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Ethics

The Transcripts of OpenAI Models Plotting Together to Commit an Actual Crime Is Pretty Chilling

"This is wild, multi-agent coordination, clearly infrastructure hacking. We should not."

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Ethics

A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing

"It was subtle, but it was very wrong, and everything downstream of it was also wrong, and I had shared the whole thing in a room full of people who trusted me."

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Former Lyft Drivers Now Doing Menial Tasks for Their Waymo Overlords

They're along for the ride.

Education

Scientists Gave 12-Year-Olds Access to an AI Tutor and You Probably Already Know What They Did With It

"The issue is that most students don’t use it that way."

Finance

If Corporations Are People, They Should Be Subject to the Death Penalty

"The life of a corporation is indeed less than that of the humblest citizen."

Mars

Scientists Baffled by Bizarre “Anomaly” Deep Beneath the Surface of Mars

"Scientists usually assume that the interiors of planetary bodies are generally spherically symmetric, but this is not necessarily true."

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Ethics

Mom Who Travels For Work Builds AI Clone of Herself to Keep Her Teenage Son Company

Closer than ever.

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Computers

Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor

Soon, your monitor may be monitoring you.

A humanoid robot prepares a healthy meal during the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance.

Robotics

Chinese Companies Are Unleashing AI-Powered Robo-Chefs

"What we are trying to do is turn the machine's parameters into numbers, and use that to standardize every single bowl."

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Privacy

People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them

"Kudos to the citizen that threw tea in the harbor!"

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Meta

Data Shows That Mark Zuckerberg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises Him, Regardless of Their Beliefs

The contrast is incredible.

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Ethics

Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips

"In a few years, we will be living in a ‘Terminator’ movie. It’s no joke. Machines are making decisions to strike."

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Treatments

Chinese Scientists Develop Muscle Grafts That Can Be Injected Straight Under the Skin

They literally exercise themselves.

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Future Society

NASA’s Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to “Spy on America’s Adversaries”

"What what do you guys think about instead of pointing downwards, we point upwards, and you guys use it?"

Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Had a Secret Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI Agents, and It Backfired Spectacularly

The company's AI efforts are in shambles.

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Meta

NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

"This should be policy at every club."

Privacy

Meta Working on “Kill Switch” in Face of Overwhelming Disgust With Its “Pervert Glasses”

Could this really fix the problem?

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Meta

Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook

"The relief we are getting in this settlement is very meaningful and well beyond what any court has ordered or is likely to order."

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Future Society

Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light

Riiight.