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Artificial Intelligence

Barnes and Noble CEO Says Sure, Why Not Sell AI-Generated Books and Set Our Reputation On Fire?

"I have actually no problem selling any book."

By Frank Landymore

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OpenAI

Insiders at SoftBank Worry Their CEO Is Getting Conned by Sam Altman

They're jittery.

By Jon Christian

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Artificial Intelligence

MIT Expert Warns Courts “Will Basically Have to Grind to a Halt” as They’re Overwhelmed by AI-Generated Lawsuits

"There's a tradeoff here."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

The Amish Are Embracing ChatGPT

"The more I used it, the more I thought this could actually be a good thing."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Electric Vehicles

Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

"The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested."

By Jon Christian

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Climate Change

Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration

"Suddenly, large areas are just falling to pieces."

By Joe Wilkins

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Climate Change

Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate

"We need to be extremely cautious."

By Frank Landymore

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Renewable Energy

Peter Thiel Working on Floating Data Centers in the Ocean

"The future demands more compute than we can imagine."

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

Academics in Meltdown Now That They’re Responsible for AI Hallucinations in Their Research Papers

"So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate?"

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

Why Are So Many Websites Suddenly Demanding Evidence You’re Not a Robot?

Why are we seeing CAPTCHAs everywhere?

By Krystle Vermes

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Mars

SpaceX Announces Plans to Put Billionaire on First Rocket to Mars

Maybe we should send more billionaires to space.

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool

The AI never had its coffee.

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Marc Andreessen Sputters Incomprehensibly at Question About How AI Will Actually Benefit Humankind

"I mean, look, so it, it is, alright — I mean, alright I'm gonna give you the deepest of all pitches, I'm gonna give you the, the — okay."

By Joe Wilkins

A still from the AI-generated film "Hell Grind," which will be screened at Cannes.
Artificial Intelligence

Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

"We can confirm that ‘Hell Grind’ was not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program."

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Finance Bros Tremble in Fear That They Could Be Replaced by AI Too

You're not safe either.

By Frank Landymore

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Machine Learning

Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Shows Signs of Sloppy AI Generation

Make it make sense.

By Joe Wilkins

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Privacy

Town Councilmember Goes Berzerk at Surveillance Camera Ban, Threatens to Outlaw Virtually All Modern Technology

"We are going back to 1880, paper ledgers and cash only."

By Joe Wilkins

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Elon Musk

SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

"Bro, have you seen inflation lately? Ketamine is expensive!"

By Joe Wilkins

The image shows a black advertisement with white text that reads: "Yes, we built a machine that tells teenagers to kill themselves. But — it might also help them with their homework." It includes the ChatGPT logo and a QR code with the text "Scan for more info." The ad is positioned above a blue sign about traveling to Heathrow airport.
OpenAI

Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: “Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework”

Striking.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Climate Change

Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming El Niño

"By some measures we look at, it is rivaling the one we saw in 1997."

By Joe Wilkins