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Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

By Joe Wilkins
After Nixing Its Planned Moon Landing, NASA Is Starting to Seriously Lose the Moon Race to China

By Frank Landymore
Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

By Victor Tangermann
Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting

By Frank Landymore
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets

“It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death.”

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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

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

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

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.

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

At an event today, onlookers noticed a "significant rash-like injury" on the right side of president Donald Trump's neck.

White House Responds as Scabby Mark Appears on Trump’s Neck

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft banned the phrase "Microslop" on its over-one-year-old Discord server dedicated to Copilot. The backlash was severe.

Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has given us an astonishingly detailed peek inside the layers of Uranus' upper atmosphere.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

A four-wheeled delivery robot with a teal and gray body, equipped with lights and a yellow flag, is on a sidewalk near a pedestrian crossing button. A man wearing a brown jacket, gray shirt, and striped pants is walking nearby, carrying a black bag and a rolled-up mat. Cars are visible in the background on the street.

Former Delivery Drivers Are Getting Weird New Jobs as Delivery Robots Take Over

Biotech startup Cortical Labs claims to have taught living human brain cells how to play the seminal video game "Doom."

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

By Victor Tangermann

A bright, glowing orange-yellow celestial object at the center, surrounded by swirling, cloud-like formations in varying shades of orange and red, set against a dark background dotted with small white stars.

Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a Spectacular Blast

By Frank Landymore

According to the first independent safety evaluation of OpenAI's ChatGPT Health, it's astonishingly bad at identifying medical emergencies.

ChatGPT Health Is Staggeringly Bad at Recognizing Life-Threatening Medical Emergencies

By Victor Tangermann

A young person wearing headphones is stretching with arms raised and eyes closed, appearing joyful or relaxed. In front of them is a laptop, a desk lamp, and some notebooks or papers. The background features a bright orange grid pattern with a large blue circle behind the laptop. The image uses a bold color overlay effect with yellow, orange, and blue tones.

A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well

A close-up of an animated turkey wearing a yellow astronaut suit and a clear space helmet, with one gloved hand raised. The turkey has a blue and pink textured face with wide eyes and an open beak. The background shows a starry night sky.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Film Pulled From AMC Cinemas

By Frank Landymore

A bright, glowing celestial object emitting purple and white light, partially obscured by a dark, curved surface resembling a planet or moon, set against a backdrop of scattered stars in deep space.

NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble

By Frank Landymore

MIT researchers have devised new tech that can 3D print entire complex machines with moving parts in a matter of hours.

MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say they've developed a new way to treat cancer by engineering bacteria to eat tumors from the inside out.

Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside

By Victor Tangermann

A triptych of surreal and unsettling scenes featuring AI-generated people with extreme, unnatural swelling and growths on their bodies.

Meta Reels Is Filling Up With AI Slop of Faith Healers Performing Miraculous Cures

A colorful, irregularly shaped galaxy with a bright core and faint, diffuse outer regions against a black background. The galaxy displays a mix of blue, purple, and pink hues, with some areas appearing more concentrated and others more diffuse, suggesting active star formation and complex structure.

Astronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space

By Frank Landymore

Two overlapping portraits of Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, one tinted red on the left and the other tinted blue on the right, set against an orange background with a grid and measurement markings. He's wearing a collared shirt and a dark sweater, looking slightly upwards and to the right.

Artificial Intelligence

Uber Employees Have Created an AI Clone of Its CEO

By Frank Landymore

A person wearing light blue jeans, a pink and white striped shirt, and brown sandals is reaching out toward a small red delivery robot labeled "COCO" with "Coco Robotics" written below. The robot has four wheels and a small red flag on a pole. The background is bright yellow.

Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence

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