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Elon Musk Is Making Cybertruck Sales Look Better by Selling a Huge Number to Himself

That’s just embarrassing.

By Victor Tangermann

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Trump Admits He Got Jabbed With Multiple Vaccines That His Allies Say Are Poison

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OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut

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Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically

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The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

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OpenAI’s Marketing Efforts Are Embarrassingly Ineffective, New Consumer Research Finds

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AI Overlords

Upset teen girl sit on floor sadly look out window worried about teenage problem at school and communication with parent. Worried girl tensely suffer about bullying at school, unrequited love with boy

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

“It’s AI detecting AI.”

By Frank Landymore

Billionaires are (still) doomsday prepping. AI — the tech many of them are building — has them more paranoid than ever.

Numerous Billionaires Preparing for End of Society

Guns, gold, and bunkers galore.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new survey of high school students and teachers paints a bleak picture of how rapidly AI has taken over schools.

An Astonishing Proportion of High Schoolers Have Had a “Romantic Relationship” With an AI, Research Finds

This should worry you.

By Frank Landymore

Musk Watch

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.”

British conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall called for billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to be blasted into space.

Jane Goodall Recorded a Message About Elon Musk Before Her Death

“Bruh, if Jane Goodall roasts you in her final farewell, you done goofed.”

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Astronomers have detected a mysterious dark object in the distant universe. It could be dark matter, or it could be something else.

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Dark Object in Distant Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have developed a nanoparticle-based treatment that successfully reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice.

Neuroscience and Brain

Nanoparticle Treatment Reverses Alzheimer’s in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

We may have been wrong about how the Moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago.

There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. Fred Ramsdell and his wife were backpacking through the Rocky Mountains when they missed the Nobel Assembly's call.

Committee Unable to Contact Nobel Prize Winner Because He’s Too Chill, Had Phone on Airplane Mode

Canada's fisheries minister has stepped in to deny the transfer of 30 white whales to a suitable facility in China.

Canada Considering Doing Something Unforgivable to its Beluga Whales

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is absolutely blasting out water at a staggering rate, astronomers found.

Interstellar Object Is Spraying Something Weird, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Instead of learning about loss from the death of a family pet, this lesson comes from an artificially generated voice module.

Little Girl Sobs While Saying Goodbye to Her Broken AI Toy

After rolling out an AI tool to generate cheap thumbnails for his videos, Jimmy Donaldson says the tech is creating "scary times."

MrBeast Concerned That AI Slop Will Put Him Out of Business

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched yet another investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving mode.

Government Investigating Nearly Three Million Self-Driving Teslas for Violating Traffic Laws, Crashing

By Frank Landymore

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic

By Sharon Adarlo

Astronomers say that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe's first "dark stars" that are fuelled by dark matter.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Appears to Have Spotted “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter, Paper Claims

By Victor Tangermann

The 29-year-old man arrested for allegedly starting the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles used ChatGPT while he was at the scene.

Suspect Fantasized About Arson on ChatGPT Before Setting Deadly Fire That Killed 12, Prosecutors Say

By Frank Landymore

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

As of October, there are more than 8,000 active Starlink satellites clogging up the planet's Low Earth Orbit.

Astronaut Captures Footage of SpaceX Junk Cluttering the Atmosphere

The Friend AI CEO met Gothamist in a subway stop to discuss the million-dollar ad campaign and share that he is tired.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO Who Plastered AI Ads All Over Subway System Afraid to Talk to Real New Yorkers Face-to-Face

OpenAI's Sora 2 app quickly turned into a rocky road. Copyright guardrails have frustrated many users and driven them away.

OpenAI’s Sora Is in Serious Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

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