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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?

This illustration shows the system around the star CD-35 2722, with the newly found moon-like object at the centre. The star –– the point source to the left –– has about half the mass of our Sun, and it is orbited by a brown dwarf, the reddish-brown object seen here in the foreground (right).
Astronomy

Scientists Discover Massive Alien “Exosatellite”

That's no moon.

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Medical

Bryan Johnson Says He’s Cloned Himself “As a Newborn” to “Grow Organs for Transplantation,” Which Is a Preposterous Exaggeration

"This may be scary to some people."

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Future Society

Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executive

"I have long been carefully planning a good, safe, secure and comfortable life."

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Robotics

School District Pauses Plans to Deploy Humanoid Robots in Class After Outcry

It's on pause.

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Artificial Intelligence

Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for AI Data Centers

Anything's possible.

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Robotics

Startup Sued After Delivery Bot Clobbers 73-Year Old Woman

The company argues her injuries were pre-existing.

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Brain Implants

Eye Implant That Restores Vision to the Blind Cleared for Sale

"We have a cochlear implant for vision now."

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Privacy

MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras

"At least they also closed down libraries to save money for the AI cameras."

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Ethics

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."