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Meta

People Are Already Lusting After Meta’s New AI Assistant Muse

"some of y'all way too thirsty for muse," wrote Alexandr Wang, head of Meta's Superintelligence Labs, after posting a picture of its rear end.

Ethics

Kalshi Admits That It Took a Random Guy’s Video and Used AI to Make Him the Host of an Ad, Changing His Race in the Process

This is so gross.

Tesla

Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances

Witnesses also report being deceived by Tesla lawyers.

Elon Musk

Google Gearing Up to Launch Experimental “Data Center” Into Space Next Week

Could this really solve our data center woes?

Climate Change

World Braces for Nearly a Half Million El Niño Deaths

This year's El Niño is a "postcard from our future."

Ethics

The Situation at Alpha School Is Darker Than We Thought Possible

"We were just kind of robots."

Future Society

New York Sues Polymarket, Accuses It of Running an “Illegal Gambling” Operation

"By running an unlicensed gambling operation, Polymarket has done more than just knowingly violate state law."

Evolution

Stanford Scientists Find That the Human Brain Is Actually Two Separate Organs

"I was surprised at our findings because the word 'brain' implies a contiguous organ that likely has a singular origin."

Ethics

Google Has Its Hand Around the Throat of the Independent Media and It’s Squeezing Harder and Harder

Another day, another existential crisis for news media.

Ethics

Software Update Turns Samsung’s “AI Fridges” Into Useless Bricks

Wait, why did fridges need AI in the first place?

Meta

It Turns Out That Meta’s Muse AI Has an Amazingly Dirty Secret

"This has potential for so much negative PR."

Ethics

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Could Be Causing Terrible Harm to Minors, Even Worse Than Social Media

"We find ourselves in a really terrible ​situation in terms of what AI is doing to kids."

Artificial Intelligence

Stanford University Caught Using AI to Create Fake Black Student on Banners Hung Around Campus

"I love this school, but I don't love when they do things like this."

Artificial Intelligence

AI Community Linked to Disturbing Culture of Sexual Assault

"I'm far from the only one this has happened to."

Privacy

Crowd of Angry Citizens Loses It After City Council Fast-Tracks Resolution on Flock AI Cameras

"This isn't how government is supposed to run."

OpenAI

Mathematicians Can’t Make Sense of How OpenAI’s Agents Solved One of the Toughest Math Problems Because the AI’s “Proof” Is Borderline Incomprehensible

"The paper is not written for humans."

The Industrialists

Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them

So much for escapism.

Ethics

Software Engineer Says AI Is Causing Chaos Among Coders Who Now Just “Press Enter” All Day, Have Stopped Thinking or Understanding Software

"In reality, nobody is thinking anymore."

The Industrialists

Trump Says No Need to Regulate AI, Since That Strategy Is Working Fine for Climate Change

"Welcome to the new world of super intelligence."

Advanced Transport

Former Air Traffic Controller Terrified New AI System Will Hallucinate and Cause Catastrophe

"One word: hallucination."