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Tesla

SpaceX Manager Arrested for Allegedly Stabbing a Tesla Contractor Over Karaoke Performance

Not the greatest team building exercise.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Bumbling Cybercab Gets Trapped in Hotel Parking Lot, Drops off Passenger Right Where He Started

"This technology is nowhere close to being ready for large scale deployment."

Ethics

Influencers Are Using Meta’s AI-Glasses to Film Manipulative Feel-Good Slop of People in Public

"The larger effect is creating a society where we monetize kindness, exploit the goodwill of strangers, and destroy the right to privacy in public."

Ethics

Fearing No Repercussions, OpenAI Admits That Its Rogue AI Agents Performed a Bunch of Other Terrifying Actions

OpenAI is making up its own rules.

Iran Drone Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Are Permanently Deleting Customer Data

They're hitting a nerve.

Future Society

Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God

"If we build a superintelligence, we will first fall in love with it. Then we will worship it. Finally we will make sacrifices to it."

OpenAI

OpenAI Has Hundreds of Workers Reading People’s Private Chats

"I don't think they would imagine some contractor somewhere is analyzing the conversations."

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is the biggest media company you've never heard of — powered by AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. When we started asking questions, it started deleting massive amounts of content.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Jon Christian

Military

Space Force Chief Admits the US Is Actively Utilizing Orbital Weapons

"Space is both a battlefield and the backbone of our joint force."

Data Privacy

Zuckerberg’s Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta’s Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera

Does this really solve anything?

Future Society

Mitch McConnell Looks Pretty Scary Now That He’s Back, and Doctors Are Worried He Could Drop Dead

"We need to come together as a nation and say, this is not how we treat our elderly."

Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow

"On balance, we think the data look consistent with a late-stage bubble."

Electric Vehicles

It’s Looking Like Tesla’s Cybercab Might Actually Be Illegal to Sell

The government is demanding that Tesla go under oath.

Fear of AI Destroying Humanity Cause Certain Stocks to Skyrocket

Looking at the big picture, as always.

Ethics

AI Really Is Eviscerating Entry-Level Jobs, New Data Shows

"Entry-level postings have fallen off a cliff and the first rung of the ladder in tech is under pressure."

Pollution

Data Centers Are Causing a Huge Surge in Incredibly Toxic Chemicals Polluting the World

"Data centers create problems that don't stop at municipal boundaries, whether it's pollution or straining the grid and driving up everyone's electric bills."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Cybercabs Are Taking Psychotic Routes That Turn Tiny Trips Around the Neighborhood Into Hour-Long Nightmares

"My Cybercab held me hostage for an hour."

Privacy

Police Use Flock to Jail Completely Innocent Woman for Weeks

"I was devastated, I was scared. I thought my life was over."

Pathogens

Spectators Horrified as Hyrox Athlete Recreates “Two Girls One Cup” at Live Competition

"Oh my god."