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Finance Bros Tremble in Fear That They Could Be Replaced by AI Too

By Frank Landymore
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Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Shows Signs of Sloppy AI Generation

By Joe Wilkins
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Town Councilmember Goes Berzerk at Surveillance Camera Ban, Threatens to Outlaw Virtually All Modern Technology

By Joe Wilkins
Elon Musk

SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

By Joe Wilkins
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Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: “Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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NOAA Issues Stark Warning About Upcoming El Niño

Beware.

By Frank Landymore

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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’s Ex Says He Bragged About 10,000 Lasers in Orbit That Are “Not a Piece They’ll See on the Chess Board”

“First of all, how the f**k do you have real-time data on elections?”

Elon Musk is shown in the garb, hair and beard commonly associated with Jesus Christ.

Elon Musk Compares His Work to Miracles Performed by Jesus Christ

“They’re sort of what I might call Jesus-level technologies.”

By Jon Christian

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If Starship Explodes Again, It Could Derail SpaceX’s Entire IPO

The pressure is building.

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

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The Industrialists

A CEO of a Bank Just Said Something So Ghoulish About Its Plans for AI That He’s Now in Full Damage Control Mode

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

It Seems a Lot Like Trump Accidentally Invested $1 Million in a Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Thinking It Was an AI Hardware Company

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Google Is Making Huge Changes That Are Poised to Decimate What’s Left of Journalism

By Frank Landymore

Why Is Mark Zuckerberg Taunting His Employees Before Firing Them?

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New Data Suggests That AI Really Is Already Replacing Human Jobs

By Krystle Vermes

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Artificial Intelligence

Top Literary Magazine Offers Bizarre Response to Accusations That It Published an AI-Generated Short Story

By Frank Landymore

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Worker Dies at Starbase as SpaceX Rushes Toward Starship Launch

By Frank Landymore

A sequence of three images shows a humanoid robot performing on stage. In the first image, the robot is standing on one leg with its arms extended, appearing to dance. In the second image, the robot is falling backward onto the stage steps. In the third image, a person in a white shirt is carrying the robot away.

This Robot Trying to Dance Like Michael Jackson But Wiping Out Pathetically in Front of a Crowd Perfectly Illustrates a Deep-Seated Problem in the Sector

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is holding a wine glass filled with red wine, looking to his left. The background is blurred and stylized with a bright pink and black color scheme.

xAI Employees Say Elon Musk Promised Them $420 to Feed Their Taxes Into Grok, But Stiffed Them on the Payment

By Frank Landymore

A gold-colored smartphone with "TRUMP MOBILE" displayed on the screen.

The “Made in America” Trump Phone Appears to be a Disguised Cheapo Chinese Smartphone

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Pizza Hut’s AI Store Control System Is Such a Disaster That It’s Wasted $100 Million, Lawsuit Alleges

By Frank Landymore

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The Industrialists

Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Playing a Cruel Game With Meta Employees

The book cover titled "The Future of Truth" by Steven Rosenbaum features a colorful, geometric abstract figure resembling Rodin's "The Thinker" statue on a red background. The subtitle reads "How AI Reshapes Reality," with a foreword by Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa. The cover is set against a beige background with a pattern of dark blue stars.

Artificial Intelligence

Book About AI’s Effects on the “Future of Truth” Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Trump Caught Buying Tech Stocks and Then Pumping Their Value by Publicly Praising Them

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The Industrialists

Mark Zuckerberg Used Shell Companies to Bully Native Hawaiians

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