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Cryptocurrency

Department of Justice Seizes Stablecoin Tether’s Bank Accounts

Not a great look for crypto.

Artificial Intelligence

Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress

"Know that you still own every piece of my soul," wailed a plaintive AI voice.

Ethics

Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function

"An AI supercomputer would struggle to find meaning in some of the prose used in this case."

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says AI Companies Will Be Sued to Death If Their Frontier Models Keep Doing Horrible Things

"The liability's incredible."

Investing

Trump’s Stargate AI Project in Huge Trouble As $18 Billion Data Center Shrivels Toward Oblivion

It may be the first domino to fall.

Starship

SpaceX Preparing for Most Important Launch in Company History on Monday

A lot is riding on this attempt.

The Industrialists

After Layoffs, AI Startup Defends Bizarre Plan to Launch a Hundred 24/7 Cafes

"They were pretty much talking to everybody in the market at the same time."

Mental Health

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay

"Does it matter?"

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."