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The Chinese Streaming Industry Is Being Gutted by AI-Generated Shows

By Victor Tangermann
Neuroscience and Brain

Startup Says It’s Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind

By Joe Wilkins
xAI

Grok Convinces Man to Arm Himself Because Assassins Are Coming to Kill Him

By Victor Tangermann
Future Society

Grimly Cyberpunk Video Shows Ukrainian Soldiers Leaning Out of Propeller Plane to Obliterate Drones With Rifles

By Victor Tangermann
Self-Driving Vehicles

Man Says His Waymo Ditched Him at the Airport Before He Could Get His Luggage Out of the Trunk, Refused to Return

By Joe Wilkins

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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

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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

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is shown at an MMA fight.

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

By Frank Landymore

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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

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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

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

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Say There’s Something Huge Buried Inside Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Trump administration officials said they oppose Anthropic's plan to expand access to its new AI, Mythos, citing security concerns.

The White House Suddenly Seems Pretty Terrified of Anthropic

By Victor Tangermann

Conservatives and liberals alike are joining the fight against AI data centers to an astonishing degree.

Democrat and Republican Voters United on Key Issue: Hatred of Data Centers

By Victor Tangermann

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Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI

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Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Causes “Ghosts”

By Frank Landymore

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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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