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A Reuters report says that an AI tool used by the app NewsBreak has been publishing entirely made-up news articles.

Artificial Intelligence

Popular News App Caught Publishing Completely Untrue AI Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New data from NOAA and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography shows that atmospheric carbon dioxide reached an all-time high in May.

Carbon Pollution in Atmosphere Hits All Time Record

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Irish man sued Microsoft after MSN circulated an AI article falsely accusing him of sexual misconduct, per a New York Times investigation.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI-generated image of a young disabled veteran went viral on Facebook. A lot of folks — particularly older men — think she's the real deal.

Facebook Page Uses AI-Generated Image of Disabled Veteran to Farm Engagement

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A news network is attributing AI-spun articles to fake authors with racially diverse names. Its publisher claims the names were unintentional.

Artificial Intelligence

News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A tiny cohort of "supersharers" spread the majority of fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election. They were mostly older white women.

Scientists Find That a Tiny Proportion of People Spread Almost All the Fake News, and They Turn Out to Be Exactly Who You’d Expect

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A coalition of AI workers are pushing for a "Right to Warn" the public about AI safety concerns, citing concerns over the employee silencing.

OpenAI Insiders Say They’re Being Silenced About Danger

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Russia is generating disinformation ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games — and according to Microsoft researchers, it's using AI to do it.

Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Say Russia Is Using AI to Predict Terrorism at Paris Olympics

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has canceled his flagship space tourism flight, citing readiness problems with SpaceX's Starship rocket.

Billionaire Cancels Moon Tourism Trip After SpaceX Misses Deadline

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The feds arrested Yunhe Wan, who they say perpetrated a massive botnet scheme that swindled billions and facilitated child exploitation.

Multibillion Dollar Botnet Scam Traced Back to a Single Person

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An international team of botanists just discovered the largest genome ever sequenced — in an itty-bitty Pacific fern.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Teeny Tiny Plant With the Largest Genome Ever Sequenced

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Should genAI be journalism's future, Semafor reports that partisan digital outlets, especially those on the far-right, might get frozen out.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Already Leaving Right Wing, Conservative Media Outlets In The Past

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI's demand on the US power grid is resulting in changing phase-out deadlines for American coal companies.

Artificial Intelligence

Huge Power Demand for AI Is Keeping Polluting Coal Plants Alive

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA scientists believe that a small asteroid in the Main Asteroid Belt called "Dinky" birthed its own Moon. Actually, two of them.

Astronomers Surprised After Finding Tiny Moon Is Actually Two Tiny Moons in a Trenchcoat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Within an hour of Donald Trump's historic felony convictions, the presidential candidate's donation site crashed.

Donation Page for Convicted Reality TV Host Crashes Following Guilty Verdict

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Denver Police Department is planning to deploy aerial drones as 911 first responders, The Denver Post reports. Yes, seriously.

Denver Police Department Wants Drones to Respond to 911 Calls

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some YouTube users who use certain ad blockers are experiencing video errors. As it turns out, those ad blockers themselves may be the issue.

YouTube’s Crackdown on Ad Blockers Is Making It Miserable to Use

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hacker Releases Jailbroken “Godmode” Version of ChatGPT

Hacker Releases Jailbroken “Godmode” Version of ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Japanese scientists have completed the world's first wooden satellite, dubbed LignoSat. It's slated to head to the ISS in September.

Japanese Scientists Show Off World’s First Wooden Satellite

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated media is leading the way in visual disinformation on the web, a recent study led by Google researchers found.

Even Google’s Own Researchers Admit AI Is Top Source of Misinformation Online

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

China has released video footage of its gun-toting robot dogs, and it's about as scary as you were probably imagining.

Video Shows China’s Rifle-Equipped Robot Dog Opening Fire on Targets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google manually removed AI-powered search results from pages where it was caught giving bizarre and incorrect information to search users.

Google Caught Manually Taking Down Bizarre AI Answers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI search delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries with total confidence. Just one problem: it's wrong. A lot.

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another OpenAI researcher left the company this week, ominously citing concerns over AI industry opaqueness and a lack of accountability.

Another OpenAI Researcher Quits, Issuing Cryptic Warning

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta, hoping to cash in on AI for itself, is failing to prevent abusive AI-generated images from spreading across its social media platforms.

While Meta Stuffs AI Into All Its Products, It’s Apparently Helpless to Stop Perverts on Instagram From Publicly Lusting Over Sexualized AI-Generated Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Louisiana has voted to pass a deeply unscientific bill that criminalizes abortion pills by classifying them as a schedule IV drug.

Louisiana House Passes Unbelievably Stupid Bill that Classifies Extremely Safe Abortion Pills as “Controlled Dangerous Substances”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Low-paid African content moderators, many of whom are living with PTSD, are calling on Biden to help ensure fair working conditions.

African Workers Doing OpenAI’s Training Say They’re Being Subjected to “Modern Day Slavery”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Ongoing Mexican heatwaves have killed at least 83 howler monkeys in Tabasco, where the primates were already threatened by habitat loss.

Mexico Getting So Hot That Monkeys Are Falling Dead From Trees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Palantir's recent AI and defense expo sounds like it was an Orwellian nightmare fever dream to end all other military-industrial conferences.

Palantir’s Military AI Tech Conference Sounds Absolutely Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI search wants you to change your car's "blinker fluid." No, dear reader: blinker fluid does not exist.

Google’s Search AI Recommends Changing Your Car’s Blinker Fluid, Which Is a Made Up Thing That Does Not Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A data training failure has resulted in OpenAI's new GPT-4o model spitting out spam and porn-littered Chinese-language responses.

