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Artificial Intelligence

CEO Receives Violent Threats After Kicking Off AI Layoffs

The knives are out.

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

NBA Commissioner Announces Plans to Let AI Take Over for Lazy Referees

"Those calls will be done by an AI automated system, with cameras lined around the court, and it'll take all those so-called objective calls out of the hands of the referees."

By Joe Wilkins

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Anthropic

Anthropic Customers Creeped Out by Its Newest Models

They're terrified of being shut out.

By Victor Tangermann

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Future Society

Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other

The sheer irony.

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Influential Tech Founder Says His Peers Are Suffering From Mass AI Psychosis

"CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI."

By Joe Wilkins

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Google

YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop

It's about time.

By Frank Landymore

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Global Warming

This Summer Is Going to Kill a Lot of People

"While we do occasionally have warm spells in May, what we’re seeing now is unprecedented."

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

AI Firm Trots Out Digitally Resurrected Corpse of Stan Lee You Can Use to Create Mind-Numbing Slop

"Excelsior!" mimed the AI resurrected Stan Lee.

By Frank Landymore

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The Industrialists

New Website Detects Apocalypse If Billionaire Jets Start Fleeing en Masse

Always follow the money.

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents

"Would you like to resolve it today by card or bank transfer?"

By Joe Wilkins

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SpaceX

Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones

It's not what you think.

By Victor Tangermann

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Hacking

The MyPillow Guy’s Entire Business is Being Held Hostage by Hackers

What a disaster.

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They’re Fired Because of AI

"It was just a way for them to sound smart and I really hate that. I think we're scaring people, and that's irresponsible."

By Victor Tangermann

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Sleep

More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find

Here's something to keep you up at night.

By Frank Landymore

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Starship

NASA Releases Sweeping Plans for Moon Base

Ambitious, or unrealistic?

By Victor Tangermann

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Anthropic

Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It

"AI is not free."

By Victor Tangermann

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Machine Learning

Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks

"The blast radius of that agent action was not the service restart. It was everything downstream of the restart, in a system state the agent had no complete picture of."

By Joe Wilkins

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Anthropic

Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models

The double standard is hard to miss.

By Victor Tangermann

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Off-World

Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System

He says it may be seeding life like an "interstellar gardener."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds

Thanks for the heads up.

By Joe Wilkins