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“History also suggests that the full consequences of AI for the labor market might not become apparent until a recession hits.”

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Reddit’s AI Suggests That People Suffering Chronic Pain Try Opioids

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AI Overlords

A woman successfully used ChatGPT to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties.

Woman Wins Court Case by Using ChatGPT as a Lawyer

“I never, ever, ever, ever could have won this appeal without AI.”

By Victor Tangermann

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

“A lesson learned for me.”

By Victor Tangermann

It's clearer than ever than OpenAI doesn't have anything close to a handle on its disastrous copyright situation.

It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on ChatGPT

This is embarrassing.

By Frank Landymore

Musk Watch

Tesla fans are trying to defend their Cybertrucks, but it's just making them sound sad, strange, and lonely.

Divorced Tesla Fan Admits That His Cybertruck Is Repulsive to Women

“I was married, but I’m not married anymore.”

By Frank Landymore

Billionaire Peter Thiel gave a four-part series of rambling seminars about the antichrist. According to leaked audio, they were weird.

Audio of Peter Thiel’s Secret Antichrist Seminar Just Leaked

“It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The consequences to his neighbors will be devastating, but it's a small price to pay if it means making a tech billionaire happy.

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

“They think this area is a sacrifice zone and that people here don’t matter.”

The Feed

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing them.

NASA Scientist Proposes Theory of Alien Civilizations Throughout Milky Way

By Frank Landymore

Tesla has brought back its "Mad Max" mode designed for "higher speeds," often leading to it blazing past the speed limit.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Deploys Self-Driving Mode That Ignores Speed Limits

By Frank Landymore

The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are mystery.

Astronomers Astonished By Twin Cosmic Rings That Dwarf Entire Galaxies

By Frank Landymore

Among the worst offenders was meal-replacement company Huel, a long-time favorite among Bay Area builders.

Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years

The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses.

Police Issue Warning About “AI Homeless Man” Prank

By Victor Tangermann

Ads are no longer merely interrupting games; they're delaying live broadcasts that consumers pay to watch.

Live Sports Are No Longer Live Thanks to Extremely Long Ads

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.

Scientists Invent Room Temperature Ice

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.

Artificial Intelligence

As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI announced that it was working with the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to put an end to his likeness appearing in Sora videos.

OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank says "European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May," suggesting its struggling to recruit new subscribers.

ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends his flip-flopping on erotica by saying the company is not the "moral police."

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut

The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has released its latest report on global greenhouse gas emissions, and it's bleak.

The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand

By Victor Tangermann

Some popular protein supplements had well over a thousand percent of a safe daily limit for daily lead exposure.

Neuroscience and Brain

Popular Meal Replacement Drink Contains So Much Lead That Doctors Are Aghast

By Frank Landymore

NASA is gutting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- the storied research center that oversees all the agency's Mars rovers.

NASA Guts Workforce at Lab Responsible for Mars Rovers

A new way of delivering vaccines using nanoparticles could prevent or slow down a number of different cancers in mice.

Doctors Intrigued by Shot That Prevents Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.

If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

By Victor Tangermann

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