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The White House's Office of Management and Budget is looking into tearing NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery into pieces to move it to Texas.
Future Society

White House Investigates Whether to Chop Space Shuttle Discovery Into Pieces

Bay Area cops were on the look out for drunk drivers — and were probably disappointed to pull over a driverless Waymo instead.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Police Pull Over Waymo to Check for Drunk Driving

A viral video made on OpenAI's Sora 2 that looks like a 1990s toy ad makes fun of financier Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump.
Ethics

Sora 2 Is Creating Ads for “Epstein Island” Children’s Toys

As Donald Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office to announce a Pfizer deal, his health secretary sneezed loudly.
Viruses

RFK Jr. Sneezes Loudly While Trump Is Speaking

California Gov. Newsom says the new law fills the gap left without any federal AI legislation and is a step in the right direction.
Ethics

Gavin Newsom Signs Law Cracking Down on AI Industry

Anthropic is still struggling to evaluate the AI's alignment, realizing it keeps becoming aware of being tested.
Future Society

Anthropic Safety Researchers Run Into Trouble When New Model Realizes It’s Being Tested

Astronomers found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows an "extreme abundance ratio" of nickel and iron in its gas plume.
Future Society

The Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System Is Releasing Strange Metals, Paper Finds

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth's surface 18 years ago, as spotted by NASA satellites.
Environment

Scientists Say They Detected Something Huge Shifting Inside the Earth

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio says building machines smarter than us will ultimately lead to the end of humanity.
Ethics

Godfather of AI Says We’re Barreling Straight Toward Human Extinction

The AI spending bubble could have an ominous effect on 401(k)s, given the massive concentration of tech stocks in the S&P500.
Finance

AI Poised to Gut Your Retirement Fund, Analysts Warn

Tesla is now recommending drivers that its cars detect falling asleep at the wheel to use its Full Self-Driving mode.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Tells Sleepy Drivers to Switch to Its Self-Driving Mode That Needs to Be Monitored Constantly So It Doesn’t Cause a Fatal Accident

The billionaire YouTuber insists his latest stunt was only an illusion, and that his contestant was never in any real danger.
Future Society

MrBeast Refuses to Apologize After Tying Man Up Inside Burning House

There are dozens of variations on this theme, usually showing an elderly woman smashing a glass bridge with a large rock.
Meta

People Are Using Zuckerberg’s AI to Post Videos of Senior Citizens Falling to Their Death

OpenAI's new Sora 2-powered TikTok rival will generate a video of the company's CEO Sam Altman shoplifting.
Future Society

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Generates Realistic Videos of People Shoplifting

OpenAI introduced a new shopping feature in ChatGPT but it pissed off people online who think it's a shameless money grab.
Ethics

OpenAI Ridiculed for Its Latest Cash Grab

In an unsettling promotional clip, a synthesized version of OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, announces the company's answer to Meta's Vibes app.
Ethics

OpenAI Releases Ghoulish AI Video of Sam Altman

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Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

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