More from Victor Tangermann (Page 33)

We're still scrambling to find a plausible explanation as to why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was suddenly fired from his position last Friday.
OpenAI

Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI VP of global affairs Anna Makanju tried to calm angry staff in an internal memo, telling them they were in "intense discussions."
OpenAI

OpenAI Ponders How to Crush Staff Revolt

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.
OpenAI

OpenAI Employees Say Firm’s Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX has launched its second orbital attempt of its massive Starship rocket. It exploded just eight minutes into its flight.
Starship

SpaceX’s Starship Reaches Space, Immediately Explodes

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers recently simulated an atmospheric probe mission through Uranus and Neptune's atmospheres inside a plasma tunnel.
Off-World

Scientists Simulate What It’s Like to Dive Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

An image uploaded to the Cybertruck subreddit shows most of a Christmas tree dangerously protruding from the back of the truck.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted With Christmas Tree Sticking Way Out of Its Tiny Bed

By Victor Tangermann

Lawyer Zachariah Crabill was caught using ChatGPT to help him write a court document — but even after being fired, he still believes in AI.
OpenAI

Lawyer Fired for Using ChatGPT Says He Will Keep Using AI Tools

By Victor Tangermann

Tech millionaire Bryan Johnson bragged about donating a liter of his blood plasma to his 70-year-old father to slow down his aging.
Health & Medicine

Zillionaire Biohacker Brags That He’s His Dad’s “Blood Boy”

By Victor Tangermann

A new leaked video shows the interior of Tesla's long-awaited electric pickup, including a detailed breakdown of the UI and possibly range.
Advanced Transport

Did the Cybertruck’s Actual Driving Range Just Leak?

By Victor Tangermann

“Euphoria” Producer Died After Medical Emergency While Tesla Was on Autopilot
Medical

“Euphoria” Producer Died After Medical Emergency While Tesla Was on Autopilot

By Victor Tangermann

A powerful gamma ray burst was so powerful, it took a chunk out of the Earth's upper atmosphere last year.
Science & Energy

A Supernova Blew Out Part of Earth’s Atmosphere, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Giorgetto Giugiaro, the 85-year-old Italian designer behind the DeLorean, has some thoughts on Tesla's brutalist Cybertruck.
Advanced Transport

The Designer of the DeLorean Has Some Thoughts About the Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla owners aren't impressed with the company's $150 CyberBeer and are finding the lids of the bottles are rusted.
Future Society

Tesla’s Expensive “CyberBeer” Is Apparently Completely Disgusting

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social is burning through tens of millions of dollars, leaving its future anything but certain.
Future Society

Trump’s Social Network Is Failing Miserably

By Victor Tangermann

A Boeing 747 had to turn back and return to New York JFK after a horse managed to escape from its stall inside the airliner.
Advanced Transport

Pandemonium as Horse Escapes on Boeing 747 Mid-Flight

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent interview, Altman described AGI as a "magic intelligence in the sky," which sounds an awful lot like a God.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Seems to Imply That OpenAI Is Building God

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed in an interview with the Financial Times this week that the company is officially working on GPT-5.
OpenAI

GPT-5 Is Officially on the Way, OpenAI CEO Says

By Victor Tangermann

Investors are harnessing the power of AI to analyze the literal speech of CEOs to glean insights into their underlying emotional states.
Artificial Intelligence

Investors Are Using AI to Detect CEOs’ Emotional States

By Victor Tangermann

A SpaceX employee died in June 2014 after being struck by an unsecured piece of rocket insulation. We're only hearing about it now.
Future Society

A SpaceX Worker Died and They Kept It a Secret

By Victor Tangermann

A small pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents and environmentalists.
Science & Energy

Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink

By Victor Tangermann

New aerial footage shows a massive crack splitting a town in Iceland in half and sending ominous steam into the air.
Science & Energy

Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth

By Victor Tangermann

In its order agreement, Tesla is instructing Cybertruck owners to "not sell or otherwise attempt to sell the Vehicle within the first year."
Tesla

Tesla Vows to Sue Anyone Who Resells Their Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to take a potshot at Elon Musk's AI, dismissing it as "cringey boomer humor."
OpenAI

