Company Behind AI School Surveillance System in Major Trouble After It Fails to Spot Armed Student Walking In to Commit Mass Shooting

By Frank Landymore

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Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica

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Artificial Intelligence

US Soccer Scanning Videos of Millions of Youth Players to Identify New Stars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else

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New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water

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Suburbanites Freaked Out by Mysterious Drones Leering Into Their Homes at Night

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Psychiatrists Investigating People Who Get Trapped Inside Vivid Daydreams

By Victor Tangermann

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