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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

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Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating

By Victor Tangermann
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Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”

By Sharon Adarlo
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Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

By Frank Landymore
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Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

By Frank Landymore
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Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What’ll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs

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AI Psychosis

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

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.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In this Discord server, people impacted by AI delusions and psychosis share their experiences — and even help users out of delusional spells.

Meet the Group Breaking People Out of AI Delusions

“We’re seeing some people who are so deep in it that they don’t need ChatGPT anymore. They see their delusion in everything.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT has been publicly linked to at least eight deaths. OpenAI has announced no plans to take it off the market.

ChatGPT Now Linked to Way More Deaths Than the Caffeinated Lemonade That Panera Pulled Off the Market in Disgrace

Jarring.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?

Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

We’re following whether Elon Musk and his companies, X and xAI, make any meaningful change to stem the tide of likely-illegal AI deepfakes on X — content that’s being generated via Musk’s own chatbot, Grok.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's response to his AI chatbot Grok being used to generate sexual depictions of minors doesn't inspire confidence.

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier”

Cowardly.

By Frank Landymore

New reporting revealed that one of Elon Musk's top lawyers, Jaymie Parkkinen, moonlights as a professional clown.

You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job

“All of my comedy friends — none of them can believe I’m a lawyer.”

The Feed

A new analysis by Oxfam found that the top one percent have already used up their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026.

The Richest 1 Percent Burned Their Entire Share of Carbon for the Year in Just 10 Days

People have been posting fake AI images online, claiming to have spotted escaped monkeys in St. Louis, complicating rescue efforts.

AI Implicated as Escaped Monkeys Rampage Through St. Louis

By Victor Tangermann

The first generation of digital natives is arriving in higher education with major shortcomings in literacy rates.

Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asking us to stop being so negative about AI, since it's simply a "doomer narrative."

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI

By Frank Landymore

The man loves his AI girlfriend very, very much, and will one day start a family with her. However that works.

Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother

By Frank Landymore

Senator and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly sued defense secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of violating the US Constitution.

Former Astronaut Smacks Pete Hegseth With Huge Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

The Poison Fountain project calls on website owners to feed AI data scrapers a data set designed to sabotage AI models.

Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems

By Frank Landymore

a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to one day do their work.

Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astronomers has discovered an asteroid that spins so fast, it should've torn itself apart.

Asteroid Behaving Strangely

By Victor Tangermann

The presence of a powerful structure around a white dwarf called a nebula has astronomers scratching their heads.

Astronomers Intrigued By Impossible Structure Around Dead Star

By Frank Landymore

CBS' 83rd Golden Globes award show showed a live ticker of Polymarket predictions for various awards. Viewers were appalled.

Golden Globes Constantly Begs Viewers to Place Polymarket Bets

By Victor Tangermann

The buzzy toy of the season crashed and burned over the holidays, as use increased "more than 100x" on Christmas day.

Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can’t Actually Use It

Plastic surgeons are using fat harvested from dead people to inject into patients who want body contouring work done.

Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists found that those on the political right are much more likely to rely on anecdotes over statistical evidence.

Researchers Just Discovered Something Startling About How Conservatives Pick Political Positions

Bettors are in a rage after the prediction market platform, Polymarket, refused to honor bets related to the US invasion of Venezuela.

War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier.

Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes

By Sharon Adarlo

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