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Damning Political Research Finds That the People With the Least Understanding Have the Most Confidence

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Iran Says It’s Ready to Destroy the Global Economy

“Get ready for the oil barrel to be at $200.”

By Frank Landymore

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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

Musk is admitting that his AI company xAI is in deep trouble — and in need of a deep overhaul, a surprising admission.

Elon Musk Says He’s Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding “From the Foundations”

“It’s that bad eh.”

By Victor Tangermann

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

Elon Musk wearing a black tuxedo with a bow tie, captured with a zoom blur effect that creates a dynamic, radiating motion around him.

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

Beggars can’t be choosers.

The Feed

Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

By Victor Tangermann

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Iran Declares Google and Microsoft to Be Military Targets

Even celebrities are seemingly being seduced by AI girlfriends according to a persistent, months-old rumor making the rounds online.

Rumors Fly That a Famous Actor Is Dating an AI Chatbot

By Victor Tangermann

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are shown in a distorted digital style.

Character.AI Is Hosting Epstein Island Roleplays Scenarios and Ghislaine Maxwell Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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FBI Memo Warns Iran Could Attack California Using Drones

Two security personnel are walking on a paved sidewalk at night, escorting a humanoid robot. The robot has a metallic frame with visible joints and a backpack-like component. The scene is illuminated by streetlights, with motorcycles parked along the side and some greenery on the left.

Robot Escorted Away By Cops After Terrorizing Old Woman

By Frank Landymore

Three surreal images from TikTok of spaghetti-themed characters in tomato sauce: on the left, a baby made of spaghetti with a distressed expression being poked with a fork; in the center, a man with a spaghetti body eating spaghetti from a bowl; on the right, a happy family of three smiling spaghetti noodles nestled in tomato sauce.

Artificial Intelligence

Disturbing AI Food Slop Is Strangling the Internet

China's first crewed lunar mission continues to come into focus. A new study proposes intriguing landing sites for the mission.

China’s Moon Landing Is Starting to Look Very Real

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new national survey conducted by NBC News, AI is viewed even more negatively than the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

People Really, Really Despise AI — Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds

By Victor Tangermann

A high-ranking retired US Air Force major general who once served as the commander of a lab at a UFO theorists-associated base went missing.

Retired Air Force Major General With UFO Connections Disappears in New Mexico

By Victor Tangermann

Sad! Trump’s Meme Coin Has Turned Into a Total Disaster

By Frank Landymore

Grammarly failed to mention in its apology that the company wasn't just dealing with hundreds of furious writers — it was facing litigation.

Grammarly Forgot to Mention Something in Its Giant Apology That Changes the Whole Story

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Is Forcing Employees to Work Harder Than Ever

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Still Hasn’t Fixed Its School Shooter Problem We Identified in 2024

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A hand holding a lit matchstick near a pile of burning US dollar bills, with blue and purple smoke rising against a dark background.

CEOs Say Yeah, AI Might Be a Bubble, But They’re Gonna Keep Shoveling Money Into the Furnace Because All Their Friends Are

Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Grammarly's owner Superhuman has announced that the company is "disabling" a feature that impersonated journalists.

Grammarly Is Pulling Down Its Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission

By Victor Tangermann

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