The New ChatGPT Has a Huge Problem in Chinese

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study found that certain vegetarian and vegan diets curb risks of life-threatening illnesses like cancer and heart disease.

Huge Study Finds That Vegetarian and Vegan Diets Are Incredibly Good for You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The American newspaper giant and USA Today owner Gannett is using AI to generate a bulleted list of "Key Points" for news articles.

Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Using AI to Generate Parts of Articles, Leaked Memo Shows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Writers at the newspaper giant Gannett quietly updated employment contracts to provide much more leeway for generating "news content."

Gannett Staff Furious Over Contract Allowing AI “to Generate News Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI Mocked for Issuing Infringement Claim Over Its Logo While Scraping the Entire Web to Train AI Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

Artificial Intelligence

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

DeepMind cofounder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman wants you to think of AI as a new "digital species."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Executive Says AI Is a “New Kind of Digital Species”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A viral two-minute short titled "air head," created in part by using OpenAI's video-generating Sora tool, required a good bit human editing.

Artificial Intelligence

Turns Out That Extremely Impressive Sora Demo… Wasn’t Exactly Made With Sora

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

At least three women were diagnosed with HIV after receiving a bloody "vampire facial" at an unlicensed New Mexico wellness spa.

Women Diagnosed With HIV After “Vampire Facial” Procedures Popularized by Kim Kardashian

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twenty years ago, NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust — a perfect moment in mankind's interstellar history.

A Random Reminder That NASA Drew a Big Ol’ Dick on the Surface of Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek recently discovered that firing 17 percent of a company's workforce might have a big impact on said company.

CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meet AngryGF, an AI chatbot-powered girlfriend app that bullies users into learning better communication skills.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Girlfriend Constantly Yells at You in Perpetual Fury

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study discovered that nearly half of China's major cities are caving into the Earth, adding to a growing global issue of subsidence.

Chinese Cities Are Sinking Into the Earth, Scientists Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A report from Nieman Labs reveals that Newsweek, a 90-year-old journalistic institution, is using AI in its newsroom.

Artificial Intelligence

Newsweek Is Using AI in Its Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An elderly elephant named Viola was found ambling through Butte, Montana on Tuesday after escaping a traveling circus.

Science & Energy

Elephant Escapes Circus, Thunders Through Montana City

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla is laying off over ten percent of its global workforce, the latest bruising in a not-so-great 2024 for the Elon Musk-owned EV maker.

Elon Musk Fires More Than Ten Percent of Tesla’s Staff After Alienating Pretty Much Everyone Who Might Have Bought a Tesla

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers

Google Appears to Have Partnered With the Company Behind Sports Illustrated’s Fake, AI-Generated Writers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is set on infusing AI into search. What does that mean for the ad model that brings in the majority of the search giant's revenue?

Google Accidentally Admits Something Very Funny About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Verve Therapeutics has paused the first phase of a human gene-editing drug trial aimed at reducing heart disease due to serious side effects.

Gene Editing Experiment Halted as Patient Gets Weird Side Effects

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta-formerly-Facebook is bleeding its top AI leaders, with at least three executives leaving the company in March alone.

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Researchers Keep Leaving Facebook

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassibis likened the hype shrouding the AI gold rush to that of the crypto industry's high-dollar funding race.

CEO of Google DeepMind Says AI Industry Full of Hype and Grifters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The James Webb Space Telescope's dazzling imagery actually arrives to researchers in black-and-white and is colored via educated guessing.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb’s Beautiful Images Actually Arrive in Black and White

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An official New York City chatbot designed to help business owners navigate city law apparently knows very little about said laws.

Artificial Intelligence

Official NYC Chatbot Encouraging Small Businesses to Break the Law

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Daily Beast reports that Boston University suggested its professors should use AI to replace the work of striking graduate students.

Artificial Intelligence

University Leadership Suggest Using AI to Replace Striking Grad Students

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new report reveals the chaos behind the startup Stability AI, including an incident where its now-ex CEO disappeared in his pajamas.

Artificial Intelligence

Stability AI CEO Disappeared in His Pajamas in Bizarre Incident

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Maersk, which chartered the ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, was recently sanctioned by US regulators for stifling whistleblowers.

Advanced Transport

Cargo Giant That Took Out Bridge Had Silenced Whistleblower Who Warned About Safety

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk appears to have once again unfollowed ex-girlfriend Claire "Grimes" Boucher, who recently went public with her new boyfriend.

Elon Musk Unfollows Grimes After She Debuts New Boyfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A detained Binance executive, British-Kenyan citizen Nadeem Anjarwalla, has reportedly broken out of custody in Nigeria.

Binance Executive Reportedly Breaks Out of House Arrest

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Don't want Google's experimental AI search feature, known as SGE, embedded into your search results page? Too bad.

Google Pushing Its Unsafe Search AI on Users Who Didn’t Opt In

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Grimes has a new boyfriend. T-minus how many days until her ex-boyfriend Elon Musk makes like a SpaceX Starship rocket and simply explodes?

We’re Waiting for Elon Musk to Go Berzerk as Grimes Debuts New Boyfriend

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-integrated Search feature, Search Generative Experience (SGE), is leading platform users straight to malware-laden spam sites.

Google’s AI Search Caught Pushing Users to Download Malware

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

David Calhoun, CEO of the deeply embattled Boeing, is reportedly set to resign later this year. It should come as no surprise.

Advanced Transport

Boeing CEO Resigning Amid Disintegrating Planes Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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