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Starship

NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points

It's an extremely ambitious plan.

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The Industrialists

Sam Altman’s Eyeball Scanning Company Now Laying Off Workers

"We've been Orb-constrained."

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Future Society

Investigators Questioning Bill Gates Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

"No one — regardless of power, political party or wealth — is above justice."

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OpenAI

ChatGPT Caught Recommending “Products” That Are Just Scams That Steal Your Credit Card Info

Shop around and find out.

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Ethics

Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead

"We thought building a cardboard airline in a treehouse sounded more honest."

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Cryptocurrency

Disaster Strikes When Meme Coin Pays Man to Tattoo Its Name on His Forehead, But They Misspelled It

It's hard to imagine things getting much bleaker than this.

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Artificial Intelligence

McDonald’s Deploying AI-Powered Drive-Thru System for Ordering Its Nauseating Foodslop

Not again.

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Artificial Intelligence

Argentina Moves to Legalize “Non-Human Corporations” Run by AI

"Keep AI unregulated."

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Anthropic

If You Think AI Companies Are Unethical Now, Wait Until They Go Public

It's going to get messy.

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Ethics

You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work

Thank God.

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Finance

Soccer Club Places Huge Kalshi Bet Against Itself

And this is legal?

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Astronomy

Scientists Release Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals

Here's what they found.

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Ethics

Zoo Officials Horrified by AI Data Center Menacing Their Endangered Animals

"We are vehemently opposed to having a data center so close to animals."

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Artificial Intelligence

Company Behind AI School Surveillance System in Major Trouble After It Fails to Spot Armed Student Walking In to Commit Mass Shooting

"Why is this any better than a metal detector?"

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Meta

Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."

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SpaceX

The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible

Investors will need to drink a lot of Kool-Aid.

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Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica

It's likely one of the largest of its kind.

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Artificial Intelligence

US Soccer Scanning Videos of Millions of Youth Players to Identify New Stars

"We need to be able to scout way more players in this country."

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Mass Transit

New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else

"These sensors provide a much richer set of data for us to work with."

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Pollution

New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water

"The true scale of this contamination is almost certainly even greater."