Elon Musk Furious at Sam Altman for Dissing His New Chatbot as “Boomer Humor”

By Victor Tangermann

Cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second, transformative event like the Big bang that could explain dark matter.
Big Bang

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

By Victor Tangermann

Highly detailed industrial computed tomography (CT) scans of a real Apple AirPod Pro and two fakes are blowing our minds.
Robots and Machines

This CT Scan of Real vs Fake AirPods Is Blowing Our Puny Minds

By Victor Tangermann

A powerful solar flare could trigger what Peter Becker, professor of physics at George Mason University, is calling an "internet apocalypse."
Science & Energy

Professor Warns That the Sun Is Angry and It Could Knock Out the Internet

By Victor Tangermann

Physics professor Kenneth Ohm has an unusual reason for having his DNA delivered to the Moon's south pole during an upcoming Celestis mission.
Exobiology

Man Sending His DNA to the Moon So Aliens Can Clone Him and Put Him in a Zoo

By Victor Tangermann

According to audio of a meeting obtained by Forbes, Cruise is getting ready for layoffs, the latest sign the industry is in trouble.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Crisis at Cruise Deepens as Self-Driving Car Company Announces Layoffs

By Victor Tangermann

In its most recent update, OpenAI blamed a possible cyberattack for the "periodic outages" affecting its ChatGPT chatbot.
OpenAI

OpenAI Says It Appears to Have Been Attacked

By Victor Tangermann

Space Force Boss Says Weird New Weapons Are Headed to Orbit
Space Force

Space Force Boss Says Weird New Weapons Are Headed to Orbit

By Victor Tangermann

After 14 long and problematic years, chat service Omegle has been taken offline. It's not exactly surprising.
Future Society

Omegle Shuts Down Amid Storm of Child Abuse Allegations

By Victor Tangermann

Silicon Valley startup Humane is set to unveil its long-rumored AI Pin at noon EDT today. But leaked documents have us seriously worried.
Artificial Intelligence

Humane’s Uber-Expensive “AI Pin” Sounds Like a Total Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

A worker in South Korea was crushed to death by a robot after it failed to tell him apart from the box of vegetables it was handling.
Robotics

Grocery Robot Crushes Robot Inspector to Death

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's upcoming LLM codenamed "Olympus" will reportedly have two trillion parameters, twice as many as OpenAI's GPT-4.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Reportedly Training AI With Twice as Many Parameters as GPT-4

By Victor Tangermann

Peter Jackson, who pioneered the AI tech to isolate John Lennon's vocals for The Beatles' "Now and Then," is ready to release more songs.
Artificial Intelligence

Peter Jackson Threatens to Release Even More AI Beatles Songs

By Victor Tangermann

In newly-released audio recorded by journalist Tiffany Fong, former crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said he had done "net harm to the world."
Future Society

In Newly-Released Audio, SBF Admits He’s “Done Net Harm to the World”

By Victor Tangermann

A matte-black Cybertruck, which Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen was driving around Southern California, looks awful up close.
Advanced Transport

That Matte Black Cybertruck Looks Absolutely Horrendous Up Close

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Kyoto University has constructed a satellite made out of wood — and it's almost ready to fly into space.
NASA

NASA Getting Ready to Launch Wooden Satellite

By Victor Tangermann

Software engineer Julian Joseph applied to 5,000 jobs using an AI tool called LazyApply. He got 20 interviews.
Artificial Intelligence

Unemployed Man Uses AI to Apply for 5,000 Jobs, Gets 20 Interviews

By Victor Tangermann

Studies have found that older adults, who use marijuana every day were far more likely to develop heart attacks or strokes when hospitalized.
Studies

Marijuana Use Linked to Risk of Heart Attacks and Strokes

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's AI chatbot dubbed "Grok" will be a far more crass and dad joke-prone chatbot compared to other AI models.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk’s New Chatbot Is Astoundingly Vulgar

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this year, Polish drinks company Dictador announced that it had anointed an AI-powered robot called Mika as its "experimental CEO."
Robotics

Company Appoints AI-Powered Robot as CEO

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's Xbox division has partnered with Inworld AI, a Silicon Valley-based company, to collaborate on AI NPCs.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Working on AI-Powered NPCs for Xbox Games

