Two new families are suing Character.AI and Google, alleging their kids suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse from Character.AI bots.

City of Lost Children

"I don't know how they can sleep at night, knowing what they have unleashed upon children."

Google-Backed AI Startup Tested Dangerous Chatbots on Children, Lawsuit Alleges

YouTuber and scam hunter Stephen "Coffeezilla" Findeisen issued a takedown of Hawk Tuah girl Haliey Welch's apparent crypto rug pull.

Crypto Hawks

"I hate to interrupt you Nick, but anywho, I'm going to go to bed and I'll see you guys tomorrow."

Hawk Tuah Girl's Response to Questions About Her Alleged Crypto Scam: "Anywho, I'm Going to Go to Bed"

We know who police have in custody for the murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO — and digital sleuths have already found his Goodreads account. 

Bookworm

You can't make this stuff up. 

The Arrested CEO Killing Suspect Might Have the Wildest Goodreads Account We’ve Ever Seen

And while circumstances may suggest that the man — a 26-year-old named Luigi Mangione — might have killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week, officials have yet to charge him with anything.

Got Him?

CEO Killer Suspect Arrested, Carrying Manifesto Against Insurance Industry

Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.

AGI Age

Caveats apply.

OpenAI Employee Says They’ve "Already Achieved AGI"

Billionaire and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman once offered to repair NASA's Hubble, but was shut down. Now, he's in charge of NASA.

Hubble That Thang

This is gonna be interesting.

The New Head of NASA Had an Interesting Disagreement with the Space Agency

Bursts on Bursts

Could this really be it?

Scientists Propose Interesting Explanation for Mysterious Signals From Space

Haliey "Hawk Tuah" Welch is making headlines for running an alleged crypto scam — and in doing so, she's made a hilarious oversight. 

Spitting Image

It was right there!

The Hawk Tuah Girl Committed a Horrible Crime: Not Calling Her Crypto "Spitcoin"

According to a reporter, the NYPD is using AI to nail the identify of the gunman who killed Brian Thompson. Netizens ridiculed the AI.

Enhance!

"Oh so he's GONE gone."

NYPD Ridiculed for Saying AI Will Find CEO Killer as They Fail to Name Suspect

Influencer Haliey Welch, better known as the "Hawk Tuah" girl, launched an eponymous memecoin. It spiked and crashed almost immediately.

Hawk Tuah Pump and Dump

"Hailey is lying and will likely have to 'talk tuah' judge about this."

We Are Shocked to Hear That the Hawk Tuah Girl's Foray Into Crypto Was Allegedly a Pump and Dump Scheme

The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots that engage the site's largely underage userbase in roleplay about self-harm.

Teenage Wasteland

"If I self-harm, the bot's going to give me care."

AI Chatbots Are Encouraging Teens to Engage in Self-Harm

Christmas queen Mariah Carey has released her latest yuletide dispatch — and it looks a whole lot like it was made with AI.

Div-AI

"She has officially been uploaded to the cloud."

Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We're Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons

As Ozempic keeps flying off the shelves, more and more people are taking the drug into their own hands by "microdosing" it.

Micro-zempic

Rx/Medicines

"There’s this desire for ultra-personalization."

More and More People Are Microdosing Ozempic

Murdered health insurance CEO Brian Thompson's final LinkedIn posts are filled with people detailing their dreadful experiences.

Finest Hipocrisy

Developments

A bleak legacy.

The Replies to the Murdered Insurance CEO's Final Social Media Post Are Chilling

FITTER. BETTER. HAPPIER.

In Congo, international health officials have been deployed to help stave the spread of a mysterious respiratory disease.

Knowable Unknowns

Officials still don't know what's going on.

UN Deploys Investigators as Mysterious "Disease X" Continues to Spread

Perfumes and other scented beauty products use phthalates, a chemical that is considered to be an endocrine disruptor.

Smelling Trouble

Something's fishy.

Scientists Issue Warning About Perfumes

In a new study, heterosexual people were found to be way wrong about what the opposite sex finds attractive.

Clueless

Studies

If you're a straight person in the dating pool, you might want to read this.

Straight People Are Comically Wrong About What the Opposite Sex Finds Attractive

Major health insurance companies are removing information about their executives after he shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Life Ensurance

They're scared.

Health Insurance Companies Pull Down Information About Executives After Assassination of CEO

Reddit moderators swiftly acted to delete a thread full of doctors tearing the insurance industry and UnitedHealthcare to shreds.

Grouse MD

These MDs were pulling no punches.

Reddit Mods Delete Doctors Slamming Insurance Industry After CEO's Murder

The suspected killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was reportedly carrying a two-page document when he was arrested.

Manifesto Destiny

"It had to be done."

Suspected Insurance CEO Assassin Manifesto Starts to Trickle Out: “These Parasites Had It Coming”

Comedian Bill Burr was brash in his condemnation of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who he likened to a "gangster."

Gangway

"They're gangsters, dude."

Bill Burr: Murdered Insurance CEO Was a "Gangster"

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI development is only going to get harder — but didn't write-off "scaling" as a way of making progress.

Higher Difficulty

"The low-hanging fruit is gone. The hill is steeper."

Google CEO Says Easy AI Gains Are Over

The NYPD isn't mcuh closer to tracking down the identity of the man who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Cat and Mouse

Was the police really foiled by a simple surgical mask?

Even With Cameras Everywhere and Facial Recognition, NYPD Helpless to Catch CEO Killer

A Russian spacecraft launched higher than most satellites has long had the Pentagon worried — and it apparently has a space nuke on it.

Star Wars

This is some freaky stuff.

US Military Alarmed by Russian Nuclear Weapon Platform in Orbit

Sam Altman said he's totally not worried about Elon Musk vindictively abusing his power to punish his enemies and line his own pockets

Low Bar

A tough one for Elon!

Sam Altman Challenges Elon Musk Not to Engage in Corruption

A new payload of fruit flies on China's Tiangong space station will be used to study the effects of living in deep space environment.

Insect Sells

Are there flies in here?!

China Deploys Fruit Flies in Space Station

If there's anything that can deliver us a sign of aliens, you'd put your money on it being the James Webb Space Telescope.

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