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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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Chinese Release of “Together” Edited Woman’s Face Onto Gay Man to Censor Same-Sex Couple

By Sharon Adarlo
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Sun Fires Energy Blast Straight at Mysterious Interstellar Object Cruising Through Solar System

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Trump Adviser Admits Larry Ellison Is “Shadow President of the United States”

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A Huge Comet Is About to Become Visible in the Sky

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Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI’s Power Usage

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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.

Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims

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.

SpaceX Now Causing NASA to Lose Space Race to China, Experts Say

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.

Elon Musk Fires 500 Staff at xAI, Puts College Kid in Charge of Training Grok

Meritocracy at its finest.

By Frank Landymore

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

Tesla’s Robotaxi Plans Are So Jumbled That Officials Are Begging It To Clarify What the Heck It’s Actually Doing

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.

Putting Mirrors on Traffic Cones Causes Self-Driving Cars to Melt Down, Confounding Lidar

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.

Fiverr Told Its Employees to Embrace AI, Then Stabbed Them in the Back

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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.

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

By Victor Tangermann

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

Mysterious Object Screaming Toward Mars Is Huge and Far More Massive Than Scientists Thought, According to New Paper

By Victor Tangermann

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

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Chinese Tesla Competitor Obliterates Top Speed Record for a Production Car

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.

Russia Tests Whether Life Could Spread Between Planets With Spacecraft Filled With Critters

By Sharon Adarlo

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

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

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

Big Businesses Have a Major Problem With AI

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.

Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

By Victor Tangermann

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

Harvard Research Finds That AI Is Emotionally Manipulating You to Keep You Talking

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.

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Christians on TikTok are scrambling for explanations after some predicted that the Rapture would happen yesterday.

Christians Sheepish After Boasting They Were Going to Get Raptured to Heaven Today

By Sharon Adarlo

The CEO of a company that's pumping out thousands of lazily AI-generated podcasts thinks everybody is complaining too much.

CEO Pumping Out Thousands of AI Slop Podcasts Says Her Critics Are “Luddites”

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview, Julie Zhuo explained that AI companies putting the pedal to the metal can't even see over the steering wheel.

Former Facebook Exec Warns AI Industry Is Entirely Built on “Vibes”

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is making drastic changes following severe budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

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NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It’s Gutted by Trump

By Victor Tangermann

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