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Taikonauts Zhang Lu and Wu Fei installed debris protection panels on China's Tiangong during an eight-hour spacewalk.

China Installs Defensive Countermeasures on Space Station

The Pentagon's AI chatbot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Geneva Convention, even if Pete Hegseth doesn't.

Hegseth’s New Pentagon AI Is Telling Military Personnel His Boat Strike Was Completely Illegal

A man who admitted to drinking eight energy drinks a day has lasting numbness throughout his body due to a stroke.

Man Suffers Grim Fate After Drinking Eight Energy Drinks Per Day

New research shows a country-wide experiment by Instacart has been charging shoppers different prices for the same product at the same store.

Machine Learning

Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

The UK's recent moves to ban gender-affirming treatment has created a robust black market for hormonal medications.

Banning Gender Transition Treatment Is Leading Kids to Do Exactly What You’d Expect

A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.

AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims

The company 2wai went viral after it released an advertisement showing its AI product resurrecting a dead grandmother.

Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

McDonald's and its marketing contractors have had some bizarre responses to the backlash from their AI commercial.

McDonald’s Issues Extremely Weird Response to Its Disastrous AI Ad

Police in Goodyear, Arizona are boasting about using ChatGPT to generate composite sketches, despite legal expert's concerns.

Police Admit They’re Using ChatGPT to Generate “Sketches” of Suspects

Sundar Pichai recently claimed that no job is safe, not even his own, fretting that we'll have to suffer through AI whether we like it or not.

Google CEO Says We’re All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper

Parting Stones is reshaping the way we cremate our dead relatives, turning them into a luscious pile of clattering stones.

You Will Never Guess What This Startup Is Turning Human Remains Into

McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery

As economic discontent grows, tech billionaires are pouring money into some 120 "startup societies" where they can reign supreme.

The Industrialists

Tech Billionaires Are Starting Private Cities to Escape the United States

A first-of-its-kind study in Australia found that giving men a common antidepressant helped reduce domestic violence rates.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Find That Dosing Men With Antidepressants Can Cut Down on Domestic Violence

Trains as far as Scotland were halted or delayed due to a viral AI hoax spreading misinformation in the aftermath of an earthquake.

Officials Halt Dozens of Trains Due to AI Hoax

Sensationalist travel vlogger Kurt Caz was caught using AI to doctor a thumbnail to look like immigrants are taking over London.

Travel Influencer Caught Using AI to Make It Seem Like Minorities Are Terrorizing London

The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents

A modern American Election Day

AI Is Incredibly Good at Changing Voters’ Minds, New Research Finds — With an Incredible Caveat

Mike Winkelmann, also known as the digital artist Beeple, has a bizarre new art instillation with billionaire heads on robot dog bodies.

Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies

Country music producers in Nashville are increasingly turning to AI tools like Suno, following a long pattern of industrialization.

The Country Music Industry Has Discovered That AI Can Crank Out Hits Like Crazy

A Rudolph-themed drone show was a major disappointment for English families who braved a muddy swamp to attend.

Christmas Drone Show for Children Ends Flops Pathetically

A new $7 million startup called Autolane is revolutionizing the way self-driving cars navigate the fast food drive thru.

Startup Building “Air Traffic Control” to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A

A new research paper finds that the amount of light pollution coming from satellites could ruin NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope

SpaceX Is Now Threatening the Hubble, NASA Warns

Private-equity backed firm Securus has secretly been recording inmate conversations for years, collecting data to train its AI.

Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

Organizations working with independent political candidates in the US say AI could be a major help in identifying friendly districts.

Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System

Government analysts found that the UK's rapidly expanding AI surveillance system is horribly biased toward Black and Asian people.

Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”

Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.

The Industrialists

Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business

Waymo has been experimenting with programming to make its typically-cautious robotaxis "confidently assertive."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Has Been Reprogramming Its Robotaxis to Drive More Aggressively

Video shared on social media shows a Waymo driving through a red light and into an active police standoff in downtown Los Angeles.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Cops Stunned as Waymo Cruises Through Active Police Standoff

Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People

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Residents of Boxtown, Tennessee say Elon Musk's xAI "Colossus Supercomputer" is turning the air into a noxious chemical brew.

Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk’s Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick

After building a flying hover-sword earlier this year, Chinese sword influencer Fan Shisan has created a swarm of floating blades.

Chinese Man Unleashes Swarm of Flying Swords

Recent data from the US Census Bureau shows that the amount of workers using AI on the job is falling to a dismal rate.

Machine Learning

The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling

A new platform called Polyglobe is helping gamblers visualize real-time geopolitical conflicts to bet on through Polymarket.

New App Lets Users Bet on Deadly Conflicts in Real Time

It really seems like Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, just posted Dave Portnoy's home address for millions to see.

