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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

The star child from "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Space

China Launches Synthetic Human Embryos to Space Station

"Can humans survive and reproduce in space? I hope the answer is yes."

By Frank Landymore

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Robotics

Oops! Domino’s-Partnered Robotics Startup That Was Supposed to Put Human Pizza Chefs Out of a Job Just Shut Down

It's not the first to fail at automating pizza making.

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

The Pope Just Low Key Declared Holy War on Artificial Intelligence

He's calling for AI to be "disarmed."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

New Tools Strip AI Guardrails In Minutes, Allowing Them to Give Instructions on Chlorine Gas Attacks

"The genie is out of the bottle."

By Frank Landymore

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Developments

They Held a New Olympics Where Athletes Can Take as Many Drugs and Steroids as They Want, and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened

This is just embarrassing.

By Victor Tangermann

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Google

As College Grads Boo Any Mention of AI, the CEO of Google Is Trying to Figure Out What to Say at an Upcoming Graduation

We suggest not mindlessly praising AI.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Man Humiliated by His AI Use Says He Just Can’t Quit

"It's strangely creative and crafty and unusual in all these ways... and then it betrays you in ways that are just really quite horrible."

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI’s Attempt at an AI-Generated Pixar-Style Movie Is in Shambles

Making movies ain't so easy after all.

By Frank Landymore

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Cybersecurity

Riot Games Denies Using Anti-Cheat Software That Bricks Hackers’ Computers

Another chapter in gamer outrage.

By Frank Landymore