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OpenAI

OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student

"ChatGPT recommended a dangerous combination of drugs without offering even the most basic warning that the mix could be fatal."

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Ethics

New York Times Issues Stern Warning About AI Use to Its Freelance Writers

"To be clear on AI..."

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Google

Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

Who could have seen this coming?

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Ethics

Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take

We have to sit down.

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Artificial Intelligence

Unitree Shows Off Fully Functional Mecha Suit

"We kindly request that all users refrain from making any dangerous modifications or using the robot in a hazardous manner."

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Artificial Intelligence

Husband Alarmed as Wife Starts Whispering Quietly to Her Computer

"I'm talking to my computer all the time now."

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Ethics

AI Is Giving Your Boss Tools to Be More Monstrous Than Ever Before

"Many jobs will remain in the future, but they will be more pressured, more fragmented and less human."

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Elon Musk

Grok Just Issued a Brutal Beatdown to Elon Musk

"More than one thing can be true, but this isn't one."

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Artificial Intelligence

Google Alarmed by Formidable AI-Powered Zero-Day Cyberattack

"It's a taste of what's to come."

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Ethics

Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center

“When you speak about wanting changes for cleaner air, and you have a child who's impacted, it hits differently."

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Artificial Intelligence

Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future

"What happened?"

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Artificial Intelligence

New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds

Unfathomable.

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OpenAI

OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”

It's the latest lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role in mass shootings.

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Pollution

The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months

"There's an equation with a lot of blank spaces that have to be filled in."

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Ethics

Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway

"I feel like I'm playing by a different rule book. Like I'm playing baseball and they're playing football."

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Drones

Japan Deploying Combat Drones Made of Cardboard

"This model can be manufactured at any cardboard plant, ensuring high mass production capability and a robust supply chain."

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Machine Learning

ChatGPT Is Saying Weird Things in Chinese

"We don't know how to say: 'this is good writing, but if we do this good writing thing 10 times, then it's no longer good writing."

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Pollution

Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center

"I don't know that this is the clean energy solution that they're saying it's going to be."

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Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine

"We're rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI."

Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS, which was only discovered last year, has been visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere for weeks now.
Astronomy

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System

It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System."