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Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile

By Frank Landymore
Entirely Vibe-Coded Operating System Is a Bug-Filled Disaster

By Victor Tangermann
Chocolate Company Announces Plans to Produce Lab-Grown Cocoa

By Joe Wilkins
Lawmakers Consider Ban on Implanting Microchips Into Workers

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Drama Erupts Over Claims That Microsoft Will Embrace AI Even More Drastically in Windows 12

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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

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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

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.

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Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail

Here’s what happened.

The Feed

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Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons

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You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create

Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry

A team of researchers found that "large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization."

AI Can Mass-Unmask Pseudonymous Accounts, Research Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

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Children’s Toys Are Shipping With Adult AI Inside Them

By Frank Landymore

Box of Ventfort dietary supplement labeled A-3 peptides complex, containing 20 capsules of 0.215 g each, with GMP certification and developed by the St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology.

eBay Is Selling a Cornucopia of Russian Peptides

A human brain is placed in a frying pan on a stove, with a red glow around the brain suggesting heat or cooking. The image has a stylized, high-contrast, and slightly grainy effect.

AI Use at Work Is Causing “Brain Fry,” Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers

By Frank Landymore

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Kalshi Gamblers Furious After Company Refuses to Pay Out $54 Million on Ayatollah Khamenei’s Death

CEOs in the AI industry are concerned that their tech will be implicated in a Chernobyl-style event that causes AI to become publicly toxic.

AI CEOs Worried About Chernobyl-Style Event Where Their Tech Causes a Horrific Catastrophe

By Victor Tangermann

Iranian drones hit three Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, putting US assets at risk.

Iran Is Bombing Data Centers in Retaliation

By Victor Tangermann

On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans “Pervert Glasses”

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has struck a drastically different tone, instead apologizing and groveling for the president's favor.

Dario Amodei Issues Groveling Apology for Daring to Criticize Trump

By Victor Tangermann

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Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

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Famed Plastic Surgeon Weighs in on Jim Carrey’s Face

By Frank Landymore

Meta has been hit with a class action lawsuit, accusing it of lying about prioritizing privacy with its smart glasses.

Meta Lied About Its Smart Glasses Protecting User Privacy, New Class Action Lawsuit Claims

By Victor Tangermann

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Hubble Spots Bizarre Galaxy That Appears to Be 99.9 Percent Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

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