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ChatGPT Caught Recommending “Products” That Are Just Scams That Steal Your Credit Card Info

By Frank Landymore
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Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead

By Victor Tangermann
Cryptocurrency

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

By Victor Tangermann
Artificial Intelligence

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

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

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Investigators Questioning Bill Gates Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

“No one — regardless of power, political party or wealth — is above justice.”

By Victor Tangermann

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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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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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Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence

By Frank Landymore

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Remember How Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Was Going to Save the Planet? We Have Terrible News

By Frank Landymore

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Airbnb Host Furious After Startup Trashes His Unit to “Test Robots”

By Frank Landymore

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Trump Desperately Pumps Money Into Dying Coal Industry

By Frank Landymore

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Catholic Church Boots Exorcist After He Said UFOs Are Demons

By Frank Landymore

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Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates

By Frank Landymore

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