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Meta Had the Worst Possible Response When Its Workers Were Watching Naked Footage of Its Ray-Ban AI Glasses Users

By Frank Landymore
Ethics

An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers

By Frank Landymore
RX and Medicine

The “Pentastack” of Illegal Drugs That Looksmaxxers Like Clavicular Are Taking to Enjoy a Night Out Sounds Like a One-Way Trip to the Hospital

By Joe Wilkins
Anthropic

The Economics of Using AI to Churn Out Code Are Looking Worse Than Ever

By Frank Landymore
Astronomy

Scientists Say There’s Something Huge Buried Inside Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

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Mental Health

OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre

“The ‘safeguards’ OpenAI pointed to after the attack did not fail; they did not exist.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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AI Psychosis

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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

A man with a beard and mustache is lying on a yellow and blue textured surface, looking at a smartphone in his hand. He has short, slightly messy hair and multiple ear piercings. His skin and hair are digitally altered with a pink hue, and he has a tattoo on his upper arm. The image has a stylized, high-contrast color effect.

Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

“AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court

He’d rather be building rockets.

The anxiously-awaited trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI could have vast implications for the entire AI industry.

If OpenAI Loses This Trial, It Could Effectively Be Eliminated in Its Current Form

The timing of Elon Musk’s lawsuit couldn’t be worse for OpenAI.

By Victor Tangermann

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Tesla Quietly Buys Mysterious $2 Billion Entity

“Tesla is working on a lot of large, ambitious projects.”

The Feed

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Artificial Intelligence

There’s Something Bizarre About the Offices of AI Startups

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Electric Vehicles

You’ll Gasp When You Hear How Many Chinese EVs You Can Buy For the Price of a Single US Car

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Moon program deadlines keep slipping, highlighting persistent issues — and enormous technical hurdles.

NASA’s Moon Landing Schedule Slipping Horrendously Under Trump

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Bank CEO Brags He Used AI Clone of Himself to Host Conference Call

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

New AI Trained Only on Pre-1930 Data Speaks Like the Most Old-Timey Guy Imaginable

By Frank Landymore

Earlier this year, NASA fired up a "next generation" prototype electric thruster, cranking it up to record power levels.

NASA Fires Up Futuristic Plasma Thruster Designed to Take Us to Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered High School Scrapped After Protests Erupt Against It

By Frank Landymore

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Mathematicians Claim Significant Discovery Using ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

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Claude Deleted a Company’s Entire Database, Illustrating a Danger Every CEO Should Be Aware of

By Frank Landymore

A misty forest scene with tall, slender pine trees. Sunlight filters through the fog, casting soft golden rays across the scene. A narrow dirt path winds through the trees, disappearing into the mist.

Trump’s US Forest Service Spraying Deadly Toxins on America’s Woodlands

A small, light-colored military robot is shown from above on a paved surface. The robot has an older woman sitting on it.

Wild Video Shows Ukrainian Troops Evacuate Babushka With a Military Robot

A police officer is standing next to a white Waymo autonomous Jaguar SUV at night, looking inside the driver's side window.

Self-Driving Vehicles

AV Companies Might be in Trouble Now As Cops Start Ticketing Driverless Cars

Japanese toilet maker Toto is looking to cash in on the AI hype by announcing a major investment in its semiconductor business.

Toilet Maker Spikes in Value as It Flushes Money Into AI

By Victor Tangermann

A humanoid robot is shown unloading a jet at an airport.

Japanese Airport Trialing Humanoid Robots as Baggage Handlers

By Frank Landymore

The New England Journal of Medicine retracted a paper by two Beijing-based researchers due to an image that was manipulated with AI.

New England Journal of Medicine Retracts Paper Because Photo of Patient’s Insides Was Garbled by AI

By Victor Tangermann

A shady crypto company quietly scrubbed Eric Trump's name from its public leadership following major legal and financial turmoil.

Eric Trump’s Crypto Company Is Falling Into Total Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

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