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Anthropic

If You Think AI Companies Are Unethical Now, Wait Until They Go Public

It's going to get messy.

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Ethics

You Can Now Get a Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work

Thank God.

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Finance

Soccer Club Places Huge Kalshi Bet Against Itself

And this is legal?

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Astronomy

Scientists Release Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals

Here's what they found.

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Ethics

Zoo Officials Horrified by AI Data Center Menacing Their Endangered Animals

"We are vehemently opposed to having a data center so close to animals."

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Artificial Intelligence

Company Behind AI School Surveillance System in Major Trouble After It Fails to Spot Armed Student Walking In to Commit Mass Shooting

"Why is this any better than a metal detector?"

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Meta

Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation

"Despite the billions of reasons not to, Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed surveillance machine."

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SpaceX

The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible

Investors will need to drink a lot of Kool-Aid.

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Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica

It's likely one of the largest of its kind.

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Artificial Intelligence

US Soccer Scanning Videos of Millions of Youth Players to Identify New Stars

"We need to be able to scout way more players in this country."

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Mass Transit

New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else

"These sensors provide a much richer set of data for us to work with."

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Pollution

New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water

"The true scale of this contamination is almost certainly even greater."

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Drones

Suburbanites Freaked Out by Mysterious Drones Leering Into Their Homes at Night

"It was definitely listening in and provoking us."

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Mental Health

Psychiatrists Investigating People Who Get Trapped Inside Vivid Daydreams

It can turn into a real problem.

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Astrophysics

Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence

Brutal.

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Climate Change

Remember How Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Was Going to Save the Planet? We Have Terrible News

To say we're way behind schedule is an understatement.

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Robotics

Airbnb Host Furious After Startup Trashes His Unit to “Test Robots”

The worst guests imaginable.

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Energy

Trump Desperately Pumps Money Into Dying Coal Industry

"Clean, beautiful coal."

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Future Society

Catholic Church Boots Exorcist After He Said UFOs Are Demons

"I ask forgiveness."

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Meta

Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips

It's a bandaid fix.