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Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

“Late for tee time?”

By Victor Tangermann

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Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots

By Joe Wilkins
Mental Health

Huge Proportion of Young Americans Report Serious Cognitive Issues

By Sharon Adarlo
Mental Health

Trump’s Grip on Reality Questioned After He Shares and Then Deletes Bizarre AI-Generated Video

By Victor Tangermann
Future Society

YouTube Removes Disturbing AI Slop YouTube Channel Filled With Videos of Women Being Murdered

By Frank Landymore
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NBA Coach JJ Redick Says He Spends Hours Talking to His “Friend” ChatGPT

By Joe Wilkins

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A not-jealous-sounding Elon Musk is accusing OpenAI of poaching his former xAI employees to steal company secrets.

Elon Musk Is Fuming That Workers Keep Ditching His Company for OpenAI

His blood feud with Sam Altman rages on.

By Frank Landymore

A newly released document links Elon Musk to alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his notorious island in the Caribbean.

New Evidence Links Elon Musk to Epstein’s Island

“Epstein is obviously a creep.”

By Sharon Adarlo

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

The Feed

A researcher went back over 100 years of brain science that lead him to a radical conclusion about consciousness.

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuroscientist Says We’re All Wrong About Root of Consciousness in Our Brains

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

By Victor Tangermann

A planned data center in Indianapolis by Google was shut down after residents protested its possible environmental impacts.

Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

By Sharon Adarlo

The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

By Victor Tangermann

SAP chief finance officer Dominik Asam didn't mince words when asked what the end result of his company's AI usage would be.

Artificial Intelligence

SAP Exec: Get Ready to Be Fired Because of AI

By Frank Landymore

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

Space Force top boss Chance Saltzman says we need to accept that things aren't always going to be perfect, weapons of war included.

Space Force Says It’ll Prioritize Buying Lots of Weapons Over Ones That Work Properly

Detail of a Steam Deck handheld gaming console, taken on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Dabe Alan/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

4Chan-Obsessed ICE Shooter Was Gaming on Steam Right Up Until the End

By Sharon Adarlo

Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

AI bots sided with users who acted in a way that was "deemed inappropriate by crowdsourced human judgments, researchers found.

In Situations Where Most Humans Think You’re Being a Jerk, ChatGPT Will Assure You You’re Behaving Like an Angel

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.

Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

By Frank Landymore

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Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord

Trump's anti-Tylenol expert received at least $150,000 as an expert witness during several lawsuits aimed at Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol.

Trump’s Top Anti-Tylenol Expert Was Paid to Hate Tylenol, Records Show

By Victor Tangermann

The movie studio partnered with the firm Runway to make a movie generating AI trained on its catalog — and it's currently foundering.

Artificial Intelligence

Lionsgate’s Attempt to Create Movies Using AI Has Crumbled Into Disaster

By Frank Landymore

After scientists showed that AI can design a working virus, it's time to address the obvious: what if it's also used to make bioweapons?

Experts Alarmed That AI Is Now Producing Functional Viruses

By Frank Landymore

Engineers developed an EV battery ejection system that shoots the offending pack out of the side of the vehicle like a giant piece of toast.

Electric Vehicles

China Unveils EV That Can Violently Eject Its Battery in Case of a Fire

By Victor Tangermann

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