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Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff After Bizarre Pivot to AI

Embracing AI can't save you from terrible management.

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Launches New Service Where You Can Send Him All Your Money and Hope for the Best

Not all at once!

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Data Privacy

This New Meta “Advertisement” Is Absolutely Brutal

"Pervert glasses have no place in our society."

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OpenAI

Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week

"We're still going to complain about it, but secretly we're going to be happy."

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Climate Change

El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy

"El Niño is ​just going to make inflation more sticky."

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Meta

Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?

He's driving his own company off a cliff.

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Ethics

You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors’ Homes

You have to hear it to believe it.

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Artificial Intelligence

It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True

"Agentic AI activity is driving a lot of the browser activity you're seeing."

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Machine Learning

Suspicion Grows About OpenAI’s Tale About Its Rogue Hacker AI

"Loudly proclaim how dangerous AI is, and investors will hear how powerful it is."

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Having One of His All-Time Meltdowns

"They hate you far more than they hate me!"

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Ethics

High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists

"I think we're all in a state of fear because of what this government's doing to us."

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Starship

SpaceX Stock Hammered After Starship Booster Fails in First Launch Since IPO

It's not rocket science, it's Wall Street.

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OpenAI

Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived

"I've been waiting for this my whole life."

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Anthropic

A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

Anthropic said the system is working as intended.

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Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred

It's gonna take more than smarmy commercials to win back the public.

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Blue Origin

The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn

"The operation of more than a million data center satellites threatens potentially catastrophic forms and quantities of atmospheric pollution, risking damage to the climate, to the ozone layer, to human health, and to the chemistry of the stratosphere itself."

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Future Society

Father-Son Duo Accused of Kidnapping Government Biologists Who Were Out Studying Frogs

"Her hands are behind her f***ing back, and I've got live rounds ready."

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Meta

Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms

"They're targeting us people that have health issues."

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Meta

Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI “Pervert Glasses”

Too little, too late?

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Astronomy

Scientists Discover Massive Alien “Exosatellite”

That's no moon.