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The Industrialists

The Amount of Profit Trump Is Making Off Crypto and Corruption Will Blow Your Mind

"It's OK to do that."

By Joe Wilkins

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Tesla

Tesla’s Semi Truck Involved In Horrific Crash That Killed Married Couple

This is grim.

By Frank Landymore

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OpenAI

Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

"The timeline you're leaving behind? It won't miss you — because it's not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Future Society

Fans Furious as Netflix Uses AI to Bring Gene Wilder’s Voice Back From the Dead for Willy Wonka Reality Show

"I hope this gets cancelled."

By Victor Tangermann

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Energy

County With 37 Data Centers Tells Schools to “Turn Off Your Lights” to Save Electricity Ahead of Scorching Heat Wave

Priorities in order.

By Frank Landymore

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Climate Change

Scientists Horrified by Record-Breaking Ocean Temperatures

It's not looking great, folks.

By Victor Tangermann

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Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated

That's gonna leave a Mark.

By Victor Tangermann

A large digital billboard on a modern building displays an image of Mars with the text "SPCX $75 Bn" prominently shown. The billboard also features the SpaceX logo and the phrase "Morgan Stanley Expanding the Scope and Scale of Consciousness." The surrounding area includes tall buildings with glass windows.
SpaceX

The Problem With SpaceX’s Secret “AI Device”

SpaceX's best try just landed with a thud.

By Joe Wilkins

A screenshot of Palantir CEO Alex Karp talking on CNBC.
The Industrialists

“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview

"This is the voice of American business that is being channeled through me!"

By Joe Wilkins

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Climate Change

Is Your Air Conditioning Killing People Thousands of Miles Away?

"Individual air conditioning is a scourge."

By Joe Wilkins

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Future Society

CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop

An executive threatened to "fire the next person" whose sent them an email written by ChatGPT.

By Joe Wilkins

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SpaceX

SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day

Shares are still swinging wildly after the IPO.

By Victor Tangermann

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Climate Change

Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn’t Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe

Throwing cold water on your hopes of a better tomorrow.

By Frank Landymore

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Biology

Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce

"We’re hoping we’re really starting the true age of bioeconomy, enabling technology that will let people engineer biology."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects

"They know what’s hot and they know what’s selling."

By Victor Tangermann

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Robotics

Factories Attach Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots

"The way people mount a CCTV camera on a wall, they mounted one on us."

By Joe Wilkins

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Education

Boys Are So Unprepared by the Education System That They’re Hitting High School Unable to Read Anything More Challenging That a Children’s Book

This "is a clear call to action."

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever

"AI doesn't need a Chernobyl moment."

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History

"The empirical evidence of fraud is overwhelming."

By Victor Tangermann

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Solar Power

Venture Capitalists Disgusted by Solar Power Because It’s Generating Too Much Clean Electricity to Be Grossly Profitable

How can they print more money if electricity prices are so affordable?

By Victor Tangermann