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

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

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

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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

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

A man who worked an AI watchdog reveals how OpenAI representatives suddenly showed up at his door step, demanding documents.

OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft suffered a historic stock plunge in its stock price as it struggles to convince investors of its AI spending spree.

Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail

By Frank Landymore

After months of intense volatility, crypto traders are struggling to maintain a cohesive narrative as the blows keep coming.

Crypto Bros in Meltdown as Bitcoin Crashes

When asked if AI can be used to "solve economic gaps," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman argued that it's "going to be massively deflationary."

Sam Altman Says AI Will Cause Massive Deflation, Making Money Worth Vastly More

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Moon astronauts will be using a new spacesuit to explore the lunar surface. Unfortunately, experts say, it has problems.

International Space Station

NASA’s Moon Spacesuits Are Plagued With Issues

By Victor Tangermann

A video appears to show three Russian soldiers emerging with their arms raised and surrendering to a robot with a machine gun.

Russian Soldiers Seen Surrendering to Gun-Wielding Robot

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently admitted that the team working on the latest version of ChatGPT screwed it up.

Sam Altman Says Oops, They Accidentally Made the New Version of ChatGPT Worse Than the Previous One

Federal agents have reportedly been compiling data on protestors who haven't been charged or arrested for a crime.

Immigration Officers Sweeping Protestors’ Photos, License Plates and Personal Data Into Huge Database

Waymo admitted one of its robotaxis struck a child near an elementary school, prompting an investigation by federal regulators.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Under Investigation After Crashing Into Child Outside Elementary School

By Frank Landymore

Is AI conscious? Anthropic's conflcited in-house philosopher is surprisingly open to the idea that they can already feel.

Artificial Intelligence

Top Anthropic Researcher No Longer Sure Whether AI Is Conscious

By Frank Landymore

Just a few days after saying it would be giving unsupervised robotaxi rides, Tesla appears to have gone back to human supervision.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Quietly Pauses Its “Unsupervised” Robotaxi Rides as Reality Sets In

By Frank Landymore

Creeps and obnoxious pranksters that film themselves harassing people are absolutely loving using Meta Ray-Bans and other smart glasses.

Artificial Intelligence

The Worst People Alive Are Obsessed With Meta’s Video Recording Glasses

By Frank Landymore

Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of allowing Meta's companion chatbots to engage in sexual conversations with minors.

Court Filing Reveals Something Very Nasty About Mark Zuckerberg

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