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Treatments

Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns

"I don't really see a medical benefit of it at all."

Tesla

Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe, Killing One

"It was attempting to make a right-hand turn to go eastbound... and, unfortunately, did not make the turn and went over the sidewalk when it struck the female victim."

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Education

College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds

Are you smarter than a 4th grader?

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content

"Surely we are going to get in trouble for doing this?"

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Taxi Company Annoyed by the Naughty Thing Passengers Keep Doing in Its Cabs

"You're not supposed to smoke in the vehicle."

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Privacy

US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country

"There has been community support for me that I humbly welcome."

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Robotics

Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots

"They say it's the wave of the future, and if that's so, they're taking away jobs from people."

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Does Someone on Polymarket Know That Putin Is Going Down?

Somebody just put down a huge amount of cash.

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Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics

He "specifically" worked on quantum physics that investigated "being in two places at once."

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Weird Al Turns Down Huge Sum to Appear in Ad for AI

Start calling him "Cool Al."

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Ethics

Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails

The stuff ChatGPT generated left safety researchers "shaken, and in tears."

Pollution

Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers

The company once pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

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Ethics

Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days

This is horrifying.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Browsers Can Basically Be Hypnotized Into Turning Against Their User and Carrying Out Devastating Hacks

The AI is brainwashed into believing a false reality.

Google

Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI

"The biggest change to our environmental impact is the expansion of our technical infrastructure — and the energy needed to operate it."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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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."

Tesla

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

This is grim.

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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

American actor Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the film 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory', 1971.

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."