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It’s Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College

“Colleges and universities face an existential issue before them.”

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Cybertruck Attempts to Fling Baby Onto Highway

By Frank Landymore
Black Holes

Galactic Monsters Grew in Cocoons Like Giant Bugs, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore
Mars

This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting

By Victor Tangermann
Universal Basic Income

Experts Growing Worried About World in Which AI Takes Your Job and You Have No Way to Provide for Yourself

By Joe Wilkins
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Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines

By Frank Landymore

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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

Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.

Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Asking to Visit His Notorious Island

“Do you have any parties planned?”

By Frank Landymore

As Reuters reports, Elon Musk is hoping to merge his AI startup, xAI, with SpaceX — a baffling plan that raises plenty of questions.

Elon to Merge SpaceX and xAI

Wait, what?

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Musk revealed that the company's factory in Fremont, California, would be transformed into a production facility for robots.

Elon Musk Shutting Down Tesla Car Factory to Manufacture Robots Instead

RIP Model X and S.

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

AI companies working on foundation models have yet to even break even, let alone turn record-breaking investments into profit.

Major AI Companies Aren’t Even Pretending to Make Money

Full-grown adults are embracing AI companion toys in China as the government tries to reconcile a tricky contradiction.

Chinese Adults Taking Strange AI Devices to Bed With Them

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has already spent $6 million on TV ads to convince Americans that data centers aren't that bad.

You Will Laugh Out Loud When You Hear What the Tech Industry Is Spending a Swimming Pool’s Worth of Money to Convince the Public

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have determined that Jupiter's moon Europa is covered in a seriously thick icy shell that measures 18 miles deep.

NASA Says Europa Is Covered by a Thick Icy Shell

By Victor Tangermann

China's solar energy production is reaching simply staggering levels, dragging energy costs down around the globe.

Renewable Energy

The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing

One tech publication's experience hiring a remote software engineer shows just how degraded the job search has become.

If You’re a Real Person Looking for a Job, the Flood of Fake AI Job Applications Will Make Your Blood Boil

Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal

By Frank Landymore

A startup, called Aircela, has come up with an intriguing contraption that can turn carbon dioxide from thin air into usable gasoline.

Intriguing New Machine Turns Air Into Gasoline You Can Put Straight Into Your Car

By Victor Tangermann

Boston-based startup, Life Biosciences, is working on a treatment code-named ER-100 that involves reprogramming genes for rejuvenation.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Testing Controversial Human Rejuvenation Compound Called ER-100

By Victor Tangermann

The vast "sheet" of dark matter could explain why almost all of our galactic neighbors are running away from us.

Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers used an a custom-built AI tool to scour millions of Hubble images, uncovering the universe's overlooked curiosities.

AI Discovers Hundreds of Anomalies in Archive of Hubble Images

By Frank Landymore

In staggering brain drain, United States federal agencies have lost over 10,000 highly-experienced PhDs since Donald Trump took office.

The United States Is Suffering Stomach-Churning Brain Drain

Following a major Bitcoin crash, experts are now suggesting it's only the beginning of a prolonged crypto downturn.

Experts Say Bitcoin’s Crash Is Only Getting Started

By Victor Tangermann

A man, dressed as an FBI agent, showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in an apparent attempt to free Luigi Mangione.

Mystery Man Dressed as FBI Agent Tries to Break Luigi Mangione Out of Jail

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI will retire GPT-4o, an especially sycophantic version of its chatbot linked in lawsuits to multiple deaths, next month.

Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire “Reckless” Model Linked to Deaths

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Darren Aronofsky signed a partnership for an almost entirely AI-generated drama series about the American Revolution. It's straight slop.

Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show Contains Garbled Neural Gore, Even Just in the Teaser Trailer

By Victor Tangermann

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