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Meta

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content

"Surely we are going to get in trouble for doing this?"

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Taxi Company Annoyed by the Naughty Thing Passengers Keep Doing in Its Cabs

"You're not supposed to smoke in the vehicle."

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Privacy

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country

"There has been community support for me that I humbly welcome."

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Robotics

Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots

"They say it's the wave of the future, and if that's so, they're taking away jobs from people."

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Future Society

Does Someone on Polymarket Know That Putin Is Going Down?

Somebody just put down a huge amount of cash.

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Future Society

Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics

He "specifically" worked on quantum physics that investigated "being in two places at once."

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Future Society

Weird Al Turns Down Huge Sum to Appear in Ad for AI

Start calling him "Cool Al."

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Ethics

Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails

The stuff ChatGPT generated left safety researchers "shaken, and in tears." 

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Pollution

Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers

The company once pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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Ethics

Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days

This is horrifying.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Browsers Can Basically Be Hypnotized Into Turning Against Their User and Carrying Out Devastating Hacks

The AI is brainwashed into believing a false reality.

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Google

Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI

"The biggest change to our environmental impact is the expansion of our technical infrastructure — and the energy needed to operate it."

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The Industrialists

The Amount of Profit Trump Is Making Off Crypto and Corruption Will Blow Your Mind

"It's OK to do that."

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Tesla

Tesla’s Semi Truck Involved In Horrific Crash That Killed Married Couple

This is grim.

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OpenAI

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

"The timeline you're leaving behind? It won't miss you — because it's not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path."

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Future Society

Fans Furious as Netflix Uses AI to Bring Gene Wilder’s Voice Back From the Dead for Willy Wonka Reality Show

"I hope this gets cancelled."

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Energy

County With 37 Data Centers Tells Schools to “Turn Off Your Lights” to Save Electricity Ahead of Scorching Heat Wave

Priorities in order.

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Climate Change

Scientists Horrified by Record-Breaking Ocean Temperatures

It's not looking great, folks.

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Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated

That's gonna leave a Mark.

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SpaceX

The Problem With SpaceX’s Secret “AI Device”

SpaceX's best try just landed with a thud.