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Solar Power

Trump Admin Caught Illegally Canceling Billion-Dollar Solar Project That Would Have Helped Lower Utility Bills Across the Country

"This is a program that has the potential to lower people's energy bills."

Ethics

Microsoft AI CEO Says He’s Open to Agents Deserving Rights If He Sees the Right Evidence

Prompt them their rights.

Climate Change

Climate Change Has Become So Bad That Rice Krispies Don’t Have Actual Rice in Them Anymore

Welcome to the age of corporate putrefaction.

Art

Menacing Surveillance Obelisk Appears in Madrid

Ominous.

Machine Learning

Employees Who Use AI End Up Working Vastly More Time Per Day

So much for efficiency gains.

Ethics

It’s Awful That Google Won’t Just Let Users Turn Off AI Overviews

The company is digging in its heels as AI continues to wreak havoc in schools.

Moon

NASA’s Moon Mission Ripped a Hole in Earth’s Upper Atmosphere So Massive That It Disrupted GPS Signals

The rocket was powerful enough to create its own "anthropogenic space weather."

Google

Mamdani Blasts Google for Using Monopoly to Bully Schools That Ban AI

"No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children."

Black Holes

Cosmic “Loophole” Could Let Black Holes Split In Two Like Dividing Cells

You're about to find out about how black holes "can wear pants."

Medical

Scientists Study Difference Between Men Who Pee Standing Up and Sitting Down

A burning question.

Treatments

Richard Norton’s Death Linked to Black Market Peptides

Ethics

Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? They’re Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistake

"AI is changing not only how we work, but also how we judge the people we work with."

OpenAI

OpenAI Hears Voters’ Overwhelming Rebuke To Data Centers, Vows to Build More of Them

You'll get more data centers and you'll like it.

Future Society

New Democratic Congressional Majority Preparing Barrage of AI Legislation

It's a major indicator of how Democrats hope to govern.

Ethics

AI Godfather Says to Get Ready for a Chernobyl-Style “Blackout” Caused by AI

"Either later this year or next year we'll see Chernobyl."

Mars

Orbiter Detects Signs of Activity on Mars

"The Trace Gas Orbiter was able to find the smoking gun."

Elon Musk

Governor-Elect of Texas Announces Plans to Bring Elon Musk Under Control

"It has to be on our terms."

Robotics

Delivery Robot Causes Car Accident With Nine Injuries

"The robot fled, if you can put it that way."

Privacy

Flock Cameras Got Eviscerated by the Midterms

"We will have the cameras bagged or disabled within 72 hours of the certification of the vote."

Anthropic

Anthropic’s IPO Is Cratering

Its timing couldn't have been worse.