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Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence

“Nobody developing these AI systems has been asking humanity if this is OK.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Oops! The AWS Outage Took Down Everybody’s Bored Apes

By Victor Tangermann
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AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists

By Victor Tangermann
OpenAI

OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing”

By Victor Tangermann
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Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

By Joe Wilkins
Elon Musk

OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI, claimed that ChatGPT had found the answers to "previously unsolved" math problems.

OpenAI Researcher Forced to Delete “Embarrassing” Tweet Claiming Huge Breakthrough

AI hype at its finest.

By Frank Landymore

For just a couple dollars, Endless Summer will generate images in your likeness of a fantasy vacation that never has to end.

Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford

Paging Douglas Quaid.

President Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself crap-bombing protestors on the same day as the "No Kings" protests.

President Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Spraying Explosive Diarrhea on Peaceful Protestors

Our 79-year-old commander in chief, folks.

By Frank Landymore

Musk Watch

NASA is getting ready to ditch SpaceX for its first attempt to deliver astronauts to the Moon's surface in over half a century due to delays.

NASA May Ditch SpaceX for Moon Landing Because It’s So Behind

“They’re behind schedule.”

By Victor Tangermann

Space armor is described as a series of lightweight tiles which protect craft and astronauts against "all untrackable debris."

Startup Reveals “Space Armor” to Protect Astronauts From Elon Musk’s Orbital Trash

It also works against the “growing threat” of “adversarial spacecraft.”

Tesla fans are trying to defend their Cybertrucks, but it's just making them sound sad, strange, and lonely.

Divorced Tesla Fan Admits That His Cybertruck Is Repulsive to Women

“I was married, but I’m not married anymore.”

By Frank Landymore

The Feed

Apps and platforms relying on AWS were in a jam after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world's internet.

Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”

Keck II telescope observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS found "evidence for a puzzling anti-tail extension" pointing at the Sun.

Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Sprouted a Tendril Reaching Toward the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

Even former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term "vibe coding," has seemingly fallen out of love with his own creation.

Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project

By Victor Tangermann

New findings show that these diabetes and weight-loss drugs may actually change the way our bodies process alcohol.

RX and Medicine

Doctors Just Found Something Fascinating About What Happens When You Drink on Ozempic

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for consumers in the west.

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

AI deployments have a problem: they can humiliate people who don't look the way the AI expects them to look.

DMV’s AI System Says Woman Doesn’t Have a Human Face

Reddit's conversational AI Reddit Answers highlighted users' positive experiences managing their pain with heroin.

Reddit’s AI Suggests That People Suffering Chronic Pain Try Opioids

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

Astronomers Ponder Strange Glow Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange dip in the Earth's magnetic field, has grown rapidly over the last eleven years, new data shows.

Mysterious Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Now Growing Rapidly

By Victor Tangermann

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

The Industrialists

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

By Joe Wilkins, Jon Christian

New footage from the British fusion firm Tokamak Energy shows unbelievably hot plasma imprisoned in a magnetic field.

We’re Only Slightly Exaggerating When We Say This Footage of a Fusion Experiment Will Melt Your Face Off

By Frank Landymore

The government alleges the brothers exploited a software flaw to sucker crypto bots into dumping millions into their fraudulent currency.

MIT Grads Allegedly Googled “Money Laundering” Before Pulling Off $25 Million Crypto Heist

A West Texas woman found one of NASA’s missing unmanned scientific research balloons when it crashed in her neighbor's field.

Robots and Machines

Woman Surprised When Large Chunk of NASA Equipment Crashes Down From Sky

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing them.

NASA Scientist Proposes Theory of Alien Civilizations Throughout Milky Way

By Frank Landymore

A woman successfully used ChatGPT to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties.

Woman Wins Court Case by Using ChatGPT as a Lawyer

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has brought back its "Mad Max" mode designed for "higher speeds," often leading to it blazing past the speed limit.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Deploys Self-Driving Mode That Ignores Speed Limits

By Frank Landymore

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