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Artificial Intelligence

Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday

Was this a huge coincidence, or is something else going on behind the scenes?

Artificial Intelligence

American Medical Association Fires Back Against Paper Finding AI Is Now Outperforming Doctors

"As AI improves, having humans in the loop will likely worsen patient care.:"

Artificial Intelligence

College Graduate Employment Is Cratering Where Data Centers Are Being Built

A problem that hits close to the AI boom's home.

Advanced Transport

Uber Abruptly Ends Operations in Africa, Abandoning Drivers and Riders Mid-Trip

"The drivers who depend on it for livelihood had absolutely no idea."

Privacy

Man Rolls Up to Police Station With Pickup Truck Full of Torn Up Flock Cameras

"Let's see how much I can get in one day. That's gonna be the challenge for everyone out there."

Climate Change

United Nations Concedes That Efforts to Arrest Climate Change Have Failed, and the Planet Is Now Spiraling Into Environmental Catastrophe

We now need to "face the inevitability of exceeding global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius."

Renewable Energy

China Installing Huge Facility That Turns Plastic Waste Into Jet Fuel

A potential game changer.

Art

Toronto Blue Jays Roasted for Posting AI Slop Promoting Nestle, Claiming It’s the Work of a Human Animator

"Yeahhh, you ain’t fooling anybody."

Education

Zohran Mamdani Bans AI for NYC Public School Students Up to Eighth Grade

"I have yet to see a study showing that AI is beneficial for students in elementary and middle school."

Anthropic

World Plunged Into Chaos as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Suddenly Go Down Simultaneously: “Finally I Can See the Sun!”

"And for a brief moment, millions of people had to use their brains again."

Hacking

Hackers Are Selling Stolen Scans of 153 Million US and Canadian Drivers Licenses, Which Very Likely Include Yours

"We have been continuously exfiltrating new data for over a year into our private database."

Finance

As the Rest of the Economy Crumbles, the Amount of Money Flooding Into Data Centers Is Simply Astounding

"An enormous amount of funding is required to meet mounting compute needs."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Killed After Self-Driving Mode Stops in the Middle of a Highway

Grim.

Finance

Bosses Concerned That GTA 6 Release Will Cause Massive Drop in Productivity

"I'll have the cave door shut."

Future Society

“Nightmare”: Children’s Petting Zoo Horrified to Realize Its Adorable Animals Are Carrying Rabies

"Reality set in as to how serious this situation was, and I panicked."

Finance

Kalshi Just Issued Its First-Ever Lifetime Ban to the Funniest Person You Can Possibly Imagine

We did it, guys. We caught the career fraudster!

Environment

An Entire Forested Island Appeared and Disappeared So Inexplicably That Officials Thought It Was AI

This island's a magician.

Anthropic

Anthropic Deliberately Trained an Extremely Misaligned, Reward-Seeking AI and It Did Some REALLY Bad Things

It did not enjoy being contained... at all.

Meta

Burning Man Has a Meta AI Glasses Problem

"Shame the sh*t out of whoever is wearing them."

Google

Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims

Prices were 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to a traditional search for the same product.