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A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.
Ethics

Bon Iver Side Project’s Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song

Spotify promised to fix AI slop drowning out real music less than a day ago.

By Victor Tangermann

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A robotics technician is suing Tesla, alleging he was struck and knocked unconscious by a robotic arm at the company's Fremont plant.
Elon Musk

He’s suing the company for $51 million.

By Victor Tangermann

A multibillion-dollar contract between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX is under scrutiny as experts warn China could beat the US to the Moon.
Starship

Is SpaceX squandering America’s lead in space?

By Victor Tangermann

After less than a year a the company, a recent high school graduate is now in charge of vetting the training data for Elon Musk's Grok.
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Meritocracy at its finest.

By Frank Landymore

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The Feed

Earlier this week, the Sun unleashed a flurry of plasma and magnetic fields, or coronal mass ejection, at interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
Astronomy

By Victor Tangermann

A Trump adviser admitted to a Wired reporter that Larry Ellison is a "shadow president of the United States."
Future Society

By Frank Landymore

In October, a newly discovered comet will come so close to Earth that people may be able to make out its heavenly fireworks unaided.
Future Society

By Sharon Adarlo

The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
Future Society

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's plans for its robotaxi service are so convoluted that it's not clear the company understands them itself.
Future Society

By Frank Landymore

It turns out that it doesn't take a lot to fool the lidar sensors used on robotaxis, if you go out of your way to do it.
Future Society

By Frank Landymore

Freelance gig board Fiverr is laying off 250 workers or 30 percent of its workforce in a pivot to AI, after the CEO told workers to use AI.
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A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
Robot Dogs

By Victor Tangermann

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese EV maker BYD's YangWang U9 Xtreme hypercar has absolutely obliterated the top speed record for a production car.
Electric Vehicles

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian satellite came back to Earth while carrying organisms, as part of a mission to test the theory that life was seeded from space.
Exobiology

By Sharon Adarlo

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.
Future Society

By Joe Wilkins

An analysis from the Financial Times makes a damning case of mindless AI band-wagoning among the US's top companies.
Future Society

By Frank Landymore

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.
Robotics

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that almost half of the most popular AI companion apps use emotional manipulation tactics to stop users from leaving.
Ethics

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.
Anthropic

By Victor Tangermann

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

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