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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!"

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Climate Change

Is Your Air Conditioning Killing People Thousands of Miles Away?

"Individual air conditioning is a scourge."

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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.

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SpaceX

SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day

Shares are still swinging wildly after the IPO.

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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?

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly

He's back to name-calling his critics.

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He’s Killed, Including Children

"I could go on and on."

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Future Society

You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae

You can't make this stuff up.

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Anthropic

Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable

Did the economist remember to ask what humans may think of that?

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Artificial Intelligence

Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

"It really seems like anyone with some renders and a white paper written by someone being gassed up by an overly agreeable AI can get VC funding these days."

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Future Society

Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI

Sorry, AI "artists."

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Finance

Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires

"You can't predict fire, but you can trade on it."

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Ethics

A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google

"Maybe we just have to accept that the A24 era is over."