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Ethics

Influential Tech Founder Says His Peers Are Suffering From Mass AI Psychosis

"CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI."

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Google

YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop

It's about time.

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Global Warming

This Summer Is Going to Kill a Lot of People

"While we do occasionally have warm spells in May, what we’re seeing now is unprecedented."

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Ethics

AI Firm Trots Out Digitally Resurrected Corpse of Stan Lee You Can Use to Create Mind-Numbing Slop

"Excelsior!" mimed the AI resurrected Stan Lee.

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The Industrialists

New Website Detects Apocalypse If Billionaire Jets Start Fleeing en Masse

Always follow the money.

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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?"

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SpaceX

Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones

It's not what you think.

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Hacking

The MyPillow Guy’s Entire Business is Being Held Hostage by Hackers

What a disaster.

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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."

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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.

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Starship

NASA Releases Sweeping Plans for Moon Base

Ambitious, or unrealistic?

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Anthropic

Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It

"AI is not free."

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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."

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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.

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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."

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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.

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Space

China Launches Synthetic Human Embryos to Space Station

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

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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.

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Ethics

The Pope Just Low Key Declared Holy War on Artificial Intelligence

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

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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."