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An AI startup called friend has plastered the New York City subway system in advertisements -- and furious riders are vandalizing them.
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New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign

“AI wouldn’t care if you lived or died.”

By Rae Witte

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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

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.
Elon Musk

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.
Elon Musk

Tesla Worker Knocked Unconscious by Robot, Lawsuit Claims

He’s suing the company for $51 million.

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Compsci Grads Are Cooked

By Sharon Adarlo

Strange, quasi-circular circles structures called coronae scour the surface of Venus — but their origins are a mystery.
Astronomy

Scientists Intrigued by Weird Structures on Surface of Venus

By Frank Landymore

Harvard astornomer Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could've sent off the Wow! Signal back in 1977.
Astronomy

Mysterious Object Cruising Through Solar System May Have Emitted a Signal, Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

A sociology scholar is cautioning that we are hurtling toward a "systemic digital crisis" caused by the digital economy.
Hacking

Professor Warns Society Is Veering Toward a Digital Apocalypse

By Joe Wilkins

NASA whistleblowers claim that President Donald Trump has been making drastic cuts to its budget that may result in an astronaut's death.
NASA

Whistleblowers Say NASA Is Poised to Kill an Astronaut

By Sharon Adarlo

Photoshop and Acrobat developer Adobe could soon be in serious trouble thanks to the emergence of generative AI.
Future Society

Adobe Is in Serious Trouble Because of AI, Morgan Stanley Warns

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon has infused its famed assistant Alexa with the power of AI — an upgrade that's apparently come with drawbacks and headaches.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon’s New AI-Powered Alexa Is a Half-Working Mess

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released a new evaluation to figure out how well its AIs perform on "economically valuable, real-world tasks."
Future Society

OpenAI Releases List of Work Tasks It Says ChatGPT Can Already Replace

By Victor Tangermann

Experts are scrambling to explain a rise in jellyfish blooms in the last place you'd expect: the freshwater lakes of middle America.
Global Warming

Experts Alarmed as Jellyfish Spawn in Freshwater Lakes

By Joe Wilkins

In a recent podcast appearance, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agonized that China is now "nanoseconds behind" US chipmakers.
Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Is Quaking in Its Boots

By Joe Wilkins

People from the ages of 18 to 39 have suffered an increase in cognitive issues in the span of more than a decade.
Mental Health

Huge Proportion of Young Americans Now Reporting Serious Cognitive Issues

By Sharon Adarlo

A video of one of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral.
Mass Transit

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

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump shared a bizarre and clearly AI-generated video on Truth Social about a QAnon conspiracy theory.
Future Society

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

By Victor Tangermann

The AI channel racked up more than 175,000 views with photorealistic depictions of women being shot in the head or chest.
Future Society

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

By Frank Landymore

Second-year Lakers head coach JJ Redick gave fans pause after sharing he's been having long talks with a virtual buddy.
OpenAI

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

By Joe Wilkins

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

By Joe Wilkins

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

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Support Group Launches for People Suffering “AI Psychosis”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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