By Victor Tangermann

After attending a Bored Ape-themed party in Hong Kong, some of the partygoers' eyes started mysteriously burning.
Future Society

People Say Their Eyes Are Burning After Attending a Bored Ape Event

By Victor Tangermann

Pilots Testing Electric Airplane Say It’s Weirdly Quiet
Advanced Transport

Pilots Testing Electric Airplane Say It’s Weirdly Quiet

By Victor Tangermann

In a thread on the Tesla subreddit, a driver found that their brand-new Model 3's cameras kept fogging up, disabling Full Self-Driving.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Full Self-Driving Helpless When Cameras Fog Up in Cold Weather

By Victor Tangermann

Clever engineers behind the YouTube channel ND - Woodworking Art have built an entire Cybertruck almost entirely out of wood.
Advanced Transport

Someone Built a Fully Functional Wooden Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

A minivan-sized, four-legged walking robot that can carry up to four passengers was spotted at this year's Japan Mobility Show.
Robotics

This Rideable Rhinoceros Robot Looks Absolutely Amazing

By Victor Tangermann

In a lengthy post on X-formerly-Twitter, AI godfater Yann LeCun argued that extremely wealthy CEOs taking control over the future of AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Warns That Powerful Companies Are Seizing Control of It

By Victor Tangermann

During a Thursday spacewalk outside of the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts lost an entire bag of tools.
NASA

NASA Astronauts Accidentally Lose Tool Bag During Space Walk

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is set to release its first AI model to a select group of users as soon as Saturday.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Is About to Release His First AI

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk predicted last year that due to Bankman-Fried's donations to the Democratic party, there would be "no investigation." Wrong.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Was Staggeringly Wrong About Sam Bankman-Fried

By Victor Tangermann

Hollywood actor Scarlett Johanson is suing an AI app developer for stealing her voice and likeness for an online ad.
Artificial Intelligence

Scarlett Johansson Taking Legal Action Against AI App for Cloning Her Voice Without Permission

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft has been using MSN to distribute misleading and oftentimes incomprehensible garbage to hundreds of millions of readers per month.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shamelessly Pumping Internet Full of Garbage AI-Generated “News” Articles

By Victor Tangermann

Colorado-based space startup Sierra Space has made considerable progress on its Dream Chaser spaceplane and is almost ready for flight.
NASA

Dream Chaser Spaceplane Ready for NASA Tests

By Victor Tangermann

Software giant Adobe has been caught selling AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas war, as spotted by Australian news outlet Crikey.
Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Caught Selling AI-Generated Images of Israel-Palestine Violence

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created the robotic equivalent of a seeing-eye dog for the visually impaired which responds to leash tugs.
Robot Dogs

Scientists Create Robotic Seeing Eye Dog

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have uncovered new evidence supporting the theory that bigger chunks of Theia may have sunk into the Earth over billions of years.
Science & Energy

There’s Wreckage of an Alien Planet Deep Inside the Earth, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ruffled some feathers on his own social media platform by implying that "Bladerunner" would have driven a Cybertruck.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Gets Torn Apart for Saying “Bladerunner” Would Drive a Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent tweet, Musk promised that the Cybertruck will be "what Bladerunner would have driven." But there is no "Bladerunner" character.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Thinks the Main Character in “Blade Runner” Was Named “Bladerunner”

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden was reportedly spooked by the AI in the Hollywood action blockbuster "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One."
Artificial Intelligence

Biden Apparently Got Scared of AI After Watching the New “Mission: Impossible”

By Victor Tangermann

Joe Rogan Shoots Cybertruck With Bow and Arrow, Possibly Mistaking It for Metal Mammoth
Advanced Transport

Joe Rogan Shoots Cybertruck With Bow and Arrow, Possibly Mistaking It for Metal Mammoth

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's released a new update to ChatGPT, which allows users to upload PDFs. The update effectively killed dozens of startups.
OpenAI

OpenAI Signals That It’ll Destroy Startups Using Its Tech to Build Products

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly skeleton hand floating in outer space some 16,000 light-years from Earth.
NASA

NASA Shows Off Image That Looks an Awful Lot Like Skeleton Fingers Floating in Space

By Victor Tangermann