Grok Appears to Have Doxxed Dave Portnoy’s Home Address

An inquiry led by Republican senator Ted Cruz is blaming life-saving car safety regulations for the rising cost of cars.

Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed

A pilot program has unleashed a hoard of delivery robots onto Chicago sidewalks, prompting outrage from locals.

Residents Rage Against Fleet of Delivery Robots Taking Over Chicago

Millionaire AI startup founder Maor Shlomo admits that it's incredibly easy to copy other companies thanks to vibe coding.

Startups Using AI Have a Problem: Anyone Can Copy Their Awesome Idea

A sprawling data center in eastern Oregon has been linked to a huge rise in rare cancers, muscle conditions, and miscarriages.

Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers

The city council of Santa Monica, California voted unanimously to demand Waymo cease nighttime operations at two charging lots.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus

An AgiBot A2 has completed a 66-mile, three-day pilgrimage without powering down, breaking previous world records.

Robot Walks for Three Days Straight, Hotswapping Its Battery Over and Over in New World Record

The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.

South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster

At a conference alongside Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang suggested that any AI productivity gains will leave us working more, not less.

Nvidia CEO Says Instead of Taking Your Job, AI Will Force You to Work Even Harder

Meta's $27 billion hyperion data center is already making life a living hell for the residents of Holly Ridge, Louisiana.

Meta’s $27 Billion Datacenter Is Wreaking Havoc on a Louisiana Town

Three major insurance companies have requested permission to exclude AI from their policies as anxiety grows throughout the industry.

Insurance Companies Are Terrified to Cover AI, Which Should Probably Tell You Something

A former activist with the group StopAI has reportedly gone missing after making violent threats against OpenAI employees.

OpenAI Locks Down Office After Violent Threat

According to a lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg allegedly directed his company to prioritize the metaverse over youth safety, among other violations.

Mark Zuckerberg Allegedly Said Child Safety Was Less Important Than “Building the Metaverse”

A massive fire broke out inside the convention center hosting over 50,000 UN delegates attending COP30, forcing an evacuation.

Fire Breaks Out at UN Climate Summit

Sam Altman's blockchain startup "Tools for Humanity" demands employees treat its surveillance orb project with a slavish devotion.

Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Orb Startup Made a Cult-Like Demand of Its Employees

Students at the University of Staffordshire have spent the past two years learning to code from AI-generated course material.

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.

Quantum Physics

Giant Chinese Orb Detects “Ghost Particles” While Buried Under Mountain

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says the country has no choice but to move the nation's capital amidst an unprecedented water crisis.

President of Iran Says It’s Forced to Move Its Entire Capital City

A bizarre cryptocurrency company is creating an alternative to the widely used opium reversal drug Naxalone, for inexplicable reasons.

RX and Medicine

Crypto Company Creates Bizarre Drug

Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas

A startup called Mission Barns is using pig fat to grow pork in a bioreactor, a process with major implications for the meat industry.

New Startup Harvests Bacon Without Killing Pig

Roblox CEO and co-founder David Baszucki says his game's longstanding issues with child predators are an opportunity for growth.

CEO of Roblox Says Child Predators on the Platform Are an “Opportunity”

New data shows that user numbers have fallen flat during Elon Musk's reign over X-formerly-Twitter, as young users flee for other apps.

Twitter Use Has Stagnated Pathetically Under Elon Musk

A researcher uncovered evidence that 171 SpaceX Starlink satellites used by the US government were broadcasting in the "wrong direction."

SpaceX Has Wildly Screwed Up Its Military Satellites, Researcher Finds

Larry Summers, a prominent OpenAI board member, just resigned from his post after emails showed Jeffery Epstein was his "wing man."

OpenAI Board Member Resigns After Deep Connections to Epstein Exposed

AI companies like Mercor are scrapping thousands of worker contracts in order restart operations while paying much lower rates.

AI Companies Are Treating Their Workers Like Human Garbage, Which May Be a Sign of Things to Come for the Rest of Us

Researchers at MIT have invented "Circulatronics," a medical platform they say enables non-invasive treatment of neuroinflammation.

MIT Invents Injectable Brain Chips

A new Y Combinator-backed startup called "Chad" is revolutionizing the way software engineers waste time at work.

Artificial Intelligence

New Development Environment for Programmers Rewards Them With Brainrot When They Prompt the AI

New research shows roleplaying romantic relationships with chatbots like Replika can include marriage, homemaking, and even pregnancies.

People Are Having AI “Children” With Their AI Partners

The international R&B sensation was arrested in Georgia after a Flock AI camera flagged his white Cybertruck at a tiny shop.

Akon Arrested After Cybertruck Mishap

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