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Ethics

One of America’s Last Remaining Chestnut Groves Could Soon Be Wiped Out to Make Room for an AI Data Center

It's "one of the largest single AI infrastructure investments in US history."

Artificial Intelligence

Mac Users Are Nuking Every Trace of Apple AI on Their Machines

Sayonara useless AI features, and hello disk space.

Anthropic

Eggheads at Anthropic Said They Used Claude to “Solve” Humor

"'Here's the Claude. We've solved it.'"

Investing

Gambling Addiction Group in Shambles After It Turns Out It’s Funded by Kalshi

It's like a "national council on teenage sex abuse taking money from Jeffrey Epstein."

Finance

Mainstream News Anchors Now Talking About the AI Bubble Bursting at Any Moment

"I think the entire AI boom is investing in the wrong future."

Robotics

Walmart Running Into Trouble as Its Super-Expensive Robots Can’t Handle the Realities of Warehouse Work

It's an automation "arms race."

The Industrialists

Mark Zuckerberg Launched Meta’s Muse AI Agent Despite Disturbing Safety Concerns

"I couldn't stop it from my phone."

Anthropic

Police Furious After an Anthropic AI Model Submitted a Bogus Tip About an Unsolved Murder, Posing as a Person Who Might Have Information About the Case

"Unacceptable."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Basically Just Admitted It Was Misleading Customers, Renames Full Self-Driving to “Tesla Assisted Driving” In Europe

Not so adamant now.

Ethics

OpenAI Is Wargaming Its Response in Case of Public Revolt After Catastrophic AI Disaster

Everything's on the table.

Future Society

Sacked OpenAI Insiders Say the Company Is Firing Anyone Who Warns What’s Really Going On

If there ever was a culture of safety, it's being replaced by a culture of fear.

Mass Transit

Chinese High-Speed Rail Station Breaks World Record, Serving One Million Riders in a Single Day

Jaw-dropping.

Ethics

Meta Won’t Say If It Violates Its Policies to Upload AI-Generated Videos of Sobbing Little Children Begging for Likes and Follows So They Don’t Get Arrested by Police

"You don't have enough followers and shares on your videos," the officer explains. "If the person watching this video follows and shares, then you will be free."

Future Society

Well, This Is the First Time America Has Livestreamed an Execution by Firing Squad

"It will be livestreamed."

Artificial Intelligence

Mathematicians React With Fury as OpenAI Releases Hundreds of New AI-Generated Proofs

"We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject."

Finance

Starbucks Considers Taking Over Chipotle as America Edges Closer to All Food Chains Being Owned by Like Three Companies

Nothing whets the appetite like Big Food Chain consolidation.

Finance

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents

A $20 billion setback.

Ethics

Don’t Want to Spend Time With Your Kids? Train an AI Voice Model of Yourself to Read Them Bedtime Stories

Parent-child bonding time isn't so sacred that it can't be optimized with AI.

Future Society

Patriots Quarterback Drake Maye Is a Moon Landing Truther, Prompting Response From NASA

"I just know I’m a little bit skeptical."

Art

Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source

"About time we leave adobe for good."