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Lockheed Martin F-35s Can Be Jailbroken Like $80 Million iPhones, European Military Chief Says

By Joe Wilkins
As Epstein Scandal Tightens, Trump Announces That He’s Releasing All Government Files About Alien Life

By Victor Tangermann
Concern Grows That Bitcoin’s Value Could Be Entirely Destroyed

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Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals

By Joe Wilkins
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Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Listing for Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror

“Genuinely the worst possible thing to scroll past before I fall asleep.”

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

“You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential…”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

“This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

“It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn’t Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is

Grok is “BASED,” enthused Musk.

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX and xAI are competing in a Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech.

SpaceX Angling for Military Contract to Produce Drone Swarms

After years of opposing them, Musk is looking to develop killer drones.

By Victor Tangermann

Former xAI staffers told The Verge they grew frustrated with the company's ethical carelessness and stagnating technological progress.

Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation

“You survive by shutting up and doing what Elon wants.”

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

Fears over an AI bubble continue to grow as analysts warn that companies are massively overinvesting, according to a new survey.

Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

A Huge Survey of CEOs and Other Execs Just Found Something Damning About AI’s Effects on Productivity

By Frank Landymore

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AI Will Destroy Millions of White Collars Jobs in the Coming Months, Andrew Yang Warns, Driving Surge of Personal Bankruptcies

A $1.2 billion fund announced in a regulatory filing that it's looking to give mom-and-pop investors a chance to get access to SpaceX stock.

Artificial Intelligence

Buckle Up: New Fund Will Let Regular Investors Buy SpaceX Stock

By Victor Tangermann

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Skeptic Builds “Havana Syndrome”-Style Device, Tests It on Himself, Suffers Grim Consequences

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Robotaxis Crashing Vastly More Often Than Human Drivers

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Oxford Researcher Warns That AI Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster

By Frank Landymore

Tesla's vehicle sales across 13 European markets are absolutely atrocious compared to the same point just two years ago.

Tesla’s New Sales Data Is Absolutely Brutal

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Artificial Intelligence

Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI

By Frank Landymore

The next AI price hike could affect hard drives, following RAM, SSDs, and graphical processing units.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They’re About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects

By Frank Landymore

Trump administration officials are now considering cutting ties with Anthropic over the company's limits on its contract.

Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic

By Victor Tangermann

The televised Spring Festival Gala put on by the state-run China Media Group featured an impressive synchronized martial arts routine.

Chinese Robots Can Now Run Up Walls

By Victor Tangermann

Still frame from video by Tesla driver Daniel Milligan. A boat docked at a pier at night, with its reflection visible in the calm water. The image is taken from a vehicle dashboard camera, showing a speed of 7 MPH and indicating that the vehicle is in self-driving mode.

Self-Driving Vehicles

FSD Tries to Drive Straight Into Lake

By Frank Landymore

Meta was granted a patent in 2023 for the idea, outlining how a large language model (LLM) can "simulate" a user's social media activity.

Meta Patented AI That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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