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Google Says Showing Polymarket Bets on Google News Was a Mistake

Interesting definition of “news.”

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

A man with a beard and mustache is lying on a yellow and blue textured surface, looking at a smartphone in his hand. He has short, slightly messy hair and multiple ear piercings. His skin and hair are digitally altered with a pink hue, and he has a tattoo on his upper arm. The image has a stylized, high-contrast color effect.

Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

“AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A person lying down on a blue surface with their face distorted in a stretched, abstract manner. The lighting highlights the face and upper body, creating a dramatic contrast with the dark background. The distortion gives the image a surreal and unsettling effect.

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

“Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A man wearing a white shirt is holding his head in his hands, appearing distressed or overwhelmed. His eyes are closed and his facial expression suggests frustration or sadness. The background is softly blurred with a neutral tone.

OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

Elon Musk is shown smoking while wearing headphones and speaking into a microphone. A tweet from Elon Musk is overlaid, stating that The Boring Company could build a Hyperloop tunnel from downtown San Francisco to downtown Los Angeles for less than 5% of the cost of subsidizing free flights between the two cities, calling it a technological marvel exceeding any high-speed rail on Earth. The tweet references a post by Hans Mahncke about the cost of subsidizing free flights.

Elon Musk Says He Could Definitely Build a Public Transit System Better Than Anything In China If He Tried

Sure.

By Frank Landymore

Morgan analysts are now warning that Tesla's share price could drop by a whopping 60 percent following disastrous sales numbers.

JP Morgan Concerned Tesla Stock Will Crash by 60 Percent in Face of Ongoing Business Failures

“We advise investors cautiously approach this expectation within the context of both execution risk and the time value of money.”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Secretly Shared His Number One Priority at Tesla and It Really Says It All

Intense workaholic, or deadbeat CEO?

The Feed

A humanoid Unitree G1 robot can be seen chasing a small flock of wild boars through an empty car parking lot in Warsaw, Poland.

Video Shows Humanoid Robot Chasing a Pack of Wild Boars

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is using AI to develop a "photorealistic, AI-powered 3D" version of himself that can interact with staffers.

Meta Secretly Building a Photorealistic AI Clone of Mark Zuckerberg so No Employee Can Ever Escape His Watchful Eye

By Victor Tangermann

A person wearing a black graduation gown and cap is holding a diploma with a ribbon while covering their face with one hand. The background features a large yellow circle and several blue and red humanoid robots.

Recent Grads Say AI Is Making It Impossible to Find a Job

Denialists are ironically pointing to faked, AI-generated footage as "proof" that NASA had staged its latest trip around the Moon.

Artificial Intelligence

Moon Denialists Are So Pathetic That They’re Using AI to Fake Artemis Footage

By Victor Tangermann

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RX and Medicine

CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine

Two partially unwrapped burritos with foil at the bottom, set against a blurred background of a car driving through a tunnel with green and yellow lights.

A New Study Found Something Disturbing About the Way Delivery Workers Drive to Get You Your Burrito

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Facial recognition

Man Suing City After AI Camera Flags Him For Wrongful Arrest

Nike's reportedly AI-designed World Cup jerseys debuted with comically misshapen shoulders that are impossible to ignore.

Artificial Intelligence

Nike’s AI Designed World Cup Jerseys Are a Disaster

By Frank Landymore

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Heat Waves Are Getting So Brutal That They Just Kill You, Full Stop

A close-up view of a blue car's rear side and spinning wheel on a road, with a black silhouette of a duck standing nearby. The background features a bright orange sky and a guardrail along the road.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Runs Down Mother Duck Taking Care of Her Eggs, Flees Scene

By Frank Landymore

Two cooling towers emitting white steam rise behind a dense forest with a winding road in the foreground. A large, bright yellow sun is positioned between the towers against an orange background with a grid pattern.

There’s a Glaring Safety Problem With Nuclear Energy Startups

OpenAI is backing a bill that would shield companies from liability in case AI were to cause serious "critical harms," including mass death.

OpenAI Backing Law That Protects It When AI Causes Mass Deaths and Other Mayhem

By Victor Tangermann

A new survey found that 20 percent of workers are already seeing workplace tasks automated by AI, though many questions remain.

Research Finds That AI Has Already Replaced Work for 20 Percent of Jobs

OpenAI Staffers Horrified When Senior Leadership Hatched “Insane” Plan to Pit World Governments Against Each Other

By Frank Landymore

Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire founder and chairman of Interactive Brokers, argued for legalizing insider trading.

Billionaire Says Insider Trading Should Be Fully Legalized

By Frank Landymore

Close-up of a solar panel surface showing a grid of small, rectangular photovoltaic cells. The cells display a gradient of colors from pink and purple on the left to blue on the right, with black lines separating the cells and small metallic connectors visible at intervals.

Scientists Set New Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

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