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Meta

Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism

"We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is."

Advanced Transport

Hundreds of Flights Grounded Across the Eastern Seaboard as Government Rolls Out AI Air Traffic Control System

You're right to push back — there was a Boeing 787 taxiing on that runway.

Ethics

It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children

Killer AI is already here.

Robotics

Behold: Video of “First-Ever” Human Versus Robot MMA Fight

"Dude, I'm scared for you man."

Ethics

Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll

"When you see enough of the vandalism, you know the writing is on the wall."

Ethics

Bloomberg Finds That the AI Industry’s Finances Are a “Wobbly House of Cards”

"There are just so many things to unravel if it starts."

Ethics

Nvidia CEO Promises Not to Kill Everybody Before 2030

"There is zero chance chance that's going to be the end of the world."

ESA

A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop

The company deleted huge swathes of the site after we noticed. It's still publishing complete nonsense.

Solar Power

Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It’s Almost Unbelievable

"Offensively cheap."

Privacy

Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them

Smart glasses begone.

Mental Health

Scientists Claim That Three Minutes With a “Donkey or Small Horse” Can Save Teenagers From Depression

"You can't stand in a pasture watching a child and a donkey interact and pretend only one of them is having an experience."

Solar Power

Kenya Unleashing Solar-Powered Ambulance With Wicked Long Range for Service to Remote Villages

"It will enable us to go and screen mothers and babies, catch complications early and refer them in real time."

Robotics

Scientists Create New Humanoid Robot That Flinches in Fear When You Come Close

Bow down to your human.

Machine Learning

US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search

"Even the United States government is unable to afford the cost per token charged by American AI companies."

Future Society

Video Shows Huge Drone Descending on Unsuspecting Dog and Blasting It With Water

"Nothing in millions of years of evolution has prepared this dog for this scenario."

James Webb Space Telescope

Strange Seeds Appear to Be Growing Into Massive Black Holes

Could this explain the "little red dots" mystery?

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Unleash Franken-Mice With Brains That Are Nearly Half Human

"It's going to provide us access to other aspects of human brain function that would be very difficult to study."

Google

Google Now Asking For Users’ Video Selfies to Verify Their Identities

"Take another selfie to get back into your account."

Future Society

Restaurants Are Going Viral by Holding Up Handwritten Signs Pledging Not to Use AI Foodslop Posters

"This is how you catch a fish."

Ethics

Democrat and Republican Politicians Are Both Terrified to Go Against the AI Industry, Even Though a Huge Majority of Both Their Voting Blocs Want Them to Do Exactly That

"They spend huge amounts of money on defeating anybody who wants legislative regulation."